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Potential Titles: Salt
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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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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