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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-01-20 01:22 am

Potential Titles: Astonish

Under water for a full, astonishing second - George Bilgere "Swim Lessons"

Planets in their astonishing alignment - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych ii. Singing You Up"

Astonished at their shrunken estate - Max Bodenheim "Baby"

Till each astonishes the other - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

With strange astonished smiles - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Your astonishing dash to freedom - Tina Chang "Color"

An engineer's dream-feat of astonishment - Chen Chen "In the City"

With muscles that astonish your mirror - Dorsey Craft "Bagging Groceries at Piggly Wiggly"

The transient world's astonished eyes - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"

The sweet conjunctions that astonish us - Conrad Hilberry "Zero"

Ice is astonished by water - Jane Hirshfield "Mosquito"

Upon which these future ghosts will cut astonished rivers - Christina Olivares "Portrait"

Learning to be astonished - Mary Oliver "Messenger"

Just long enough for us to be astonished - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"

Wants to astonish the water - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Sign?"

With the look of the always astonished - Sina Queyras "Years"

A future astonished heart - Julia Uceda "2976"

Before the astonished augurs - Derek Walcott "A Propertius Quartet III"


Within us a hardened astonishment - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Touched by youth's wayward astonishment - Dana Gioia "Autumn Inaugural"

Flatten me into astonishment - K. Iver "Because You Can't"

An unchanged astonishment - W.S. Merwin "The First Days"

An astonishment of hopes - Pablo Neruda "Bombardment/Curse" translated by Richard Schaaf

The tree traffics in a singular astonishment - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"

Wind which tenders astonishment - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"

To drink the wine of astonishment - Ellen Bryant Voigt "Kyrie" (p.27)


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