Potential Titles: Coffin

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Another hammer blow on the coffin lid - Julia Alvarez "Famous Poet, Years Afterward"

The coffin lid of a ghost - Julia Alvarez "Famous Poet, Years Afterward"

Walking the plank of a coffin board - Elizabeth Bishop "Visits to St. Elizabeths"

That loves to dwell 'midst skulls and coffins - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell - Ralph Chaplin "Mourn not the Dead"

Wore his coffin for a hat - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Pessimist"

Makes a coffin of your nest - William H. Davies "A Bird's Anger"

An egg that cracks my coffin - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"

Geology's purple coffin - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Amber coffins carried by the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A thousand paper coffins laid end to end - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

Hauling a coffin of honeybees - Frank Stanford "In this House"

Five thousand coffins guard each flank - O.I. Victor "The Phantom Field"

Waiting is a coffin - Jane Yolen "Behind a Closed Door"


Dreamt a grove grown for coffinwood - Chase Berggrun "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"


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