Potential Titles: Became/Become

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When desire becomes a fugitive - Hanif Abdurraqib "The Prestige"

Became greater and greater strangers to themselves - Duane Ackerson "Exiling the Earth"

Becomes millions, billions of miniscule glass boxes - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"

Becoming thinner than dust - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"

And time will become its bride - Etel Adnan "Night"

Their seeds will become the roots - Francisco X. Alarcon "Ancestors of Tomorrow"

The mighty mountains become music - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"

Has become attentive to silence - Daisy Aldan "He Has Entered Midnight"

Mineralizing scars into my becoming - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"

Names become the first steppings into ruin - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"

Became sharp flame to Shelley listening - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"

repeat a happy song until it becomes a blade - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

Our artifacts have become relics - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Becoming infinite abyss extended to wish - Mary Jo Bang "The Medicinal Cotton Clouds Come Down to Cover Them"

The unsaid becoming a picture - Mary Jo Bang "Rude Mechanicals"

A cloud on its way to becoming amnesia - Mary Jo Bang "The Transformation Anxiety Dream"

Old anger waiting to become newer - Jason Bayani "Someday, Again"

Before they became wayweeds - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"

Became a stir among corruption - Stephen Vincent Benet "Blood Brothers"

And every tree became an elf - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"

Became magnificence for my hour - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Granite and steel upflung became my fountains - William Rose Benét "The City"

One part of me would become a ghost - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"

And become more intimate with its star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Lux"

To become graceful and indiscreet - Maxwell Bodenheim "Feminine Talk"

When the days became deceptive - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 2: How not to drown in desire"

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

Become manifest in abandoned bedrooms or kitchens - Bruce Boston "Ghost People"

Becomes the prism of fracture - Julia Bouwsma "Interview with the Dead"

That's when they both became mirror - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"

Becomes a herald swift beyond belief - Louise Morey Bowman "Grapes"

The earth and silt our names become - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"

And the ox becomes delirious - C.S. Calverley "Lines on Hearing the Organ"

Each thought becomes a harmony - Giosue Carducci "Sun and Love" transl. by Frank Sewall

But what has become of Caesar's gold? - Willa Cather "The Palatine (In the 'Dark Ages')"

Who are becoming their own storms - Chen Chen "When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities"

Your ghost becomes a thumbprint for history - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"

When Walt's celebratory song becomes a post-apocalyptic dirge - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [Walt Whitman]

will become her own ghost - Lucille Clifton "incantation"

So wilderness never becomes mythology - CAConrad "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return"

When quaking became zeal - CAConrad "Sharking of the Birdcage"

The sun devoured them, and they became the light - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Night has become a temple for my tears - Olive Custance "Grief"

All memory becomes the fiction of survival - Kwame Dawes "Steel"

I've become a vine with tangled roots - Diane DeCillis "Dreams of My Father"

How time and space can become infinitesimal - Diane DeCillis "Physics for Dummies"

Become beaming and undone - Kendra DeColo "Playlist: 11 Weeks"

And become marigolds for the dead - Diana Marie Delgado "Where I Drown"

When frosts too sharp became - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity LIV: Charlotte Bronte's Grave"

Becomes confetti circling in a paperweight - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

The floor becomes air - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Beauty's Daydream"

Trying hard to become sense - Cornelius Eady "Charles Stuart in the Hospital"

before shame became my native tongue - Safia Elhillo "Transport"

Becoming involved in her laughter - T.S. Eliot "Hysteria"

Watched you become shadowless - Claudia Emerson "Pitching Horseshoes"

Becoming poet by osmosis - Heid E. Erdich "Young Poets with Roman Noses"

For they become the river - Martin Espada "Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: The Paterson Silk Strike, 1913: V. Vivas to Those Who Have Failed"

Shopping has become my good-night kiss - Maggie Farren "Palms"

Cross streets become strangers - Maggie Farren "Palms"

We became our own vaccine - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

We became legions of cold compassion - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

Once sawdust becomes my sea - Nick Flynn "Alcoholism"

As you become air - Nick Flynn "The Washing of the Body"

A spell for becoming untraceable - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen B"

Where wind becomes an aria - Carolyn Forche "Elegy"

Became our difficult breath - Carolyn Forche "The Recording Angel"

The past becomes a broken altar-stone - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Every stone becomes a church - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Post-Apocalypse Postcard with Love Note"

Wind becomes spirit becomes ghost - John Gallaher "My Life in Brutalist Architecture #1"

Find that you've become a forest - Nikita Gill "The Forest"

Love when it becomes a chore - Nikita Gill "House of Hyperion, Titan of Light"

A smog that becomes a wraith - Carmen Gimenez "Post-Identity"

Became a saint's reptilian spirit - Carmen Gimenez "Post-Identity"

Became the hunger that they fed - Dana Gioia "The Angel with the Broken Wing"

And my heart became the steed - Louise Gluck "An Adventure"

Survive by becoming imaginary - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"

Became dry white rectangles of moonlight - Louise Gluck "A Summer Garden"

Watching neighbors become stars - Golden "& When They Come for Me (Reprise)"

Where every move becomes a function of light - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Becoming excessively noon - Richard Greenfield "Hither Come Hither"

Became a factory of sighs - Kimberly Grey "A Reconstruction of Memory"

Hoping to become more alive - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"

I am trying to become illegible - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

Often the right way becomes unavailable - Mark Halliday "Hoops with Nets"

Without winds becoming words - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"

Unless this light becomes a bayonet of sound - Joy Harjo "Mercy"

Outflamed the flame he was becoming - Yona Harvey "Boy in the Forest Between Living and Leaving"

Became his people's anger - Robert Hayden "El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz"

Became instinct with fire - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Aspire to become the hypotenuse - Conrad Hilberry "Wise Man"

Each soul becomes a fount of sweet content - Jennie Earngey Hill "Heartbloom"

Become our separate selves - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"

Stone did not become apple - Jane Hirshfield "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me"

Before he became a saint - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"

How you became ashes - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"

Became to me a passion and a dream - Mrs. E.N. Horsford "The Deformed Artist" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Death becomes an empty cabaret - Langston Hughes "Sport"

Weeds have become our asphodel - Maurice Hutton, LL.D. "Introduction [to Wayside Poems by William Hodgson Ellis]"

Until their music becomes cosmic - fahima ife "porous aftermath"

First, he became the bones of wistful memory - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Song of here becoming there - David Jauss "Never"

the bitter tang of the dream he'll become - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"

When I step outside I become fire - Sara Eliza Johnson "Combustion"

Before becoming music - Taylor Johnson "Derrida/Coleman"

become a fiery tongue to scorch the earth - Camisha L. Jones "Intercession"

When the air becomes crowded with want - Saeed Jones "Kudzu"

Through the darkness with his own becoming light - June Jordan "July 4, 1974"

The stranger I should have become - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Must become the action of my fate - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

Must become a menace to my enemies - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

An elastic sense of being and becoming - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"

The fire the possible becomes - A.M. Juster "The impossible in which I believe"

Some became pillars of salt - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"

The shingled hippo becomes the gray unicorn - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

When the chase becomes extended - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

And especially when it becomes routine - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Until the proof becomes accepted - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Becomes all one vast remembering - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

How absence unfathomable becomes something I can carry - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

And the past has become a new world - Ted Kooser "Tectonics"

Become my own myth - Maxine Kumin "Male Privilege"

A complex invitation to become the future - Linette Lao "Becoming"

Now becomes a seed for history - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"

Before the sky became hell's house - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

Geese in flight become the Wild Hunt - Stephen Leggett "So Happy to Have a Coat with Pockets"

By men becoming myths - Philip Levine "And That Night Clifford Died"

Their usefulness became legend - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"

Becomes colder than water - J. Patrick Lewis "The Arctic and Antarctica: Which Is Colder"

Becoming her own wild whisper - Ada Limon "The Widening Road"

This mask I've worn too long has become my face - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"

Where I become more than steam - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Not a place to become yesterday - Tariq Luthun "I Go to the Backyard to Pick Mint Leaves for My Mother"

When our skies become bright - E.G. Mallery "The Invitation"

my mother becomes unbreakable angles - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"

Becomes a mist between the spheres - Don Marquis "The Awakening"

The golden birds became a fire - John Masefield "Fragments"

The temptation to become ash - Jamaal May "FBI Questioning During the 2009 Presidential Inauguration"

When old eternity becomes mossy and gray - James E. McGirt "True Love"

Becomes a small raft of fire - Michael McGriff "Men Keep on Dying"

Knowing forces it to become true - Rachel McKibbens "Mentor"

Thus the world to might becomes the dower - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

In some rich year become a dream - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

The edge of a silence about to become - M.S. Merwin "Walkers"

All my heart became a tear - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

All my soul became a tower - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

Until your breath becomes holy smoke - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"

Sometimes the bearer becomes the bad news - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"

Become something unbreakable - John Murillo "Poem Ending and Beginning on Lines by Larry Levis"

The acrobat I dreamt of becoming - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"

because their heritage became carbon - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

Ships became proliferating ciphers - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Became flour and sand - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

By the time we became birds - Mari Ness "Tongueless"

The wind becomes a palimpsest - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"

When the meandering became too strong - Hoa Nguyen "Oxbow Lake"

We become lost in the forgetting - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

Where voices become bones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl"

You might become any burned house - Christina Olivares "Portrait"

Moving tokens of becoming's task - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Verb"

Becomes the texture of the wind - Sodïq Oyèkànmí "Stream of Dreams Where My Mouth Asks Not Be Blood-Light"

I've become too busy for such nonsense - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"

Despise what you've become - Angela Penaredondo "to hold these contradictions in kinship"

My affections refused to become tender - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

Promises kept becoming apologies - Carl Phillips "Career"

Your absence became religion - Xan Forest Phillips "Elmina Castle"

Become my hill and stream companion - Po-Chu-i "Going to the Mountains with a Little Dancing Girl, Aged Fifteen" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Where the whole body becomes a drum - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"

Will become the prey of years - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"

In time may become a respectable frog - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Until his sorrow became his action - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"

Until his tears became a rupture - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"

Became the germ of a crimson storm - Melissa Range "Kermes Red"

Since I've become John Doe - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [The self is a thousand localities]"

When the world becomes blur of smoke & storm - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"

Became apples for vultures - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"

Everything becomes a protest against darkness - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"

A handshake that becomes a squeezing contest - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

A shout that would later become a song - Alberto Rios "To Mars from Arizona"

The mirror becoming stranger - Lee Ann Roripaugh "#to my mother's dementia #kaze no denwa"

Becoming again an opaque stone - Rumi "New Moon, Hilal" transl. by Coleman Barks

become a mob in neon shouting - C.T. Salazar "River"

I shall become a collector of me - Sonia Sanchez "Wounded in the House of a Friend: Set No. 1"

Mortal gray becomes the indigo of tides - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"

Became a wound in my particles - Prageeta Sharma "Lateral Violence"

Even your limbs become invention - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"

The unsettling space inside became embedded in your core - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]

their glee becomes sparkles in raindrops - Alexander Te Pohe "Luna"

I am become a name - Alfred Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"

Before the wolf becomes invisible - Russell Thorburn "Tracking the Wolf"

What hands you become - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa"

Listening to ice become water - TC Tolbert "felo-de-se-- Melissa"

Became an ocean for a country of smaller oceans - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"

A rose finished with the business of becoming - Emma Trelles "Night of Telescopes"

Anything that common will become invisible - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Until it becomes my own dim map - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"

Became greedy in a world of plenty - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"

Becoming a wind myself - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

To transcend becoming strange - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"

And the bird becomes a thought - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"

And the thought becomes a dream - William Watson "The Raven's Shadow"

every second I become something new - M. Darusha Wehm "The Chrononaut"

The whole world became my garden - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Even become dust - William Carlos Williams "K. McB."

Drink what they offer you and become it - Michelle Wirth "Campus"

The past becomes such a mirror - Charles Wright "On the Night of the First Snow, Thinking About Tennessee"

Turn around and become ash bone - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"

Where everything is or becomes a ghost - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

So what becomes past cannot breed - Jenny Xie "Lunar New Year, 1988"

Music become wind tunnel - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

Nowhere becomes my destination - Jane Yolen "A Long Walk to Nowhere"

in the trellised garden you are becoming - Monica Youn "Self-Portrait in a Wire Jacket"

A triad now become a square - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks: V. A Game of Chess"

Truth becomes a tasty bait - Zheng Min "Student" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung


Deepest tunnel of unbecoming - Niki Herd "The Stuff of Hollywood"


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