Potential Titles: Clench

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When the air clenches its fist and strikes - Dan Beachy-Quick "Onta"

Clenched ignorant against the sky - Elizabeth Bishop "The Armadillo"

The both of us clenched in gnarled roots - Kendall Evans "This, a Kind of Prayer"

the days are long and clench like migraines - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer

Stars clenched between your fists - Makena Metz "Equinox"

My fists clenched proudly against a whimper - Arianna Monet "I'm rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time"

A moment clenched tightly - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Clenching like a brazen fist - Lola Ridge "Czar's Watch"

Clenched like two small sacks of stolen nickels - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"

Clenched tight on godspeak shrapnel - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"

The ticker tape clacking from between your clenched teeth - M. Bartley Seigel "Before the Fall"

Cold within your clenching hand - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Kine of My Father"

Clenched to conceal mysteries - Alice Walker "Mysteries"


My clockwork mouth unclenched to rattle the name lost - R.B. Lemberg "The Ghosts of Me Are in Your Machine" [Strange Horizons 15 Dec. 2025]


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