Potential Titles: Tatter

( Tatter )

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Potential Titles: Taunt

( Taunt )

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Potential Titles: Talon

( Talon )

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Potential Titles: Tarnish

( Tarnish )

Made of sweet, untarnished silver - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"


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Potential Titles: Task

( Task )

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Potential Titles: Tassel

Speak with tasseled exactitude - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

The tasseled trees frown from the wall - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"

The morning sun with its golden tassels - Christopher Kondrich "Clearing"

Lonely perfect tassels to the wind - Isabel Neal "Drought Essay"

Like tasselled grapes to Tantalus - Iris Tree "[How often, when the thought of suicide]"

Tossing the elm-tree's tender tassels - Francis Brett Young "England--April, 1918"


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Potential Titles: Table

( Table )

Let the dust settle on my dressing-table - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]


the roundtable turned square - jessica Care moore "She Was"


A tabletop scattered with ruins - Mary Jo Bang "Interrupted Briefly by a Borrowed Phrase, the Scene Proceeds"


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Potential Titles: Tail

( Tail )

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Potential Titles: Tax

Who do not tax their lives with forethought - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"

In times of action get new taxes - John Donne "Love's Growth"

Taxes every power you know - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Heroism"

To tax the poor plutocrat out of existence - Harry Graham "What's in a Name?"

They first tax the nation and then pawn the land - James Parkerson "A Poem to the Memory of our late lamented Queen Caroline of England"

Now bid the peasant pay no tax - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

And tax not the peasant's plough - "Queen Dagmar's Bridal, 1205" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

A way to pay the infinite tax - Rachel Rodman "The Past Is a Foreign Country"

Sold the ox to pay taxes - Su Tung-p'o "Lament of the Farm Wife of Wu" transl. by Burton Watson

Collecting the tax on honey and wax - John B. Tabb "The Tax-Gatherer"

We had paid our taxes off our veins - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini


With crowning brilliancy and rich rewards untaxed - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"


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Potential Titles: Taste

( Taste )

To consider the aftertaste of bark - Deborah Ruddell "The Woodpecker"

leaves petrichor as aftertaste - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"


Delight to spice the tasteless years - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"


Plus a teaspoon-taste of history - Chen Chen "First Light"


To snatch the untasted cup away - Anne Bronte "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas"

Where some joy untasted yet awaits - Thomas S. Chard "The Seven Sleepers"

The burden of untasted death - Hazel Hall "Flash"

The untasted bait that bribed my soul - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

But all untasted stood the hoard - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]


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Potential Titles: Tantrum

( Tantrum )

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Potential Titles: Tap

( Tap )

Tap-dancing in the hell writers make for themselves - Theodora Goss "The Red Shoes"

Tap-dancing up a crystal stair - Hailey Leithauser "The Old Woman Gets Drunk with the Moon"


untapped talents and salted bravado - Khadijah Queen "Ode to 180 Pairs of White Gloves"


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Potential Titles: Tar

( Tar )

Landed on a tar pit's surface - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Nothing drifts in a tar pit - fahima ife "recrudescence"


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Potential Titles: Tardy

To aid the tardy steps of reason - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

By scanty fruit and tardy grain - Susan Coolidge "The Legend of Kintu"

The tardy zeal of future days - George Crabbe "The Village: Book II"

In the habit of tardy remunerations - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"

Easy vow of tardy kindness - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Suicide"


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Potential Titles: Tame

( Tame )

In tameless hearts shall live - Felicia Hemans "The Death of Conradin"

Tameless heart in battered frame - George Meredith "The Last Contention"

Tameless playmate of the wind - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: V. The Sea.--Safety"


Untamed.


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Potential Titles: Taint

( Taint )

Its blood dried up with treason's fever-taint - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]


With a spirit-tainted breath - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"


Charms of taintless air - Benjamin West Ball "MDCCCXLVIII-IX"


( Untainted )

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Potential Titles: Tapestry

( Tapestry )

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Potential Titles: Tabernacle

I knelt at the tabernacle of chaos - Regie Cabico "In a Legendary Light"

In tabernacles & doleful churches - Cyrus Cassells "Ready! Aim! Fire!"

The first tabernacle to Hope - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

The tabernacle reconstructed - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"

Picking open a tabernacle - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"


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Potential Titles: Tailor

Nine tailors with their shears - "American Parody of Swinburne's 'The Creation of Man'"

The tailor's eye which knows by sight - Mary Jo Bang "Still Life with Glasses"

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

The tailor of histories - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"

A tailored suit for bones lost - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

Tailors of the light - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"

Men in tailored suits talk about dimensions - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"


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Potential Titles: Talent

Masters of many talents render account to me - Henry Rutgers Conger "Class Day Poem"

Booked the best talent in Tartarus - Dana Gioia "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"

Wasteful action is corruption of the purest talents - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"

As wind ripens their talent for exodus - Rusty Morrison "please advise stop [the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father's arm stop]"

untapped talents and salted bravado - Khadijah Queen "Ode to 180 Pairs of White Gloves"

The jealousy knifed inside the mortal talent - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"


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Potential Titles: Tambourine

A fanfare of tambourines and glory - Jabari Asim "Some Call It God"

They tambourine the light on the wall - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

Makes a tambourine of the wind chime - Jaswinder Bolina "Phantom Camera"

Our tambourining and fireworking distractions - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

The far-off music of a tambourine - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"


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Potential Titles: Taxi/Taxicab

Riding the cab of an iron dungeon - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

Beauty a hackney cab of commerce - Mike Tyler "Palazzo Tartaruga"


( Taxi/Taxicab )

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Potential Titles: Tally

( Tally )

And scored a flock of zeroes on my tally-board - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"


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Potential Titles: Tattoo

( Tattoo )

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Potential Titles: Tarry

Free as the wind to linger and tarry - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Wandering, wandering all the world over]"

Would not tarry if I could be gone - Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr "Sonnet [I would not tarry if I could be gone]"

Light in all the city tarried - John Davidson "London"

Repair where the hill foxes tarry - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson

Too great to tarry questioning - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

Beauty that tarries not, nor satisfies - Dora Sigerson "Unknown Ideal"

Nor let the grass of tarrying grow - William Watson "Lines (with a Volume of the Author's Poems Sent to M.R.C.)"


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Potential Titles: Tag

From a digitally tagged snare - J.M. Allen "One Mistake"

Not all of our tools have price tags - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

Playing "tag" in the very midst of the throng - "Dolly's Promenade" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]

Plays tag among the melon vines - Miriam Clark Potter "Thanksgiving Kitchen Song"

Build separate homes from red tag items - Janice Lobo Sapigao "HomeGoods"

Tungsten for the fireflies' freeze tag - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"


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Potential Titles: Tangle

Entangle.


( Tangle )

Untangle.


Weed-tangled city walls wrap around ruins - Wang An-Shih "Thinking of Golden-Tomb City Long Ago" transl. by David Hinton


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Potential Titles: Taper

( Taper )

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Potential Titles: Tablet

( Tablet )

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Potential Titles: Tang

Sharp tang of other waters known - Elizabeth Bradfield "Learning to Swim"

the bitter tang of the dream he'll become - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"

The endless tang of the universe - Pablo Neruda "First Travelings" transl. by Alastair Reid

Tang of salt in the walls - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

The brackish tangs of the raw ores - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"

Released tangy dews and ozones - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"

Harvest fruit tanged with sulfur - Stephen Yenser "Petition on Santorini"


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Potential Titles: Tangerine

Through the lavish tangerine of dawn - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"

Inside the scent of tangerines - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"

Aroma of basil and tangerine washed over - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Peel an alien tangerine - Trace Peterson "With a Petroleum Coating"

Of apples, victory, tangerines, and smoke - Carl Phillips "Archery"

With citrons yellow and tangerines still green - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson


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Potential Titles: Tangible/Intangible

A handful of intangible ash - Elizabeth Bishop "The Armadillo"

The aloneness that intangibly defines the air - Steven David Justin Sills "Earth"

Knows the shadow's intangible depth - Steven David Justin Sills "Post Annulment 2"

Still intangible power floats out of the sky - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"


more tangible than yellow - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

No tangible good to stop for - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

Grown tangible and true - Eunice Tietjens "To S"

Some tangible byproduct - Katie Willingham "Artifact (Disambiguation)"


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Potential Titles: Tape

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

Err on the side of caution tape - Brody Parrish Craig "Traverse"

Little flowers made from red tape - Matthew Olzmann "Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz"

Amidst onions, and turnips, and tape - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"


And make a mixtape of time - Nuola Akinde "Mothering"


A rainbow tapework as a token of goodbye - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"


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Potential Titles: Taut

( Taut )

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Potential Titles: Take/Took

( Take/Taken/Taking )

To the banquet of bones will betake him - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Breathtaking presumption - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Breathtaking vistas of bodily hell - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

His music of earth's caretaking - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"

Heavy sweetness proves its own caretaker - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Their estimating, census-taking eyes - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"

Bitter outtakes from tar - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"

Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"


Undertake/Undertake.


( Took )

Overtake/Overtook.


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Potential Titles: Talk

( Talk )

Adverbs from the leaf-talk of the elves - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"


Mouths too busy for small talk but not for lies - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"


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Potential Titles: Tartarus

( Tartarus )

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Potential Titles: Talisman

( Talisman )

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Potential Titles: Tall

( Tall )

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Potential Titles: Target

( Target )

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Potential Titles: Tale

( Tale )

Fairy Tale.


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