Potential Titles: Gulf

( Gulf )

Through the fever-gulf that had me - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]


Were tangled on the lines of thought in gulfstreams of death - Harry Martinson "Aniara 64" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg


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Potential Titles: Gun

( Gun )

Gunfire would be our only warning - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Toy Gun"

Sweet melody is the undercurrent of gunfire - Joy Harjo "Resurrection"

Gunfire barks its questions - Seamus Heaney "The Betrothal of Cavehill"


The dust motes grew gunmetal - Kristina Erny "Abduction"


That motion is salvation granted at gunpoint - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"


Gunpowder.


Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"


An alluring rhythm of gunshots - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

Out of the gunshot of the devil - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Splintery shovels and midnight gunshots - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"


Smelled of grass and gunsmoke - Kinsale Drake "(Re)location"

everyone knows how to run through gun smoke - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"


Playing cards with machine guns - Mary Jo Bang "Ghost and Grays"

Machine-guns, tapping a code in Morse - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Of the piano and machine gun - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"


Into chrome and sun and shotgun confection - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

Electric fences and silos and shotguns - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"

kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"


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Potential Titles: Guilt

( Guilt )

Guiltless at my soul's command - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"


Watch him steal, guilt-lighted, to his pillow - B. Simmons "Stanzas to the Memory of Thomas Hood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]


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Potential Titles: Guardian

( Guardian )

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Potential Titles: Guest

( Guest )

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Potential Titles: Guide

With the guidance of no star - Russell Green "De Mundo"

No guidance system wired inside me yet - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]


( Guide )

You lose the sight of guidelines - Sarah Getty "Presbyopia"


A misguided advertisement for new desires - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"

Misled, misguided barques - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway IV: Vagrants"

By the midsummer moon misguided - Algernon Swinburne "Flower-Pieces: II. Love in a Mist'

A butterfly born of misguided hierarchy - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"


Strives unguided towards indefinite ends - V. Sackville-West "To a Poet Whose Verses I Had Read"


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Potential Titles: Gunpowder

( Gunpowder )

Gun.

Powder.


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Potential Titles: Gush

( Gush )

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Potential Titles: Gut

When the law leaves a dream gutted - Joshua Bennett "On Blueness"

To free the deadly hope from your gut - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"

Will malady your gut with moths and stars - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"

Gutted by fire and disaster - Muna Lee "Vendor of Green Coconuts"

My guts are emptied of courage - Tu Fu "Captivity" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Could fathom the guts of shadows - William Carlos Williams "Sub Terra"


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Potential Titles: Guile

( Guile )

Spinning the guileless hours away - Walter de la Mare "Voices"


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Potential Titles: Gutter

( Gutter )

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Potential Titles: Gulls/Seagulls

( Gull/Seagull )

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Potential Titles: Guarantee/Guarantor

Which is guaranteed not to germinate - Duane Ackerson "Bird Seed"

Not enough to guarantee safe voyage - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"

Guaranteed to harness the departed souls - Alyza Taguilaso "Add to Cart"

Guarantees and warnings that entice us to the brink - Dean Young "Sleep Cycle"


Shine as a guarantor for my hopes - Ahmet Igamberdi "My Star" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla


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Potential Titles: Gurgle

Some fountain gurgling from the rifted rock - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"

Then blood gurgled down the corners, the streets and the rivers - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"

A bubbling and gurgling of grumpy water - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

this estuary guarded by gurgling sea lions - David Maduli "alameda point"

Gurgle their slender, changeful melody - Hans von Spiegel "June" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]


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Potential Titles: Guess

( Guess )

Bundled guesswork disguised as intention - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"

By guesswork with a failing torch for light - Gilbert Frankau "Gun-Teams"


Asleep, in dreams unguessed - Babette Deutsch "Silence"

In my deep heart harbor quite unguessed - Emma Lazarus "Teresa di Faenza" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, July 1880]


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Potential Titles: Guise

( Guise )

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Potential Titles: Guitar

( Guitar )

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Potential Titles: Gust

( Gust )

The aftergust of March storms laid away - T.M. Kettle "Dreams and Duty"


Madly the wind-gusts rave - H.D. "Desolate" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.729, 15 Dec. 1877]


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Potential Titles: Guard

( Guard )

Guardian.


Entrusted to the bodyguard of the temple - Manal Kara "[Country people enjoy dogs ...]"


The guard dog is eating a thunderstorm - Ameen Animashaun "The Dance of the Lambs and the Birds"


Wading out to sea to lure lifeguards - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"


Not all of our safeguards are weapons - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

Who surrounds himself with crystal safeguards - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"

My fancied safeguard made my snare - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"


In an unguarded moment of sun - Chris Abani "The New Religion"

Each day unguarded by the angels - Lynn Xu "Tournesol" [excerpts]


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Potential Titles: Guerdon

The guerdon of a burning kiss - Benjamin West Ball "Pan and Lais"

These bright guerdons of renown are won - Thomas Gent "The Grave of Dibdin"

What shallow Guerdon of terrestrial Strife - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

And by an easy slaughter earn the guerdon - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

A guerdon the winner may not wear - Herman Melville "Clarel" [excerpt - The Medallion]

With all its guerdon of twilight sounds and shadows - "The Railway Station" [Household Words no.6, 4 May 1850]


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