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Potential Titles: Teeth/Tooth
Laugh with wounded teeth - George Abraham "Essay on Submission"
Gnashing their teeth till the ropes are frayed - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Immediately, the sky opened with teeth - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Second Bait"
Seawater moving with teeth - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
My teeth bared in a smile of reverent awe - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Suck cotton candy nebulae through his teeth - Mike Allen "Deluge"
An angry epithet baring its teeth - Mouna Ammar "1 Zmagria Place"
Dancing between its teeth - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
With the teeth of a laugh - Maya Angelou "I Almost Remember"
Pick our teeth with thunderbolts - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Locked between two rows of metal teeth - Mary Jo Bang "The School of Knowledge"
with stones to cling to by my teeth - Elizabeth Bartlett "cold wakening"
The branches growing from my teeth - Billy-Ray Belcourt "NDN Homopoetics"
A steel smile that showed the teeth of war - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Teeth, tendrils, smiles, and silence - Sharang Biswas "What Is a Monster?"
By the inner pressure of teeth - Robert Bly "Meditations on the Insatiable Soul"
The rubble between our teeth - Julia Bouwsma "Interview with the Dead"
Ending with that blade of rusted teeth - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
The teeth hot in the mouth of a raccoon - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Worse than having ten teeth out - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
To his teeth I swore - Hall Caine "Graih my Chree (Love of my Heart)"
And savage teeth shall grind and gnash - Tommaso Campanella "XLI. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.2. The Doom of the Impious" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Teeth tearing bloodily at the sky's throat - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"
With acid teeth bite the wind as it passes - Rosario Castellanos "Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone" transl. by George D. Schade
Claws and teeth inside my head - Ana Castillo "Cat's Mad Lick"
Five teeth tell the sunburst story - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
In war they drive you to the teeth of Death - Ralph Chaplin "The Red Feast"
Even a leaf can have teeth - MK Chavez "Little Red Riding Hood/Companion"
Kiss me with your teeth - Leonard Cohen "It Uses Us!"
The dragon's teeth that have spilled from your heart - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
Flung a challenge in the teeth of life - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
Steel and teeth by starlight - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
In the calm or tempest's teeth - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"
A message through the cages of a great whale's teeth - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
The small hard teeth of worms - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Into the everyday teeth of the world - Geffrey Davis "King County Metro"
In the teeth of bomb-proof batteries - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
Algorithms cannibalize our art with parasite teeth - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Discarded my smile but not my teeth - Rita Dove "Incantation of the First Order"
Pull my heart out with teeth and claws - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Air slips between my teeth - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Can make teeth crush stone - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
The mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"
Scaling the mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"
Hieroglyphics inscribed by teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 15"
Until they meet him and his electric teeth - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"
Hold the moon in his teeth - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Introduction to Engineering by Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius"
Disillusioned roofs with teeth of rust - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
A fumbled smile with too many teeth - Lora Gray "We Are All Monsters Here"
Tombs of rocky teeth and salt waters - Lesley Hart Gunn "The Exorcism of Icarus"
Walls of eyes and teeth - Duriel E. Harris "What he thought belly down, when I was 8 years old"
Lampposts and cracked teeth - francine j. harris "to the man on the bus"
Break their teeth on concrete - francine j. harris "what teeth poems ain't"
The light grazing my teeth - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"
Had men the dower of teeth and claws - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Through the fences of their teeth - Conrad Hilberry "The Cur"
And my teeth are rocks I walk on - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"
The sound of teeth just shy of sinew - Saeed Jones "Last Portrait as Boy"
Crunched in your teeth like sand - Zilka Joseph "Sweet Malida"
The melody Time whets its teeth with - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"
The teeth of a passing clown - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
Our teeth are covered in dust and fog - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"
Held the world together with your teeth - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Banished"
Found me with night in my teeth - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"
Let you cut your teeth on my heart - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"
Asking through ravenous teeth- Michael Kleber-Diggs "America is Loving Me to Death"
All the cogs of our life have broken teeth - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"
Remembered a door in the long teeth of the woods - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Sharpening his teeth on the wolves - D.H. Lawrence "St Mark"
Born with a full head of teeth - Aimee Le "Devil Woman Plus the Luckiest Guy in the World"
Quiet winter grinding like teeth set in sleep - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
A nest of clean teeth - Ada Limon "World Versus Girl"
And gnash their teeth in agony - Nancy Luce "God's Words"
The birds on the teeth of the reef - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"
Will the poems have tendon and teeth? - Liv Mammone "Fear"
Hens grow teeth in graveyards - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Shark teeth round her neck - John Masefield "Mother Carey"
Jagged with the previous conquerors' teeth - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"
In the port of serrated teeth - Herman Melville "The Maldive Shark"
Showing eager teeth of battle - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"
The wind has teeth, the wind has claws - George Meredith "Hard Weather"
What the teeth of Time devour - George Meredith "Time and Sentiment"
Morays have teeth made for rending - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"
The waves bare their foamy teeth - Jenny Molberg "Voyager"
Leader without Machiavellian teeth - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"
Teeth on the edges of sleep - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Puts teeth in any nightmare - Harryette Mullen "Page 72/mister arty martyr"
Only teeth and a few stubborn bones - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"
Who put you between the fury's teeth - Pablo Neruda "Brother Bartolome de Las Casas" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Between the teeth of the hard earth - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A funeral like a craw full of teeth - Pablo Neruda "Evening LIX" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Like funnels filled with teeth - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Bitten out by the teeth of winter - Pablo Neruda "Horses" transl. by Alastair Reid
Go back north with your serpent's teeth - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Sadness" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Filled with teeth and lightning - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The teeth of every dawn - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney
sinking his teeth into anything with a pulse - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"
Loosen my language from my teeth - Brandon O'Brien "Cento for Lagahoos"
rage does sharpen my back teeth - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"
Laughter against our teeth - Soham Patel "Mixed with always"
Honey jars rattle laughter against our teeth - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"
Tasting honey on my teeth - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
Something drags me with fear teeth - Kiki Petrosino "Purgatorio"
Teeth plucked from howling jaws - Xan Forest Phillips "A Fruit We Never Tasted"
With the jewels of dead warriors adorning its teeth - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"
Fibers pulled through biting teeth - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"
A tombstone in a cemetery of teeth - Jacques J. Rancourt "The Loons Prove that Even Before There Was a Word for Grief It Existed as Song"
Still holds our prayers in its teeth - Jacques J. Rancourt "Western Wall"
With the east wind in their teeth - Herbert Randall "Easterly Weather"
Centuries between my teeth - heidi andrea restrepo rhodes "Flying down the Five"
A shark with hungry teeth - Edgell Rickword "Strange Elements"
With the jagged grey teeth in the storm - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Could pluck it from the air with my teeth - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
Singing through moon-filled teeth - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
More darkness than teeth - R.S. Saha "Kin"
Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth - Carl Sandburg "Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind"
In the teeth of gray weather - Clinton Scollard "Donegal"
Teeth of brass that gnaw - Frederick George Scott "Samson"
Keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIX"
Saw-edged teeth in my peripheral vision - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
That I chew on until my teeth rust - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
The crooked steel teeth of the city - Aaron Smith "Boston"
wrench cardamom from between my teeth - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"
A crime behind my teeth - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"
A sorrow you call teeth - A.E. Stallings "Two Nursery Rhymes: Lullaby and Rebuttal"
Keen, clear, flashing teeth of steel - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
The language of survival cold within my teeth - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "The Dream of the Anit-Ekphrasis"
This clown's sharp teeth and jeering bite - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"
The night full of black teeth - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"
The beaver cut his timber with patient teeth - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Edged like teeth and dense with veins - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
And take your fingers from the monster's teeth - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
Eaten by teeth of flame - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
When the waves show their teeth - Oscar Wilde "In the Gold Room"
Frescos flake away as sleet holds us in its teeth - Dean Young "Bronzed" [Poetry April 2005]
With teeth transpiring flame - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"
Found them in death's dog-teeth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Demagogue tongues that sow the dragon-teeth - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Milk teeth sharpening a father's heart - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
Loved darkness with my needle-teeth - J. Federle "Possession of the Farmer's Son"
Wax bells of siren-teeth - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
hurling herself teeth-first at the windows - Jennifer L. Knox "How old is Maggie?"
From the root of a nicotined tooth - William Archila "Spirits"
Red feud and ravage of saber tooth and claw - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"
Earth's and hell's destructive tooth - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
Beneath the bitter tooth accursed - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited
Toothed and torn and spurred - Howard Futhey Brinton "Mac's (Psychological) Cigar"
Boiler rooms hum with the tooth and nail - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"
Of hunger toothed with iron - Willa Cather "A Silver Cup"
As the toothed moon rises - Louise Gluck "All Hallows"
Half moons ridged by the saw's tooth - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
To feel the Tooth of Hell - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
With cargo that the tooth of time had chewed - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Time's tooth bored to every nook our dreams - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth - Claude McKay "America"
All tooth and whispered want - Joanne Merriam "Cherries for Buttons"
Wolves rising to the tooth of the moon - N. Scott Momaday "The Listener"
The serpent's tooth saved Cleopatra - Lola Ridge "The Woman with Jewels"
My dead tooth unmaking the veil - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"
Shadows worse than any tooth or talon - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"
Tooth and tail and cobweb drum - Dylan Thomas "Poem [Your breath was shed]"
Hearts gnawn of the sateless tooth - Emile Verhaeren "The Monks" transl. by T.M. Kettle
A tooth tossed down a well - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"
A sweet tooth, a smart mouth, and a wicked thirst - Lauren K. Alleyne "For My Brother(s)"
So many have a sweet tooth for belief - K. Iver "A Medium Performs Your Visit"
Meal planning with a sweet tooth - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
A tooth-ache in each spoonful - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles I"
The toothache of tragedy - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Northern Ireland They Called It 'The Troubles'"
Pack my toothbrush and my cyanide molar - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"
From skeletons with toothless jaws - Ellen Glasgow "The Hunter"
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Gnashing their teeth till the ropes are frayed - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Immediately, the sky opened with teeth - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Second Bait"
Seawater moving with teeth - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"
My teeth bared in a smile of reverent awe - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"
Suck cotton candy nebulae through his teeth - Mike Allen "Deluge"
An angry epithet baring its teeth - Mouna Ammar "1 Zmagria Place"
Dancing between its teeth - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
With the teeth of a laugh - Maya Angelou "I Almost Remember"
Pick our teeth with thunderbolts - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"
Locked between two rows of metal teeth - Mary Jo Bang "The School of Knowledge"
with stones to cling to by my teeth - Elizabeth Bartlett "cold wakening"
The branches growing from my teeth - Billy-Ray Belcourt "NDN Homopoetics"
A steel smile that showed the teeth of war - Stella Benson "Five Smooth Stones"
Teeth, tendrils, smiles, and silence - Sharang Biswas "What Is a Monster?"
By the inner pressure of teeth - Robert Bly "Meditations on the Insatiable Soul"
The rubble between our teeth - Julia Bouwsma "Interview with the Dead"
Ending with that blade of rusted teeth - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
The teeth hot in the mouth of a raccoon - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Worse than having ten teeth out - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
To his teeth I swore - Hall Caine "Graih my Chree (Love of my Heart)"
And savage teeth shall grind and gnash - Tommaso Campanella "XLI. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.2. The Doom of the Impious" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Teeth tearing bloodily at the sky's throat - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"
With acid teeth bite the wind as it passes - Rosario Castellanos "Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone" transl. by George D. Schade
Claws and teeth inside my head - Ana Castillo "Cat's Mad Lick"
Five teeth tell the sunburst story - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
In war they drive you to the teeth of Death - Ralph Chaplin "The Red Feast"
Even a leaf can have teeth - MK Chavez "Little Red Riding Hood/Companion"
Kiss me with your teeth - Leonard Cohen "It Uses Us!"
The dragon's teeth that have spilled from your heart - Alicia Cole "The Far Western Regions of the Archipelago Are Where the Dragons Live"
Flung a challenge in the teeth of life - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"
Steel and teeth by starlight - C.S.E. Cooney "Werewoman"
In the calm or tempest's teeth - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"
A message through the cages of a great whale's teeth - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
The small hard teeth of worms - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Into the everyday teeth of the world - Geffrey Davis "King County Metro"
In the teeth of bomb-proof batteries - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
Algorithms cannibalize our art with parasite teeth - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Discarded my smile but not my teeth - Rita Dove "Incantation of the First Order"
Pull my heart out with teeth and claws - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Air slips between my teeth - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Can make teeth crush stone - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
The mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"
Scaling the mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"
Hieroglyphics inscribed by teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 15"
Until they meet him and his electric teeth - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"
Hold the moon in his teeth - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Introduction to Engineering by Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius"
Disillusioned roofs with teeth of rust - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
A fumbled smile with too many teeth - Lora Gray "We Are All Monsters Here"
Tombs of rocky teeth and salt waters - Lesley Hart Gunn "The Exorcism of Icarus"
Walls of eyes and teeth - Duriel E. Harris "What he thought belly down, when I was 8 years old"
Lampposts and cracked teeth - francine j. harris "to the man on the bus"
Break their teeth on concrete - francine j. harris "what teeth poems ain't"
The light grazing my teeth - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"
Had men the dower of teeth and claws - Maurice Hewlett "The Village Wife's Lament"
Through the fences of their teeth - Conrad Hilberry "The Cur"
And my teeth are rocks I walk on - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"
The sound of teeth just shy of sinew - Saeed Jones "Last Portrait as Boy"
Crunched in your teeth like sand - Zilka Joseph "Sweet Malida"
The melody Time whets its teeth with - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"
The teeth of a passing clown - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"
Our teeth are covered in dust and fog - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"
Held the world together with your teeth - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Banished"
Found me with night in my teeth - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"
Let you cut your teeth on my heart - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"
Asking through ravenous teeth- Michael Kleber-Diggs "America is Loving Me to Death"
All the cogs of our life have broken teeth - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"
Remembered a door in the long teeth of the woods - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"
Sharpening his teeth on the wolves - D.H. Lawrence "St Mark"
Born with a full head of teeth - Aimee Le "Devil Woman Plus the Luckiest Guy in the World"
Quiet winter grinding like teeth set in sleep - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
A nest of clean teeth - Ada Limon "World Versus Girl"
And gnash their teeth in agony - Nancy Luce "God's Words"
The birds on the teeth of the reef - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"
Will the poems have tendon and teeth? - Liv Mammone "Fear"
Hens grow teeth in graveyards - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"
Shark teeth round her neck - John Masefield "Mother Carey"
Jagged with the previous conquerors' teeth - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"
In the port of serrated teeth - Herman Melville "The Maldive Shark"
Showing eager teeth of battle - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"
The wind has teeth, the wind has claws - George Meredith "Hard Weather"
What the teeth of Time devour - George Meredith "Time and Sentiment"
Morays have teeth made for rending - Sara S. Messenger "Your Subcutaneous Mermaid"
The waves bare their foamy teeth - Jenny Molberg "Voyager"
Leader without Machiavellian teeth - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"
Teeth on the edges of sleep - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
Puts teeth in any nightmare - Harryette Mullen "Page 72/mister arty martyr"
Only teeth and a few stubborn bones - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"
Who put you between the fury's teeth - Pablo Neruda "Brother Bartolome de Las Casas" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Between the teeth of the hard earth - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A funeral like a craw full of teeth - Pablo Neruda "Evening LIX" transl. by Stephen Tapscott
Like funnels filled with teeth - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Bitten out by the teeth of winter - Pablo Neruda "Horses" transl. by Alastair Reid
Go back north with your serpent's teeth - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Sadness" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Filled with teeth and lightning - Pablo Neruda "Ode with a Lament" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The teeth of every dawn - Pablo Neruda "Solitudes" transl. by Dennis Maloney
sinking his teeth into anything with a pulse - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"
Loosen my language from my teeth - Brandon O'Brien "Cento for Lagahoos"
rage does sharpen my back teeth - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"
Laughter against our teeth - Soham Patel "Mixed with always"
Honey jars rattle laughter against our teeth - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"
Tasting honey on my teeth - Kiki Petrosino "Jantar Mantar"
Something drags me with fear teeth - Kiki Petrosino "Purgatorio"
Teeth plucked from howling jaws - Xan Forest Phillips "A Fruit We Never Tasted"
With the jewels of dead warriors adorning its teeth - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"
Fibers pulled through biting teeth - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"
A tombstone in a cemetery of teeth - Jacques J. Rancourt "The Loons Prove that Even Before There Was a Word for Grief It Existed as Song"
Still holds our prayers in its teeth - Jacques J. Rancourt "Western Wall"
With the east wind in their teeth - Herbert Randall "Easterly Weather"
Centuries between my teeth - heidi andrea restrepo rhodes "Flying down the Five"
A shark with hungry teeth - Edgell Rickword "Strange Elements"
With the jagged grey teeth in the storm - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Could pluck it from the air with my teeth - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
Singing through moon-filled teeth - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"
More darkness than teeth - R.S. Saha "Kin"
Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth - Carl Sandburg "Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind"
In the teeth of gray weather - Clinton Scollard "Donegal"
Teeth of brass that gnaw - Frederick George Scott "Samson"
Keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIX"
Saw-edged teeth in my peripheral vision - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
That I chew on until my teeth rust - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
The crooked steel teeth of the city - Aaron Smith "Boston"
wrench cardamom from between my teeth - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"
A crime behind my teeth - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"
A sorrow you call teeth - A.E. Stallings "Two Nursery Rhymes: Lullaby and Rebuttal"
Keen, clear, flashing teeth of steel - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
The language of survival cold within my teeth - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "The Dream of the Anit-Ekphrasis"
This clown's sharp teeth and jeering bite - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"
The night full of black teeth - Ocean Vuong "A Little Closer to the Edge"
The beaver cut his timber with patient teeth - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Edged like teeth and dense with veins - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
And take your fingers from the monster's teeth - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"
Eaten by teeth of flame - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
When the waves show their teeth - Oscar Wilde "In the Gold Room"
Frescos flake away as sleet holds us in its teeth - Dean Young "Bronzed" [Poetry April 2005]
With teeth transpiring flame - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"
Found them in death's dog-teeth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Demagogue tongues that sow the dragon-teeth - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
Milk teeth sharpening a father's heart - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
Loved darkness with my needle-teeth - J. Federle "Possession of the Farmer's Son"
Wax bells of siren-teeth - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"
hurling herself teeth-first at the windows - Jennifer L. Knox "How old is Maggie?"
From the root of a nicotined tooth - William Archila "Spirits"
Red feud and ravage of saber tooth and claw - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"
Earth's and hell's destructive tooth - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited
Beneath the bitter tooth accursed - Charles Baudelaire "The Irreparable" transl. not credited
Toothed and torn and spurred - Howard Futhey Brinton "Mac's (Psychological) Cigar"
Boiler rooms hum with the tooth and nail - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"
Of hunger toothed with iron - Willa Cather "A Silver Cup"
As the toothed moon rises - Louise Gluck "All Hallows"
Half moons ridged by the saw's tooth - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
To feel the Tooth of Hell - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
With cargo that the tooth of time had chewed - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Time's tooth bored to every nook our dreams - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth - Claude McKay "America"
All tooth and whispered want - Joanne Merriam "Cherries for Buttons"
Wolves rising to the tooth of the moon - N. Scott Momaday "The Listener"
The serpent's tooth saved Cleopatra - Lola Ridge "The Woman with Jewels"
My dead tooth unmaking the veil - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"
Shadows worse than any tooth or talon - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"
Tooth and tail and cobweb drum - Dylan Thomas "Poem [Your breath was shed]"
Hearts gnawn of the sateless tooth - Emile Verhaeren "The Monks" transl. by T.M. Kettle
A tooth tossed down a well - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"
A sweet tooth, a smart mouth, and a wicked thirst - Lauren K. Alleyne "For My Brother(s)"
So many have a sweet tooth for belief - K. Iver "A Medium Performs Your Visit"
Meal planning with a sweet tooth - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
A tooth-ache in each spoonful - Lewis Carroll "Four Riddles I"
The toothache of tragedy - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Northern Ireland They Called It 'The Troubles'"
Pack my toothbrush and my cyanide molar - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"
From skeletons with toothless jaws - Ellen Glasgow "The Hunter"
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