Potential Titles: Throat

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Voltage discharged fingertip to throat - Rasha Abdulhadi "The thorn"

This peacock-throated night - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Drown whatever it holds in its throat - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

My throat turning to rubies - Jose A. Alcantara "Archilocus Colubris"

Blackbirds broke veins in their throats - Sandra Alcosser "Cry"

Longed to pour galaxies down his throat - Mike Allen "Deluge"

A boomerang flung from your throat - Lauren K. Alleyne "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"

Cities clawing at each other's bruised throats - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"

Makes the cane ash sting less in my throat - Keisha-Gaye Anderson "We Dreamed You"

Hymns from a thousand throats - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.II--Morning Further Advanced"

With its hand closing around my throat - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"

Sand that quakes your throat - Fatimah Asghar "Ghareeb"

the throat of night catches - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"

Wind salts our throats - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, you say all our bones are made of paper"

Torn from the throat of night - Paul Cameron Brown "The Bells"

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

Teeth tearing bloodily at the sky's throat - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"

For the throats of hell to drink - G.K. Chesterton "Wine and Water"

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

Another fist in my throat - Tiana Clark "Broken Ghazal for Walter Scott"

Floating in the deep throat of night - Tiana Clark "Flambeaux"

Found answer in a thousand throats - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Shake from your wilding throats - Adelaide Crapsey "The Plaint"

Grief a perfume lodged in our throats - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

Break across a blood-stained throat - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"

With pebbles in his throat - William H. Davies "Days that Have Been"

Into the snap-dragon throat of desire - Mitchell Dawson "Asperities: Teresa"

Caught the huge moon in my throat - Meg Day "Another Night at Sea Level"

From the brittle little throat of a clay bird - Salomón de la Selva "A Song for Wall Street"

Throats choking with conclusions - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

Coax oil from a sea bird's throat - Rachel Dillon "A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem"

Blooms large in my throat - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"

I sew my voice in its throat - Summer Farah "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"

Siphon sand from my throat - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"

At the vanishing point of your throat - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hoktvlwv's Crow"

Stitched us a new bark throat - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

A throat without chain - T'ai Freedom Ford "Emancipation Celebration"

As from a throat of molten lead - L. Gielgud "Summer Delivery"

Although their edges leave your throat aching - Theodora Goss "Diamonds and Toads"

Bare my throat to Autumn moonlight - Mona Gould "Out of Loneliness"

The curve of your throat is a troubling sound - Mona Gould "Women are Like That"

To bind a fox's throat with a gold bell - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"

The taste of happiness in the throat - Alice Corbin Henderson "From the Stone Age"

A coal in the throat of the furnace - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"

A cheer rose from a Thousand Throats - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"

The mystic assignation the golden throat of light - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]

Long story caught in his throat - Conrad Hilberry "Memory"

The Untouchable had him by the throat - Edward Hirsch "Amour Honestus"

Every note of every lung and tongue and throat - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

A net of every name lost in the throat of a storm - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"

With water brimming our throats - Ashaki M. Jackson "A Proclamation"

Frost in the hollow of a throat - John James "Beneath the Trees at Ellingsworth"

The nickel wire of my throat - John James "Catalogue Beginning with a Line by Plato"

Above your splendid sunburnt throat - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Idlers"

Fill up your throat with laughter - Helene Johnson "Magalu"

With glad defiance in my throat - James Weldon Johnson "The Gift to Sing"

My throat is the ocean now - Saeed Jones "After Last Light"

The air escaping my throat's prison - Saeed Jones "Grief #213"

In the full throat of summer - Donika Kelly "Red Bird"

Songs of burning line your throat - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"

Until her throat got dusty - Faye Kicknosway "I Don't Know Her"

New ferns snaking fast up the old hosts' throats - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

The pensive throats of the shy birds - Archibald Lampman "Freedom"

With soft throats unaltered - Archibald Lampman "The Frogs"

Night still in their throats - Dorianne Laux "I Never Wanted to Die"

With gold throat of wrath - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"

Throats of music filled with sand - Richard Le Gallienne "Autumn"

nectar of oceans caught in your throat - Yoon Ha Lee "Sea-Sweet"

Whose throat blossoms with spicy chocolates - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"

In the great throat of a glacier - Megan Levad "Foundling"

Strangling other throats - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"

The dust in his throat - Amy Levy "Epitaph"

From my throat I crush back my cries - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Anger blistering in the throat - Ada Limon "The Lost Glove"

Take a rose by the throat - Anthony Madrid "Maxims 1"

Answers from a thousand throats - Dorothea Mackellar "September"

And caught my songs about her throat - Archibald MacLeish "Charity"

Opening ourselves sieved throats to breathe new air - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"

Lush throats throttled by nephrite - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Rates the Runway"

A gaggle of throats coughing gravel - John McCarthy "The Weight of Dirt and Rust"

Prenatal earth rising in the volcano's throat - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth - Claude McKay "America"

Though the fountain reached my throat - Claude McKay "December, 1919"

In the timeless throat of the songbird - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"

My throat too bruised to speak - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Written Statement"

An ancient bell within their throats - George Meredith "A Ballad of Fair Ladies in Revolt"

The eagle's bent beak at the throat - Joaquin Miller "At the Calend's Close"

The myriad throated dragon of desire - William Mountain "Dies Irae"

The throat of these hours - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

From your ghost-wrapped throat - Gala Mukomolova "Vasya, in Bed"

In the throat of the evening city - Pablo Neruda "Oh, My Lost City" transl. by Alastair Reid

In the throat of the fortunate isles - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems IX" translated by W.S. Merwin

With throats like nipped roses - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"

Multiple ghosts jab your throat - Hoa Nguyen "She Leads with Flower Wands"

Knotted in the throat of a finch - Naomi Shihab Nye "Problems with the Story"

His throat full of song - Mary Oliver "Of Goodness"

If the sky had a throat - Mary Oliver "West Wind 3"

Taking some wild passion by the throat - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

A line from privacy to throat - Ladan Osman "The scalps of the women with the best prophecies are dry this season"

With green deep in their throats - Walter Pavlich "Road with Five Waterfalls"

Toward the flower's throat - Carl Phillips "If You Go Away"

And took a tormentor by the throat - D.A. Powell "Rewilding"

Tears tied knots in my throat - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "I Went to You Last Night"

Into that broken glass throat - Jacques J. Rancourt "In the Castro"

The realm of birchwood in my throat - Andrea Rexilius "The Way the Language Was"

The pearly choker of innocence around my throat - Adrienne Rich "Grating"

And Reason pales upon her throat - John Rollin Ridge "The Harp of Broken Strings"

A melody in the throats of morning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Music in the strong deep-throated bush - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"

Sonatas from the throats of master birds - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"

curves thrown back down your throat - Ed Roberson "(...As for the Swallows, All They Were Doing)"

Triumph in their throat - Charles G.D. Roberts "Cambrai and Marne"

Salt at the back of my throat - Anjoli Roy "Last"

Throats in the clutch of a hope - Carl Sandburg "Passers-by"

With silver throated mirth - Margaret E. Sangster "Five Sonnets: I. The Coming"

Joy leaps to my throat - May Sarton "Renascence"

quick light flowing down the back of my throat - Evie Shockley "black love"

Exposed throat of the sky - Iryna Shuvalova "a moving grove" transl. by Uilleam Blacker

the night slips down my throat - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

Siphon doubt from his throat - Jake Skeets "Buffalograss"

Shadow in everyone's throat - Patricia Smith "Gettin' His Twang On"

Life sears a path down the throat - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"

The angles of it scraping at each throat - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"

Know the song struggling in your throat - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"

Like a crimson throat to hell - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

With the garland from my own throat - Rabindranath Tagore "This Day Will Pass"

With warbling throat and eye upcast - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]

Your throat of granite - Edwin Torres "Ellabyrinth"

Blade made sharp by a throat - Paul Tran "Terroir"

Drawing silence from my throat - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"

The coin in your throat for passage - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Angelica Root"

Bloomed from young throats - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "A Field of Onions: Brown Onions"

Unbreakable dawn mounting in your throat - Ocean Vuong "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous"

Nested inside each thimbled throat - Ocean Vuong "Seventh Circle of Earth"

Always October in my throat - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"

Trapped in the night of the throat - Michael Wasson "So Call it Grace"

No music in my throat - Paul West "The Cumberbunce"

From those invisible and varying throats - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"

The lily's throat to the hummingbird - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

At her throat is loose gold - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Until my voice and throat cracked open wide - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"

Into the throat of summer - Jenny Xie "Chinatown Diptych"

Bone in the wind's throat - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"

Need a jukebox for a throat - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"


A cave of cut-throat thoughts and villainous dreams - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

Here's damnation to the cut-throats! - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"

Quest of the cut-throat sons of Cain - John Masefield "Lyrics from 'The Buccaneer'"

Of all the cutthroat combat sports - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Clinic and Oracle"


Full-throated ecstasy of mirth - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus


Who led the iron-throated harmonies of war - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"


To feed the million-throated swine - Sam Walter Foss "The Wail of the Hack Writer" [The Fly Leaf, v.1 no.2, Jan. 1896]


Whose turn is it to open-throated sing? - Ari Banias "No More Birds"


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