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Turning the brittle edge of one high wave - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Even before the bird cracked its brittle tough shell - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"

Caw and fuss among what brittle branches left - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

As bonds of brittle wood - W. Wilfred Campbell "In Holyrood"

In the brown brittle of fall - Jim Daniels "Foundation"

Tacked to the brittleness of yesterday - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

From the brittle little throat of a clay bird - Salomón de la Selva "A Song for Wall Street"

Prepares your brittle substance - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Love XII: The Master"

Brittle leaves sketching their way to rest - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"

Nothing brittle prevails - Eve L. Ewing "Shea Butter Manifesto"

A twist of nerves and brittle gears - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"

The toughest lives are brittle - Adam Lindsay Gordon "Podas Okus"

That brittle berries strew the ground - Mona Gould "You Being Dead (For J.R.T.)"

The brittle boat abandoned - Conrad Hilberry "December 26"

Nor think life's brittle thread to sever - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "Hope On--Hope Ever" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Makes a brittle rustling - Jane Kenyon "We Let the Boat Drift"

Caged by the brittle twigs of my ribs - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"

Brittle as brimstone - D.H. Lawrence "She-Goat"

The rust of brittle color - Hailey Leithauser "Dolor"

As brittle as the world's burning - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

Brittle enough to be believed - Achy Obejas "The Man with No Legs"

Broke my brittle heart in two - Dorothy Parker "A Very Short Song"

These brittle bones, this unwieldy heart - Linda Pastan "Purple"

Brittle cicada skins abandoned - Xan Phillips "I Never Felt Comfortable in My Own Skin so I Made a New One"

Who picked brittle locusts for food - Melissa Range "Kermes Red"

Gathered about her a skirt of brittle leaves - Wendy Rathbone "Gravemaid"

Brittle, transitory things already lost - Ann K. Schwader "Fatal Constellations"

Brown and brittle falls the leaf - George Sterling "The Pathway"

Though love in your heart were brittle - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Coiled around my brittle turquoise view - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

To the brittle wind - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

Night already seeps through my brittle bones - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"

The stuff Hope takes to build her brittle boat - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"

To close that clear brittle door - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"

With brittle wings aquiver - Francis Brett Young "Bete Humaine"


The color of brittle-mindedness - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"


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