Potential Titles: Billion

( Billion )

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Potential Titles: Birch

( Birch )

Made of birthstone & birchbark - John McCarthy "I Wanted to Save Her but the Trailer Park Was a Chasm"


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Potential Titles: Birdsong

( Birdsong )

Bird.

Song.


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Potential Titles: Bindweed

Disappearing into knotgrass and bindweed - Mary Jo Bang "Elegy"

The bindweed blankets the fields - "The Book of Odes: No.124 The Kudzu Spreads Till It Darkens the Brier" transl. by Burton Watson

And pink bindweed dimly, steadily flower - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"

The hollow of the bindweed's maze - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

The winsome insinuations of bindweed - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"


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Potential Titles: Big

( Big )

Big Bang.


The dance of the big-hearted dog - Alberto Rios "We Dogs of a Thursday Off"


A Big-Top tent turned fallout zone - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"


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Potential Titles: Billow

( Billow )

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Potential Titles: Birthright

( Birthright )

Birth.

Right.


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Potential Titles: Bioluminescence/Luminescence

Bioluminescence spells out in abstract typography - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

Cuts through the bioluminescent memories - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

The pathway bioluminscent and swirling - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

The bioluminscent waters of his youth - Sally Wen Mao "Nucleation"

A jaunty angle sinking in the bioluminescent green - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"

A jaunty angle sinking in the bioluminescent green - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"


The luminescent mantle of the kerosene lamp - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"


Luminous.


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Potential Titles: Bittern

Take a string to a bittern's back - Katie Ford "The Throats of Guantanamo"

Heard the bitterns call from ruined palace-wall - Robert Graves "In the Wilderness"

The bittern and the cormorant have nested in the upper lintels - J.E. Kelleam "ninevah" [Futuria Fantasia, v.1, no.4, spring 1940]

As curlew, hern, and bittern pass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

The brown bittern speaks in the bog - "A Sleep Song" transl. by P.H. Pearse


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Potential Titles: Bird

( Bird )

Constructing cyberpunk nests from anti-bird spikes - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"


Made mirrors of the pond and birdbath - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"


Squeeze the air from her birdbone body - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda V"


Birdhouse hanging from a make-believe branch - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Imagination"


Birdsong.


His signature, a perfect birdswoop of wings - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"


A bird-wing desire - Dao Strom "Instrument"


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Potential Titles: Biography/Autobiography

What makes all autobiographies worthless - Emily Berry "Freud's Beautiful Things"

Control or mistake or autobiography - Hannah Ensor "Agnes, a sleep"

No autobiography left to compose of glance - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"


To be someone else's biographer - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"

Like fragments of an unclaimed biography - Louise Gluck "Cornwall"

Conscious of the biographical - Mary Hickman "Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait"

A preponderance of biographers - Sina Queyras "The Couriers"


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Potential Titles: Bittersweet

( Bittersweet )

A syrup, sweet-bitter with smoke - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"


Bitter/Bitterness.

Sweet.


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Potential Titles: Birth

( Birth )

Shiny with its afterbirth of light - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"


Birthday.


Birthmarks on curved ivory tusks - Cynthia Manick "A Taste of Blue"


( Birthplace )

Birthright.


Made of birthstone & birchbark - John McCarthy "I Wanted to Save Her but the Trailer Park Was a Chasm"


Born.

Reborn.

Unborn.


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Potential Titles: Bitter/Bitterness

( Bitter/Bitterness )

Sitting there so bitter-bright - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"


Bordering on cool but tinged with bitter-green - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"


Bittersweet.


The sad tear may embitter the wine - R. Penn Smith "A Health to My Brother"


A syrup, sweet-bitter with smoke - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"


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Potential Titles: Birthday

Lightbulbs on a birthday cake - Calef Brown "Birthday Light"

Lighting the darkest of birthday mornings - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

On one of so many birthdays - Eileen Myles "Fifty-Three"

After the birthday crowds thin out - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"

A birthday present wrapped in argument - Matthew Zapruder "The Lark"


Birth.


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Potential Titles: Bicker

Backbite of bicker and rant - Mary Jo Bang "Packing the Heart"

No better cloister from the bickering hours - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"

Ragtag nuclear families with their cooing and bickering - Rita Dove "Vacation"

Bickering counsel of contending kings - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

With trains of bickering fire - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Chunks of ice tugged by bickering currents - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]


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Potential Titles: Bicycle/Bike

Precarious choreography of bicycles - Safia Elhillo "Amsterdam"

Riding a bicycle towards the ceiling - John Yau "Music from Childhood"


Bike riding across insecure cement - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"


All the dust eaten by cyclists in meaningless races - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa


The dreambike had eyes on its spokes - Duane Ackerson " Proof of Existence"


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Potential Titles: Bier

An orphan watching by his father's bier - W.E.A. "Charles Edward at Versailles on the Anniversary of Culloden" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]

And pleads in gentle whisper to the deity's bier - Harry Martinson "Aniara 37" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Weave a chaplet for the Old Year's bier - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "November"

Passing on his temporal elm-wood bier - W.J. Turner "Death"

The King himself bore up the bier - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier


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Potential Titles: Big Bang

Spill acid back to the Big Bang - Mike Allen "Deluge"

The memory of echoes of the big bang - M.C. Childs "Snow Man"

A light at the end of the big bang tunnel - Diane DeCillis "Thinking about What Matters"

There is residue of the Big Bang in roses - Mara Pastor "Flora numérica/Numeric Flora" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong

The electro-static hum of the big bang - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"

Energetic fossils of a Big Bang - Dean Young "Interference & Delivery" [Poetry, January 1988]


Bang.

Big.


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Potential Titles: Bid

( Bid )

Bade.

Try to outbid the rustling of the hard drive - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"

Unbidden.


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Potential Titles: Bison

After exterminating wolves and bison - CAConrad "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return"

Bison lurking on her midnight trails - Emily Pauline Johnson "Calgary"

How grasses affect bison - Jessy Randall "Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963)"

Ruthless as an angry bison - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

In the haunts of bison - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "Arrow-Heads"


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Potential Titles: Bind

( Bind )

All your sighs and tears unbind - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Written Upon Love's Frontier-Post"


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Potential Titles: Bit

( Bit )

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Potential Titles: Bite

( Bite )

Backbite of bicker and rant - Mary Jo Bang "Packing the Heart"


Frostbite.


Except for a frozen half-bitten fruit - Monica de la Torre "Divagar"


Beneath a sun-bitten sky - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"


Starved and wind-bitten oak - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"

Wind-bitten beech with badger barrows - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"


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Potential Titles: Binary

( Binary )

Because the non-binary is defined by the binary - Nada Almosa "Queer Arab Dictionary"


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