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Potential Titles: Cross

A thousand more cross on Charon's armada - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"

Each door I cross - Aldo Amparan "Aubade at the City of Change"

Crossed the rivers with my bag of stealth - Julie Babcock "Ohio Apologia"

Crossed by shadows of the bending fern - Albion Fellows Bacon "Winter Beauty"

Of ships crossing at right angles - Mary Jo Bang "If Wishes Were Horses"

The street with its zebra crossing - Mary Jo Bang "Night After Night"

Cross the crowded corner - Samiya Bashir "You're really faithful to your abusers, aren't you?"

Who crossed waters to follow midnights - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"

And cross the rivers five - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Dream of Samarkand"

On a reed you can cross it - "The Book of Odes: No.61 Who Says the River Is Wide?" transl. by Burton Watson

Blue tunnel crossing the mirror - Sara Borjas "Decolonialish Self-Portrait"

Crossed that dry falling dust - Gordon Bottomley "The End of the World"

Every acre I cross a pearl in my mouth - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"

Rivers of scarlet and crosses of grey - Vera M. Brittain "Vengeance Is Mine"

White crosses grow larger in their trinities - Anthony Butts "Intercession to Saint Brigid"

See that first line before you cross it - Scott Cairns "Embalming"

What thresholds of welcome have you crossed and recrossed? - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "The Houseguest"

A legacy of people crossing oceans - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"

Cross this ocean of liberation in community - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"

Crossed irrevocable rivers - Willa Cather "Macon Prairie"

To cross the lines of self-defence - Leonard Cohen "The Letters"

Cross the paper waves and printed sands - "Datasonnet for Prince Giolo"

That not even sunlight crossed over - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"

A moose crossing the thin August river - Chris Dombrowski "Motherless Children (Traditional)"

Heat under east winds crossed with sleet - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Cross streets become strangers - Maggie Farren "Palms"

Those long caravans that cross the plain - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Moonlight's crossed and trailing spears - Louise Imogen Guiney "A Salutation"

A mad star crossed the sky - Thomas Hardy "The Second Night"

Crossed through knots of a curse - Joy Harjo "Deer Dancer"

The blackboard chalked with crosses - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

The queue to cross Styx - Stephanie Heit "Waiting Bay"

Wishlist of crossed out verbs - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"

Cross a width of draft - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"

Crossed a faultline of the body - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"

Crossed the deserts of parting - Ahmet Igamberdi "My Star" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Before daylight crosses his mind - Allison Eir Jenks "Sleepwalking"

a bridge you will never need to cross first - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

Prefer crossed out, scribbled over monuments - Rosamond S. King "Do not trust the eraser"

My voice does not remember crossing the river - Christopher Kondrich "Ruin Valley"

In great storms, it even crosses the sea - Danusha Lameris "Dust"

Crossing the fern-scented frontiers - D.H. Lawrence "Grapes"

Crossing between gain and loss - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"

A violin's bridge you cross or burn - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"

To cross the bridge of ancient snow - Adam Mickiewicz "The Pass Across the Abyss in the Tschufut-Kale" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Shadows of birds crossing a road - Claire Millikin "Pierced Dolls"

Cross through a summer of tigers - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Their crosses made of vipers - Pablo Neruda "The War (1936)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Crossed and looped a net to the wind - Hoa Nguyen "Netting (Language Ghost)"

An ocean wide we must cross to-day - Sarah Noble-Ives "An Ocean Voyage"

The deliberate stones crossing this season - Naomi Shihab Nye "A Definite Shore"

blue will-o-wisps cross my skin - Catherine O'Ciarmacain "Steelwife"

Three wild turkeys crossing the street - January Gill O'Neil "How to Love"

a sequence of boundaries for crossing over - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

The miracle crossing of another boundary - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Women of the 1980s"

Crossing the river and crossing the line - Andre F. Peltier "Graceland"

Forging rivers, navigating times, and crossing gulfs - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"

Who needed to cross the border - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "If this is my face, so be it"

Palm fronds crossed into the stars - Melissa Range "First South"

The next enchanted cross street - Gilbert Saenz "Mystic Avenues"

Crossing the river of shorn paper - Natalie Scenters-Zapico "Paper Cuts"

When I have crossed dark Lethe's river - Friedrich Schiller "Klopstock and Wieland"

Tradition is capable of crossing any ocean - Tobias Seamon "Letter from the Old World"

Crossed an ocean to find - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"

Love and fate crossed out - Charles Simic "Story of My Luck"

Crossing bones scattered in the red dirt ditch - Cathy Song "Waialua"

Always losing the scent when it crosses the Styx - A.E. Stallings "The Dogdom of the Dead"

Cross a sulphuric lake in a leaky boat - A.E. Stallings "Fairy-tale Logic"

The bristling hemlocks crossed their spears - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Twenty men crossing a bridge - Wallace Stevens "Metaphors of a Magnifico"

Crossed and curdled wells and streams - Algernon Swinburne "A Ninth Birthday. February 4, 1883"

Alights on the cross of the wooden clothesline - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"

Had that witch ne'er crossed the sea - Bayard Taylor "Ariel in the Cloven Pine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

Cross our foreheads with the holly - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

The candles crossed like swords - Matthew Thorburn "Relic"

Appears, crosses the hollow place, and goes again - Mark Van Doren "River Snow"

Crossing a field of brambles and thorns - R.A. Villanueva "Archipelagic"

On the cross of mortal destiny - John Hall Wheelock "Proud Doom"

No shadow where I crossed - Margaret Widdemer "The House of Ghosts"

Great gold cross shining in the wind - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

Crossing the Red Sea of Revolution - Adolf Wolff "On Seeing the Garment Strikers March"

Osiris has shown us the way to cross - Charles Wright "Celestial Waters"

And crossed the bridge in single file - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"

But for a shadow crossing your path - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

No rudder for the crossing - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 13" transl. by Katherine Silver



Webs and dim branching, cross-firing - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"


The crosshairs of a hidden life - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"

how you hold a cottonmouth in a crosshair - C.T. Salazar "River"

Hiding from the sniper's crosshairs - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"


A crosshatch of deletions and smears - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson

Cross-hatchings of the nettle - James Whitcombe Riley "A Barefoot Boy"

Crosshatched with a lacquer frieze of ink - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"


Crossroad.


The non-stop roaring hum of cross-stitched freeways - Mouna Ammar "Time-travel"


Held crosswise to the budding day - Iris Tree "[Of all who died in silence far away]"


A sky cross-stitched and beaded - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"


A whole crossword puzzle of ladder and corridor - Joan Aiken "Down Below"

The satisfaction of crossword puzzles - brian g. gilmore "detroit airport, december 2009 (a sermon)"


Circle and loop and double-cross - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"


What thresholds of welcome have you crossed and recrossed? - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "The Houseguest"


Latest monarch of a star-crossed line - Maurice Baring "Epitaph

Through some starcrossed lineage - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

Star-crossed diamonds on the coffee cup - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


a recursive forest thicket of uncrossability - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"


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