Potential Titles: Snow

( Snow )

Snowbirds spread their crystallized wings - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"

Snowblind with grief - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"

Snow-clad Cenis' heart of stone might melt - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

In snowdrifts ten miles north - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"

The soft harp of snowfall - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"

Heavy with portents of snowfall - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"

Stepping light as snowfall - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"

Snowflake.

When the wind frenzied up a snow globe of petals - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Smash a snow globe in a parking lot - Ruth Madievsky "You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies"

A cracked snow globe whose magic pool drips serum - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Over woods of snow-hung oak - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The relief of snowmelt - Carl Phillips "Anyone Who Had a Heart"

Snowplows etch lines in the whiteness - Sue Budin "After the Blizzard"

With snow-scent and lavender bless you - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

Snowshoes bite the trail open - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

Snowplow pushes time across the prairie - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"

Snowstorm.

A snow-white butterfly dancing before the fitful gale - Richard Bowen "Genius" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

While yet the snow-wreaths to the rock-shelves cling - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"


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Potential Titles: Snake

( Snake )

Within those snake-bright grottoes - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"


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


From the smoke rise the flame's snake-eyes - John Freeman "The Chair"


Who sailed in a snake-prowed galley - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"


Wearing nothing but snakeskin boots - Ansel Elkins "Autobiography of Eve"


Tape snaking through a stealth machine - Mary Jo Bang "An Autopsy of an Era"

New ferns snaking fast up the old hosts' throats - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"


Where the sea-snakes coil and twine - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"


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Potential Titles: Snare

Raging Fortune watches to ensnare - 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]

Whose eyes ensnare your wildest fear - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"

Ensnared in the network by monetary necessity - Margaret B. Simon "A Collective Invention Revisited"


( Snare )

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Potential Titles: Snag

Playful ghosts snagged in the trees - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Snags back her blue memory - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"

Snagged like the yearning in dreams - Brenda Hillman "Unendangered Moths of the Mid-Twentieth Century"

Catch with a small snag - Kimberly Johnson "Ode on My Episiotomy"

Sirens snagging the matted air - Adrian Matejka "Mural with HUD Housing & School Bus (1980)"

Snags on my nexus of doubts - Kiki Petrosino "N/Ought"

Snag and fall and siren-haunted islet - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"


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Potential Titles: Snatch

( Snatch )

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Potential Titles: Snuff

Snuffed out candlewick shadow - Yona Harvey "But for now the music swings from her lacquered radio"

Snuffy old drone from the German hive - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Deacon's Masterpiece: Or the Wonderful 'One-Hoss-Shay'"

These truths like dark snuff - Ashley M. Jones "All Y'all Really from Alabama"

Let the March storm snuff out my flame - Naomi Long Madgett "How Shall I Face the Dawn?"

Old thoughts, dry as snuff - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"


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Potential Titles: Snarl

Vaccinated by a snarl of clouds - Leonard Cohen "The Lists"

Head burning and heart snarling - Robert Graves "Oh, and Oh!"

Colder than the cynical snarl of Nero - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

The wolves' deep snarl be heard - Teig Dall O'Higgin c.1566 "Address to Brian O'Rourke 'of the Bulwarks' to Arouse Him Against the English" transl. by Eleanor Hull

All snarled wires and smashed paint - Sonya Taaffe "Teinds"

To keep off the wild dogs snarling in the night - Keith Taylor "Our Castle and the Wild Dogs"


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Potential Titles: Snail

( Snail )

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Potential Titles: Sneak

Our decision to sneak out to find our own sky - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

Sneak with the scoundrel fox - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

The notes themselves were sneak attacks - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"

The chuckle of ash sneaking into our lungs - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

More gray sneaking in each day - Allison Joseph "Thirty Lines About the 'Fro"


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Potential Titles: Snowstorm

Run home in a snowstorm - Andrea Gibson "Your Life"

The silver ache of a snowstorm - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

A snowstorm of white wings - Lionel Johnson "In England"

A million miles of white snowstorms - Carl Sandburg "Two Strangers Breakfast"

A snowstorm that buries the best of everything - Russell Thorburn "The TV Guide as the Book of Job"


Snow.

Storm.


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Potential Titles: Snap

( Snap )

Snap-frozen in the blizzards called down by Baba Yaga - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"


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Potential Titles: Snowflake

( Snowflake )

Flake.

Snow.


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