Potential Titles: Handle

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With splinters for handles - Jericho Brown "The Hammers"

The handle of time's door is hot - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Caretakers]"

Hinging on a lever and a handle - Monica de la Torre "View from a Dodo Chair"

And handled with a chain - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XI"

Grasp for handles in a maze - Dom "Risking for a Sign"

Sped along by whips with gilded handles - Boris Dralyuk "Babel at the Kibitz"

Who bears the sword and handles the musket - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

With a handle of porcupine quills - Katherine Hale "Cun-ne-wa-bum"

Around the handle of your gentle kettle - Joseph O. Legaspi "Raspberries"

Prickly, cussed, hard to parse and tough to handle - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

As if handling a newborn sparrow - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

History's long fingers twisting the handle - Valencia Robin "Insomnia"

Handle dust going to a long country - Carl Sandburg "To Certain Journeymen"

Ruby poppies embossed across the handle - Claire Smith "Exhibits from Schneewittchen"

Illusions are handled by seeing through - John Trudell "Heart Taker/Owl Dance"

Running up a score I couldn't handle - John Trudell "Isn't My Life/Elk Song"


The manhandled grammar of nature - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"


How the blade forgives itself for being mishandled - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"


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