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From fists of hostility - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

When the air clenches its fist and strikes - Dan Beachy-Quick "Onta"

The fist of the mind grows roots and greens - Dan Beachy-Quick "Onta"

Knobbed and knotted sugar fists - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

Force me to flee their fists and their fights - Stephanie Burt "Hank McCoy's Complaint Against the Danger Room"

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

In the fists of their hearts - Heather Derr-Smith "Hide Out"

Know the cost of singed palm and empty fist - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"

A fist of clear confusion - Mari Evans "How Sudden Dies the Blooming"

His fist like a twisted snake - John Gould Fletcher "An Actor"

Big as a fist and full of daggers - Carolyn Forche "Burning the Tomato Worm"

My fist speaks in four languages - Roy G. Guzman "The Age of Aquarius"

Like a precious metal in his fist - F.W. Harvey "The Bugler"

Painted with his fists and elbows - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 4. Summer 1969"

My heart on my fist like a blind falcon - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

The gnarled black fist of the earth - Ben Hecht "Moods"

Like a fist when you open your hand - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"

The stone fist of his heart began to bang - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

Shake fists against the failings of insects - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

Fists slow to open in forgiveness - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

Grab a fistful of anything - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"

Iron fists like a maelstrom - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

Flickering letters in the fist - Ada Limon "Fin"

Pounds her fists on the walls of my dreams - Amanda Lovelace "the princess saves herself in this one"

Tornado of fists - Jamaal May "Ask Where I've Been"

A fist full of weeds that rise yellow - Jamaal May "I Have This Way of Being"

Pockets full of closed fists - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Forever with a scarred, closed fist - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"

Red dance of my opened fist - Jeffrey McDaniel "Jonathan"

Your own broken heart held tightly in your fist - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

Stars clenched between your fists - Makena Metz "Equinox"

My fists clenched proudly against a whimper - Arianna Monet "I'm rewatching the She-Ra episode where Glimmer gets sick for the first time"

Sand falling from a cracked fist - Daniel J. Nadler "Lacunae: 100 Imagined Ancient Love Poems"

Death and prism in my open fist - Angel Nafis "Directions to Finding You, or Maybe Just an Inferior Prayer"

Fist of hardened oats - Pablo Neruda "Bombardment/Curse" translated by Richard Schaaf

Fists accustomed to splitting rocks - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A fist of grindstone petals - tiana nobile "Petals"

Singing with a hard fist - Precious Okoyomon "The animal that is most vulnerable is usually the most cruel / It is impossible to separate it from what it remembers"

Our human fists against heaven - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "The Glory of Cities"

Each bird a tiny fist of time - Kiki Petrosino "Elegy"

The fist of instinct - Carl Phillips "Foliage"

The fist through the branches - Carl Phillips "Foliage"

A fistful of absence suffices - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The throne"

Under constellations three fists apart - Khadijah Queen "Sky Erasure"

Phantom fists against the plexiglass of the living world - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"

Fisting the air with rage - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"

Clenching like a brazen fist - Lola Ridge "Czar's Watch"

Late snow beats with cold white fists - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

A fist in the face of God - Peggy Robles-Alvarado "When I Became La Promesa"

Bottled rainbows by the fistful - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"

Where nature swings its wettest, coldest fist - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Hold the ocean in my fist - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"

Nothing in your pockets but your fists - A.E. Stallings "Failure"

With his fist in the face of Death - Arthur Stringer "What Shall I Care?"

Can June's fist grasp May? - A.C. Swinburne "John Jones"

Slammed his second fist into the bedrock of the sea - Gretchen Tessmer "Hey Man, Nice Shot"

My heart a fist of twine - Kristen Tracy "State Lines"

How each fist knots, each knuckle locks - Divya Victor "Blood/Soil"

Your fist choking the dark - Ocean Vuong "Anaphora as Coping Mechanism"

the fist of new snow on its way to melting - Asiya Wadud "number four"

Choking tight fists of air - Jamie Wasserman "German Man Found Dead in Home 5 Years After He Died"

A fist of jealousy - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"

For the fist of fire - Nancy Wood "When the Morningstars Sang Together"


Grab a fistful of anything - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Rattlebox III"

Crushed a fistful of mushrooms - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"

A fistful of empty flint - Pablo Neruda "Amor America (1400)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

To clutch a fistful of thistle - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

Picking up a fistful of sand - January Gill O'Neil "Early Memory"

Reach for yet another fistful of straw - Carl Phillips "The Steeper the Fall"

Must find a fistful of courage - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Rectangles"

Fistfuls of rain fall hard - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi


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