Potential Titles: Body
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somethingdarkerwhen no body can shove you off balance - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"
What are bodies if not secrets promised - Lydia Abedeen "Birangona Song in a Walmart Parking Lot"
How momentum forces the body forwards - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"
My body still hanging on the baptism - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"
The undefused bombs our bodies hide - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
Wherever the last domino of my body falls - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
Birds that freed themselves from the cages of our bodies - Duane Ackerson "What If"
Would melt her body into song - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
You have already stepped out of your body - Carl Adamshick "Moon Seen Through Windshield"
The stars drag themselves out from my body - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
This body made of layers of shadows - Etel Adnan "Night"
The oven of the body - Meena Alexander "Stone Oven"
In the watchtower that is my body - Jada Renée Allen "Interior"
Yoked to this body by beauty - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"
Carved his body from a bough of box-tree - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXIV: Brotherless Sisters" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Among the bodies of night - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The childhood of an angel"
The body of absence - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The ways to see and be an angel"
the lingering discontent of bodies relegated to the shadows - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"
the body as a colony of disclosures - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
The skeleton dreaming its body back - Mary Jo Bang "Captivity"
Braid my leaping body - Djuna Barnes "This Much and More"
repenting the body's shadow - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"
the shadow unstitched from its body - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"
Spin bodies to the wall and back - Samiya Bashir "At Harlem Hospital across the street from the Schomburg the only thing to eat is a Big Mac"
My body for a calling-card - Stephen Vincent Benet "P. P. C.--Madam Life"
Within your body's bladed frame - Joshua Bennett "X"
Till the body rusts away from the light - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Pass through bodies like summer heat - Remica Bingham-Risher "Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from/how did you arrive?"
My relatives are the salvage bodies of history - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
The resonating box of the body - Robert Bly "How David Did Not Care"
Our bodies garlanded with mind - Max Bodenheim "Psychology from Mars"
Undervalue the cost of their bodies - Daniel Borzutzky "Managed Diversity"
The absent body in your breath - Daniel Borzutzky "Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018"
The sound of your body forgetting - Julia Bouwsma "Each Morning Drowns in Open Air"
Bodies shaken out of all but stars - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
All knowledge convict to the body - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
And sell their bodies to the wind - Russell Brakefield "Halcyon and Her Mortal Lover"
When I finally made a home for my body - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"
To prevent the body's claim upon the heart - Scott Cairns "Loves"
Your whole body is composed of nesting places - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"
Where bombs have revoked bodies - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
into the winter of a cold and mortal body - Lucille Clifton "1994"
The stars eat your body - Leonard Cohen "Lady Midnight"
Stole my body back from death - Aaron Coleman "Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)"
The entire workshop of the body - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Receiving our bodies as offerings - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"
Last night's dream is entering my body again - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
And all her body filled with May - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
But the body has its own narrative - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Body and soul do I abandon here - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Sweet Lady, fair and gentle without peer]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
stigmas on the body of air - Ekaterina Derysheva "stigmas on the body of air" transl. by Ryan Hardy, Asher Maria, and Kevin M.F. Platt
Songs against her body - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
Split bodies stroked bright - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
My body in conversation - Timothy Donnelly "The Endless"
His body rolling in eternity - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Grief will ride in on the smallest of bodies - Camille T. Dungy "Notes on what is always with us"
My body veined in soot - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy for the Eleven: 1. Sheila Clark, Over Tea"
The dream always remembers the body - Andrew Feld "Opium Poppies I"
Within a body of jewels - Camonghne Felix "Lost Poem: RX"
Breathtaking vistas of bodily hell - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
Our bodies' contorted clocks - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"
Your body in chalky backscatter - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
In the body of a twisted bush - Carolyn Forche "Mientras Dure Vida, Sobre el Tiempo"
My body's quiet prayer - Aricka Foreman "Polycystic Study of Intimacy"
Lit her body with lamps of fire - John Freeman "The Body"
A body huddled between clouds - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
The ratio of the body to the void - Louise Gluck "A Village Life"
No distance between bodies - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"
In my body lives a flame - Robert Graves "Morning Phoenix"
Make of my body a glass bridge - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
Watch the ink fill in your body - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
Evidence of body not of word - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"
Who were bodies of sand - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Wind in a thin body of dust - Conrad Hilberry "The Moon Seen as a Slice of Pineapple"
Crossed a faultline of the body - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"
The sacred groves of your body - Edward Hirsch "Idea of the Holy"
What body defies the word? - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"
As our bodies flake into stars - LeAnne Howe "1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed"
Tie my body to the floor - Jane Huffman "On Moving"
The soul in the body of the universe - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
In their available bodies - Gabriel Jesiolowski "Entry for Not an Island"
Within the many courtyards of the body - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"
Your body made full with starmilk - Sara Eliza Johnson "Parable of the Unclean Spirit"
You with your body of ferns - Ingrid Jonker "Journey Round the World" transl. by Jack Cope and William Plomer
Bodies moving to their own influences - Allison Joseph "Soul Train"
His body is the sky - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"
Dark in our bodies - Mary Karr "Animistic Anatomy"
At home in so many bodies of water - Janet Kauffman "Caught Between Rocks"
Accommodation of objects into a body - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"
Your body lashed to the mast - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Mermaid"
Makes of our bodies a mirror - Donika Kelly "Winter Poem"
A body that hums in contrary light - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
Must marry my body to that dust - Henry King "The Exequy"
Definite article of the body - Christopher Kondrich "Definite Article"
Soul and body constructing each other - Stephen Kuusisto "Night Seasons"
Stepping with hospitable sorrow around the bodies - Youna Kwak "After"
The entire body consists of flames - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"
The body's bright wailing against its limits - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
Derision won't change the Body - Rickey Laurentiis "Hermaphrodite"
Moths flutter out of her body - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"
Among the wind-felled bodies of my quince trees - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
Where my body stops or begins - Robin Coste Lewis "Landscape"
Holding the universe in its body - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"
Artificial flowers bloom in the dead bodies of universes - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"
Our bodies of bronze and blood - Ada Limon "Not Enough"
Body thinning in a baptism - Nabila Lovelace "By Inch-Meal a Disease"
Ancient, eternal even, in our heavenly bodies - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"
Battling over the places my body lands - Tariq Luthun "Finding Myself in the Direct Messages of Someone I Do Not Know Is in Kuwait"
A frenzied static around our bodies - Alessandra Lynch "Funeral: For Us His Gold"
Whose body is shadow and light - Alessandra Lynch "[The lamp is like a capsized ship]: Two Voices Muse over the Speaker"
Grown in this body of aches and time - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
Trillions of atoms spinning inside her body - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"
Abandon our too sudden bodies - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"
A wind settles in the body - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"
Derelict soul in a body accurst - John Masefield "Sorrow of Mydath"
Speak the body's thrift - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege"
Bondaged by the body - Claude McKay "Outcast"
From our marrow-bone bodies - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"
To inhale the mountain's bodily dark - Sara S. Messenger "Ampersand"
Should break our bodies in his flame - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet III from Second April
This body of flame and steel - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
Dark bodies of song return - Rajiv Mohabir "Why Whales Are Back in New York City"
In a body not made of stone - Jenny Molberg "The Muse, Posing as Maria"
With bodies pure enough to sacrifice - Arianna Monet "Thinking about "The Little Mermaid" in the Waiting Room of the Otolaryngology Department"
Took into body my own self - Yesenia Montilla "a brief meditation on breath"
Found my body in ceramic pieces - jessica Care moore "She Was"
A body pulled inward, door unlocked - Saretta Morgan 'from "Plan Upon Arrival"'
Wandering from one body to ash - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Visible through your body - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Captain of an invisible body - Pablo Neruda "Guayaquil (1822)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Each body could contain hundreds - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Like a cage shaped exactly like his body - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"
Does memory eat the body? - Susan Nguyen "Letter to the Diaspora" p.14
Bodies enraptured by the abounding earth - Robert Nichols "Fulfilment"
An all-consuming body - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"
body charmed, spell bent, toward progressing - Porsha Olayiwola "Twerk Villanelle"
The body of the night opens - Mary Oliver "The Deer"
From this borrowed body into the next - January Gill O'Neil "Hoodie"
Ribs in the body politic - January Gill O'Neil "Old South Meeting House"
A white road only as long as your body - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Six: The Journey"
In body one with the hermit folk - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Our bodies small gifts of innocence - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"
Your body sealed shut in the light - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"
In the dusk of my body - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
The stem of your body unspooled - Kiki Petrosino "Study Abroad"
Our bodies also lighter with laughter - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"
The wayward mission of your body - Carl Phillips "Permission to Speak"
The bodies of fruit we never tasted - Xan Forest Phillips "A Fruit We Never Tasted"
My body out of context - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"
Direction betrays my home body - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Of soul and body lose the mastery - Po-Chu'i "The Harper of Chao" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Sullen prisoners in the body's cage - Alexander Pope "Elegy"
Where the whole body becomes a drum - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"
Our bodies have spoken in code - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist with Three Moons"
Still interrupts the body I didn't make - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"
The voices inside my body - Sina Queyras "Fever 103"
Squeeze the air from her birdbone body - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda V"
How the unsaid presses down on our human bodies - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Any body can be a bridge - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"
Divide the ancient body of the night - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
The love of her lyric body - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
A body protesting thinks itself as a door - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
Whose body serves ants - Alberto Rios "Nani"
inheriting wounds from bodies you make a home in - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"
paradise a bullet undresses before the body - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"
A body licked by stars - Erika L. Sanchez "Departure"
the body is ink in the earth - Sam Sax "Bury"
My body is just a vehicle to move me - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #39"
Beats out the breath from doom-gripped body - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Bodies like bells ringing through nothing - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"
Committed their soft bodies to the salt - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"
Whose body is being endlessly expanded - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
Scar tissue's calligraphy writes on his body - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"
Distant bodies eclipsing each other - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"
And our bodies changing together - Juliana Spahr "Will There Be Singing"
Out of the body's loom - A.E. Stallings "The Dress of One Occasion"
To teach the body to be hollow - May Swenson "That the Soul May Wax Plump"
Not tied to our bodies' weight - Arthur Sze "Sleepers"
A body curious with grasping - Mary Szybist "Again, the Body as Temple"
The staircase of my body - Mary Szybist "Long After the Donkey and the Desert"
Your pulse has taken body - Genevieve Taggard "With Child"
Rendered our bodies impartial - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini
Told and retold by millions of bodies - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
eulogy of a body in prayer - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
The body crouching inside its burden - Russell Thorburn "Sunday Jazz"
A remnant of their former bodies - Yvanna Vien Tica "Rites of Becoming a White Lady"
Make of my body a bridge - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"
Braided into the body - McKenzie Toma "Disintegrating Calculus Problem"
Holding his body up to pain - Natasha Trethewey "Amateur Fighter"
Shoving her body along the path of a dream - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"
To spark the heat of this body - Leah Umansky "Come, Pioneer"
where dawn is denied a body - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"
Distances that escape through the body - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
Whose bodies were perfect as moonlight - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Falling upward from the body - Claire Wahmanholm "Poem with No Children in It"
My body diffusing into metaphysical residue - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
Over my body's prison - John Hall Wheelock "The Black Panther"
Urgent through all the body - John Hall Wheelock "The Secret One"
Her body carves out rivers in the ground - "Wildlife Encounter"
Who know all fires out of the bodies - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
Of a body that burns so coldly - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"
Over the crumpled bodies of laundry - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
When we had given our bodies to the wind - William Wordsworth "Skating"
The crystal body of wind - Charles Wright "Double Salt"
Its body a copse of sumac - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"
the body a dichotomy of flesh and blood - Monica Youn "Self-Portrait in a Wire Jacket"
your body rendered glasslike by fire - Monica Youn "Whiteacre"
The hesitation of our bodies - Felicia Zamora "The Exercise of Forgiving"
Entrusted to the bodyguard of the temple - Manal Kara "[Country people enjoy dogs ...]"
In shadows not yet bodiless - Russell W. Davenport "Poems III"
Body-surfed the hollow waves - Mary Karr "For My Children"
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Have solved the mind-body problem - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"
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What are bodies if not secrets promised - Lydia Abedeen "Birangona Song in a Walmart Parking Lot"
How momentum forces the body forwards - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"
My body still hanging on the baptism - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"
The undefused bombs our bodies hide - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
Wherever the last domino of my body falls - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"
Birds that freed themselves from the cages of our bodies - Duane Ackerson "What If"
Would melt her body into song - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"
You have already stepped out of your body - Carl Adamshick "Moon Seen Through Windshield"
The stars drag themselves out from my body - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
This body made of layers of shadows - Etel Adnan "Night"
The oven of the body - Meena Alexander "Stone Oven"
In the watchtower that is my body - Jada Renée Allen "Interior"
Yoked to this body by beauty - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"
Carved his body from a bough of box-tree - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXIV: Brotherless Sisters" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Among the bodies of night - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The childhood of an angel"
The body of absence - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The ways to see and be an angel"
the lingering discontent of bodies relegated to the shadows - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"
the body as a colony of disclosures - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"
The skeleton dreaming its body back - Mary Jo Bang "Captivity"
Braid my leaping body - Djuna Barnes "This Much and More"
repenting the body's shadow - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"
the shadow unstitched from its body - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"
Spin bodies to the wall and back - Samiya Bashir "At Harlem Hospital across the street from the Schomburg the only thing to eat is a Big Mac"
My body for a calling-card - Stephen Vincent Benet "P. P. C.--Madam Life"
Within your body's bladed frame - Joshua Bennett "X"
Till the body rusts away from the light - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Pass through bodies like summer heat - Remica Bingham-Risher "Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from/how did you arrive?"
My relatives are the salvage bodies of history - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."
The resonating box of the body - Robert Bly "How David Did Not Care"
Our bodies garlanded with mind - Max Bodenheim "Psychology from Mars"
Undervalue the cost of their bodies - Daniel Borzutzky "Managed Diversity"
The absent body in your breath - Daniel Borzutzky "Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018"
The sound of your body forgetting - Julia Bouwsma "Each Morning Drowns in Open Air"
Bodies shaken out of all but stars - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
All knowledge convict to the body - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
And sell their bodies to the wind - Russell Brakefield "Halcyon and Her Mortal Lover"
When I finally made a home for my body - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"
To prevent the body's claim upon the heart - Scott Cairns "Loves"
Your whole body is composed of nesting places - Anthony Vahni Capildeo "Niche"
Where bombs have revoked bodies - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"
into the winter of a cold and mortal body - Lucille Clifton "1994"
The stars eat your body - Leonard Cohen "Lady Midnight"
Stole my body back from death - Aaron Coleman "Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864)"
The entire workshop of the body - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Receiving our bodies as offerings - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"
Last night's dream is entering my body again - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"
And all her body filled with May - E.E Cummings "Puella Mea"
But the body has its own narrative - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Body and soul do I abandon here - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Sweet Lady, fair and gentle without peer]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
stigmas on the body of air - Ekaterina Derysheva "stigmas on the body of air" transl. by Ryan Hardy, Asher Maria, and Kevin M.F. Platt
Songs against her body - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
Split bodies stroked bright - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"
My body in conversation - Timothy Donnelly "The Endless"
His body rolling in eternity - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Grief will ride in on the smallest of bodies - Camille T. Dungy "Notes on what is always with us"
My body veined in soot - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy for the Eleven: 1. Sheila Clark, Over Tea"
The dream always remembers the body - Andrew Feld "Opium Poppies I"
Within a body of jewels - Camonghne Felix "Lost Poem: RX"
Breathtaking vistas of bodily hell - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
Our bodies' contorted clocks - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"
Your body in chalky backscatter - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
In the body of a twisted bush - Carolyn Forche "Mientras Dure Vida, Sobre el Tiempo"
My body's quiet prayer - Aricka Foreman "Polycystic Study of Intimacy"
Lit her body with lamps of fire - John Freeman "The Body"
A body huddled between clouds - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson
The ratio of the body to the void - Louise Gluck "A Village Life"
No distance between bodies - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"
In my body lives a flame - Robert Graves "Morning Phoenix"
Make of my body a glass bridge - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder
Watch the ink fill in your body - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
Evidence of body not of word - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"
Who were bodies of sand - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
Wind in a thin body of dust - Conrad Hilberry "The Moon Seen as a Slice of Pineapple"
Crossed a faultline of the body - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"
The sacred groves of your body - Edward Hirsch "Idea of the Holy"
What body defies the word? - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"
As our bodies flake into stars - LeAnne Howe "1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed"
Tie my body to the floor - Jane Huffman "On Moving"
The soul in the body of the universe - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"
In their available bodies - Gabriel Jesiolowski "Entry for Not an Island"
Within the many courtyards of the body - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"
Your body made full with starmilk - Sara Eliza Johnson "Parable of the Unclean Spirit"
You with your body of ferns - Ingrid Jonker "Journey Round the World" transl. by Jack Cope and William Plomer
Bodies moving to their own influences - Allison Joseph "Soul Train"
His body is the sky - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"
Dark in our bodies - Mary Karr "Animistic Anatomy"
At home in so many bodies of water - Janet Kauffman "Caught Between Rocks"
Accommodation of objects into a body - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"
Your body lashed to the mast - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Mermaid"
Makes of our bodies a mirror - Donika Kelly "Winter Poem"
A body that hums in contrary light - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"
Must marry my body to that dust - Henry King "The Exequy"
Definite article of the body - Christopher Kondrich "Definite Article"
Soul and body constructing each other - Stephen Kuusisto "Night Seasons"
Stepping with hospitable sorrow around the bodies - Youna Kwak "After"
The entire body consists of flames - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"
The body's bright wailing against its limits - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
Derision won't change the Body - Rickey Laurentiis "Hermaphrodite"
Moths flutter out of her body - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"
Among the wind-felled bodies of my quince trees - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"
Where my body stops or begins - Robin Coste Lewis "Landscape"
Holding the universe in its body - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"
Artificial flowers bloom in the dead bodies of universes - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"
Our bodies of bronze and blood - Ada Limon "Not Enough"
Body thinning in a baptism - Nabila Lovelace "By Inch-Meal a Disease"
Ancient, eternal even, in our heavenly bodies - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"
Battling over the places my body lands - Tariq Luthun "Finding Myself in the Direct Messages of Someone I Do Not Know Is in Kuwait"
A frenzied static around our bodies - Alessandra Lynch "Funeral: For Us His Gold"
Whose body is shadow and light - Alessandra Lynch "[The lamp is like a capsized ship]: Two Voices Muse over the Speaker"
Grown in this body of aches and time - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"
Trillions of atoms spinning inside her body - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"
Abandon our too sudden bodies - J. Michael Martinez "[Untitled]"
A wind settles in the body - J. Michael Martinez "Xicano"
Derelict soul in a body accurst - John Masefield "Sorrow of Mydath"
Speak the body's thrift - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm Under Siege"
Bondaged by the body - Claude McKay "Outcast"
From our marrow-bone bodies - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"
To inhale the mountain's bodily dark - Sara S. Messenger "Ampersand"
Should break our bodies in his flame - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet III from Second April
This body of flame and steel - Edna St Vincent Millay [untitled sonnet]
Dark bodies of song return - Rajiv Mohabir "Why Whales Are Back in New York City"
In a body not made of stone - Jenny Molberg "The Muse, Posing as Maria"
With bodies pure enough to sacrifice - Arianna Monet "Thinking about "The Little Mermaid" in the Waiting Room of the Otolaryngology Department"
Took into body my own self - Yesenia Montilla "a brief meditation on breath"
Found my body in ceramic pieces - jessica Care moore "She Was"
A body pulled inward, door unlocked - Saretta Morgan 'from "Plan Upon Arrival"'
Wandering from one body to ash - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Visible through your body - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Captain of an invisible body - Pablo Neruda "Guayaquil (1822)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Each body could contain hundreds - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Like a cage shaped exactly like his body - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"
Does memory eat the body? - Susan Nguyen "Letter to the Diaspora" p.14
Bodies enraptured by the abounding earth - Robert Nichols "Fulfilment"
An all-consuming body - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"
body charmed, spell bent, toward progressing - Porsha Olayiwola "Twerk Villanelle"
The body of the night opens - Mary Oliver "The Deer"
From this borrowed body into the next - January Gill O'Neil "Hoodie"
Ribs in the body politic - January Gill O'Neil "Old South Meeting House"
A white road only as long as your body - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Six: The Journey"
In body one with the hermit folk - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Our bodies small gifts of innocence - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"
Your body sealed shut in the light - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"
In the dusk of my body - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"
The stem of your body unspooled - Kiki Petrosino "Study Abroad"
Our bodies also lighter with laughter - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"
The wayward mission of your body - Carl Phillips "Permission to Speak"
The bodies of fruit we never tasted - Xan Forest Phillips "A Fruit We Never Tasted"
My body out of context - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"
Direction betrays my home body - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Of soul and body lose the mastery - Po-Chu'i "The Harper of Chao" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Sullen prisoners in the body's cage - Alexander Pope "Elegy"
Where the whole body becomes a drum - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"
Our bodies have spoken in code - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist with Three Moons"
Still interrupts the body I didn't make - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"
The voices inside my body - Sina Queyras "Fever 103"
Squeeze the air from her birdbone body - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda V"
How the unsaid presses down on our human bodies - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "¿Qué Quiere, Corazón?"
Any body can be a bridge - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"
Divide the ancient body of the night - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"
The love of her lyric body - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
A body protesting thinks itself as a door - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"
Whose body serves ants - Alberto Rios "Nani"
inheriting wounds from bodies you make a home in - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"
paradise a bullet undresses before the body - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"
A body licked by stars - Erika L. Sanchez "Departure"
the body is ink in the earth - Sam Sax "Bury"
My body is just a vehicle to move me - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #39"
Beats out the breath from doom-gripped body - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound
Bodies like bells ringing through nothing - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"
Committed their soft bodies to the salt - Sarah Shirley "The Joy"
Whose body is being endlessly expanded - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"
Scar tissue's calligraphy writes on his body - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"
Distant bodies eclipsing each other - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"
And our bodies changing together - Juliana Spahr "Will There Be Singing"
Out of the body's loom - A.E. Stallings "The Dress of One Occasion"
To teach the body to be hollow - May Swenson "That the Soul May Wax Plump"
Not tied to our bodies' weight - Arthur Sze "Sleepers"
A body curious with grasping - Mary Szybist "Again, the Body as Temple"
The staircase of my body - Mary Szybist "Long After the Donkey and the Desert"
Your pulse has taken body - Genevieve Taggard "With Child"
Rendered our bodies impartial - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini
Told and retold by millions of bodies - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
eulogy of a body in prayer - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
The body crouching inside its burden - Russell Thorburn "Sunday Jazz"
A remnant of their former bodies - Yvanna Vien Tica "Rites of Becoming a White Lady"
Make of my body a bridge - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"
Braided into the body - McKenzie Toma "Disintegrating Calculus Problem"
Holding his body up to pain - Natasha Trethewey "Amateur Fighter"
Shoving her body along the path of a dream - Jonathan Chibuike Ukah "A Woman with a Stomach Full of Stars"
To spark the heat of this body - Leah Umansky "Come, Pioneer"
where dawn is denied a body - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"
Distances that escape through the body - Sara Uribe "Speech on the Body" transl. by JD Pluecker
Whose bodies were perfect as moonlight - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Falling upward from the body - Claire Wahmanholm "Poem with No Children in It"
My body diffusing into metaphysical residue - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"
Over my body's prison - John Hall Wheelock "The Black Panther"
Urgent through all the body - John Hall Wheelock "The Secret One"
Her body carves out rivers in the ground - "Wildlife Encounter"
Who know all fires out of the bodies - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"
Of a body that burns so coldly - Katie Willingham "A Partial List of Overwriting Errors"
Over the crumpled bodies of laundry - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"
When we had given our bodies to the wind - William Wordsworth "Skating"
The crystal body of wind - Charles Wright "Double Salt"
Its body a copse of sumac - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"
the body a dichotomy of flesh and blood - Monica Youn "Self-Portrait in a Wire Jacket"
your body rendered glasslike by fire - Monica Youn "Whiteacre"
The hesitation of our bodies - Felicia Zamora "The Exercise of Forgiving"
Entrusted to the bodyguard of the temple - Manal Kara "[Country people enjoy dogs ...]"
In shadows not yet bodiless - Russell W. Davenport "Poems III"
Body-surfed the hollow waves - Mary Karr "For My Children"
Embody.
Have solved the mind-body problem - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"
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