Potential Titles: Slow

( Slow )

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

Lit with one slow-burning flame - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Slow-rising from the deep caves of his heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

Slow-withering stick and stone - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"


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Potential Titles: Slant

Aslant the shadows of my prayer - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"

That showed me the world aslant - Joyce Sidman "Lament for My Old Life"

Blow the thin streams aslant - William Carlos Williams "The Dark Day"


( Slant )

Tideless waves thundering slantwise - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"


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Potential Titles: Slaughter

( Slaughter )

That slaughterhouse of light - William Brewer "The Messenger of Oxyana"


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Potential Titles: Slope

( Slope )

Tracing the backslopes of deer in the yard - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"


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Potential Titles: Sliver

( Sliver )

Sliver-moons seen between the waves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 99: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley


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Potential Titles: Sleek

Buried under sleek pavement and spindly landscaping - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

Sleek as moonlit grass - Elizabeth Bishop "Behind Stowe"

Sleek suns dipped in sleepy light - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"

Sleeker than night-swollen mushrooms - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

For no sleek eel inside an oily skin - James Stephens "The Gang"


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Potential Titles: Slick

The slick elegance of my spine in an X-ray - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

In a courtyard slicked by rain and blood - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Whose slick fingers cheated cards and pockets - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"

To hurtle headlong down each slick & proper lane - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"

Slipped on the slick rag of the future - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"

Countless corridors worn slick as glass - Ann K. Schwader "Climate of Fear"


All oil-slick sinew and chemical eyes - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"


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Potential Titles: Slide

( Slide )

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Potential Titles: Sleeve

( Sleeve )

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Potential Titles: Sleepless/Unsleeping

( Sleepless )

When gleam the ever-sleepless stars - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]


Sleep.


The unsleeping captain of the dark - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"


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Potential Titles: Slash

Slashed through but not canceled - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

Slashing their dreams with motion - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Horned Toad"

Their slashed and poisoned loneliness - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

Nonlinear slapstick meets slasher flick - Chen Chen "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party"

Marked by the slash of branches - Tyler Mills "House of Pere Lacroix"

Slashed by tiny blades of fear - Magda Portal "Film Vermouth: Six O'Clock Show" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver

Broken across with slashes of light - Carl Sandburg "Window"


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Potential Titles: Slave

Enslaved in tight frames - Kim Unsong "The Poor"


( Slave )

Gilded galley-slaves of Mammon - Robert W. Service "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"


Seared with slavery's mortal scars - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oriflamme"

with the arrows of slavery and white phosphorus - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

Slavery in a digital world - jessica Care moore "She Was"


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Potential Titles: Sleepwalk

( Sleepwalking )

Sleep.


Walk.


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Potential Titles: Slim

Spectral birches, slim and white - Arthur Colton "Without the Gate"

Slimming its index of references - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"

From heaven on a slim silver chain - Rose Fyleman "Fairies in Autumn"

Like tall slim priests of storm - Archibald Lampman "In October"

A slim lilac drew me down - Florence Ripley Mastin "Discovery"

In the slim envelope of light - Naomi Shihab Nye "Feather"

Slim to a snow of needles - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"


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


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Potential Titles: Slipper

( Slipper )

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Potential Titles: Sluice

Which was a sluice of molten gold - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"

That maddened to burst from its sluices - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

Under the rain's gaping sluices - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon

Your life a sluice of sensation - D.H. Lawrence "Fish"

The sloughs and sluices of my mind - Lorine Niedecker "Paean to Place"

The rain sluices down the bent azaleas - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"


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Potential Titles: Slight

( Slight )

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Potential Titles: Slice

( Slice )

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Potential Titles: Slander

( Slander )

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Potential Titles: Slate

( Slate )

Lost in the slate-cold sky - Theodore Maynard "The Stirrup Cup"


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Potential Titles: Sleet

( Sleet )

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Potential Titles: Sly

( Sly )

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Potential Titles: Slake

who of us shall slake the salt wound - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"

Slaking the heart's immortal thirst - William Rose Benét "Imagination"

Slaked the whirlpool mouths of our queen - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Slake them with a tremor - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Harpy"

Slakes desire with liquid fire - Frederick George Scott "The Sting of Death"

Cannot slake my drought - Charles Warren Stoddard "Ave Maria Bells"

Unslaked by any wine save life - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"

Allays the immortal thirst it cannot slake - H.T. Tuckerman "Luna.--An Ode" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]


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Potential Titles: Slam

Another door the world slams shut - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"

Slammed, severed, and swindled - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"

All the doors slammed shut at the end of the world - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

Slammed the lid down on the twilight - Mary Szybist "What If I Could Look At You"

Slammed his second fist into the bedrock of the sea - Gretchen Tessmer "Hey Man, Nice Shot"

On the other side of the slammed door - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"


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Potential Titles: Sling/Slung

Slinging hoop in the dark - Denice Frohman "Shooting in the Dark"


What's slung between azure and cornfield - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

The veins in your neck slung with wind - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Does Not Care about Football"

slung from tractor factories - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"


Could not pierce these meshed and low-slung skies - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson


A slingstone whirled for the desperate - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"


Keep the meddlesome chthonic wordslingers cranky - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"


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Potential Titles: Slender

( Slender )

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Potential Titles: Sleep

Asleep.



( Sleep )

Their bones are coldsleep coral now - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"


The nightmare-sleep of nations - James Clarence Mangan "Hymn for Pentecost"


Like frost that had over-slept - Edmond McKenna "Prelude"


In the Seven Sleepers' den - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"


Shapeshifting sleeper agents hiding in plain sight - Adam Ford "Arrival!"


Sleepless.


Sleepwalk.


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Potential Titles: Slay

( Slay/Slain/Slew )

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Potential Titles: Slip

( Slip )

( Slippery )

Her children bright in the slipstream - Deborah Garrison "Sestina for the Working Mother"

Promise me the slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

Where space drips into our slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

Daydream a new reverie into the slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"


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Potential Titles: Slumber

( Slumber )

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