Potential Titles: Prick/Prickle

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Pricked clear against a splash of woad - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

Pricked with stars of song - Louis Golding "Skylark Noon"

Pricked the iridescent bubble of my dreams - Frank Horne "Letters Found Near a Suicide" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

That pricked his scars with memory - George Meredith "Lucifer in Starlight"

The minutes prick their ears and run - Harold Monro "Solitude"

To prick the vein of a father - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"

Follows the pricked revolving sky - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

Forehead pricked with dripping salt - Trumbull Stickney "At Sainte-Marguerite"

Eyes that prick the darkness - Iris Tree "[Pity the slain that laid away their lives]"


Prickling salt to sting our eyes - June Jordan "It's Hard to Keep a Clean Shirt Clean"


Stealing prickly trinkets of lightning - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"

just one last prickly conundrum - Mary Soon Lee "What Cacti Read"

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

The horse of the prickly thin storm - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"


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The star-pricked West shines hollow - Emily Lawless "From the Burren XI: A Wave"

Shake our star-pricked shell apart, cracks radiating out - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]


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