Potential Titles: Myself

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Tiring of searching for myself - Tutsungul Abdullah "I Lost Myself" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Myself on a swiftly tilting planet - Conrad Aiken "Senlin: a Biography (Part I, Section II)"

How many times can I repeat myself in one night? - Hala Alyan "Siri as Mother"

Find myself on the wings of unknown winds - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"

The excavated artifacts of discovering myself - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"

Confess myself for once deceived - "Another Peep at the Links"

And arrive at myself - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel to its mother"

Myself at the Age of When - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

Those I hold against myself - Rachel Barenblat "Untie"

And shape the world to suit myself - Devan Barlow "Dear Charles Perrault"

Make myself a harbor - Kay Ulanday Barrett "While looking at photo albums"

and finally i have seized myself - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

A distance from myself - Dan Beachy-Quick "Some Consequences of the Made Thing"

Give myself away in shards - Joshua Bennett "First Date"

Scatter myself empty as a torn dress - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"

Having outlasted some of myself - Elizabeth Bradfield "Learning to Swim"

The only maze I haven't built myself - William Brewer "Daedalus in Oxyana"

From the paste and paper of myself - William Brewer "Ode to Suboxone"

And utter all myself into the air - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Soul's Expression"

Made the same shape of myself - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Homecoming Cistern Alien Vessel"

The distance between my life and myself - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"

Begin to erase myself - Chiwan Choi "portraitures and erasures"

Hurl myself faster toward extinction - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

if i am not singing to myself - Lucille Clifton "what manner of man"

To deem myself an outlaw - Hartley Coleridge "Regrets"

Within myself is lodged the key - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"

Permit myself the luxury of wings - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets V"

Left me orphaned from myself - Diane DeCillis "Lost on the Champs-Elysees"

I've lost myself in every lifetime but this one - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Abandon myself to joy - Clarissa Scott Delaney "Joy"

Turn & twist myself like a rag - Toi Derricotte "Invisible Dreams"

Realized that the stakes are myself - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #1"

To stop myself from falling awake - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Commit myself to a custody of wildflowers - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

This permission I give myself - Meghan Dunn "Ode to Butter"

Smudge the marrow of myself into light - Tarfia Faizullah "Self-Portrait as Artemis"

Taught myself who I was - Farnaz Fatemi "Farnaz"

Miss myself most when I'm gone - Camonghne Felix "Born. Living. Will. Die."

Remove myself from this balancing act - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"

No moon to break myself against - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Apricots"

Wrap myself in thunder's rolling cloak - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"

The great harvest I myself desired - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking"

And lose myself amid so many alike - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

Passage through the void of myself - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"

And their silence for myself - Leah Naomi Green "In Cleaning"

Crown myself with the thorny wreath of inaction - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

Left myself to her free power - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Vale Millies"

Less of myself and more of the sun - Hazel Hall "Flash"

Have given myself to the linear - Myronn Hardy "To the Linear"

Myself a ghost from a farther sea - Bret Harte "A Newport Romance"

Feel a certain evolution in myself - Mary Hickman "Still Life with Rayfish"

Feeding myself pretty lyrics and lead - Faylita Hicks "Self-Care"

Carved myself into the civil shape of a knife - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"

Dreams are how I haunt myself - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"

Before I teach myself retaliation - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

Saved only thorns and thistles for myself - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"

Rebuild myself around them - Leah Kindler "Why I Write Poetry"

O Small Room of Myself - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

I've lost myself in every lifetime - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

When I no longer coincide with myself - Christopher Kondrich "Placeholder"

With everything I keep to myself - Nick Laird "The Vehicles and the Tenor"

Open myself to wonder - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"

Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Throw myself off the cliff of Knowing - Judy I. Lin ""a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú

Hurling myself at the unfamiliar shore - Audre Lorde "Change"

Myself the sacrifice - Amy Lowell "Before the Altar"

Cut myself upon the thought of you - Amy Lowell "Granadilla"

Intend to turn to gold myself - Thomas Lynch "A Note on the Rapture to His True Love"

And pronounced myself legally dead - Ruth Madievsky "Ficus"

Looked for maps out of myself - Jamaal May "Ode to Forgetting"

Planting myself in this soil - Shara McCallum "History Is a Room"

obliterate myself with small tasks - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"

Speak of myself in past tense - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"

The dictionary of myself - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"

Myself shall hold the key - Edna St. Vincent Millay untitled sonnet from Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver

Cut myself to its contours - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"

To bind myself upon the wheel - "The Misanthrope"

Schooled myself to be a hypocrite - "The Misanthrope"

Make me a monster to myself - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fannie Lou Hamer"

Lock myself into this snowing - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

For myself the oats and the lightning - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh

I could choose myself in all my shadow - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

Can spare myself little sleep - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"

Starved myself of everything - Natasha Oladokun "Black Credit"

Dress myself in desolation - Mary Oliver "Rhapsody"

Into the places where I retreat myself - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"

Amusing myself with rocks - Po Chu'i "The Temple of Bequeathed Love" transl. by Burton Watson

And remind myself what the cold feels like - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Engulfer"

Wrestling out loud to music - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"

When I hid in the hollows of myself - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"

Heard myself in every cell - Ariana Reines "The Rose"

Governed myself with silence - Ariana Reines "The Rose"

Armed myself against justice - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Dried myself in the air of crime - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Out of myself toward gratitude - Valencia Robin "Reset"

In exile from myself - Muriel Rukeyser "The Poem as Mask"

And find myself chased by a hog - Rumi "Who Makes These Changes?" transl. by Coleman Barks

Telling myself something sweet and something sacred - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #98"

Given myself as an unasked weapon - Ann K. Schwader "Medusa, Becoming"

Unzipped myself from lip to heel - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"

Even the molecule I allowed myself to feel - Diane Seuss "[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered]"

Myself will bear all wrong - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXXVIII"

Spend revenge upon myself - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXLIX"

Erasing myself with seawater - Brenda Shaughnessy "Identity & Community (There is no 'I' in 'Sea')"

Offered myself as sanctuary - Aaron Smith "Boston"

Telling me to go toward myself - Danez Smith "it won't be a bullet"

Have scribbled myself inside it - Maggie Smith "Written Deer"

Console myself with small furies - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"

I find myself most alone - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"

Made myself one with a dream - Frank Stanford "The Cape"

Bad whiskey I drink by myself - Frank Stanford "Cotton You Lose in the Field"

Knitting myself into Eternity - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"

In dark ignorance have destroyed myself - Su Tung-p'o "Under the Heaven of Our Holy Ruler" transl. by Burton Watson

The altar where I've poured myself out - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 3: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Darken not the hour when I rise out of myself - Carmen Sylva "Lethe"

Step deeper into myself - Arthur Sze "Sight Lines"

Rid myself of dusty thoughts - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.2" transl. by Burton Watson

Gather myself into myself - Sara Teasdale "The Crystal Gazer"

Faithless to myself - Sara Teasdale "New Love and Old"

Myself remains to comfort me - Sara Teasdale "White Fog"

Built myself a house of glass - Edward Thomas "I Built Myself a House of Glass"

That I may not disappoint myself - Henry David Thoreau "My Prayer"

Gathering Myself from a Dream - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Big Bang as Seen on a Chrysanthemum Stone"

The slow whirlpool I conceal within myself - Chase Twichell "The Blade of Nostalgia"

Becoming a wind myself - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

Hunt the wilderness in myself - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Malinche"

Reserve a little for myself - Jackie Wang "The Crypt Seed"

Before declaring myself a better failure - Maged Zaher "Untitled"


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