Potential Titles: Salt

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Pumped a saline shot of sadness - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "magenta"

A city that bleeds its saline soil - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"

Give us salinity to float in the betweens - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"


Watch the way clouds salt over stars - Sheikha A. "Nesters"

Wrung out cloth of all my salt - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

Last winter's kisses, like salt on black ice - Kim Addonizio "Wine Tasting"

The marriage of ash and salt below - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Of journeys where salt tears bled - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

Ragged reefs and salty caves - Thomas Bailey Aldrich (uncredited) "An Idyl" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861] (other versions of the poem use 'mossy reefs')

Time-stained and crusted with the sea's salt breath - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Sifting through fountains of salt - Alise Alousi "All Guesses Are Wrong"

When the salt has left the ocean - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Lines to My Love"

The grain of salt takes fire - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

The dark tastes of salt and oranges - Ralph Angel "Sampling"

Salt lost half its savor - Maya Angelou "Insignificant"

Salt my tongue on hardened tears - Maya Angelou "Mourning Grace"

The wind's breath is full of salt from the sea - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Where the salt weed sways - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

Wrapped in all that seaweed and salt - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"

Washed themselves in salted rivers - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Ocean salt and tear salt - Kay Ulanday Barrett "While looking at photo albums"

I've seen green land turn to salt - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Barren Fig Tree"

who of us shall slake the salt wound - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"

A field of salt wild fire has plowed - Stephen Vincent Benet "Before Michael's Last Fight"

Untangle the roots of salt water - Sherwin Bitsui "Triptych"

Succulent pillows of salt and sea - Terry Blackhawk "A Blessing of Scallops: Eastern Market, Detroit"

Believed in the sweetness of salt - Terry Blackhawk "Lot's Wife"

Water dancing with onion, garlic and salt - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

Its temple of otherlight and salt - William Brewer "Halfway House Diary"

Of salt and absolution - Geoffrey Brock "Orpheus Variations. 5. In Which He Turns Outward"

The flood of salt curses - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Wind salts our throats - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, you say all our bones are made of paper"

Salt we know from tears - Sue Budin "Mouth"

Salt it in glue - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Float at peace in her salty arms - Carolyn Chilton Casas "Ocean Love"

The salted earth sheds dust - Wo Chan "the shoes"

Salt gathered on their faces - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"

Whose sweat and salt quenched our roots - May Chong "Kamcia"

Less rain means more salt - Killarney Clary "[Backlit by the glitter-chopped horizon,]"

begin with a spear of salt - Lucille Clifton "begin here"

Built from the salt sands of her every day - Susan Coolidge "Conqueror"

Sweet bleeding into salt salt drinking in sweet - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

Prone to the benediction of salt - Shutta Crum "Above the Strandline"

Honey and salt - H.D. "Fragment Forty"

And the salt track of the marsh - H.D. "The Helmsman"

Stained among the salt weeds - H.D. "Sea Iris"

Underground salt mines of fiery tears - Jim Daniels "I Dreamt I Wrote a Poem About Jazz"

The stars grains of salt - Jim Daniels "On Tears"

Of salt billow was her birth - Walter de la Mare "The Blind Boy"

The gamble of the recipe is salt and sweat - Oliver de la Paz "Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions"

The wind's a mixture of linen and salt - Chris Dombrowski "Little Derivative and Forgivable Anthropomorphism with Dawn"

Jostling the salt from a pretzel - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Smelled of earth and salt but no corruption - Denise Dumars "The Golem"

Whole salt water galaxies - Nicole Terez Dutton "Magnitude and Bond"

Knee deep in the salt marsh - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"

Beyond the smell of salt - Heid E. Erdich "Dancer Origin Story"

Devoured by the salt of the sea - Martin Espada "The Sinking of the San Jacinto"

Sown in salt - Andrew Feld "Abstract for a Burning City"

Turn me into salt - Nick Flynn "Homily"

Like dust in a salt box - Carolyn Forche "From Memory"

Made servant only to salt - Katie Ford "Song After Sadness"

Born to crumble under salt and tears - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

No fear of hunters armed with salt - W.A. Frisbie "The Peanut Bird"

Lost the savor of your salt - Robert Frost "Does No One at All Ever Feel This Way in the Least?"

No joy but lacks salt - Robert Frost "To Earthward"

The foam-born breaths of salt - Zona Gale "Exercise in Spenserians"

Road salt in an open dish - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"

Salt sculptures from an earlier time - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"

Salt and sand sifted by pain - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Time settles in a stiffening vertebra like salt - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

Tombs of rocky teeth and salt waters - Lesley Hart Gunn "The Exorcism of Icarus"

A common miracle of salt roses - Joy Harjo "The Book of Myths"

Dissolved from metal to salt air - Joy Harjo "Death Is a Woman"

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

Salt my shoulders with ocean - francine j. harris "somewhere outside acme, i believe in castles"

Drown our simple mirth in salt tear-flood - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"

Watery epochs, breathing salt - Conrad Hilberry "The Surge"

Nothing with a rim of salt - Conrad Hilberry "Zero"

Add salt to hunger - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"

Sand for salt - Mary Ann Hoberman "Oak Leaf Plate"

My memories still vanish like salt - Jackson Holbert "Unsent Letter to Jakob"

A miscarriage of salt - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"

Sprinkling salt on a dreamer's tail - Langston Hughes "Jam Session"

Salted fault lines - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"

Shaking seconds out like salt - Mark Irwin "Dedication"

Summer has salted our neighborhood - Marcus Jackson "40 Ounce"

Dreams of salt and light - John James "Scarecrow"

Salt stirs up blood - Allison Eir Jenks "Underwater Grave"

Like the soreness of salt - Allison Eir Jenks "War Tribes"

when the taste of salt sticks for days - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"

Salting her death in the wind house - Taylor Johnson "States of Decline"

Glint of frost, grains of salt - Devin Johnston "Aubade"

Keep time with my salt tears - Ben Jonson "Echo's Lament for Narcissus"

The stove is cold so salt won't burn - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

That tapers down to salt poured in the breach - June Jordan "Alla Tha's All Right, But"

Prickling salt to sting our eyes - June Jordan "It's Hard to Keep a Clean Shirt Clean"

Who drowned in salt who breathed the sand - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

Some became pillars of salt - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"

Who left him aglow with deadly salts - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Gravestones"

The rainbow of the salt sand-wave - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

Nothing between us but salt and breath - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Mermaid"

With the salt of love in my eyes - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Because I know salt - Yusef Komunyakaa "Canticle"

Run its roots out into the salty darkness - Ted Kooser "The Celery Heart"

Sometimes salted by tears - Ted Kooser "A Jar of Buttons"

Mangrove thrusts deep in salty mud - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

Makes my daily bread taste salt - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"

A great ocean tasting of salt and our lives - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Spoken in the tongue of salt - M.L. Liebler "This Atlantic Language"

The smell of salt and lavender - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

The audacity of salt - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Cristina Hanging Chrysalis"

Salt from off the sea - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Troubadour"

Like salt over a shoulder - Ruth Madievsky "Electrons"

Were blown into the salt abyss - George Martin "Marguerite"

Who make salt sweet - John Masefield "King Cole"

Words of wheat across years of salt - Khaled Mattawa "Revisiting Hekale"

To salt your souls with scorn - Theodore Maynard "Ave"

Last winter's salt stains - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

the salt dark comes late - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"

To blow salt across blurred borders - Brandy Nalani McDougall "Resist"

Across the ruffled strip of salt - George Meredith "To Colonel Charles (Dying General C.B.B.)"

Tactile memory real as salt, as soap, as ashes - Joanne Merriam "Mirror Points"

Iron & salt & the reverberation of your breaths - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"

For your weight in salt - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

Paint me with salt mud and clay - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"

Where salt dries in ascending pools - Claire Millikin "Paper Doll Eyes"

Monday they scattered my salt - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine

Submerged in salt kisses - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Mercy Beach"

Our salt is in our bones - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"

Where no fresh stream temper the rich salt wave - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."

Spiraling out, a long ribbon of salt - Rusty Morrison "Measurement Fable"

Stalled in forgetfulness and salt - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Like two systems of salt - Pablo Neruda "The Birds Arrive" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Forgiven by the entire salt - Pablo Neruda "Brussels" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Earthquake of salt and lions - Pablo Neruda "Chile's Seas" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A single wave of salt and crystal - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Recalling a dream of salt spray - Pablo Neruda "Horses" transl. by Alastair Reid

My salt of the dim week - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly

Listened to all the sorrowful salt - Pablo Neruda "Meeting Under New Flags" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Toward the spire of salt and solitude - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt

With the salt of hard stars - Pablo Neruda "Night" transl. by Alastair Reid

When I heard the voice of salt - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Salt [Elemental Odes]" transl. by Philip Levine

A bottle filled with thirsty salt - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh

To fill our hearts with salt water - Pablo Neruda "Perhaps, perhaps oblivion..." transl. by Jack Schmitt

All the salt of geology - Pablo Neruda "The Rivers Come Forth" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The diminutive tombs of salt - Pablo Neruda "Seaquake" transl. by Maria Jacketti and Dennis Mahoney

Solitude swept by wind and salt - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney

The dormant fire and the ruined salt - Pablo Neruda "Sonata and Destruction" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Salt of the highways - Pablo Neruda "Stone Within Stone" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

Raisins of honey and salt - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Translucent fingers of the secret salt - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney

The flash of the violent salt - Pablo Neruda "This Is Where We Live" transl. by Alastair Reid

With salt and calamity - Pablo Neruda "Tupac Amaru (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Loneliness commanded salt - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Long cycles of salt - Pablo Neruda "Untilled Zones" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Submerged in the stones' salt - Pablo Neruda "Untilled Zones" transl. by Jack Schmitt

My eyes of avid salt - Pablo Neruda "We Together" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Circles the swells until subsumed by salt - Caroline Harper New "The Bathtub"

Buoyed by salt and rind of kelp - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "I Could Be a Whale Shark"

When met with salt - Hieu Minh Nguyen "My First"

And quench thy salty thirst anew - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Count the roses, wrinkled and salt - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

The salt of the stars - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

I will adore salt - Mary Oliver "Rhapsody"

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

Wealth to be wrung from fields of salt - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Like secret tidal pools doomed by salt - Linda Pastan "The Grandfathers"

Came ashore crowned with salt and sea glass - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"

Their fruits of salt & wood - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

To taste the salt of exertion - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"

A ledger traced in salt - Xan Forest Phillips "A Fruit We Never Tasted"

Swallowing salted prayer drops - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"

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

And salt of grace - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

No matter how much salt stains the pillow - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"

Eyes heavy with tethered salt - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"

Into the sweet and salt mix of waters - Paisley Rekdal "Vessels"

From your palm a rift of salt - Adrienne Rich "For This"

White and still as a pillar of salt - Lola Ridge "Back Yards"

Iron and paper and light and salt - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"

The salt of a thousand dry kisses - Luis J. Rodriguez "Making Medicine"

Salt at the back of my throat - Anjoli Roy "Last"

Salt rubbed out with a handkerchief - Ira Sadoff "A Few Surprising Turns"

Down on the floors of salt and wet - Carl Sandburg "Bones"

An arm of sand in the span of salt - Carl Sandburg "Sketch"

Black salt beneath the fingernails - Holly J. Schaeffer-Raymond "Excerpts from Sign & Grudge"

Committed their soft bodies to the salt - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"

Sprinkle my bones with your salt - Richard Solomon "Salt Doll Reads about the Tsunami"

Across the salt sea of swift currents - "Song of the Sea" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Whose ancient salt is in our blood - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

The salt and amber sand - George Sterling "The Lagoon"

Forehead pricked with dripping salt - Trumbull Stickney "At Sainte-Marguerite"

These salt hands holding sweetness - Muriel Stuart "Lady Hamilton"

Scattering salt on our blood - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

Discern salt from iron or shell from shale - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Will drink the Salt - John Updike "Phoenix"

Made salt tea in a coral samovar - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Crash and salt of will - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"

Pulled blood to salt - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Who Waits at the Lake"

Finding new words for salt and starlight - Marjory Wentworth "The Music of the Earth: Celebrating Pablo Neruda"

That can put the salt upon their tails - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"

Seal it up with spice and salt - Elinor Wylie "Valentine"

Our salts can't forget what water told them - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"


Born of nothing but salt-air - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

Salt-blue eyes and rust lips - Claire Millikin "Dolls of Tifton, Georgia"

The salt-chased seas uncurled - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"

The burden of a salt-encumbered tide - C.H.B. Kitchin "Eschatological Sonnet"

Salt-king on the shore - Yehuda Amichai "O Lord Full of Mercy" (translated by Glenda Abramson)

Lone island of the saltless sea - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)

The savage eyes salt-reddened - John Masefield "The Watch Below"

A fine old salt-sea scavenger - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"

Through the cloudless salt-seeped heavens - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Brimmed with salt-spiked tears - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Glided over the salt-stained water - Wallace Stevens "Prologues to What Is Possible"

When your dreams ebbed salt-thick - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

Of blood & saltwater prayer - Joshua Bennett "Praise House"

The eye's sudden and narrow saltwater - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Heaven's motes sift to salt-white - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"

A salt-worn dream-anchor - Terrance Hayes "Anchor Head"


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