Potential Titles: Corrode/Corrosive

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Of bronze, that God's salt was corroding - William Stanley Braithwaite "Rye Bread" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Corrodes the silver of the dream - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

But doubt is an acid that corrodes more dreams - Harry Martinson "Aniara 21" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Centers corroded by the air - Pablo Neruda "The Drowned Woman of the Sky" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Corrodes with the slow seep of acid - Pablo Neruda "What We Accept Without Wanting To" transl. by Alastair Reid

The corroded moon a dust upon the gulfs - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"

My heart was eaten by corroding rust - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours V" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

A question corroding his tongue - Ocean Vuong "Prayer for the Newly Damned"

Sadness which sometimes corrodes his friends - Dean Young "He Said Turn Here"


His compound of cologne & corrosion - William Archila "Spirits"


An educator of corrosive content - Stephanie Heit "Testament"

In glittering, corrosive sun - A.M. Juster "Surveillance"

Corrosive tongue against the water - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

If we have demanded this corrosive season - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"


Preserved forever uncorroded by time and salt - Harry Martinson "Aniara 52: Shards from Mima" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg


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