Potential Titles: Itself

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To swallow the impossible wound of itself - George Abraham "Unarcheology of 'Father'"

Not even an atom, much less Adam, could find itself inside - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"

A phoneme that will stubbornly assert itself - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"

Maintenance itself is never won - J.M. Allen "Maintenance"

Space went to war with itself at 8:20 - Mike Allen "Space War"

Erupted to rebuild itself - Aldo Amparan "Aubade at the City of Change"

A sadness feeding on itself - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel and the woman"

Money is talking to itself again - Rae Armantrout "Money Talks"

The heart can bind itself alone - Matthew Arnold "Isolation: To Marguerite"

Shrouds itself and whispers exits in the dark - Julie Babcock "Driving at Midnight"

Silence itself is strategy - Mary Jo Bang "Gretel"

sleep dresses itself and wakes - Elizabeth Bartlett "measured interval"

Where breath is radar to itself - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"

Braids itself up the woods - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, in winter my camp on the hill becomes"

A shard of absence sharpens itself - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, you say all our bones are made of paper"

The month that tears itself apart - William Brewer "Letter in Response to a Letter from My Son"

Better sometimes than itself - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh"

That feared itself - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

That is itself a revenge - Stephanie Burt "Silt"

habitually quenching itself on my sleep - May Chong "Bunian Laundry"

The dirt disguising itself as glitter - Lu Christófaro "I See You Too"

The moon grumbling to itself - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"

Turn with sharp stings upon itself - Arthur Hugh Clough "τὸ καλόν."

Love itself flies after - Florence Earle Coates "An Adieu"

Where shall affliction from itself retire? - George Crabbe "The Library"

A day that unwrapped itself - Barbara Crooker "Ordinary Life"

Not a bright flower but itself to be seen - Catharine Davidson "The First Primrose" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.734, 19 Jan. 1878]

Burying itself in the blue memory below - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

While repetition begins fielding itself - Monica de la Torre "Theorem of Sorts"

Woven like water, through itself - Natalie Diaz "lake-loop"

No future but itself - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Life XIX: The Mystery of Pain"

The faithless sky breaks itself over us - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"

The mute sky resigns itself to Night - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Blue as the heart itself - Elaine Equi "Snapshots of Water"

Renames itself with every ripple - Heid E. Erdich "Kennewick man Swims Laps"

A place forever falling on itself - Heid E. Erdich "Translation"

Death that extends itself with golden planks - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

Has concealed itself in dust - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VIII"

The glass mind rearranging itself - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XVI"

Of snow falling into itself - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

But the dream repeats itself - Vievee Francis "The Poems Repeat as Dreams as Tears"

The wind once blew itself untaught - Robert Frost "The Aim Was Song"

The road alone maintained itself in mud - Robert Frost "Our Singing Strength"

Writes itself in sheets across my veins - Suzi F. Garcia "A Modified Villanelle for My Childhood (with some help from Ahmad)"

a universe that gave birth to itself - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

Will not rouse itself to feed - Dana Gioia "Tedium"

Imprints itself amongst the iridescent stars - Ian Goh "Firework"

Staying drapes itself over everything you're scared of - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"

Your shadow casts itself - Leah Naomi Green "Arrival"

Melted a little of itself out of sheer boredom - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

That may not guard the door that love itself unbarred - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

Of whatever grief calls itself - Terrance Hayes "Twenty Measures of Chitchat"

In a family on the run from itself - Tom Healy "Sonnet for the Chickens"

The mind can on itself rely - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

And pours itself back into water - Mary Hickman "Eva Hesse"

As night itself picks the lock - Conrad Hilberry "The Cur"

The soul itself at season's end - Conrad Hilberry "Open"

Give itself to squirrels and roaches - Conrad Hilberry "Poker"

Unfold itself inside your eyes - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

Pride cannot see itself - Barten Holyday "Distiches"

Clothed itself in candor - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

That sweetly dreams itself away - Aldous Huxley "Philoclea in the Forest"

Girds itself with myrtle hedges - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

The window itself blind with grief - Holly Iglesias "I Can Afford Neither the Rain"

The undercurrent of history repeating itself - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

Wound itself in spools of linen - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"

Distanced itself and sang of its guilty blood - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

The old equipment resets itself and loops - Janine Joseph "Circuitry"

Whirlpooling itself to a fake death - Janine Joseph "Oh, I'm Dying, I'm Dying"

That grief itself embalms - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

the wind pushing water out of itself - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

Made gathers of light inside itself - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

Desire a simulacrum of itself - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"

Slows and snows itself away - Ted Kooser "In Early April"

The knot fell open of itself - Steve Kowit "When He Pressed His Lips"

Just before the air itself turns to snow - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"

A fire sinking into itself - Dorianne Laux "Blossom"

The strumming of obsidian to itself - Philip Levine "Breath"

The membrane of memory itself wormholed - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

This part replays itself - Thomas Lynch "A Dream of Death in the First-Person"

When Water itself goes for a swim - Anthony Madrid "Try Never"

Hides itself in your bloodstream - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize

Before losing love against itself - J. Michael Martinez "Death to Paint Us"

Clasp to itself our kindred dust - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"

Night running off with itself - Louise Mathias "Larrea"

The thought writes itself like yeast - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

Wax molds itself sublime - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

No more hidden than the air itself - W.S. Merwin "Just Now"

Casting out to itself in memory - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"

Shutting itself like an injured fan - Marianne Moore "The Fish"

The mind can build itself a home - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

Who dressed herself in purple lightning - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Armed itself with thunder - Pablo Neruda "Ox" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Adds itself to the weight of the planet - Pablo Neruda "The Poet's Obligation" transl. by Alastair Reid

Detaches itself from horizon in dream - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

How the sun can break itself - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Lament"

Expanse itself his garden - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"

Than death itself more bitter - Robert Owen "A Prayer" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Shaping itself to the wish of any object - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"

Attach itself to some elemental source - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

History already mistaking itself for myth - Carl Phillips "Sunlight in Fog"

The way that the sea fails to drown itself - Emilia Phillips "I Tried to Write a Poem Called "Imposter Syndrome" and Failed"

Memory itself but a scar - Carl Phillips "The Need for Dreaming"

As if watching the song itself - Carl Phillips "Riding Westward"

Stitches itself a whitened scar - Khadijah Queen "Common Miracles"

Vainly builds itself on dark despair - Quince "Age" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

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

The glass itself now tinged with ash - Paisley Rekdal "Murano"

Will not subtract itself from the equation - Paisley Rekdal "Philip Larkin's Koan"

Rooted itself in those rocks - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

Where beauty names itself - Adrienne Rich "Grating"

A body protesting thinks itself as a door - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"

The wind bundles itself into bluish cloud - Rihaku "The River Song" transl. by Ezra Pound

My vexation renewing itself daily - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell [Delirium I]" transl. by James Sibley Watson

To betray itself by shining - Alice Wellington Rollins "Expression"

A rusted trumpet plays itself - Erika L. Sanchez "Capital"

May sustain itself by shadows at the edge of sight - Ann K. Schwader "Giving Up the Ghost"

Forcing itself through the pinhole of grief - Teresa J. Scollon "Words, Poems"

Heaven itself for ornament - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"

Making the heart forgetful of itself - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets IV: Spenser" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The celestial swan that once dreamed itself a person - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

Tell the past the truth about itself - Maggie Smith "Joke"

The river's lifeline joins itself to winter - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"

Wind skinning itself in the trees - A.E. Stallings "The Dogdom of the Dead"

Myrtle wove itself into the sheets of sail - Frank Stanford "The Cape"

That will not declare itself - Wallace Stevens "Metaphors of a Magnifico"

Flashed itself through the marketplace - Saheed Sunday "Fluorescence"

The forest threw itself into tantrum - May Swenson "Hearing the Wind at Night"

last sky will empty itself of airplanes - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

A line saw itself clear to its end - TC Tolbert "What Space Faith Can Occupy"

The fatal place itself unmarked - Too-qua-stee "Truth Is Mortal"

The dark itself parted to let us pass - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Latent"

Affording itself no holiday - John Updike "A Sound Heard Early on the Morning of Christ's Nativity"

a love stripping itself bare - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

Bursting into itself as night draped above - Gustavo Alberto Garcia Vaca "Had Been There"

And still itself unknowing - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

Where a thought, doubling upon itself, considers the way - Mark Van Doren "The Hills of Little Cornwall"

A turning mood speaking itself - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]"

Shreds itself with cricket cries - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"

The life that has exhibited itself - Walt Whitman "To a Historian"

Distilled itself like dews in rue and asphodel - Helen Hay Whitney "To E. D."

Makes a needle and thread of itself - L. Ash Williams "Red Wine Spills"

The mind dances with itself - William Carlos Williams "The Dance"

The bitterness buried itself in my tongue - Tanaya Winder "Becoming a Ghost"

When it birthed itself alive - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

Pain rides itself through - Jay Wright "[Song into holiness]"

Until the spirit untangles itself - Wendy Xu "Pledge"

Like thought unable to arrest itself - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"


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