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Then said he would never steal apples again - M.K. "Johnny and the Apples" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

Thro' the sad echoes of pale Memory's cave - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

With the leaden weight of sorrowing years - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Shows a rainbow hope to quell all idle fears - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

The dim phantoms of o'er shadowed pleasures - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Its fragile refined petal's belligerent fragrance - Margit Kaffka "Father" transl. by Laura Schiff

Weave a whole roof to the mountain - Kakuhaku "Sennin Poem" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)

The shore has no choice - Imaikalani Kalahele "Contact Zone"

Accept whatever the tides bring - Imaikalani Kalahele "Contact Zone"

Why does the sun not have eyes? - Rahile Kamal "Kamal Has Gone" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

A crack extends from horizon to horizon - Shilpa Kamat "Consequences"

Its shadow glued to everything - Shilpa Kamat "Consequences"

Die where there is no earth - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"

His body is the sky - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"

Made of everything that has fallen from Heaven - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"

There will be no sky - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"

Moonlit lanterns line the serene currents - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"

Drift tediously to the end of the world - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"

To finish being nothing - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"

When we knew that no more ships would come - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"

My yellow gun still humming with golden bees - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"

The last beings of the blue star on all spheres of the Sun - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"

Hip broken under the weight of time - Anoma Kanie "All that You Have Given Me, Africa" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

With the lining of the universe - Bhanu Kapli "Collude"

For a beloved who never arrived - Bhanu Kapli "Collude"

Entrusted to the bodyguard of the temple - Manal Kara "[Country people enjoy dogs ...]"

Quietness of fragile movement - Zoe Karelli "Presences" transl. by Kimon Friar

Trying to paint the sea - Jeff Kass "Oh, Splotch of Blue Paint"

Ask for a taste of luck - Kassia "Selected Epigrams" transl. from Byzantine Greek by Patrick Diehl

If I give up on consequences - Tobi Kassim "A Blind Spot, Awash"

The first mercy of diving - Tobi Kassim "A Blind Spot, Awash"

Unfold in many colors - Susan Katz "Jungle Concert"

Can call a rainbow close - Susan Katz "Rainbow Lorikeets"

We speak only in brooms - Leora Kava "pronunciation"

Repeat each stone syllable - Leora Kava "pronunciation"

Sounded out by ant feet - Leora Kava "pronunciation"

All the other ways of saying history - Leora Kava "pronunciation"

Die before the shears of Atropos - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

When wild tears can flow - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

On eager wing of Hope we soar - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

The dregs of days that follow - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

Vexed with prying silver beam his crimson dream - Elsa Kazi "India--Entertaing Twilight"

My wandering heart returned to stay - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

That sing to sleep the playful twilight - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

Entranced by calm of midnight hours - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

And tongues unknown the cedar spoke - Edward Kearsley "Camp-Fire Lyrics: I. Camp--In Three Lights" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.89, May 1875]

Half a century's silent growth - Edward Kearsley "Camp-Fire Lyrics: I. Camp--In Three Lights" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.89, May 1875]

Aspen's conspiring laughter - Arlene Keizer "Canopy"

A witness to his legerdemain - Arlene Keizer "Canopy"

Working hard to deny the fact of bones - Christopher Kennedy "Ghost in the Land of Skeletons"

Your life a folded telescope - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"

Laying waste a field of daisies - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"

Takes its time unraveling - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"

Like rooted oak and pine - William J. Kershaw "The Indian's Salute to His Country"

I'll go one better in raising the wind - H.J. Kesson "The Legend of the Lincoln Imp"

Legitimate sport for exuberant wit - H.J. Kesson "The Legend of the Lincoln Imp"

Wind of the wild sweet morning - Arthur Ketchum "The Wind's Word"

Whispering wind of the shadow - Arthur Ketchum "The Wind's Word"

No praise for the hand that harms me - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""

Praise not the wasp & the paper nest - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""

Exist in crystalline silence - Jill Khoury "Sleep Hygiene"

Do not build your bed on dictionaries - Jill Khoury "Sleep Hygiene"

Be free of lye, lime, and liars - Jill Khoury "Sleep Hygiene"

As the heated banks of a river - Faye Kicknosway "And He Did Not Know Her"

Not even smoke or ashes - Faye Kicknosway "And He Did Not Know Her"

Not even stones grow - Faye Kicknosway "He Has Been Threshed Out"

Until her throat got dusty - Faye Kicknosway "I Don't Know Her"

The silver charms of his dull art - Henry Killigrew "Song [While Morpheus thus does gently lay]"

And from the clouds will fetch thee down - Henry Killigrew "Song [While Morpheus thus does gently lay]"

No power can make this kingdom less - Henry Killigrew "Song [While Morpheus thus does gently lay]"

Can never remake the thing I have destroyed - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"

Called down wind to shatter - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"

May its waters cover me - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"

Distinguish capitalism from cannibalism - Jessica Kim "Montage"

In all the ways an apocalypse can be - Jessica Kim "Montage"

Slicing peaches in the backyard - Jessica Kim "Montage"

To know of violence is to somersault into it - Jessica Kim "Montage"

Meet him on the far side of the willow - Mihee Kim "time travel"

Climbs the tower of reincarnation - Mihee Kim "time travel"

How we fever the dark's bones - Willie Lee Kinard III "Aubade: Nocturne"

Convince the night to do our bidding - Willie Lee Kinard III "Aubade: Nocturne"

The rift of us unfolding - Willie Lee Kinard III "Aubade: Nocturne"

Live in a swamp in my heart - Leah Kindler "Why I Write Poetry"

Everyone who didn't eat breakfast - Leah Kindler "Why I Write Poetry"

Rebuild myself around them - Leah Kindler "Why I Write Poetry"

Nothing to eat but food - Ben King "The Pessimist"

Nothing to breathe but air - Ben King "The Pessimist"

Nothing to weep but tears - Ben King "The Pessimist"

The richest flowers blowing - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"

Delight in the glories that brighten - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"

What might tend to betray - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"

List of things to banish - Mia King "Abracadabra"

Summon aid to help with banishing - Mia King "Abracadabra"

Can be dreamed up and shot down - Mia King "Abracadabra"

Include forms and fantasies - Mia King "Abracadabra"

In the embrace of the same two seas - Mina King "In Pursuit of Dawn"

Endure in pursuit of dawn - Mina King "In Pursuit of Dawn"

In the comfort of a true isolated system - Natasha King "The First Perpetual Motion Machine"

And we never gave her fuel - Natasha King "The First Perpetual Motion Machine"

In defiance of all laws of thermodynamics - Natasha King "The First Perpetual Motion Machine"

If the shadow is golden - Rosamond S. King "Breathe. As in. (shadow)"

As inhale assuming exhale - Rosamond S. King "Breathe. As in. (shadow)"

Prefer crossed out, scribbled over monuments - Rosamond S. King "Do not trust the eraser"

Where sea grass and spirit hair grow - Rosamond S. King "Sea Garden"

combs loose static from my hair - Aristilde Kirby "Daria Ukiyo-e"

gyre with dead fire alarm tears - Aristilde Kirby "Daria Ukiyo-e"

Tracking the monsters that trouble their thoughts - Merie Kirby "Mother"

Unable to keep the lights on - Merie Kirby "Mother"

Forty years' strange winds had fanned - William Kirby "The Sparrows"

I'm a tiger in the rain - Sarah Kirsch "Sad Day in Berlin" transl. by Gerda Mayer

And sit down among honest seagulls - Sarah Kirsch "Sad Day in Berlin" transl. by Gerda Mayer

Break apart a rotting ladder - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"

A pistol tucked into a stranger's belt - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"

Black mold along the foundation - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"

Smudge our vistas - Becca Klaver "Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie"

Hashtags of interiority - Becca Klaver "Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie"

With dusk's slow bleed - Nate Klug "Jasmine"

In the final minutes before remorse - Nate Klug "Jasmine"

Flutters and drifts, like sympathy - Nate Klug "Jasmine"

Inserting a variation in the season - Nate Klug "Lonely Planet"

Only the foundation of good intentions - Hallie Knight "To Rebuild"

Three dollars for their shoes - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"

Might swallow two whales - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"

From spiders learn to warp their looms - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"

Lightning-rods for plumes - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"

Sleep beneath leaves curling like ribbons - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"

Until light is the holy word - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"

Bury my dreams first thing in the morning - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"

A dragon brood clutches with brutal claws - Gertrud Kolmar "Paris" transl. by David Kipp

My face a burning bush or wheel - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"

Eros of the unthought, undreamed - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"

Eating nails for breakfast - Virginia Konchan "Ubi Sunt"

Steadfast as small change - Steve Kowit "The Prodigal Son's Brother"

The knot fell open of itself - Steve Kowit "When He Pressed His Lips"

Begins in a different darkness - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"

And sound, like ropes of heat - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"

Every aching word we whispered - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"

A smear of hot pink on the asphalt - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"

Stood with the other bridesmaids in champagne - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"

Will we always unknow each other in this way? - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"

Frees his thoughts to soar - Kuo P'u "Poem on the Wandering Immortal" transl. by Burton Watson

The years of the tortoise and the crane - Kuo P'u "Poem on the Wandering Immortal" transl. by Burton Watson

Mimicking the harrowing of my heart - Jordan Kurella "This Tree Is a Eulogy"

Our dominoes smiled greeting - Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin "Night Was Done" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinksky

Denying night's strange memories - Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin "Night Was Done" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinksky

Saw the nimbus on each fish - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"

The cavernous spaces of her mind - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"

Scrawled and chalked in her head - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"

The act of crying was a privilege - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"

Free and far from majesty - Kyd "Content" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]

Meddling with nothing but his own - Kyd "Content" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]


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