Potential Titles: Eat/Ate

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Ate everything with my monster eye - Wo Chan "Such As"

Ate hunger for breakfast - Cheryl Dumesnil "Melodrama of the Suburban Kindergartener"

And unsuspected moth and rust ate deep - Lydia Gibson "Lost Treasure"

Ate leaves until your jaw ached with ash - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Ate kings' bread in days of yore - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Dead Favourites"

And ate their tiny hearts at lunch - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

Ate breakfast in the wreckage - Pablo Neruda "Disasters" transl. by William O'Daly

Ate dynamite with a spoon - Edwin C. Ranck "Now There's a Coon in the Moon"

Ate and drank liberation - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Ate the bones of her enemies - Erika L. Sanchez "All of Us"

Ate scorpions with your naked fingers - Erika L. Sanchez "Six Months after Contemplating Suicide"


Eaten by snakes and crocodiles - Rasha Abdulhadi "Young Adult Catalogue"

As if eating were a thousand and one nights - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"

The soul half eaten out with solitude - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Eaten from the inside and about to fall - Mike Allen "The Journey fo Kailash"

Eating raw fruit in a field of mustard - Zaina Alsous "A Non-Euclidean View of Backwards as a Warm Place to Be"

A smile that eats the mouth - Zaina Alsous "On Longing"

While eating wood-grown fruits - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.V--To a Wild Flower"

Woe to the wolf that eats not flesh - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Eat cod liver oil and oatmeal - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"

Tunnels eat men like penance - Samiya Bashir "John Henry crosses the threshold--"

Endures the sun by eating it - Dan Beachy-Quick "Onta"

The rats are eating the thrones of power - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Call me an eater of butterflies - Tommye Blount "The Bug Chaser"

And wait all winter to eat - Jericho Brown "Cain"

Two black cats and a beaver who eats carrots all day - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"

Like eating a secret - Jennifer Chang "We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once"

And the birds had bread to eat - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

That had eaten the abbey's fruits - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"

I have eaten all your names - Ama Codjoe "My Nothings"

Eaten all your names - Ama Codjoe "My Nothings"

The stars eat your body - Leonard Cohen "Lady Midnight"

Eat from every plant except for the bitter one - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Or is the truth bitter as eaten fire? - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

The unkempt gardenias eating the windows - Tyree Daye "Controlled Burning/A Love Poem for the Hill"

The only fruit the dead can eat - Tyree Daye "what the angels eat"

Not even bees can eat hope - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Eating roses sprinkled with lime - Diana Marie Delgado "They Chopped Down the Tree I Used to Lie Under and Count Stars With"

The food your hearts shall eat - Mary Mapes Dodge "The Moral"

The red sun eats the bungalows - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"

Making Melville eat his whale - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Drink only the milk and eat pearls - Carol Frost "Song of the City at Night"

Eating nothing but radishes and lime leaf tea - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Rapunzel: I Like the Quiet"

From eating of forbidden fruit - Theodosia Garrison "The Three Ghosts"

Scolding the mice for eating sugar - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Sons"

A few bits of bread for the pigeons to eat - Mona Gould "The Old Lady and the Cat!"

Has bloomed enough for us to eat - Kimberly Grey "Conjugating"

Eating of the last sweet bite - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"

I am here as one hungry to eat - Linda Hogan "Home in the Woods"

The sick hart eats a snake - Barten Holyday "Distiches"

To see us eat of death - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: Song for the Night of Christ's Resurrection"

A mouse who gets eaten every night - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"

Like sea waves eating a coastline - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"

Something my enemies can't eat - Taylor Johnson "Menace to"

The common moth that eats on wits and arts - Ben Jonson "To Himself"

If you eat what is offered - Janet Kauffman "Interrogation"

Everyone who didn't eat breakfast - Leah Kindler "Why I Write Poetry"

Eating the wallpaper's yellow - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Nothing to eat but food - Ben King "The Pessimist"

Not even bees can eat hope - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Eating nails for breakfast - Virginia Konchan "Ubi Sunt"

Go ahead, partake of the garden, and eat of it - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"

But dust that the serpents eat - Andrew Lang "The Bridge of Death"

The proper way to eat a fig - D.H. Lawrence "Figs"

Yielding scarce enough to eat - Henry Lawson "Faces in the Street"

The best day to eat a meal of sincerity - Ada Limon "Farmers' Almanac"

Makes you hallucinate the food you are eating - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"

What is it like to eat an idea or its suggestion? - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"

The wolf has not yet eaten the sun - Marissa Lingen "The Plural of Apocalypse"

Better to leave them for the silverfish to eat - Lu Yu "Harp Song--To Send to Chi-ch'ang Shao-ch'ing" transl. by Burton Watson

With beaks of vultures eating at his side - John Masefield "Animula"

You've eaten your saints - Donna Masini "Anxieties"

Eater of sun murdered planets - Louise Mathias "What If the Invader Is Beautiful"

To eat rocks like fruit - Brandy Nalani McDougall "Resist"

Years by the locust eaten - Louis J. McQuilland "Romance at Rest"

It eats the hunger and the mouth - Elizabeth Metzger "Control Feast"

Her plowshare eaten up with rust - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

The petals of dead planets eaten - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

The iron spoon that eats the earth - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly

To eat his fill of heaven - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid

Grow old bones to eat pain - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"

Does memory eat the body? - Susan Nguyen "Letter to the Diaspora" p.14

eating up the neighborhood like a june bug - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"

The ten thousand travelers eating breakfast - Naomi Shihab Nye "What's Here"

Eating orchids for lunch - Frank O'Hara "To the Film Industry in Crisis"

The lettuce has grown too bitter to eat - January Gill O'Neil "Sunday"

leaves elevated to eat blue light - Shailja Patel "Solstice Re-pot"

A fetish for being eaten alive and whole - Carl Phillips "On Mistaking the Sound of Spurs for Bells Approaching"

Time that eats its children - Robert Pinsky "Newspaper"

Eating the corpses of your memories - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"

Could eat in our silence - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"

The yawning darkness eating all sense - Mark Rich "To Sleep"

Eat an invisible food - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"

Snow and the winds that eat into the bone - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"

A torn fig eaten straight from the tree - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"

Goes down to eat ashes - Carl Sandburg "At the Gates of Tombs"

By eating stolen bread her living gets - Friedrich Schiller "The Parallel"

My heart eaten out with sorrow - Taras Shevchenko "A Dream" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Eat your triumphs, eat your mistakes - Joyce Sidman "Night-Spider's Advice"

Eats razors for breakfast - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Prepares to Feed a Cannibal in a Dark Alley"

Eating the dead blue sky - Clark Ashton Smith "Finis"

Grow ulcers from eating loneliness - Evan Gill Smith "The Cow Speaks to the Child"

The land the wall wants to eat - Brandon Som "Resistors"

The metal Time's acid eats not - George Sterling "What Porridge Had John Keats?"

To eat the bread of strife - "Sticheron Idiomelon" transl. by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

The little snakes that eat my heart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

The angel's giving her a little piece of honeycomb to eat - Mary Szybist "Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle"

Count on summer evenings the apples he will eat - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: IX. The Sands"

Eating olives as the sun goes down - Chase Twichell "Never"

Can eat all the stars and gas giants - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

A snake that eats her tail and means eternity - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

No doubt the trees eat light - Emily van Kley "Fall Color"

My heart was eaten by corroding rust - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours V" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Eat a crown of lead - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Malinche"

Eaten by teeth of flame - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

And eat the air of the place - William Carlos Williams "History"

How motionless the eaten moon - William Carlos Williams "To a Solitary Disciple"

When foxes eat the last gold grape - Elinor Wylie "Escape"

Eating only the past - Jenny Xie "Corfu"

Leaves us to eat with our eyes - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 9" transl. by Katherine Silver


A look they share with the acid-eater - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"

Gather the chin hairs of a man-eating goat - A.E. Stallings "Fairy-tale Logic"

The night's moth-eaten sleeve - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

Descended from truth-eaters - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2007: HoodWitches"

Togas of worm-eaten mud - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid


Look back and see the uneaten banquet - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Withering on their stalks uneaten - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

To curdle dawns uneaten skin - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"


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