Potential Titles: Hurt

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An aging hurt gnawing at her heart - Lewis Alexander "Negro Woman" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

We can't heal or hurt alone - Diannely Antigua "I Buy My Monster Roses"

Built your bones out of air and hurt - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Teach us the hard-truths and hurt - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

Heart furling tight around new hurts - Lisa M. Bradley "The Skin Walker's Wife"

My hurt heart there on the breast of Infinity - Evelyn Gage Browne "Invocation to the Sky"

Her hurt was spindle to her love - Tyree Daye "'tween my gone people & me"

Counted all the ways love hurt me - Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz "Love Opened a Mortal Wound" (translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique)

Interrogating flashlight that hurts my eyes - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

The hurt of having to breathe - Toi Derricotte "For Telly the Fish"

The voices of these hurt women flowering - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"

Hurt my arms with their golden weight - Theodora Goss "The Princess and the Frog"

To see how hurt is made - Leah Naomi Green "Week Twelve: Taproot"

My fingers hurt from stroking the sun - Hao Guang Tse "to give the thing a name that belongs to something else"

Hurt where the moon should be - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for Wanda C."

And from the hurt in rainsong - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Sweet Distress"

Tiny fires with hurt earth spirits - Brenda Hillman "Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways"

With hurts not mine to mourn for - A.E. Housman "Last Poems II"

Only because it hurts to look - Jess Hyslop "After"

It hurts to unbutton his name from your skin - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"

Hurt with mortal thought - Galway Kinnell "The Road Between Here and There"

A dance to take away hurt in memory - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

Give me a lantern for my hurts - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Measure time using my growing hurt of loneliness - Akis Linardos "Inside This Egg, We Roll Together"

Their hurt seeps down into the dirt - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

And carve off each stain of the hurt - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Beast"

All the arts of hurting - Wilfred Owen "A Terre"

Tickled the hurt you kept company - G.E. Patterson "The Keeping Room"

Back when hurt was a feeling, still - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"

This pain breathing into any place that doesn't hurt - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

I will save myself even if it hurts - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

Nothing hurts like tenderness - James Whitcombe Riley "What Redress"

Hurt and salve combining - Rumi "The Reed Flute's Song" transl. by Coleman Barks

The vascular trauma of hurt in my blood - Prageeta Sharma "Lateral Violence"

Could shine above hurting - Patricia Smith "Listening at the Door"

Threaded with lightning and hurt - Patricia Smith "Voodoo VIII: Spiritual Cleansing & Blessing"

A hurt beast flinching at the light - Muriel Stuart "Andromeda Unfettered"

Hidden hurts that rise in dreams - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Stardust"


His heart unhurt by brooding woes - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"

Pass unhurt through every distant Age - William Combe "The First of April"

Unhurt by a thousand storms - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"


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