Potential Titles: Twig

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In a crib of black twigs and moss - Seth Abramson "The Woods in Concord"

Set olive twigs in my hair - Meena Alexander "Central Park, Carousel"

Crisp reeds and all the ready bare twigs - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

Taps a twig into the notch of the hemlock - Lou Barrett "Cradle Song"

Climbed each available twig - Terry Blackhawk "Maumee, Maumee"

Twigs show again in the quick cleavage of season - Louise Bogan "Elders"

Beating barren twigs together - Arna Bontemps "Blight"

Spun sugar in branches & twigs - Laure-Anne Bosselaar "Lately,"

With every twig and twist of Spring - Witter Bynner "Apollo Troubadour"

The heart is a whittled twig - Tina Chang "Duality"

Print a shadow like a thin twig - H.D. "Sea Iris"

Who now bundle twigs for kindling - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

From twigs of visionary boughs - Louis Golding "Prophet and Fool"

Like oak twigs twisted - Winnie Lewis Gravitt "Sippokni Sia"

A dragonfly keeps coming back to the same dead twig - Conrad Hilberry "Angles"

The beech breathes twigs of vapor - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"

Twigs pulled straight from his garden - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"

Caged by the brittle twigs of my ribs - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"

Weave twigs in my hair for clips - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

Built my loneliness twig by twig - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Rewrites Myth"

A basket of twig and hair - Dana Levin "Dream Nest"

Plum petals stuck on a withered twig - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Night comes and, drowsy with drink]" transl. by Burton Watson

Huge twig-piles of words - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Each twig a chain of gold - Lydia Jane Pierson "A Winter Scene"

Brandishing verbs like twigs in your beak - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

In deep darkness on a cold twig - Kim Stafford "For the Bird Singing Before Dawn"

Umbrella caught on hemlock twigs - Alison Swan "Snow"

Whose new twigs stirred the woods awake - Rabindranath Tagore "Spring that in My Courtyard"

Break a twig on the lilac - Chase Twichell "To the Reader: Polaroids"

When every twig and star is dead - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"

The first young twigs that burst in green - Edith Wharton "Spring Song"

Tense blue-grey twigs - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"

The bull butting his maze of twigs - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


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