Potential Titles: Flesh

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With the flesh made of a golden light - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Witness the blessing of my flesh - Saida Agostini "black aphrodite entertains a mortal lover"

in a lover's quarrel with my flesh - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"

Interlocking puzzle towers of flesh - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"

Flesh explained back to us as furniture - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Bartered flesh and broken bones - Maya Angelou "Southeast Arkanasia"

Woe to the wolf that eats not flesh - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Bloodrust fire, fleshtorn ground - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Fixed idols made by flesh and mind - Max Bodenheim "Decadent Cry"

Somehow silent in lines of flesh - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

Tempting our flesh to renounce its weight - Maxwell Bodenheim "Platonic Narrative"

A boldness puzzled by his flesh - Maxwell Bodenheim "Rattlesnake Mountain Fable I"

Or borrow sorceries of flesh - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"

Trading gold for flesh, lives for legends - Bruce Boston "Ajax Redux"

Give her back her time-thorned flesh - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"

Distilled in the hard flesh of the moment - Bruce Boston "When Clock Is Egg"

Trading gold for flesh, lives for legends - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"

The exhausting gravity of flesh - Geoffrey Brock "Orpheus Variations. 3. In Which He Never Turns"

Conquering flesh and sense - Charlotte Bronte "Lament Befitting These 'Times of Night'"

And the flesh to feel the chain - Emily Bronte "The Prisoner"

What flesh can do with clay - Andrea Cohen "Pastime"

Estrange the flesh from the bone - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"

Complete the mystery of my flesh - ee cummings "Crepuscule"

With daring eyes of flesh and blood - T.A. Daly "To a Plain Sweetheart"

All the cataclysms in his flesh - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"

With lust of flesh and eye - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"

The walls of flesh grow weak - Ernest Dowson "Extreme Unction"

Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

The furnace of flesh - Heid E. Erdich "Seven Mothers"

Keep vigils long as flesh can bear - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

A fault built on flesh - Rebecca Morgan Frank "Not Everybody's Bestiary (Yet)"

Too soft his flesh to bear life's storms - Catherine Grant Furley "The Minstrels" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.131-v.III, 3 July 1886]

Around the soft seeds of their flesh - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Four: Atomic"

My flesh was its own shield - Thom Gunn "The Man with Night Sweats"

Flesh of kerosene and black fire - Duriel E. Harris "What he thought belly down, when I was 8 years old"

Bright flesh startling my fasting tongue - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"

Flesh of collected invention - S*an D. Henry-Smith "us girls"

Children of light & flesh - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Past confining flesh - Andrew Hudgins "In"

That laps his flesh and iron bones - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"

Fixed and fleshless and certain - Brionne Janae "Child's Pose"

Flesh being grass, grass being bread - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"

what is present when the flesh rots away? - Jzl Jmz "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"

My flesh clay and flowers and thorns - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

Piercing the flesh of cumulous dragons - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"

Flesh interrogating a stone - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

A bouquet of myrrh, viper flesh, & honey - Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung "from 'Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters'"

Thin flesh, narrow bones, slow blood - Alfred Kreymborg "Initials"

Built of the same stuttering flesh - Aimee Le "Ode to Phil"

Vultures hold the flesh of men - Li T'ai-Po "The Battle to the South of the City" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Devour the flesh of the dead universe - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"

the unzipping of dream-ravaged flesh - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"

Various gifts of flesh and spirit - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Their vision no longer clouded by flesh and sin - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"

Of memory in flesh and marrow - Orlando Ricardo Menes "Tower of Babel"

Flesh, pulse and shadow's ventriloquisms - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

The memory of flesh - Jennifer Millitello "Lineage Is Its Own Religion"

Made of bone and flesh and story - Naomi Shihab Nye "Janna"

Flesh unto flowers, and flame unto wind - Edward J. O'Brien "Song"

The crocodile full of the flesh of his prey - Robert Pollok "The African Maid"

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

My eyes trespassing in every void and flesh - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"

As these bones survive their flesh - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"

Our flesh a nomenclature of memories - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"

Invading all the pastures of the flesh - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Hooding all dark secrets of the flesh - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

For the flesh and the answer - Muriel Rukeyser "Elegy in Joy [excerpt]"

Failed lovers held apart from the world of flesh - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"

Oak flesh that fades on iron bone - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

My spirit like my flesh - Sara Teasdale "The Voice"

That flesh has danced with flame - Louis Untermeyer "Dorothy Dances"

What the perishable flesh might hide - Mark Van Doren "The Last Word"

Between flesh and bone there's something that turns - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

Nearer than my flesh yet distant as a star - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

How psychic storms survive to power flesh - Dana Wilde "Abductions"

the body a dichotomy of flesh and blood - Monica Youn "Self-Portrait in a Wire Jacket"

Who stitch sharp darts in their flesh - Abe Louise Young "Who"


The fleshless earth's outjutting ribs - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"


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