Potential Titles: Loss

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Who untangle loss from creation - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Art bloomed from the ash of loss - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

A partisan witness to the uneasy union of life and loss - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

The desperate dance that signifies a loss too great to name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

The night obscures its losses - Mary Jo Bang "Everything that Was Is Now Owned"

Math made of light and loss - Dan Beachy-Quick "Variations on Dawn and Dusk"

Like I have mourned no other loss - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"

That their loss is no disaster - Elizabeth Bishop "One Art"

No dustbowl wind can lift this history of loss - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"

The lumberjack's alphabet covers loss and leisure - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

The shape of a note starts with loss - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

A currency of loss and redemption - Anthony Butts "Wise and Innocent"

The day of loss past hope - Arthur Hugh Clough "Peschiera"

With our incomparable sense of loss - Leonard Cohen "Queen Victoria and Me"

Filtering a mirror of loss - Cristina Correa "A Study in Eventuality"

Nor will this age repair the loss - William Cory "After Reading 'Maud'"

Pens weeping the blue ink of loss - Diane DeCillis "Weeping Women"

And leaving first is a form of loss - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Afflicts me with a double loss - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXI"

Daily parade of exquisite losses - Cheryl Dumesnil "Notes to Myself on the Morning after His Birth"

The moment before loss - Stephen Dunn "The Gambler at Home"

Done cataloguing loss - Tarfia Faizullah "Sex or Sleep or Silk"

Make public space for loss - Megan Fernandes "Amsterdam"

Loss has allowed me chaos - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VII"

Pretended loss where there was none - Elisabeth Frost "The Uncured World"

Conducting the ragtag band of losses - Deborah Garrison "A Friendship Enters Phase II"

Synonymous with place and loss - Rae Gouirand "Language"

Which only creates more loss - Kimberly Grey "We Are Mostly Alright"

Left without loss - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Vale Millies"

If you subtract your minor losses - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

Into a dream of loss and origins - Seamus Heaney "Hercules and Antaeus"

A manifest of loss & broken vows - Faylita Hicks "Saint She of All the Missing Things"

This continuum of fairly average losses - Kate Knapp Johnson "Oh"

The patience I pour over loss - Fady Joudah "Domicile, House, Cusp"

The sacred contagion of pity, of giving, of loss - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"

Leaving first is a form of loss - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Through grief and loss made glorious - Lucy Larcom "November"

Met all loss with scorn - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes II: The Gamblers"

Crossing between gain and loss - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"

Flood to fire, loss to drought - Marissa Lingen "The Plural of Apocalypse"

The way the loss of light proceeds - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"

Whose loss bereaves the sun - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Sad One, Must You Weep"

Which ran to loss in a deep maroon - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"

The way loss befriends lament - Khaled Mattawa "Constance Song"

The same struggle of wishes and losses - Wesley McNair "The Future"

The wind will tally our losses - Erika Meitner "Untitled [and the moon once it stopped was sleeping]"

The obscurities of loss - Jenny Molberg "Echolocation"

The absolute zero of loss - Jenny Molberg "Fourth State of Matter"

A hungry well of water and memory loss - Porsha Olayiwola "We Drink at the Attenuation Well"

Toll for the losses still ahead - Linda Pastan "Bronze Bells of Autumn"

Against the solemn register of his losses - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"

Spirals around my losses - Kiki Petrosino "The Question"

Doubled by the loss - Katherine Phillips "Friendships Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia"

A loss in the shape of a language - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"

Have mastered this language of loss - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"

The violet's and the lily's loss - Thomas Buchanan Read "The Light of Our Home" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

In the age of loss - Justin Phillip Reed "About the Bees"

The dream of loss - Justin Phillip Reed "About the Bees"

Warm instruments for the cold news of loss - Catherine Rockwood "In Memoriam Maureen K. Speller"

A loss for every other drop of rain - Patrick Rosal "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"

To finished loss or finished gain - Christina Rossetti "Diverse Worlds, Time and Eternity" [selections]

Only loss proves this - Kay Ryan "Eggs"

Yet I have still the loss - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIV"

Loss which bared the utmost shivering nerve - Edward Shanks "The Return"

A moon heavy as loss - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Is Slow to Love"

Black as our loss - Edith Sitwell "Still Falls the Rain"

How the outlines of loss might gradually alter - Karen Solie "The Trees in Riverdale Park"

And felt the loss of ashes - Richard Solomon "Last Defense"

Escaped the gravity of loss - Richard Solomon "Young Virgin Autosodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity"

Bloodred lines of loss and blame - Algernon Swinburne "Time and Life"

At the edge of loss - Arthur Sze "Stilling to North"

And wonder more than the condition of our loss - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"

Letters are inseparable from loss - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [a curve billed thrasher]"

That vision tender, over all my loss and pain - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

And I no longer care about the losses - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"

Someone names themself in the loss - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker

Happier in the loss of love - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament IV"

Unraveled the silence of loss - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Slack"

How they jibe at loss - William Carlos Williams "Hic Jacet"

To hold some loss - Katie Willingham "In Defense of Nature Poetry"

Need some proof of loss - Katie Willingham "Salt (Disambiguation)"

That speaks of unacknowledged loss - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"


Leaf-loss and worried sprout - Jennifer Chang "Pastoral"


Lose.

Lost.


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