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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-02-08 12:55 am

Potential Titles: Bullet

Swallowing raw bullets as you walked - Rosa Alcala "You & the Raw Bullets"

The bullet in your heart is mine - Chimengul Awut (Chimenqush) "Cry, Wind" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Shoot the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Hippopotamus"

With a DNA sequence of bullets & blood - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

A psalm of bullets in my back - Tiana Clark "Broken Ghazal for Walter Scott"

Where you put your bullet - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org

A bullet not even lamplight could catch - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

With flowers and bullets in my heart - Martin Espada "Flowers and Bullets"

Revolutionaries the bullets cannot kill - Martin Espada "Wake Up, Mario"

A bullet of tenacity - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"

The roaring horizon of the bomb and the bullets - Nicolás Heredia y Mota "The American Flag" transl. by Edgar Peguero y Heredia

Bent on bullets and bloodshed - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Cattle Thief"

Already scratched your name on a bullet - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

that strips mountain and bullet - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Forms of Range and Loathing"

The bullet is all consequence - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen"

Firing bullets of wet light - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

The tree between me & a sniper's bullet - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Decide if it's a kiss or a bullet - Dana Levin "Instructions for Stopping"

Never known a law to rewind a bullet - Tariq Luthun "Al-Bahr"

Wounded by bullets of dew - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Bullets of silence fly from my mouth - Lesyk Panasiuk "A Wartime Dream" transl. by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

Enjoying the silence of bullets frozen - Jon Pineda "Translation"

With an empty bullet for decoration - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"

A bouquet of bullets & names to be said - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"

paradise a bullet undresses before the body - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"

Threading of bullets in muscle and bone - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"

Ruptured by a bullet seeking language - Ocean Vuong "Dear Rose"

Sidestepping your bullets bloom - Lynn Xu "Earth Light: I"


This bullet-borne language - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"


A bullet hole in the pay phone - Mahogany L. Browne "On St. John's and Franklin Avenue"

Bullet holes in the soles of his feet - Martin Espada "How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"

Each bullet hole suffused with moon - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"


Can't take a photo through the bulletproof glass - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Cachiporrista"

With ankles of oak and a bullet-proof perm - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"


The bullet-riddled aftermath - Millie Ho "Beasts of New France"


A bullet-stream of oyster shells - Dana Levin "The Living Teaching"


A silver bullet against every demon you fashioned - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"


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