Potential Titles: Contagion/Contagious

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Swift o'er the land the fair contagion flew - Mark Akenside "An Epistle to Curio. [1]"

Through the land diffused its pestilent contagion - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The sacred contagion of pity, of giving, of loss - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"

Contagion of sanity broken - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"

Contagions of dust - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"

The managed contagion of ignorance - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

The winds that blow contagion - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"


Every last word is contagious - Jericho Brown "Heartland"

In this a huge contagious absence - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

Withered in its dank contagious breath - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

But darkness is contagious - Linda Pastan "The moon"

Plague's contagious murderous breath - Friedrich Schiller "The Plague"

Most of what I know is contagious - Joyce Sutphen "The Temptation to Invent"


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