Potential Titles: Oil

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Mix cigars and cloves and motor oil - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

Mallards carved in oily silken water - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

How quickly oil moves to aluminum - Mary Jo Bang "S Is for Strategies for Making Sense of Spectacles"

Eat cod liver oil and oatmeal - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"

Gems and ivory, spices and wines and oil - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

A hunter made entirely of oil - Joshua Bennett "Ode to the Mascot"

Half an egg in a pool of oil - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

In the hope of striking oil - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"

Blooming like rust under oil and tender iron - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"

Father Time oils his clocks - Dom "Number Cruncher: Here's a Crowd"

The oil and the blood-smeared cobalt - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

The atoning oil is spread - Ernest Dowson "Extreme Unction"

Black-blooded as the oil plumes - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy, Sung in Dirt"

Glitter fierce in loose veils of oil - Rebecca Dunham "There Lies the Hydra: 2. Corexit 9527A"

The river sweats oil and tar - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"

Past the oily eddies sweeping - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

All oracles in the oil - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"

Pour the fragrant oil and wine - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"

imitating them in oily pigments - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"

Sweetly drifting on thick tides of oil and pennies - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

Who saves the resin of the torch and the oil of the lamp - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Wormseed oil and nightshade flower-shine - Regan Good "A Monstrous Catalpa Tree Grows from a Drain"

While the oil fills your spines with salt - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"

Oiled with sunlight - Robert Hayden "Kodachromes of the Island"

Motors that breathe oxygen and oil - Conrad Hilberry "Quatrain"

Merge with night like oil of bergamot - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"

Measures of oil for others - Emily Pauline Johnson "In Grey Days"

Our languages separate as oil on water - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

Holy oil upon the rising flame - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Their mites of rye and oil - Charles Kingsley "The Ugly Princess"

A liquor I mix'd with my cod-liver oil - Henry S. Leigh "Songs of the Sick Room No. 1: Cod Liver Oil"

In that lamp fresh oil to pour - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

What oil full of wine - Joyce Mansour "Embrace the Blade" transl. by Carol Cosman

Oil the unused armour's rust - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"

On a winch in need of oil - John Masefield "Spunyarn"

Beaches foam-laced with rainbowing suntan oil - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

Oil for the eternal human wheel - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Criticism (II)" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

And the sea crows sunk with oil - Caroline Harper New "If We Stage The Wizard of Oz with Alligators"

If not for the price of sugar and oil - Achy Obejas "Volver"

The quiver of oil in a hot pan - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"

For the sweet oil is low - John Oxenham "Nightfall"

Fed by the oil of promise - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"

As if composed with crude oil - Paige Quinones "At the Museum"

Among her future oil and wines - T. Buchanan Read "Drifting"

The oil drip of wasted want - heidi andrea restrepo rhodes "Flying down the Five"

Who spilled the sacred oil - Lola Ridge "Sons of Belial"

The oiled motions of avoidance - Kay Ryan "Repulsive Theory"

the goblin queen hosts a feast of oils - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

In treasuries of oil - A.E. Stallings "Olives"

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

Anger in oil and stone - George Sterling "Earth Song"

Onyx waters stilled by gorgeous oils - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

In a smile the oil of tears - Dylan Thomas "Light breaks where no sun shines"

Of midnight in gunpowder and oil - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"

Water of tears with oil of joy - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Into the oils of a new tense - Jenny Xie "Abstract with Red Square"


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


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