Potential Titles: Brain
Feb. 7th, 2010 10:33 pmBravery pitches its refugee tent at the base of my brain - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"
Memories gnawed at the back of his grieving brain - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
The mute Napoleon of the brain - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
A haughty heart and guilty brain - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"
Brain thin whips to beat you down - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"
Hides so many secrets as my brain - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Spin their webs across the basements of our brains - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
And climb the crags that tower in my brain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"
Potentials in the wet clockwork of the brain - Russ Bickerstaff "Why Norm Jones Never Feels Like He Gets Anything Done in a Day"
November's fogs oppress my brain - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
A curious courtship in your brain - Max Bodenheim "Poem"
And smooth the crease in my brain - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"
Burns needle rags into the brain - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Brain and hand unite to give - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIV. Second Reading. To Vittoria Colonna. The Model and the Statue" transl. by John Addington Symonds
The children of an idle brain - Jennifer Chang "Future Snow"
Gilded phantom of the cheated brain - Richard Cox, Jr. "Happiness--A Sonnet"
The brain's disk shivered against lust - Hart Crane "Recitative"
Within the tangles of my brain - H.D. "We Two"
When an electric snare corrals the brain - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Raised to the power of all the nerves in the human brain - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Blackberries enough to light the brain - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"
I need a place to stow my brain - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"
All that a maddened brain romances - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Tripping the wire in my brain - Heid E. Erdich "Interrogated Self"
Weary grown of all my brain has wrought - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
Whose shrine was in my brain - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"
The brain's bent fugue - Santee Frazier "Hyperacusis"
Fool'd by those phantoms of the wizard brain - Thomas Gent "Poems"
The white sparks in my brain - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Bordercrosser's Pillowbook"
And fevers scorch my brain - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Yearnings for Home"
Prismatic counseling and the anvil brains - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"
That run patterns into the brain - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Kudzu"
The brain as abandoned city - Stephanie Heit "Procedure Details"
Puzzled brain and burning heat - William D. Howells "Vagary"
Brain bright with her fire - Andrew Hudgins "Asleep with the Dog"
From the anvil of the brain - Marcus Jackson "40 Ounce"
The wreathed trellis of a working brain - John Keats "Psyche"
The brain's glacial weather - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Helmet"
Searing language into brains ill-equipped to use it - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"
there's a wire in the belt of my brain - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"
A small fire in the brain - Stephen Kuusisto "Essay on November"
Cold creatures of man's colder brain - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
An itch thief-walking the coral of the brain - Rickey Laurentiis "I Saw I Dreamt Two Men"
Magician of the labouring brain - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway IV: Vagrants"
And cheat my brain with airy vanishings - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
Visions thrill and haunt my brain - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]
A pillared hermit of the brain - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
The temperate zeal that balances your brain - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
A crown of lead upon my brain - John Masefield "King Cole"
When the iron brain assails - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Lulls our burning brain to sleep - Claude McKay "Flower of Love"
Rose in brain from rose in blood - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Though this wild brain is aching - Dugald Moore "Weep Not"
Seared all my burning brain - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"
Bees had radar in their wings and brains - Naomi Shihab Nye "Bees Were Better"
Shrinking back from the walls of the brain - Naomi Shihab Nye "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change"
Till on my brain Sleep's filmy finger falls - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Clean cast from Perfection's brain - John Presland "Tapestry"
My brain whirled and grew dizzy with sudden pain - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Murmured through my haunted brain - Kate Putnam "Unuttered" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct., 1863 - no.IV]
In its ardor, drowning brain and tongue - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
What giddy raptures fill the brain - "Sequel to The Belles of Williamsburg"
Fallen brains and hearts of brass - Robert W. Service "Dreams Are Best"
The self's delicate apparatus crumpled in the wide pan of the brain - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"
On the moon's right brain - Brandon Shimoda "The Desert"
The fox that thrives in my brain - Tom Sleigh "The Fox"
Felt it had ceased to enliven his brain - "Song [A philosopher once, to the mountain]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The singing children of her brain - L.A.G. Strong "At Punnet's Town"
Chanting insistent in his brain - L.A.G. Strong "Eena-Mena-Mina-Mo"
Great as mortal eye and brain encompass - Carmen Sylva "A Dream"
That hammers nails into your brain and hands - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
Your brains puddled in a brass-capped mason jar - Emma Trelles "Florida Poem"
Murmured through my haunted brain - "Unuttered" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct., 1863 - no.IV]
Tumble down and in upon our brains - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
In the quiet cottage of his brain - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"
Washed brains don't rinse so simple - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"
That circles the brain with sense - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"
Worked with his muscles, his brain and his pen - L. Whitehead "New House that Jack Built: an Original American Version"
The paths some thoughts blaze in the brain - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]
Marionette running on the brain's dark marrow - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
half minutes of fire in my brainstem - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"
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Memories gnawed at the back of his grieving brain - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"
The mute Napoleon of the brain - Alexander Anderson "A Blackbird's Nest" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.28-v.I, 12 July 1884]
A haughty heart and guilty brain - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"
Brain thin whips to beat you down - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"
Hides so many secrets as my brain - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Spin their webs across the basements of our brains - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
And climb the crags that tower in my brain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"
Potentials in the wet clockwork of the brain - Russ Bickerstaff "Why Norm Jones Never Feels Like He Gets Anything Done in a Day"
November's fogs oppress my brain - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
A curious courtship in your brain - Max Bodenheim "Poem"
And smooth the crease in my brain - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"
Burns needle rags into the brain - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Brain and hand unite to give - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XIV. Second Reading. To Vittoria Colonna. The Model and the Statue" transl. by John Addington Symonds
The children of an idle brain - Jennifer Chang "Future Snow"
Gilded phantom of the cheated brain - Richard Cox, Jr. "Happiness--A Sonnet"
The brain's disk shivered against lust - Hart Crane "Recitative"
Within the tangles of my brain - H.D. "We Two"
When an electric snare corrals the brain - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Raised to the power of all the nerves in the human brain - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Blackberries enough to light the brain - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"
I need a place to stow my brain - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"
All that a maddened brain romances - Pierre Dupont "A Serenade"
Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
Tripping the wire in my brain - Heid E. Erdich "Interrogated Self"
Weary grown of all my brain has wrought - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"
Whose shrine was in my brain - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"
The brain's bent fugue - Santee Frazier "Hyperacusis"
Fool'd by those phantoms of the wizard brain - Thomas Gent "Poems"
The white sparks in my brain - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Bordercrosser's Pillowbook"
And fevers scorch my brain - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Yearnings for Home"
Prismatic counseling and the anvil brains - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"
That run patterns into the brain - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Kudzu"
The brain as abandoned city - Stephanie Heit "Procedure Details"
Puzzled brain and burning heat - William D. Howells "Vagary"
Brain bright with her fire - Andrew Hudgins "Asleep with the Dog"
From the anvil of the brain - Marcus Jackson "40 Ounce"
The wreathed trellis of a working brain - John Keats "Psyche"
The brain's glacial weather - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Helmet"
Searing language into brains ill-equipped to use it - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"
there's a wire in the belt of my brain - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"
A small fire in the brain - Stephen Kuusisto "Essay on November"
Cold creatures of man's colder brain - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
An itch thief-walking the coral of the brain - Rickey Laurentiis "I Saw I Dreamt Two Men"
Magician of the labouring brain - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway IV: Vagrants"
And cheat my brain with airy vanishings - Emma Lazarus "Fog"
Visions thrill and haunt my brain - Emma Lazarus "A March Violet" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.88, April 1875]
A pillared hermit of the brain - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
The temperate zeal that balances your brain - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"
A crown of lead upon my brain - John Masefield "King Cole"
When the iron brain assails - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"
Lulls our burning brain to sleep - Claude McKay "Flower of Love"
Rose in brain from rose in blood - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"
Though this wild brain is aching - Dugald Moore "Weep Not"
Seared all my burning brain - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"
Bees had radar in their wings and brains - Naomi Shihab Nye "Bees Were Better"
Shrinking back from the walls of the brain - Naomi Shihab Nye "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change"
Till on my brain Sleep's filmy finger falls - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Clean cast from Perfection's brain - John Presland "Tapestry"
My brain whirled and grew dizzy with sudden pain - Margaret J. Preston "The Maestro's Confession (Andrea dal Castagno--1460)" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Jan. 1873, v.XI no.22]
Murmured through my haunted brain - Kate Putnam "Unuttered" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct., 1863 - no.IV]
In its ardor, drowning brain and tongue - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
What giddy raptures fill the brain - "Sequel to The Belles of Williamsburg"
Fallen brains and hearts of brass - Robert W. Service "Dreams Are Best"
The self's delicate apparatus crumpled in the wide pan of the brain - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"
On the moon's right brain - Brandon Shimoda "The Desert"
The fox that thrives in my brain - Tom Sleigh "The Fox"
Felt it had ceased to enliven his brain - "Song [A philosopher once, to the mountain]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
The singing children of her brain - L.A.G. Strong "At Punnet's Town"
Chanting insistent in his brain - L.A.G. Strong "Eena-Mena-Mina-Mo"
Great as mortal eye and brain encompass - Carmen Sylva "A Dream"
That hammers nails into your brain and hands - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
Your brains puddled in a brass-capped mason jar - Emma Trelles "Florida Poem"
Murmured through my haunted brain - "Unuttered" [The Continental Monthly v.IV - Oct., 1863 - no.IV]
Tumble down and in upon our brains - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"
In the quiet cottage of his brain - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"
Washed brains don't rinse so simple - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"
That circles the brain with sense - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"
Worked with his muscles, his brain and his pen - L. Whitehead "New House that Jack Built: an Original American Version"
The paths some thoughts blaze in the brain - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]
Marionette running on the brain's dark marrow - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
half minutes of fire in my brainstem - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"
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