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A tarnished button, a scrap of blue - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

Early in the era of the pause button - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"

Whose heart hung humble as a button - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"

To say Yes to the holes where buttons go - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"

Buttoned it with stars - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Evening"

Over the hooks & buttons of sun - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"

The sky is buttoned with the stars - Miriam Clark Potter "The Lady Night"

Salvaged buttons off vanished dresses - James Marcus Schuyler "A Poem [Tags of songs]"

Silting their famished spoor of boots and buttons - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

A button pushed in the rapture of instinctual homing - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"


Nightshade tucked neatly in his buttonhole - Shutta Crum "Things Done Wrong"

A blanket full of button holes - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"


Your sadness unbuttons my heart - Fady Joudah "The Holy Embraces the Holy"

It hurts to unbutton his name from your skin - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"

Can't unbutton promises - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"


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