Potential Titles: Rafter

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Pheasants flew down from the rafters - "At Fifteen I Went Off to the Army" transl. by Burton Watson

Rang through the bleak rafters - Joseph Auslander "Abandoned"

Extra girls swinging in the rafters - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"

Strange noises between roof and rafter - William Dean Howells "Forlorn"

And these owls in the rafters - Laura Kasischke "The Owls"

The wasps' nest in the rafters, broken - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"

In the rafters of the sky - Sandra Lim "Certainty"

On the rafters in the night - Furnley Maurice "A Whisper Song"

The dust stirs on the rafters - Mei Yao-ch'en "At Night, Hearing Someone Singing in the House Next Door" transl. by Burton Watson

In rafters of the mind - dg nanouk okpik "When White Hawks Come"

Lights the cradle and runs dark along the rafter - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"

Some refrain of wailing in the rafters - Ann K. Schwader "Giving Up the Ghost"

Your rafters are scribbled with adage and rhyme - Robert W. Service "Good-Bye, Little Cabin"

Branches were our rafter and our roof - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson

Walks all night upon a narrow rafter - Mark Van Doren "Midwife Cat"


Horse-shoes on the ceiling-rafters hung - Alfred B. Street "The Smithy" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Bats at noontide rafter-hung - Robert Graves "Ghost Music"


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