Potential Titles: Feather

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Raven-feathers in the moon's reflex - Harold Acton "These Consolations"

Sprout feathers and take to the air - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"

The serpent who gifted her with feathers of every color - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Green jacket, red cap, and white owl's feather - William Allingham "The Fairies"

A tendency of anonymous feathers - Zaina Alsous "Translator's Essay"

A mirror with a feather motif - Mary Jo Bang "Given to Believe"

The evening's hollow feathered air - Rebecca G. Biber "Bird II"

The peacock feather in the open thesaurus - Mukut Borpujari "Stoic"

And hang the longest feathers in my hair - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

The feathery train of granite Night - Lewis Carroll "The Three Voices: The Second Voice"

A single feather of the driving storm - John Clare "Winter Walk"

Like a feathered sky - Hilda Conkling "Bluebird"

Flustered as feathers falling - Cristina Correa "A Study in Eventuality"

Feathered closer to grace each time - Trace Howard DePass "[th(e)reat] --> siege engine"

Hung his hat on a feather - Mary Mapes Dodge "The Mayor of Scuttleton"

Cyanobacteria tattoos feathering my metal skin - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Makes trouble look like a feather bed - Cornelius Eady "I'm a Fool to Love You"

Wreaths with feathers - Heid E. Erdich "Girl of Lightning"

Feathers of discontent - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"

The brightness of goose feather snow - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"

Feathered shadows on the concrete wall - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten II"

A pile of feathered bones at the door - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen L"

Feathers will bloom from my mouth - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

Wears a feather of flame - Zona Gale "Umbra"

Feathered from its own wing - Michelle Gil-Montero "First Forty Days"

The feathery step of the faithful wind - Louise Imogen Guiney "Aglaus"

A feather's weight that shapes the arrow's flight - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

Where we have held the loose feathers of a fallen bird - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

Pigeon feather floating on the tension of the water - Tony Hoagland "Field Guide"

All the dark feathered beings will rivet the air - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"

My spirit flew in feathers then - Thomas Hood "I Remember"

and conceives a holiday of feathers - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"

Cleanses me with an extinct crow's feathers - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Fear this feathered dusk - Saeed Jones "Boy at Threshold"

The tail feathers of soot-mottled birds - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Leave me a feather to dream on - Zilka Joseph "For the Birds"

The feather on my tongue - Ilya Kaminsky "Alfonso Stands Answerable"

And claim all things feather, skin, scale - Janet Kauffman "Instead of Flying in Water"

Frail as a snow-white feather - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"

Feathered monarch of the lonely west - Ida Lee "The Homestead"

Sending sparks in feathery flashes - Ida Lee "Nature's Lessons"

Shedding light like feathers - Ada Limon "The Bird Knows He Is Going to Die and Wishes Not To"

Feathers for a long study of flight - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

To tame wit's feathered heels - James Russell Lowell "The Brakes"

Across electric feathers of snow - Naomi Long Madgett "Signature"

Abandon, feathers, and drums - Jamaal May "Ask Where I've Been"

Ice feathers across the biodome - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"

Evil birds of evil feather - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"

Sell my father's feather bed - "Milking Pails"

A pebble smoothed over in a sea of feathers - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"

An awakening yawn exhales its feathered breath - David Mook "Milkweed"

Kingfishers ruffle the feathery sedge - Sarojini Naidu "Spring"

A single feather of an iron bird - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

June added petals and feathers - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney

And skin the feathers from that wound - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"

With umbrellas and dark pink feathers - Hoa Nguyen "Naming Assembles You"

Foxes, feathers and fireflies - Margaret Noodin "Cream City/Doodooshabo'enaande Oodena " transl. by the author

The dream of feathered departure - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Portrait of My Father as a Pianist"

A chickadee's feather on a snowflake - dg nanouk okpik "Spring Thaw"

The cat with feathers under its tongue - Mary Oliver "I am the one"

And add my feather to the Eagle's wing - Philo "The Tribute"

A feather from Ma'at's radiant head - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"

Through the feathered ear of the angel - Dean Rader "Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's Funeral and Completed on the First Day of the New Year"

Bring me my headdress of black feathers - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

Drift now beneath its feathered darkness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 2: The Unborn"

The last gray feather to southward goes - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"

Wearing her best crow feathers - Elly Luisa Salah "Wedding Party ... Featuring, My Mother"

Holding a suitcase full of feathers - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait 2"

Caskets filled with black feathers - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"

Until their black feathers are edged in gold - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

The many failings of fathers and feathers - Wendy A. Shaffer "Icarus"

Added feathers to the learned's wing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXVIII"

A wonderful state of black velvet and feathers - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"

Pillows filled with hawk feathers - Frank Stanford "In this House"

Moved his fancy like a feather - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Made of water and invisible feathers dipped in moonlight - Lehua M. Taitano "When the World Falls in Around You or, Vows to My Palestinian Wife on Our Wedding Day"

Plucking the feathers from the wings of peace - Iris Tree "[I dread the beauty of approaching spring]"

Parading rainbow feathers - Sarah Grace Tuttle "Courtship Dance"

On softest feathers of silence - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Under a cloud of red, stolen feathers - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"

So weak in my feather tuxedo - Wendy Xu "Notes on Sentence Crossing"

Your hawk feather a weathervane - Cynthia Zarin "Still Life (for Rose)"


Featherless birds in the ruined trees - Charles Wright "Remembering Bergamo Alto"


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