Potential Titles: Hair

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Pull the thread of my hair - Rasha Abdulhadi "find me again"

Aphrodite with unbraided hair - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Wind falls through my hair - Carl Adamshick "Black Snow [I live between the bus stop]"

Caresses the aura of your hair - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"

Set olive twigs in my hair - Meena Alexander "Central Park, Carousel"

The evening's hair all laced with lily - Mary Jo Bang "Z Is for Zed at the End"

Loosen your hair to the storm again - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Through the sear of smoky coal and burnt hair - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"

And hang the longest feathers in my hair - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

A charm of river stones and coiled hair - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, I wake wishing my body"

A split hair from death - Sue Budin "Spacecraft"

For the willows' wind-blown hair - Willa Cather "Fides Spes"

Three golden hairs from the demon's head - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"

Silences from their long hair - Chen Chen "I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule"

The frosts first silver Nature's hair - Arthur S. Cripps "The Seasons' Comfort"

Tricked a mass of stars into his hair - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Her angry scarlet in my hair - Coningsby Dawson "Love at Last"

Sew her name into my hair - Diana Marie Delgado "Little Swan"

A mask of rattan and hair - Michael Dumanis "The Forecast"

Weave the sunlight in your hair - T. S. Eliot "La Figlia Che Piange"

Gales which tangle Ariadne's hair - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"

Fetch her stars to deck her hair - Ralph Waldo Emerson "To Rhea"

The night braids my hair - Tarfia Faizullah "Self-Portrait as Artemis"

Combing through my seaweed hair - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

A nest of black hair for the birds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 8"

With stars and dewdrops in her hair - Rose Fyleman "Vision"

Never knew her till her hair was grey - Zona Gale "Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young"

And the winds long to play with your hair - Kahlil Gibran "On Clothes"

Hickory ashes in my hair - Winnie Lewis Gravitt "Sippokni Sia"

Threads our hair with the loam of night - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"

Wear Virgo's diamond in your hair - John Grey "Skywatching"

The captive sunbeams in her hair - E. Curtiss Hine "Christine" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Shaking your heart from my hair - Carlie Hoffman "Memory of France"

Sorrow with dust in her hair - Langston Hughes "Song for Billie Holiday"

That Sunset concealed in her hair - Scharmel Iris "Three Apples" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Put peppermint in my hair - Jordan Jace "I Want"

Braids myths in her hair - Linda Susan Jackson "Improvisation on Them"

Until we washed our hair with stars - Allison Eir Jenks "Letters from Our Fathers"

A strand of the pale moon's hair - Helene Johnson "What do I care for morning"

Roses dropping from his hair - Henry Johnstone "Love Penitent"

Leaving a streak of fluorescence in your hair - Quincy Scott Jones "Why Wake Up Happy"

Tangled in the hair of willows - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"

Pigeons for hair, wind for feet - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Pale flowers on his mantle, dark leaves on his hair - James Joyce "Strings in the Earth and Air"

Air settles on their shoulders, infiltrates their hair - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Have ta'en Achilles by the hair - John Keats "Hyperion"

The mountains with their tangled hair - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

Nettles caught on hem and hair - Vandana Khanna "On the Eve of Being Reincarnated"

Weave twigs in my hair for clips - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

Hair in needles of light and heat - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as Goddess after the Fire"

A nest of robins in her hair - Joyce Kilmer "Trees"

Where sea grass and spirit hair grow - Rosamond S. King "Sea Garden"

With brushes of comet's hair - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

combs loose static from my hair - Aristilde Kirby "Daria Ukiyo-e"

And scatter dust upon my hair - Archibald Lampman "Peccavi, Domine"

Braids her hair through the trees - Rickey Laurentiis "Writing an Elegy"

Lichens fine as dryad's hair - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

Tokens of brass in your hair - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

The child with hair of ash and abalone - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

A basket of twig and hair - Dana Levin "Dream Nest"

While my hair coils into dust - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"

With purple and yellow crocuses in its hair - Amy Lowell "Solitaire"

By its leagues of sunshine hair - Fiona MacLeod "Lullaby"

And the dust upon our hair was gold - Jeannette Marks "The Railroad Station"

Shadows smile and hair grows thick on toads - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Plaiting basil in her hair - John Masefield "The Widow in the Bye Street"

A woman with planets in her hair - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"

Of long dark hair and blasphemy - Jaye Nasir "November"

Silver stars upon the jasmine's hair - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Combing your hair with my eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Smoke"

Sweet pea twisted through my hair - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

Hair and branches and dream - Carl Phillips "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"

And stuck the stars among her hair - Lola Ridge "Sons of Belial"

Torches flaming out like loosened hair - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Whose hair was as long as the river - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"

Wore her hair short like a scream - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"

And she wears seaweed in her hair - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"

And kisses the sparrows in her hair - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"

And subtle serpents gliding in her hair - Christina Rossetti "The World"

The stars in her hair were seven - Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The Blessed Damozel"

The wealth of the world in her hair - Edwin Davies Schoonmaker "New York"

Our hair with marigolds was wound - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Hair tonics by color like a spectrum - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Through my hair like lightning - Evie Shockley "color bleeding"

Death's new ribbon in its hair - Charles Simic "Mrs. Digby's Picture Album"

Gather the chin hairs of a man-eating goat - A.E. Stallings "Fairy-tale Logic"

Day in twilight's hair bound safe - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

The pearls in the part of her hair - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 85: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Our hair is ashes - Derek Walcott "A Letter from the Old Guard"

Braiding the mermaiden's hair - Charles William Wallace "To Fancy"

Stars to deck my hair - Winifred Welles "Exile"

His hands fall like sun on my hair - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"

Tears as stars to sparkle in her hair - Helen Hay Whitney "The Last Gift"

A single hair balanced on a fingertip - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"



The crosshairs of a hidden life - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"

how you hold a cottonmouth in a crosshair - C.T. Salazar "River"

Hiding from the sniper's crosshairs - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"


Where the fire-haired comet runs - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"


The rocks where gold-haired syrens sang - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]


Bad haircuts and sloppy tailors - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"


Whispers its name from a waterfall's hairline - Sherwin Bitsui "Knives Whistle"

The hairline crack of sanity - Jim Daniels "The Dark Miracle"

Recede from the sky's hairline - Ruth Madievsky "Fog"


Stir the fire with my hairpin of jade - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall

Dizzied among hairpin turns - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"

Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth - Carl Sandburg "Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind"

Tortoiseshell hairpins with a pair of pearls - "There's Someone I Think Of" transl. by Burton Watson


Allergic to hair dye and silver - Hala Alyan "Truth"


concealing an infinity of hairtrigger malice - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"


Or long-haired page in crimson clad - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott"


End up with one ox-hair worth of gain - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson


Slays the serpent-haired Medusa - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"


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