Potential Titles: Accustom

( Accustom )

Bring an unaccustomed wine - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life II"

Shaking our hearts with unaccustomed fears - "Ode. Suggested by the President's Proclamation of January 1, 1863" [The Continental Monthly v.III - May, 1863 - no.V]

Search with unaccustomed glance - Francis Thompson "To My Godchild--Francis M. W. M."


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Potential Titles: Achieve

( Achieve )

A recognition of the intricate achievements of marriage - Danusha Laméris "The Watch"

Our names and our years and achievements - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"

Climbing to achievement's throne - T. Sturge Moore "Renaissance"

Oasis of achievements - Emilio Porta


No ruin but a vision unachieved - Edith Wharton "Segesta"


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Potential Titles: Ache

( Ache )

Heartache.


A tooth-ache in each spoonful - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles I"

The toothache of tragedy - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Northern Ireland They Called It 'The Troubles'"


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Potential Titles: Actual/Actually

Betwixt the actual and unseen - Edward Carpenter "Beethoven"

Actually, not much of a number - Anne Carson "Pinplay" [selections]

The actual is prior to substance - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"

But never actually awakens the trees - Michael Hettich "The Angels"

Into an actual nest of suspended song - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

What have clock hands actually held? - John McCarthy "Gravestone"

Among the bulks of actual things - Padraic H. Pearse "The Fool"

The earmarks of the actual - Kay Ryan "Blast"


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Potential Titles: Acknowledge

Acknowledgment of their unthinking drums - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XIV: In Shadow"

Sit in humid acknowledgment of rage - Carly Inghram "Disappearing into a Fiction"

Acknowledges the tilted balance - Yoon Ha Lee "Equinox"

Acknowledging an improvident surprise - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Karma"

Hardly acknowledged our passing - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Forget-Me-Nots"


That speaks of unacknowledged loss - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"


Knowledge.


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Potential Titles: Acrid

Shed not the tear of acrid gall - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

Such acrid fragrance hardened in a leaf - H.D. "Sea Rose"

The acrid reminder of failure - Kwame Dawes "New Year's Eve in Addis"

Seeping acridly from settling ponds - Chris Dombrowski "I Canonize Dick Curran"

And even make a sweet thing of the acrid - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Sucking life up from the acrid marsh - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

Eye acrid as a quince - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Nostalgia and tear gas have the same acrid smack - A.E. Stallings "After a Greek Proverb"


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Potential Titles: Acacia

Whisper into the neighborhood acacia - Anne Carly Abad "The Last of Us"

Horns trumpeting over the flat-roofed acacia - Kwame Dawes "African Postman"

As the fragrance of acacia - Dorothy Parker "Love Song"

Old acacias that suffer from insomnia - Marin Sorescu "Carbon Paper" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Birds' chirping along the hidden acacia - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"


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Potential Titles: Accelerate

With an accelerating appetite that can devour generations - Bruce Boston "Futurity Wears the Head"

The particles racing through the accelerator ring - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

Accelerate down the line to steal home - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"

Before accelerating toward the speed of light - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"

Revenge in merciless accelerating rhythms - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

The acceleration of days - Grace Paley "Fidelity"

To accelerate along different trajectories - Arthur Sze "Doppler Effect"


A list of starships decelerating toward us - Kendall Evans "Now We Must Speak in the Shadows of Silence"


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Potential Titles: Accurst/Accursed

( Accursed )

Curse.


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Potential Titles: Accrue

My accrued vacancy - Kyle Dargan "But My Chains"

What joys accrue to the needy - Stephen Dunn "You'd Be Right"

What kind of pleasure can accrue - Henry S. Leigh "Crooked Answers No. 1--Vere de Vere"

Where the debts of Hell accrue - Ruth Temple Lindsay "The Hunters"

Accruing in a strange account - Kay Ryan "Playacting"


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Potential Titles: Acre

( Acre )

Children in their thousand-acre forests - August Huerta "The Woods"


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Potential Titles: Acid

( Acid )

Acid-dipped, and sky-tempered, storm-bathed - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"


A look they share with the acid-eater - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"


Heroes of an acid-etched dawn - Pablo Neruda "Cristobal Miranda (Shoveler, Tocopilla)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Acid-etched upon her heart - E.J. Pratt "Magnolia Blossoms"


Elegant as marble in acid rain - Zaina Alsous "Reading Darwish in Vermont"

Acid rain from a sky the color of cinders - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"

Seeding our clouds with acid rain - Edgar Kunz "Squatters"

Effaced from marble by acid rain - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"


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Potential Titles: Accident/Accidental

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( Accidental )

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Potential Titles: Across

( Across )

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Potential Titles: Act

( Act )

Action.


The active grace, the glory between us - Cyrus Cassells "The Bargain"


the premeditated activities you call life - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"

Conspiratorial unsuspicious activity - Douglas Kearney "The Irregular and/or Anti- and Ante- Regulative"


Actors in motley array - Joyce Kilmer "Villanelle of the Players"

Agents and actors incognito - Amy King "Baudelaire in Airports"

An unperfect actor on the stage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIII"

Actors and audience and lights all gone - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"


A terrible enactment in the dark - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"

Our eyes enact their own seasons - Conrad Hilberry "Letter to the North"

The surviving remnant enacting revenge - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"


Then I will end my reenactments of flying - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"


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Potential Titles: Access

In loud access of shrieking and reproach - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Grief"

Highways with limitless access - Tim Dlugos "Great Art"

Listening to a fresh access of wind - Robert Frost "Snow"

And access its truest aroma - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"


Accessible only intermittently - Kay Ryan "Those Places"


On the inaccessible pinnacle of light - D.H. Lawrence "St Mark"

Inaccessible to avarice or pride - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"


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Potential Titles: Accuse

( Accuse )

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Potential Titles: Accompany

Accompanied by knights and squires - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"

Accompany you in your fragile song - Katherine Edgren "This Morning, My Father"

Accompany the sympathy with a tenor of all tomorrows - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"

Accompanied by bees - Thomas Lux "Midmorning"

Your playful and somber accompaniments - Mahealani Perez-Wendt "Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu"

What accompanies us to the unpredictable - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp is the reject of the reject par excellence"

Rough accompaniment of blind-man's-buff - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"


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Potential Titles: Accumulate

( Accumulate )

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Potential Titles: Accent

With sounds uncouth and accents dry - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

By the forced accents of your applause - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"

The unforgotten accents of the dead - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"

The chemical accents of the sun - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Almond-Trees"

Ring out, my bells, in accents clear - H.K.W. "Song of the Carilloneur" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.682, 20 Jan. 1877]


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Potential Titles: Accomplish

( Accomplish )

The dusk of slow-accomplished Time - Emily Lawless "Afterword"


Unaccomplished fate - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXV in Sonnets from the Portuguese"


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Potential Titles: Account

Accountants of random expenditures - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"


( Account )

All that is left unaccounted for - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"


Unaccountable acorns, midnight loam, overgrown meadows - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"


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Potential Titles: Acquaint

( Acquaint )

But unacquainted with himself - Sir Matthew Hale "Paraphrase from Seneca"


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Potential Titles: Acquire/Acquisition

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by the scrupled ways of acquisition - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"


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Potential Titles: Action

Act.


( Action )

We by our after-actions stand or fall - E.G.W. "To a Lady" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.145-v.III, 9 Oct. 1886]


The syntax of inaction - Mary Jo Bang "She Remembers His Hat"

Crown myself with the thorny wreath of inaction - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear


Away from people and the curse of interaction - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"


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Potential Titles: Acorn

( Acorn )

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Potential Titles: Accept

( Accept )

Peering through the acceptable landscape - Steven Cramer "Pentimento"

The acceptable cruelty of nature - Stephen Dunn "A Card from Me to Me"

Pretending the Doubleworld was acceptable - S*an D. Henry-Smith "remedies I"


With worthy acceptance of pure joy - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

a patchwork of frayed acceptance - Tanque R. Jones "Hany"

In that epoch between hope and acceptance - Tanque R. Jones "Monarch"

Who is objectified by acceptance - Edwin Torres "The Necessariest"

our pillow talk of acceptance & cigarette ash - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "A Blues For Eunice Waymon"


An attention to unacceptable tenses - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"


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Potential Titles: Accurate

Accuracy moving deeper than mechanics - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

Accuracy amidst the perpetual scattering - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

Photos retouched for accuracy - Achy Obejas "Recountal"


The most complete and accurate source of information - Duane Ackerson "Black Hole Hunter's Guide"

Knew my altered perception must be accurate - Mary Jo Bang "On the Nature of Hardwiring"

With keen and accurate advance - Witter Bynner "The New World II"

The clues I've left aren't accurate - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"

Without an accurate memory - Derek Walcott "French Colonial. "Vers de Societe""


Go straight for an inaccuracy - Tonya M. Foster "Preamble"


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Potential Titles: Achilles (Allusion)

( Achilles )

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