Potential Titles: Poverty

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Could starve in this impoverished light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"


A last abundance correcting our poverties - John Ciardi "Abundance"

Poverty must brave the storm - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

The checkered squares of his poverty and anger - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"

The mineral claw of poverty - Pablo Neruda "The House" transl. by Jack Schmitt

As much embittered with poverty - Ezra Pound "To Dives"

The poverty of autumnal space - Wallace Stevens "Lebensweisheitspielerei"

In the poverty of their words - Wallace Stevens "The Planet on the Table"

Poverty's speech that seeks us out - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"

In iron poverty and hopeless tears - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

when prayer kneels before poverty - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges


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