Potential Titles: Egg/Eggshell

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When the world burst out of an egg - Sheikha A. "Nesters"

Butterfly-winged sphinxes guarded their eggs - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Hatching eggs of laughter - Zaina Alsous "bird survives the death of Nature"

Careful chemistry of fried egg - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Root Systems"

Half an egg in a pool of oil - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

Like an egg of fire - Elizabeth Bishop "The Armadillo"

Shards of the engraved roc egg - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"

From an egg sitting on an iceberg - Marianne Chan "Counterargument that Goes All the Way Around"

Breaking blighted pigeon eggs - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Rosemary"

The swallow's eggs are laid along the belfry walls - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

And diamonds large as pigeon's eggs - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"

The circus of eggs on the plate - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"

hydroelectric plants to fry your eggs in the microwave - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins

An Easter egg cut-out of grass and trees - Sarah Getty "The Wash"

An egg that cracks my coffin - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"

As an egg is full of meat - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Aunt Chloe's Politics"

Time balanced on a fish egg - Sy Hoahwah "Church for the Disliked"

Lay four eggs at random in the garden - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"

Smaller than the egg of your first life - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

A tight nest of broken eggs - Philip Levine "Blood"

Brooding on fancy's eggs - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

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

Requited with a pocketful of eggs - Walter S. Percy "Cherries"

Held candy eggs of logic - Kiki Petrosino "Scarlet"

When the egg of sleep will not break - Kiki Petrosino "This Is How We Feed the Animals"

The way the blue jay loves the sparrow egg - Dean Rader "I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader"

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

The old egg of my desire - "Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House"

Three tiny eggs in thistledown - Kim Stafford "Wren's Nest in a Shed Near Aurora"

Walk with me over the curve of an egg - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Wanting the eggs to be our miracle - Kristen Tracy "Having It?"

Practiced at the hollowed-egg art of leaving - Emily van Kley "Superior"

Their eggs tended by priests - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"

How the eagle's eggs he got - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"



With a shiver of cracked eggshells - Laura Da' "The Honest Tongue"

Breaking crooked as an eggshell - Diana Marie Delgado "Correspondence"

Iron caulking the egg-shell heart - Mark McMorris "Prayer to Shadows on My Wall"

The eggshell of dark before - W.S. Merwin "The Curlew"

Sound as cracked as an eggshell - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 06801"

Harder than agates against an egg-shell - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"

That fought over the eggshells - Gerald Stern "Salt"


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