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Potential Titles: Ancestor

Caught hold of its ancestors' shadows - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The shadow went on walking"

Each ancestor who lights your past - Fatimah Asghar "Ghareeb"

Of ancestors a century past - Joseph Bruchac "Prints"

How Cain was of your ancestors - Michelangelo Buonarroti "VI. Invective Against the People of Pistoja" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Beyond one rustic ancestor of reason - Scott Cairns "Adventures in New Testament Greek: Nous"

Relationships our ancestors forged - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"

For us, the ancestors came too early - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

Our ancestors watched it blossom - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Ritual lines of the mazes your ancestors wrought - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"

My ancestors walking alongside me - Kristen De Leon "Reclaim"

Of dawn the ancestor - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXI: The Mountain"

The darkness where all of me is ancestor - Annie Finch "Samhain"

The liquified despair of our ancestors - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

Payback for insulting an ancestor - brian g. gilmore "mardi gras in east lansing"

Cursing the ancestors who brought us here - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"

an ancestor telling you to rise up - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"

Singing in our ancestors' language - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

The ancestors of our wings - Mark Nepo "Under the Temple"

The pink ancestors of our oleanders - Caroline Harper New "Management of the Living"

Homeless ancestors - Hoa Nguyen "Ficus Carica Sonnet"

Duffel bags of ancestors - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"

Blue enough to rouse ancestors - Patricia Smith "Speak Now, Or Forever, Hold Your Peace"

Ancestors more radiant than the sun - Tu Fu "Passing Chao-ling Again" transl. by Burton Watson

To trace down your ancestors' name - Huldah Lucile Winsted "In the Land of Dakota"


Down a hall where your portrait becomes ancestral - Bruce Boston "Futurity Wears the Head"

Separation of ancestral spaces - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"

In the absence of ancestral pollinators - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"

Lifts the sound of ancestral migrations - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"

The afterimage of ancestral pain - Irene Inatty "Ours"

The vision of ancestral foes - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

The mark of some ancestral grief - Edwin Markham "In Death Valley"

Raises its foundation of ancestral eminence anew - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

The contours of each ancestral gene - Kiki Petrosino "The Prince"

Hallucinations that unite ancestral backgrounds - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"


The netted routes of ancestry and trade - Seamus Heaney "Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces"

An ancestry of wood and wire - Conrad Hilberry "Mousetrap"

Its old singing ancestry - Grace Paley "Night Morning"


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