Potential Titles: Purge

( Purge )

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Potential Titles: Puzzle

( Puzzle )

the fossilized needles of a monkey puzzle - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]


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Potential Titles: Push

( Push )

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Potential Titles: Puddle

( Puddle )

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Potential Titles: Punctual

Punctual as a star - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XVII: The Railway Train"

Charioteers of punctual sun and moon - Luisa Hewitt "Ave Atque Vale"

And loathe the punctual rise of each new day - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto II"

Thy punctual nest - Theodore H. Rand "The Loon"

To him the dawn is punctual - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"


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Potential Titles: Puppet

( Puppet )

A puppet and his furious puppeteer - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"

Tangled in electric cord and puppeteered - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"


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Potential Titles: Pull

( Pull )

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Potential Titles: Pumpkin

Without it pumpkins will not grow - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"

With frosts that unripe pumpkins kill - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"

Lest Jack Frost should their pumpkin harm - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"

Behold the pumpkin borne in state - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"

Tomatoes in the summer and pumpkins in the fall - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"

Painted turtles, pumpkinseed or green sunfish - Janet Kauffman "Wanting Ice"


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Potential Titles: Pure

Mixed by impure stars to common metal - Elizabeth Bartlett "Reflected in Brass"

Burns impure incense on her altar's flame - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Rinsed of impurities - Kay Ryan "Star Block"


( Pure )

Restrained by pure-eyed Sorrow's hand - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"


Undying thirst that purifies - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXVI. Love Misinterpreted" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Dissolve in purifying tears - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Richter"

Purifying floods of song - James Whitcombe Riley "The Song I Never Sing"


Grasped the meaning of purity - Ch'iu Wei "Visiting a Recluse on West Mountain and Not Finding Him In" transl. by Burton Watson

Still retain their purity of functional design - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"


Through the silver-pure hours - Amelia Josephine Burr "Perugia"


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Potential Titles: Public

( Public )

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Potential Titles: Purpose

( Purpose )

A purposeless express of joy - Lindsey Boldt "A Bartable Enya Afternoon"

Barren purposeless change - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 3"

Such purposeless and iron wings - Louis Golding "Having Finished 'Jude the Obscure'"


Creating a memorial from repurposed fragments - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]


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Potential Titles: Pursue

( Pursue )

Pursuit.


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Potential Titles: Put

( Put )

To insure that the output is defective - Duane Ackerson "The Dream Factory: Two Tours"


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Potential Titles: Punch

( Punch )

In the punch-clock of deep space - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"


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Potential Titles: Punish

Punished for something obscure we had done - Edward Hirsch "Gabriel" [excerpt]

Punished mildly by wind - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"


Punishment came without stint or delay - "Disobeying Mother" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

When leagued with me in crime and punishment - "The King of Darkness: On the Fallen Angels" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

And share alike in point of punishment - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"

The punishment for sight - Dean Rader "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"

Crime & punishment made one - Ann K. Schwader "Gone to Ground"


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Potential Titles: Pulse

Steel apulse with all the power of hell - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"


A billion stars pulsating in my veins - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"


( Pulse )

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Potential Titles: Purple

( Purple )

Grapes of purple-brown and gold - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"


Mint droops purple-tipped with frost - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"


Burnt to red-purple in the cup - H.D. "Prisoners"


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Potential Titles: Puncture

( Puncture )

Above sprocket-punctured skylines - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"


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Potential Titles: Punctuate

( Punctuate )

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Potential Titles: Puff

Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs - Robert Frost "For Once, Then, Something"

That stood on the railing, puffed up with sky - Chloe Honum "Devonport"

Then vanished in puffs of luminous smoke - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

In this puff of ecstatic dust - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"


The smoke-drift of puffed-out heroes - Wallace Stevens "The Course of a Particular"


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Potential Titles: Purchase

And hope can be purchased by the pound - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"

Beware of what you purchase with your eyes - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"

The purchase of its reality - J. Michael Martinez "Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self"

Purchase your memory on postcards - Nancy Mercado "Going to Work"

The moments purchased by despair - George Sterling "At Midnight"

Purchase me the freedoms of celestial sorcery - George Sterling "To the Moon (StC)"


Crowns thee lord of an unpurchasable word - Alice Meynell "Why Wilt Thou Chide"


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Potential Titles: Purgatory

A toolbox to support purgatory - Mary Jo Bang "A Equals All of a Sudden"

Lonely purgatories of the mind - Gordon Bottomley "Atlantis"

Limbo disguised as purgatory - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"

Maddening peculiar purgatory - Tony Hoagland "Proof of Life"

The opposite of purgatory - Aimee Le "Devil Woman Plus the Luckiest Guy in the World"

In its own winding purgatory - Linda Pastan "Marking Time"

porcelain is the purgatory of most men - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"


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Potential Titles: Purse

In the dark purse of my breathing - Carl Adamshick "Colorado"

A purses for any crystal prophet ripe - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

A velvet purse that holds a hundred pounds - "Jack Jingle and Sucky Shingle"

Those unreadable receipts at the bottom of a purse - Janet Kauffman "Zooplankton and More"

My purse was full of hope - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes II: The Gamblers"


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Potential Titles: Pursuit

( Pursuit )

Pursue.


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