Potential Titles: Pawn

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Pawning our milky eyes for any clues - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

The hostages I pawn for my release - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

To pawn his soul the sinner goes - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

They first tax the nation and then pawn the land - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

A pawn on the chess board of intellect - A. Van Jordan "'Integrated School Books' Apeggio"

a chessboard pawn that rears up into a castle - Monica Youn "Blueacre"


pride keeps you from the pawn shop - E. E. Cummings "La Guerre"

The pawnshop renting space in my head - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"

Engagement rings in the pawnshop - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]


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