Potential Titles: Bone [category]

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Backbone.

Birdbone:
Squeeze the air from her birdbone body - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda V"

Bone

Breastbone:
Cutting through the breastbone of the world - Christopher Kondrich "Common Things"

Canine [Teeth]:
When Allen's rebel howl bares sharp canines - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [Allen Ginsburg ]

Cheekbone:
Cheekbones flushed with an afterworld favoritism - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

Collarbone:
The precarious cliff of your collarbone - Jamaal May "Love Poem Moving Back and Forth Across Glass"

Exoskeleton:
Lichen to paint my exoskeleton in bursts of blue and yellow - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

The exoskeletons of survival strategies - James Galvin "Earthquake"

Measuring what my exoskeleton withstands - Rusty Morrison "Measurement Fable"

The lobster cracking loose from its exoskeleton - Samantha Thornhill "38. Shedding the Old"

Fingerbone:
Give us their incandescent fingerbones - Charles Wright "Detour"

Fishbone:
Fishbone stuck to my throat - Lu Christófaro "I See You Too"

Hipbone:
Every bone in the snake is the hipbone - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"

Incisor:
Whose sharp incisors have gnawed many a keel - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Jaw

Kneecap:
Gravity breaking our kneecaps - Ocean Vuong "Eurydice"

Marrow

Marrow-Bone:
From our marrow-bone bodies - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"

Milk Teeth:
Milk teeth sharpening a father's heart - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

Molar:
Pack my toothbrush and my cyanide molar - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"

Rib.

Rib Cage:
My rib cage expanding and contracting in iambics - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

His ribcage filled with tiny boats - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"

Scapula:
An unwedging at the scapulas scattering birds - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

Shoulder Blade:
an industry of inertia in their shoulder blades - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"

Skeleton.

Skull

Spine

Teeth/Tooth.

Vertebrae.

Wishbone:
A wishbone of eucalyptus crashes through - Jesse Nathan "Panhandle"

The horizon's wishbone snaps - Cynthia Zarin "Still Life (For Rose)"


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