Potential Titles: Ourselves

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In sleep we lapse and lose ourselves - Thomas Aird "An Evening Walk" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXVII, May 1851, v.LXIX]

Waiting in line for ourselves - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"

Whispering promises to ourselves - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Found ourselves infinite again - Atticus "Magic in Stars"

We have no future but ourselves - Daniel Borzutsky "Painblank"

Leave ourselves available to surprise - Jericho Brown "Deliverance"

Spread ourselves thin and far - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"

A thought to turn us from ourselves - Calder Campbell "By the Sea" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.425, 21 Feb. 1852]

Destroy ourselves for splendor - Tiana Clark "A Blue Note for Father's Day"

the saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves - Lucille Clifton "1994"

Without seeing ourselves looking back - Andrea Cohen "Weep Holes"

A language we speak to ourselves - Michael Collier "Goat on a Pile of Scrap Lumber"

In dungeons of ourselves we lie - Arthur Colton "Verses from 'The Canticle of the Road'"

Always ourselves we find in the sea - E. E. Cummings "maggie and milly and molly and may"

If we gave ourselves more often - Carl Dennis "A Landscape"

Concealed ourselves in dust - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen H"

We make ourselves a place apart - Robert Frost "Revelation"

To arise with the day and save ourselves unaided - Robert Frost "Storm Fear"

Calling the hunger out of ourselves - Natalie Goldberg "Home"

To reassemble ourselves from rubble - Stefania Gomez "At the New York City AIDS Memorial"

And claim the cast of green shade for ourselves - J.P. Grasser "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

With no blade edge against ourselves - Joy Harjo "Song for Thantog"

Never have the luxury of making ourselves simple - Tom Healy "Base Camp"

As we are dying we reveal ourselves - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"

We had married ourselves to a trance - Joan Houlihan "What Does Your Seeing Want?"

Gave ourselves to fragrance - Andrew Hudgins "The Chinaberry Trees"

Hold ourselves hostage - Allison Eir Jenks "The Church of St. Sulspicious"

Allow ourselves to live unfinished - Allison Eir Jenks "Night Train from Barcelona"

We could not save each other or ourselves - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

Wheeling ourselves golden - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "This Bitter Earth"

Heave ourselves on the gears - Daniel Johnson "In the Absence of Sparrows"

We dream ourselves divine - Archibald Lampman "Storm"

New answers in the universe of ourselves - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"

Offering ourselves to the day's ordinary rituals - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

We met ourselves as we came back - Vachel Lindsay "Meeting Ourselves"

Whatever of ourselves we leave bare - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"

Opening ourselves sieved throats to breathe new air - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"

Find ourselves in the charred mirrors - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"

Sing an unending song of lament to ourselves - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"

No reason to wish ourselves extinct - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

Casting ourselves toward ancient altars - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"

Sweep the precincts of ourselves - Kiki Petrosino "Thigh Gap"

We betray ourselves first - Carl Phillips "The Messenger"

And anchor ourselves to the stars - Josephine Pollard "A Light Headed Family"

We planted ourselves next to their scarecrows - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp -- is it possible?"

Those immensities we forbid ourselves - Khadijah Queen "Imminence"

And stunned ourselves with our emptiness - Sina Queyras "The Jailer"

Set ourselves on fire looking for infinity - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"

As if it were not ourselves - Adrienne Rich

Introduced to ourselves - Alberto Rios "To Mars from Arizona"

Ourselves speaking to the universe - Alberto Rios "To Mars from Arizona"

In the love that gives us ourselves - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"

No match for ourselves - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

Disguised merely as ourselves - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

A mask of saffron veiled us from ourselves - Ann K. Schwader "The Queen's Speech"

Unremembered until this place is made of only ourselves - Leslie Contreras Schwartz "A Body's Universe of Big Bangs"

Allowing ourselves the present moment - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

Unless we cut ourselves free - Maggie Smith "You Could Never Take A Car to Greenland"

Collect ourselves, out of all the indifferences - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"

And turbulent unrest unto ourselves - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"

We are always arriving at ourselves - Leah Umansky "Unleashed" [Poetry Nov. 2020]

Be sufficient to name ourselves otherwise - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Turn ourselves into the question - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Pole| |Sport"

When we've run ourselves into the dust - Edward van de Vendel "Tree Sports"

We make a trial of ourselves - Walt Whitman "On Journeys Through the States"

All but incoherent to ourselves - C. K. Williams "Chaos"

Fling ourselves round with dust lilies - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

What we wear to hide ourselves - Katie Willingham "When I Ask the Internet if the Sun Is a Ball of Fire"

Committed ourselves to flood and flight - Tanaya Winder "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It's the Quickest Way Through"

In ourselves our safety must be sought - William Wordsworth "November, 1806"

Let us keep our stars to ourselves - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Say Grace"

Resembling the terrible things we believe about ourselves - Dean Young "The Infirmament"

Push ourselves away from this quiet - Dean Young "Sleep Cycle"


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