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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-07-18 03:29 am

Potential Titles: Swallow

For the bird version of this word, see Swallow (Bird).

Swallowed the item you chose to mark the start - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

To swallow the impossible wound of itself - George Abraham "Unarcheology of 'Father'"

Before they themselves are swallowed by the sky - Duane Ackerson "Bird Seed"

All the water seeks is to swallow weight - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Open up my mouth & swallow the entire sea - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Swallows a Circaen draught - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Swallowing raw bullets as you walked - Rosa Alcala "You & the Raw Bullets"

Envelop and swallow the universe - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Until the fear was a thin broth you could swallow - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"

In the light of the dark that swallowed me - A.H. Jerriod Avant "Who Can Govern Themselves Out of Governance?"

Learn how to swallow back oceans - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Strain at a gnat and swallow camels - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"

Of water that only swallows - Gabrielle Bates "Dear Birmingham"

The honey I swallow to soothe the vocal cords - Regie Cabico "Morning After the Election"

In solemn silence swallowed - Lewis Carroll "Melancholetta"

Swallowed by your doors - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"

A sea that might swallow the seraphim - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"

Too rich for one soul to swallow - May Chong "Catering"

Swallowed all those dictionary definitions - Lu Christófaro "I See You Too"

Swallowing so much love - Lucille Clifton "6/27/06"

Swallowing the veins of rivers - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Deeper into the swallow of its force - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

Swallowed by the gulf no plummet measures - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

That swallowed up the exile's tears - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

Swallowed up in Intuition - Edward Dowden "The Secret of the Universe: an Ode"

Swallowed some wild prophet's words - A.E. "Shadows and Lights"

Wind swallowing the ground - Carolyn Forche "The Place That Is Feared I Inhabit"

Swallowed up in leaves that blew away - Robert Frost "A Dream Pang"

Which will swallow your rattlesnake, scales and all - "The Game of Fate" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

Who swallowed a golden forest - Nikita Gill "After the Visit"

Created to swallow darkness - Nikita Gill "Dragon's Breath"

Swallowed with brilliant, glowing ambition - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"

As I swallow you whole - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Cage"

Medicine is bitter and hard to swallow - Han-Shan "[So Han-shan writes you these words]" transl. by Burton Watson

A phoenix of swallowed myths - Joy Harjo "Hieroglyphic"

Who swallows such a coal would burst into flames - Liz Henry "The Eclipse"

Less celestial with each swallow - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Midnight Special"

Swallowing the fires of hell - James Weldon Johnson "The Prodigal Son"

Things the earth cannot swallow - Fred L. Joiner "Consume/d"

Heard me swallow the impact - Janine Joseph "Circuitry"

Swallow each day like a stone - Donika Kelly "Commandments"

Toward a past swallowed by stone - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Might swallow two whales - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"

The thorn sea that has swallowed us - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

Let the witches swallow it all - Angela Liu "The witches are without work"

Swallowed up by thundering clouds - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Autumn"

The viper that swallows us living and whole - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

To swallow a mouthful of sorrow - Amy Lowell "La Ronde du Diable"

Having swallowed your irate hungers - Mina Loy "The Dead"

The desert refused to swallow - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Eugenia Harvest Tower"

Cannot swallow his complaints - Anthony Madrid "Maxims 2"

The urban sprawl swallowing her - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"

The sea that swallows our stories - Sally Wen Mao "The Toll of the Sea"

At the swallowing edge that dying opens - Farid Matuk "The Butcher's Fifth Quarter"

Corners small enough to swallow - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"

[In moon-swallowed shadows - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"]

Reason swallowed by dolphins - Maggie Nelson "Proposal"

We swallow the memory of wine and beer - Pablo Neruda "Men XI" transl. by William O'Daly

Memory is the light you swallow - Susan Nguyen "Letter to the Diaspora" p.14

Power that swallows your memories - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"

A man who has swallowed a cloud - Gregory Orr "From That Moment"

Swallow clay and sleeping sense - Walter S. Percy "Dust to Dust"

Swallow a key for every year - Xan Forest Phillips "Angola Penitentiary"

Ammut snapped up their hearts and swallowed - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"

Swallowing salted prayer drops - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"

Swallow a hole where sleep glints - Sina Queyras "I Am No Lady, Lazarus"

Quenched only if swallowed - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"

A distant murmuration swallowed from sight - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"

To swallow whole every holy thing - Jason Reynolds "Match"

Scattered our fears for the ocean to swallow - Teresa J. Scollon "New Year's Day, Winslow Beach, Maine"

Hated as a swallowed bait - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 129"

Let the static swallow me whole - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"

Whose scent swallowed all nightmares - Joyce Sidman "Lament for Teddy"

Our kin you swallowed - Danez Smith "dream where every black person is standing by the ocean"

From the fish swallowing the tiger - Richard Solomon "Dream Caused by the Fight of the Bumblebee"

One speck where the river swallows the sky - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson

Bones you cannot swallow - Mary Szybist "Withdrawal"

This universal solvent swallows every hill - Angela Narciso Torres "Self-Portrait as Water"

Swallows his lies without measure - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"

A black hole swallowing the stars - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Lamplight"

Swallows his own name - Emily van Kley "Upper Peninsula"

Keeps its shadow by swallowing it - Ocean Vuong "Into the Breach"

Grow by swallowing others - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"

Only swallow with my mind - Katie Willingham "Let's Hope Kepler-186F Is Barren"

Was told women must swallow sand - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"

The whale swallowed the sun - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

Never swallow a serpent's spine - Felicia Zamora "Dear Coyote"

Bitter words swallowed - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Grace"


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