Potential Titles: Shell

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Egg/Eggshell.


Seashell.


Your laughter in an oyster shell - Nuola Akinde "Migration"

Veined shells and burnished scales - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Where spined and shelled imps bent to their work - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

A promenade of empty shells, automatons - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"

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

Drift only shell and fire - Maxwell Anderson "Earth Evanescent"

And grind that shell into glass dust - Mary Jo Bang "Tomb in Three Parts"

A shell transfigured with the rainbow's hue - Maurice Baring "Italy"

found a blue shell so fragile - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

Breaking their shells one by one - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"

Chicken little in a broken shell - Paul Bernstein "Day One of the Deluge"

Trilobites and shells embedded underfoot - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"

A shell soon to be discarded - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

In a ship of shining shell - Marie Hedderwick Browne "In a Dream-Ship"

The cracked shell of another creature's child - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"

Dance to the tune of shot and shell - W.E. Christian "Hands Across the Sea"

burned you into little shells and stars - Lucille Clifton "in the same week"

Hermit crabs in shells just the size for sleep - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Becomes Our Mother"

Portent wound in corridors of shells - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"

One petal like a shell is broken - H.D. "Sea Iris"

The wind among the torn shells - H.D. "Sea Violet"

Had turned into beds for grenades and shells and shrapnel - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"

Mirror halves of a shell - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

Ash is the flame of my painted shell - Beulah Field "In the Street of Painted Flowers"

Sang copper into velveteen shells - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

And drive away the rose to leave a shell - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"

The children of thunder, red smoke and shells - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen A"

Hollow shell and broken bowl - Louise Imogen Guiney "Bankrupt"

Cracks the shell of our sleep - Conrad Hilberry "Explosions at 4:00 A.M."

They fall into the water shaping their own shell - Katerina Iliopoulou "Cape Tenaron" transl. by Jackson Watson

Dead shells accumulating on the windowsill - John James "Forget the Song"

Cowrie shells, tea leaves, coins - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"

Empty as a shell and hollow - Donika Kelly "The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings."

A cruel scar on his shell - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"

Such a whisper as hidden in a shell - Richard Le Gallienne "A Love-Letter"

A bullet-stream of oyster shells - Dana Levin "The Living Teaching"

Crooked from growing old within a shell - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"

A leaf hatching from its green shell - Rebecca Lindenberg "Ghostology"

Giant shells from the jasper sea - Vachel Lindsay "Harps in Heaven"

Betrayed by shifting shells - Amy Lowell "Convalescence"

A creed is the shell of a lie - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"

examining mussel shells, millennia in their hands - David Maduli "alameda point"

Marked in the shells of high seas - Herbert Woodward Martin "Translucent Fish Scales"

Rise unharmed from her ossuary shell - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

When the May-fly burst his shell - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]

pinafore pockets full of oyster shells - Pattie McCarthy "a woman peeling apples, with a small child"

Pressing the entirety of a universe into a shell - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"

Lingers in the shell of mimic music - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

Hollow shells of hard remnants - Erika Meitner "Untitled [and the moon once it stopped was sleeping]"

Life in soul and shell - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

discarding only those most hollow shells - Andy Miller "All Those Bleached Bones"

a snail with a shell of sticks - Valzhyna Mort "In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks"

Rearranging them like a shell game - Joan Murray "Chrysalis"

Our lives like empty mollusk shells - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly

The shells that silence gathers - Pablo Neruda "There Is No Oblivion (Sonata)" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Have felt the death stings of your shells - Thomas O'Hagan "Louvain"

The egg case of an ocean shell - Mary Oliver "Something"

Errant shells and jagged edges - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"

The weight of your shell pulls you deeper - Gregory Orr "The Transformation"

Still throbbing in the flooded shell of silence - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

A humble snail crawled from his shell - Walter S. Percy "The Snail and Star"

The usefulness of shells - Trace Peterson "With a Petroleum Coating"

Shells with ruby lips - Alexander Posey "Seashells"

Shoals of mossy rocks and mussel shells - Alexander Posey "Song of the Oktahutche"

Of this world's bone-shell - Dean Rader "Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's Funeral and Completed on the First Day of the New Year"

A hermit crab seeing nobler shells - Adrienne Rich "Seven Skins"

Mortared with the shells of trilobites - Adrienne Rich "Two Arts"

In the conch shell of darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

White-fruited cocoa shown against the shell - James Whitcombe Riley "An Empty Glove"

Empty the wild ocean with the shell of an egg - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Hurling their smoked shells back into the sea - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"

Broken snail shells bearing emptiness on their back - Nelly Sachs [Untitled] transl. by Michael Roloff

My spirit from its shell breaks free - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

Not a song, a shell, or a harp - "Sean Dana"

Cosmic mysteries trapped in Platonic shells - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

Mountains of oyster shells gleaming silver - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

The dead shell of a frozen world - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

A scarlet shell before his feet - George Sterling "Duandon"

Holds forever, like a shell - George Sterling "Respite"

Empty shells on sea-spurned sands - Muriel Stuart "A Song for Old Love"

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"

Breaking the shell of water - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Running Naked"

Shells to guard the crossroads - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"

The painted shell of disbelief - John Updike "Jacopo Pontormo"

The shell the scuttling beetle wears - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff "In the Grass" transl. by James Edward Tobin

Sand and stones and bits of shell - Paul West "The Cumberbunce"

A bright shell in a dark wave - Elinor Wylie "Incantation"

Shake our star-pricked shell apart, cracks radiating out - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]


With spoons of clam-shell - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"


In shell-game catastrophe - Mary Jo Bang "N as in Nevermore"


Shellshocked at needing anyone - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"


Tortoiseshell hairpins with a pair of pearls - "There's Someone I Think Of" transl. by Burton Watson

Toys of tortoise-shell and jasper - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"


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