Potential Titles: Mouth

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Flame to lightning in your mouth - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"

Every wildflower of your mouth’s meadow - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

Almost muffled by the earth in their mouths - Duane Ackerson "What If"

All yesterdays barely hiding in my mouth - Linda Addison "Evolving"

Open up my mouth & swallow the entire sea - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Answers tumble from her mouth unchecked - Usha Akella "Breaking bread with phonemes"

Who sing in the wind with mouths of giants - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"

Her chorus of mouths howled in agony - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

A sweet tooth, a smart mouth, and a wicked thirst - Lauren K. Alleyne "For My Brother(s)"

A word the mouth has forgotten - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"

A smile that eats the mouth - Zaina Alsous "On Longing"

Not comfortable living in a mouth - Gia Anansi-Shakur "The Owl"

Kissing a bitter mouth - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The ways to see and be an angel"

Mouths closed so tight they're lipless - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"

the waitress takes moonbeams into her mouth - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"

Plummets into the countdown of an open mouth - Mary Jo Bang "Catastrophe Theory III"

Whispers at the mouth of the maze - Mary Jo Bang "Mask Photo"

A mouthful of nail heads - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"

The mouth of bitterness made lyrical - Natalie Clifford Barney "On a Picture to Music"

Drew gossip from mouths of a well - Lou Barrett "The Red Cord"

And the heart in her mouth a feast - Elizabeth Bartlett "Final Performance"

Opening my mouth to the rain - Ellen Bass "Sometimes I'm frightened"

When crowded in the mouths of those near it - Billy-Ray Belcourt "NDN Homopoetics"

Caught in the terrier mouth of rain - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"

From the cold hard mouth of the world - Elizabeth Bishop "At the Fishhouses"

Beauty with a rusted mouth - Louise Bogan "A Tale"

With my dreams still in my mouth - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, I wake wishing my body"

Until horizon spills our of our mouths - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, you say all our bones are made of paper"

Every acre I cross a pearl in my mouth - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"

Slaked the whirlpool mouths of our queen - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Mouths too busy for small talk but not for lies - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"

Light in my jaundiced mouth - Jericho Brown "Flower"

A mouth of gravel constructed in a cone - Lee Ann Brown "Beauty Supply"

Step from the mouths of your dens and speak - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

The teeth hot in the mouth of a raccoon - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Spinning toward the grinding mouth of denial - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Glory from the mouth divine - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Salutation from a guilty mouth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Mouth so deep even the stars fall through - Sue Budin "Passport, 1954"

From mouth to throat to the furnaces of the heart - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"

Landed at the mouth of neon waters - Tina Chang "Sugar"

Choke the gaping mouth of want - R.S. Chilton "Lines on Seeing My Sister Fill a Little Beggar-Boy's Basket with Cold Victuals"

Prosthetic molded to her mouth - Samantha H. Chung "Time Traveler's Haibun: 2024"

Licking dry the ocean's mouth - Jeremy Michael Clark "One Fire, Quenched with Another"

Into the mouth of the universe - Tiana Clark "Particle Fever"

The ibex leaps from your mouth to mine - Alicia Cole "On an Iranian Goblet, 5,000 Years Old"

The closed mouth of secrets - Antonio Colinas "Song XXXV"

Those with dust in the mouth - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Less envenomed than the mouth of Truth - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

His mouth the lash of whips - Countee Cullen "To a Brown Girl (for Roberta)"

Will take the sun in my mouth - ee cummings "Crepuscule"

Poison thy mouth with deviltries - Walter de la Mare "Mrs. Grundy"

Brought a stain into my mouth - Toi Derricotte "Invisible Dreams"

With open mouth and no regrets - Stephen Dunn "Time"

Whistled from opposite sides of a mouth - Cornelius Eady "Diabolic"

Shape my mouth into a fountain - Carolina Ebeid "Relapsing/Remitting"

Bluebirds flew out of my mouth - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"

Whose mouth is the portal of death - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

Mouth painted shut on the answer - Louise Erdrich "The Sacraments"

Mouths chewing the ash of earthquakes - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"

The hieroglyphics tumbling from his mouth - Martin Espada "Wake Up, Mario"

Won't reveal the fire I held in my mouth - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

One kiss from her honey mouth - Sir Samuel Ferguson "Molly Asthore"

For the taste of freedom to flood your famished mouth - Mina Florea "Remember"

Threads the river's mouth shut - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Catch"

Its leftover words in my mouth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"

The burn of the panther's mouth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 9"

Stole this story from a dead man's mouth - Calvin Forbes "Homing"

Ghosts in my mouth - Carolyn Forche "Early Night"

Carried by countless mouths - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"

Asleep with fog in our mouths - Carolyn Forche "What It Cost"

A chorus of winged mouths - T'ai Freedom Ford "light"

Beckoning a thousand mouths - T'ai Freedom Ford "past life portrait: machete, circa 1791"

How much of home is held in the mouth - Diamond Forde "Rememory"

Feathers will bloom from my mouth - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

The targets their mouths desire - Gilbert Frankau "Headquarters"

mouths like hard candy spitting - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

Because the ashes didn't leave my mouth - Nikita Gill "House of Hyperion, Titan of Light"

Watching history through the mouth of a shield - Golden "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"

A swift mouth that sings - Louis Golding "Portrait of an Artist"

Love with a finite mouth - Rae Gouirand "Dishes"

A wreath or crown of mouths - torrin a. greathouse "Medusa with the Head of Perseus"

Oldest vowels of mourners' mouths - Leah Naomi Green "Yahrzeit"

Outside the mouth of creation - Richard Greenfield "Hither Come Hither"

Sandalwood venom in my scattered mouth - Wendy Guerra "Red" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Counterclockwise wind in their mouths - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

Against the naked mouth of Hell - Ivor Gurney "The Volunteer"

Her needle mouth filling with water - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"

Opened its mouth to drink grace - Joy Harjo "By the Way"

A crystal wall with a thousand mouths - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"

In parking lots with moons in my mouth - francine j. harris "another finger for the wound"

Full of branches and mouths - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"

Who keep their mouths caved open - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"

Your mouth will make no empty shapes - francine j. harris "something in the water"

Out of the mouth of a tyrant - Yona Harvey "Segregation Continuum"

Silent laughter and an open mouth - Robert Hass "Tomas Transtromer: Song"

Ever her needle is in her mouth - "Havbor and Signelil" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

However hard of mouth or wild of whim - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

Your gaping mouth has been chasing the chariots - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"

When will water open its mouth - Bob Hicok "More than whispers, less than rumors"

Minerals torn from mines with no mouths - Brenda Hillman "1951"

The wind entered my mouth with so much rage - Katerina Iliopoulou "Cape Tenaron" transl. by Jackson Watson

Let comets land in my mouth - K. Iver "Because You Can't"

the metallic to seal my mouth - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"

Still burn in their mouths - Allison Eir Jenks "The Church of St. Sulspicious"

Filling our mouths with ghosts - Allison Eir Jenks "The Church of St. Sulspicious"

Anchored me into the mouth of never - Charles Jensen "Complaint of Isadora Duncan's Scarf"

Or burn in me a second mouth - Daniel Johnson "Inheritance"

Fill their twisted mouths with lament - Camisha L. Jones "My Anxieties Learn to Pray"

Hot coals in their desert mouths - Camisha L. Jones "My Anxieties Learn to Pray"

Room for your cry in my mouth - Saeed Jones "Nocturne: Beheaded"

Bees in the mouth - Fady Joudah "Unacknowledged Pollinators"

Of mouths that drink from Lethe - Fady Joudah "Year of the Metal Dog"

To thaw in the mouth - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunataq"

The only word your mouth remembers - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Breaks apart like honey in the mouth - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 3"

The crows mournful at the mouth of the cave - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Left Behind"

Dead bees falling from your mouth - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as a Girl Conceding"

With his name crumbling hungry in your mouth - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

A white moon opening countless false mouths of laughter - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

With an olive-sprig in his mouth - D.H. Lawrence "The American Eagle"

To pray inside the mouth of a tiger - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"

That fed the blood-stained hydra mouths - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"

Its mouthful of sorrows - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"

With your round guillotine of a mouth - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"

In my mouth like bad water - Ada Limon "Paseo del Bosque"

To swallow a mouthful of sorrow - Amy Lowell "La Ronde du Diable"

Up to the cloud's mouth - Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta "[Untitled]"

Pause beside the mouth of hell - Percy MacKaye "Wilson"

the mountain, the mouth, the memory - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"

Have her mouth of grief - Jeannette Marks "Lost Love"

Swollen mouths sucked blood from their divinity - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

But in his mouth the rhetoric congealed - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Upon my mouth do crush their wine - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"

Raised to a mouth emptied - Charlene McClure "Caretaker"

It eats the hunger and the mouth - Elizabeth Metzger "Control Feast"

Smoothed sand in the mouth of an oyster - Colleen Mills "The Pea Princess"

who will be but a name in the mouths of others - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"

Water in the tiger's mouth - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"

Some sweet mouth is full of song - Robert Montgomery "Beautiful Influences" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Our uncharted, elemental mouths - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"

In the mouth acquired by failure - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"

Some bitter speech in my mouth - William Morris "The Pilgrim of Hope V: New Birth"

Placed my grief in the mouth of language - Lisel Mueller "When I Am Asked"

Wild lament of broken mouths - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Cooled songs in your mouth - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Shadows from his mouth - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

The seed I planted in my mouth - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

In the green mouth of the wind - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid

An eternity of buried mouths - Pablo Neruda "Night XCV" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

No mouth to interpret these tidings - Yone Noguchi "Where Is the Poet"

A fire inside your mouth - Naomi Shihab Nye "How Palestinians Keep Warm"

Kissing me with its golden mouth - Mary Oliver "I don't want to live a small life"

In the sudden fire of its mouth - Mary Oliver "Night and the River"

If light had a mouth and a tongue - Mary Oliver "West Wind 3"

The burning mouth of the wind - Mary Oliver "West Wind 6"

Had we as many mouths as Hydra - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"

In the sky's mouth - Marigloria Palma "Twilight" (translated by Carina del Valle Schorske)

Bullets of silence fly from my mouth - Lesyk Panasiuk "A Wartime Dream" transl. by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

Holding the rain our mouths - Kiki Petrosino "Message from the Free Smiths of Louisa County"

Dust gathers in my mouth - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"

A shiver riveted with a mouth full of pearls - Sina Queyras "Years"

I'm wrestling skeletons out of my mouth - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

In the church of your mouth - Diane Raptosh "World Upside Down"

Because I have mouthed your name in half-wish - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"

some will not slip cleanly from my mouth - jo reyes-boitel "fish bones"

to keep the sweetness in our mouths - Seema Reza "The neurologist gives us permission"

The dark mouth enveloping - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"

A word molten out of the mouth of God - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Of all my many mouths - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

That dark taste still lingers in the mouth - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

waited for God to fall out of my mouth - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Mona Lisa's Abecedarian to Leonardo da Vinci"

Out of their river mouths - Sonia Sanchez "This Is Not a Small Voice"

Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth - Carl Sandburg "Chicago"

Song mouths connecting with song hearts - Carl Sandburg "Work Gangs"

Ignore snapping mouths of decision - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"

The cave mouth's event horizon breath - Ann K. Schwader "Alien Machines"

Whose twin mouths gape with venom & desire - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"

From the mouth of a wax museum troubadour - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"

The seam of its mouth glued shut - Diane Seuss "Toad"

And mute the mouth of our eternal need - Clark Ashton Smith "The Crucifixion of Eros"

Mouth of starry proud desire - Clark Ashton Smith "Inheritance"

Spoken by mournful mouths - "Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House"

From the lion's mouth of battle - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

To give thy mouth its flame - George Sterling "Atthan Dances"

And on thy mouth lost roses - George Sterling "Hesperia"

Shadows caught with our mouths open - Gerald Stern "Ted Rosenberg"

To fill the mouths of hungry souls - "Stool-Ball"

The little Dust blown from their bitter mouths - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

The secrets we stopper within our own mouths - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

The gods with mouths full of rain - Öykü Tekten "mountain language"

Omens mouthed by winds of twilight - Iris Tree "Moods III"

Always seeking mouths for drowning - Ali Trotta "Of Water, Always Seeking" [Strange Horizons 13 Jan. 2025]

a tonsil in the mouth of space and time - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

My mouth turning into snow - Allison Benis White "Description of Symptoms"

Foul of mouth and evil-eyed - John Greenleaf Whittier "Barclay of Ury"

Every ocean has its mouth - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"

My frugal mouth spends the only foreign words it owns - Jenny Xie "Rootless"

My ears clams with mouths full of sand - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Stopp'd my singing mouth with thunder - Francis Brett Young "Song [I made a song in my love's likeness]"

Blow breath into your open mouth - Kevin Young "Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]"

You escape the mouth of death - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

Emptiness in my mouth - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"

Their mouths parched by so much wind - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


The close-mouthed tantrum of her fevers - Safiya Sinclair "A Bell, Still Unrung"


Cut down a tree on top of a hellmouth - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"


My honey-mouth is full of froth - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Honey-mouthed and persistent - C. Dale Young "Bloodline"


Staring at the open-mouthed stars - Mary Jo Bang "We Took Our Places"


In pale-mouthed despair - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXV"

Of pale-mouthed prophet dreaming - John Keats "Psyche"


Red-mouthed storms behind them - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"


Into the Terror's hot red tiger-mouth - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"


Till waters scream in anger and the wide-mouthed valley fills - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"


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