Potential Titles: Eight

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Eight days without a sun - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"

Its eight arguments against daylight - Jaswinder Bolina "Elegy"

Selling stolen comics for eight bucks and change - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

Eight different options for hello - Courtney Kampa "Inventory of Half-Burnt Offerings"

All eight directions cramped - Lu Yu "After Getting Drunk, I Scribble Songs and Poems in Grass Script--Written as a Joke" transl. by Burton Watson

Eight pairs of ostriches in harness - Marianne Moore "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'"

With eight stranded whales - Marianne Moore "The Steeple-Jack"

Rolling abroad in eight directions - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Lived with eight sisters in a warm ocean - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

An array of eight delicacies - Po Chu'i "Light Furs, Fat Horses" transl. by Burton Watson

Who ordained the eight winds - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: I. The Creation of the Universe: Creation of the Winds with their Colours" transl. by Eleanor Hull

bless the bottle eight times smashed - Danez Smith "three Black poems from August"

All eight directions a single darkness - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Motionless Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson


With its waters of eightfold Virtue - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe


Fly figure-eights over the cottonwoods - Michael Dumanis "Nebraska"


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