Potential Titles: Claw

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Cities clawing at each other's bruised throats - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"

An iron claw and a new-made screw - Mary Jo Bang "A Calculation Based on Figures in a Scene"

Thrust into the Darwinian claw - Mary Jo Bang "E Is Everywhere"

Red feud and ravage of saber tooth and claw - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"

Lazy paws of light claw idly up and down - Stephen Vincent Benet "Chanson at Madison Square"

Stretch but a claw toward the dream-voiced pipes - Stephen Vincent Benet "November Prothalamion"

Red claws to clutch and gills to gasp - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"

Awaits forever threatening claws - Maxwell Bodenheim "Inevitable"

Give me back my dirty claws and blood-warm horns - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

The claws of sinister fate - Gerald Bullett "Mice"

Gilt claws of tyrant brutes - Tommaso Campanella "XXXVII. On the Lord's Prayer. No.1" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Claws to cling and beak to kill - Roger Casement "Hamilcar Barca"

Claws and teeth inside my head - Ana Castillo "Cat's Mad Lick"

Which shaped the lightning's fiery claw - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "The Artist"

The rags of roads and cities clawed to shreds - S. R. Compton "On the K-T Boundary"

By the claw of dragon - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LVI"

Pull my heart out with teeth and claws - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"

There is that clamoring and clawing within - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The terror reaches its red claws into back ward and living room - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

The pitiless scar of Time's sharp claw - Mona Gould "Mirror"

For Strength I'd back my claws alone - Oliver Herford "How the Lion Became King"

Had men the dower of teeth and claws - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"

With bony claws of razored steel - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"

Under the silent claw of the predator - Brenda Hillman "1951"

Eagle with claws full of thunderbolts - Zilka Joseph "Scenes from the Deck"

The ruby sun feel from a cloud's bent claws - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

Where headstones claw up through the clouds - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

A dragon brood clutches with brutal claws - Gertrud Kolmar "Paris" transl. by David Kipp

The extremities of crest and claw - Mina Loy "Brancusi's Golden Bird"

Built to claw an eye from the storm - Campbell McGrath "Charlie Parker (1980)"

Bending over to claw at the surface of the ice - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"

The wind has teeth, the wind has claws - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Shadows of a vulture's claw - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Another flood of fangs and claws - George Meredith "Society"

Where the tiger claws the snake - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

The mineral claw of poverty - Pablo Neruda "The House" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A golden claw separates her from her lovers - Pablo Neruda "Puerto Rico, Puerto Pobre [Song of Protest]" transl. by Miguel Algarin

Where the invader's claws are buried - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A seal hook of bear claws - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Whose root claws at the midworld fire - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

Talons and toenails claw at our flesh - Shantell Powell "Nuliajuk and the Birds" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]

Using dynamite and metal claws - Charles Rafferty "Quarry"

A woman with a mindful of fog and bloodletting claws - Adrienne Rich "Apology"

A hundred sullen shovels claw and heave - Lloyd Roberts "The Winter Harvest"

Groping dreams with grinding claws and fangs - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"

Claw marks annotate awakening - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"

Those poisoned claws called justice - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah V: Through Certain Angles"

Slipping pebbles shriek through their claws - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Suicide's Grave"

The clear, deep marks of a grizzly's claw - Keith Taylor "To Face the Ordinary"

Clawing its very idea to shreds - Rosanna Warren "Boletus"

Clasps creation with his claws - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"

You might venture to play with his claws - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"

Beasts that prey with bloody claw - Francis Brett Young "Bete Humaine"

See my claws & be warned - Felicia Zamora "Devil's Tongue"

Claws on the heart's tin roof - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"

Cat claws on the heart's tin roof - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"


The invisible hammerclaw of time - Miller Oberman "Commas"


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