Potential Titles: Time Machine

Turn your hands into time machines - Crys S. Campbell "(How to be a) Fast Girl"

My time machine, blown off course - Laura Kasischke "The Time Machine"

And spin me, tiny time-machine! - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "dandelion"

If I take my time machine back to sixteen - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Blows Out Sixteen Candles"

A time machine made out of zeroes and ones - Salik Shah "Straw-Fitted Elephants"


Machine.

Time.


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Potential Titles: Tiny

( Tiny )

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Potential Titles: Tinsel

( Tinsel )

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Potential Titles: Tip

( Tip )

Fingertip.


A fire-tipped spear of corn - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt


His keen-tipped lance of lightning - Solomon ibn Gabirol "Night-Piece" transl. by Emma Lazarus


An orchard in its pink-tipped bloom - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"


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


Made from your own silver-tipped wishes - Nikita Gill "The Moon Writes a Love Letter to Artemis"


And a star-tipped wand for light - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"


Tiptoe.


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Potential Titles: Tissue

( Tissue )

Scar tissue's calligraphy writes on his body - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"


Wrapping a scoop of snow in tissue paper - Carolyn Forche "Night Shift in the Home for Convalescents"

Invented plums and tissue paper - Laura Kasischke "The Pain"

Beer as thin as tissue paper - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"


A tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"


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Potential Titles: Tide

June's high-tide on bank and bower - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Humming Bee"

Ghostwriting the low-tide mark - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


( Tidal )

( Tide )

Riptide pulling me under - Camisha L. Jones "Tinnitus"


A chant to the sea-tide's chorus - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"


Lingering by Lethe's tideless void - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

Lover of death's tideless waters - Christina Rossetti "A Coast-Nightmare"

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


Salvaging among the tideline's bitter gleanings - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"


Then the tidepool of my power fills - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"


Sink beneath the tidewaves, of their weight - George Meredith "An Orson of the Muse"


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Potential Titles: Tireless

( Tireless )

Tire [fatigue].

Tire [wheel].


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Potential Titles: Tire [fatigue]

( Tire )

Tire [wheel].

Tireless.


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Potential Titles: Time

( Time )

Timeless.


A timely utterance gave that thought relief - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"


( Untimely )

( Hypenated and compound words containing 'time' as a component )

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Potential Titles: Timeless

( Timeless )

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Potential Titles: Tire [wheel]

They raised an altar of abandoned tires - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"

From the shredded tires of predators - Jan Beatty "Drag"

Rip the old tires from the brambles - Scott Cairns "A Lot"

Because the future drives on new tires - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"

My car tires swishing on the lying water - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"

Throwing tires like horseshoes - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"


Tire [fatigue].


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Potential Titles: Ticket

Birth is a torn ticket stub - Ama Codjoe "My Nothings"

Along with a ticket for time travel - Diane DeCillis "Thinking about What Matters"

A wind that stirs the torn tickets - Chris Dombrowski "Hear them all"

Ferris wheel with tickets for sale - Stephanie Heit "Solar Eclipse"

Torn ticket in my hand - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"


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Potential Titles: Tile

Hidden in the cracks of the roof tile - Kaneko Misuzu "Stars and Dandelions" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

The mold that holds the tile together - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

In tight cravat and shiny tile - Henry S. Leigh "The Lord Mayor's Apotheosis"

Corridors of tile and jaundiced plaster - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"

Every roof has a broken tile - Alberto Rios "The Broken"

Falls among tiles and stones - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson


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Potential Titles: Timber

Drop the axe and leave the timber - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"

And timbers black with flame - F.W. Harvey "The Stranger"

With scraps of purloined timber - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

The beaver cut his timber with patient teeth - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Fatal hours scored by falling timber - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


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Potential Titles: Tin

( Tin )

Tin Can.


( Tinfoil )

Stardust skimmed with a tin pail - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"


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Potential Titles: Tinge

( Tinge )

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Potential Titles: Tiptoe

( Tiptoe )

Tip.


Toe.


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Potential Titles: Tingle

Those long-frayed endings of every nerve tingling - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Each tingle a bright white morning glory - James Crews "Awe"

Submitted to that tingling dance of atoms - Robert Hass "State of the Planet"

Tingled through the steeple of my spine - Theodore Maynard "Ballade of Sheep Bells"

Its elfin rush and tingle - George Soule "Winter's Pride"


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Potential Titles: Tight

Hidden behind the airtight jars - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"


( Tight )

The tight-fitting black truth of my narrative - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"


Balancing on a tightrope of sound - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"

Peace Walks a Tightrope - Anna Grossnickle Hines "Tough Act"

Walking the perilous tightropes of tension - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"


Along the miles of tight-strung wire - Dana Gioia "The Argument"


Two stops apart on a tightwired continuum - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"


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Potential Titles: Timid

( Timid )

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Potential Titles: Tick

( Tick )

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Potential Titles: Tier

Trapdoors in the tiers of heaven - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Buttressed with unnumbered tiers of ruddy rock - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"

In white triple tiers of glittering gates - Herman Melville "The Maldive Shark"

Tiers upon tiers of checkpoints - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Submitted to the nine-tiered palace - Han Yu "Written on My Way into Exile When I Reached the Lan-t'ien Pass and Shown to My Brother's Grandson Hsiang" transl. by Burton Watson

Sweeping all the nine-tiered sky - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "In the Year with the Cyclical Sign Mou-shen (408), in the Sixth Month We Had a Fire" transl. by Burton Watson


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Potential Titles: Tilt

( Tilt )

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Potential Titles: Tidings

( Tidings )

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Potential Titles: Titania

( Titania )

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Potential Titles: Titan/Titanic

( Titan/Titanic )

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Potential Titles: Tiger

( Tiger )

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Potential Titles: Till (agriculture)

Soil of flint if steadfast tilled - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XXVII"

Tilling the earth from thorn to rose - James Roane Gregory "Rain"

The blue mud ushers in glacial till - Janet Kauffman "Caught Between Rocks"

Doomed to till full sore - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Thou poisonous laurel leaf, that in the soil]"

The fruit of Freedom's tillage - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

this acre of hand tilled hibiscus - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"


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Potential Titles: Tint

( Tint )

Rose-tinted shadows of beauty and light - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]


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Potential Titles: Tie

( Tie )

( Tying )

To tie-back or prune branches is useless - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"


Do not press my tongue-tied patience - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXL"


Untie my tangled places - Rachel Barenblat "Untie"

Untie or break that knot again - John Donne "Batter my heart, three person'd God (Holy Sonnet 14)"


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