Potential Titles: Curious/Curiosity

( Curiosity )

( Curious )

The grave, incurious stars - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

Choose the wheat, incurious of the chaff - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"


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Potential Titles: Cusp

( Cusp )

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Potential Titles: Cunning

( Cunning )

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Potential Titles: Current

( Current )

Undercurrent.


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Potential Titles: Curse

Accurst.


( Curse )

Uncursed amid the harpy tribe - Sir William Blackstone "The Lawyer's Farewell to His Muse"

The unbaptized, unfinished, and uncursed - Derek Walcott "White Magic"


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Potential Titles: Curtain

( Curtain )

Reposing in the crimson-curtained west - "RÊVES ET SOUVENIRS" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)


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Potential Titles: Cupboard

Hoping never to open up the cupboard - Conrad Hilberry "Empty Plate"

Orderly cupboards filled with nothing - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

Orderly cupboards filled with blood - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

The cat's in the cupboard - Charles Lamb "Nonsense Verses"

A cupboard stacked with ragged treasures - P.H.B. Lyon "The Secret Playroom"

Pushed death back into the cupboard - Grace Nichols "Battle"


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Potential Titles: Curlew

( Curlew )

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Potential Titles: Custom

( Custom )

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Potential Titles: Currency

A currency of loss and redemption - Anthony Butts "Wise and Innocent"

the currency of faint cities eternal - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

Spoke to a more universal currency - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"

Light that was its shining currency - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"

barter in the currencies of bravado and spotlight - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"


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Potential Titles: Cursive

Writing cursive lines on shifting slate - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

Silver angels etching great cursive blessings - Laure-Anne Bosselaar "Late Afternoon Stroll on the Cliffs"

Flies scratch cursive in the air - William Brewer "We Burn the Bull"

Rattlesnakes making a cursive communion on the road - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

I wear your black cursive on my chin - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"


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Potential Titles: Curve

Into the smooth curvatures of faith - Max Bodenheim "Three Portraits"

Reveal an order within the curvature to chaos - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

Its glittering mound of curvatures - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

A breathing map to display the curvature of our world - Nancy Mercado "Going to Work"


( Curve )

A curve-ball made of shelter - Elaine Equi "After and in Keeping with H.D."


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Potential Titles: Cuckoo

( Cuckoo )

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Potential Titles: Cut

( Cut )

Clear-cut and certain they rise - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"


Don't miss the cut-off out of here - Janet Kauffman "The Hand of the Sassafras"


Quest of the cut-throat sons of Cain - John Masefield "Lyrics from 'The Buccaneer'"

Of all the cutthroat combat sports - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Clinic and Oracle"


Where the deep-cut leaves of the liverwort grow - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]


The glasscut-moon healing into midday sky - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"


Bad haircuts and sloppy tailors - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"


Lace-cut flame green filament - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"


Replaced by lasercut urns and polished stones - Sandra J. Lindow "Tombstone Tapestries"


From the slim-cut decanters of death - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"


The mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"

Scaling the mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"


A book with half the pages still uncut - Mona Gould "This Was My Brother (For Lt.-Col. Howard McTavish, killed in action at Dieppe)"

fresh as an uncut sheet cake - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."


A wrecking ball swung an uppercut - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"


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Potential Titles: Curl

( Curl )

Shield and mirror to the fair snake-curled Pain - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"


The sky uncurling to the light - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

The salt-chased seas uncurled - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"


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Potential Titles: Cull

( Cull )

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Potential Titles: Cupid

( Cupid )

Eros.


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Potential Titles: Cure

( Cure )

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Potential Titles: Cup

( Cup )

Cup-bearer at feasts of God - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"


A cupful of hesitation finally beginning to loosen your tongues - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "The Houseguest"

Carry the first cupfuls of night - Walter Pavlich "Road with Five Waterfalls"


Rusty cup-stains on the tables - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"


Wrought dice-cups in Pagan temples - Amy Lowell "Solitaire"


With an emperor's skull for a drinking-cup - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"


This stirrup-cup of stars - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"


Teacup.


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Potential Titles: Cultivate

By cultivating his own woe - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

Cultivating a deliberate recklessness - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

Cultivates the rough and barren regions - George Martin "Superstition"

We cultivated the debris field - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"

Even the redbuds and goldenrod you cultivate - Keith Taylor "Prayers from the Polish Church, Detroit, 1963"

The garden's cultivated grace - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)


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Potential Titles: Culture

Under the microscope of cultural critics - Stephanie Heit "The Murderer: Primetime"


weaving disparate cultures into harmony - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"

The balance of culture and matter - Ana Bozicevic "Poem"

Their negotiations with consumer culture - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Reads the dictionary for its perspective on culture - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"


Uncultured bloom thy fairy bowers - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"


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Potential Titles: Curfew

And the curfew's pensive tone - Reginald Augustine "Dreams" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no 372, May 30 1829]

As the sad curfew sounds - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

The crickets have curfews - Chris Dombrowski "Midwesterly"

Curfew's tolling requiems of the dying world - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Messenger, trickster, curfew-maker - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

Curfew for the long departed - George Santayana "Avila"


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Potential Titles: Curb

Will curb the cost this judge demands - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"

A guide to curb the fiery will - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Rain making rivers by the curb - Natalie Goldberg "Home"

The touch of my curbing rein - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"

Against the boundless curb of light - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"


Dynamo of strength uncurbed - Christopher Morley "America, 1917"


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