Potential Titles: Nothing

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Knows nothing of the bat’s wings - Rasha Abdulhadi "little bat"

I go to your grave and find nothing - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

Think of adventurers chasing nothing - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"

Wanted to abduct nothing more valuable than our dreams - Duane Ackerson "Porch Lights"

When a prayer is nothing but the distance - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"

I am nothing to the vast world - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Nothing remains of the world I understood - Mike Allen "Space War"

Where nothing lasts past a moment's trends - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

And demand of all the thousand nothings - Matthew Arnold "The Buried Life"

Wore nothing but the moonlight - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Knew nothing of distance - James Baldwin "Confession"

To dare hope for nothing - James Baldwin "Death is easy (for Jefe)"

Nothing can your sinews brace - James Ballantine "A Golfing Song"

A mind that knows nothing of boundaries - Mary Jo Bang "Captivity"

Looking down at the nothing that's left - Mary Jo Bang "Everything that Was Is Now Owned"

Lying on the edge of nothing - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"

A train that stops for nothing - Mary Jo Bang "Hell"

A false wall that holds nothing back - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"

Disappearing like some relentless nothing - Mary Jo Bang "Provisional Doubt as an Architectural Space"

A domino sequence of nothing - Mary Jo Bang "Utopian Longing Becomes More Absurd"

Nothing to do with survival or instinct - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"

Nothing like our similes - Basho transl. by David Young

I am replica of nothing - Jan Beatty "Report from the Skinhouse"

Nothing but scarlet sand and brassy sky - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

Nothing to lose by touching down - Terry Blackhawk "Query"

Returning to the barren womb of nothing - Robert Blair "The Grave"

With nothing to deny the night - Richard Blanco "Somewhere to Paris"

Immersed in the task of holding nothing - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dear Minna"

Nothing else for pain to feast upon - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "Nunih Waiyah"

Cupid's got nothing on this mollusk congress - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"

Excludes nothing except why it was done - Paul Cameron Brown "Emptiness"

Full of nothing but snow - Sue Budin "I-96, Winter"

Nothing remains upon this barren core - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]

Agrees to ask for nothing - Lauren Camp "Original Hope"

Know nothing of forgiveness - Rafael Campo "California"

Knowing nothing of the bliss of sorrow borne - Edward Carpenter "Death"

Learned nothing from her kindness - Jennifer Chang "Lost Child"

Nothing to do with repetition - Jennifer Chang "The Winter's Wife"

Teach me a little bit of nothing - Chen Chen "The School of Night & Hyphens"

Categorizing and cataloging species of nothing - M.C. Childs "Snow Man"
Feed the snakes nothing - May Chong "Catering"

Nothing left but state and pride - Lady Mary Chudleigh "To the Ladies"

Tied fast to nothing - Henri Cole "Toxicology"

For nothing they intend to catch - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"

But nothing tames our taste - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Where nothing turns but dead sands - Hart Crane "Voyages V"

Nothing so flagless as this piracy - Hart Crane "Voyages V"

i have been sometimes true to Nothing - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"

incorruptible Nothing under the ample sun - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"

Though love be a day and life be nothing - E. E. Cummings "Songs (IV)"

Nothing more than a passing dream in his eternal sleep - Najwan Darwish "Near the Shrine of Saint Naum" transl. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Nothing blooms in the old field of maybe - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"

Proves nothing save my certainty - Meg Day "Elegy in Translation"

And the wind where nothing is - Walter de la Mare "The Mermaids"

Fly weightless as though nothing mattered - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"

Nothing ever breaks the ancient spell - Salomon de la Selva "Tropical Town"

Nothing to break or barter - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #1"

I know nothing of heaven - Chelsea Dingman "Snow Fugue"

Nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted - Chris Dombrowski "February Sidereal with Backyard Doe"

Nothing stronger than momentum - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Dangerous weather he witnessed but could do nothing to stop - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"

Wearing nothing but snakeskin boots - Ansel Elkins "Autobiography of Eve"

Nothing now that I've left the gates - Heid E. Erdich "Post-Barbarian"

Nothing brittle prevails - Eve L. Ewing "Shea Butter Manifesto"

Grows nothing but my thorn - Eleanor Farjeon "For Joan"

Nothing in particular by any other name - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"

And wait, impatiently, for nothing - Andrew Feld "Crying Uncle"

But nothing good descended - b ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"

Much noisier than nothing - Julie Fogliano "Fall, November 2"

Make of nothing bread enough - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 6"

Tired eyes that looked at nothing at all - John Freeman "The Chair"

Nothing gold can stay - Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"

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

With nothing holy to defend - James Galvin "Promises Are for Liars"

Nothing left of me but smoke - Deborah Garrison "On New Terms"

an eternity of nothing stirring - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

With nothing but the thirsty wind to chew - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Gorse"

One's close to nothing - C.S. Giscombe "Portland Parish/The Blue Mountains"

Nothing between the earth and the dark - Louise Gluck "Burning Leaves"

Maybe that's what nothing tastes like - Louise Gluck "Sunrise"

To which the stone is nothing - Linda Gregerson "The Chapel Doom"

This house has nothing to hide - Pamela Gross "The Hive"

May say nothing in shame of poets - Ivor Gurney "To the Poet Before Battle"

Half-hearted in nothing - Hadewijch of Brabant (translated by Columba Hart) "Triumph Hard-Won"

We shall have marched for nothing - Thomas Hardy "Men Who March Away"

The year we had nothing to lose - Joy Harjo "Grace"

Quite close to nothing - Leslie Harrison "[Summa mathematica]"

Watching the sky regret nothing - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

A place where nothing can die - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"

Nothing can need a lie - George Herbert "Courage"

Left nothing for the head of Holofernes - Mary Hickman "Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait"

Nothing with a rim of salt - Conrad Hilberry "Zero"

A zero pencilled on nothing - Conrad Hilberry "Zero"

One small silver nothing - Brenda Hillman "Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work"

Nothing quieted the crows - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Comply with nothing again - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"

Nothing can redeem Time - Edward Hirsch "Heinrich Heine"

Nothing changed but my mind - Cynthia Hogue "The Daughter"

Nothing to stop time - Susan Howe "Periscope"

An echo that answers to nothing - William D. Howells "Clement"

A certain amount of nothing - Langston Hughes "Same in Blues"

Nothing drifts in a tar pit - fahima ife "recrudescence"

Satan broke loose and nothing between - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Nothing remains between you and the sky - Mark Irwin "What did you do today? How Long will it last? Will you remember?"

Doing nothing with my exile of a life - Nazifa Islam "Stability Is a Feeling"

Leaving behind nothing but amber - Emily Jiang "Salamander Song"

To finish being nothing - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"

Nothing left but our shadows - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

Nothing behind us to burn - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

A narrow staircase leading upwards into nothing - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"

Orderly cupboards filled with nothing - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

Nothing there but green grass and sticks - Janet Kauffman "My Father Tells Me"

Unspoken because nothing makes a sound - Janet Kauffman "Stress Position"

The nothing it suspects we are - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"

Nothing between us but salt and breath - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Mermaid"

Ruined by nothing but my thoughts - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"

Gilded Nothings - Anne Killigrew "A Farewell to Worldly Joyes"

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

Nothing to breathe but air - Ben King "The Pessimist"

Nothing to weep but tears - Ben King "The Pessimist"

Builds a bulkhead 'twixt Despair and the Edge of Nothing - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Nothing but a street light - Jennifer L. Knox "Name That Tune"

With nothing to conceal - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

With nothing to reveal - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

Where everything and nothing fits - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

Had been nothing but flowers - Ted Kooser "The China Painters"

Possessing nothing but each other - Keetje Kuipers "The Rats"

My fingers working at nothing - Stephen Kuusisto "Letter to Borges from London"

The galaxy of night which leaves nothing - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

A doll that sleeps with nothing to touch the springs - Henry S. Leigh "A Child's Twilight"

Or how light changed nothing - Philip Levine "Photography 2"

The earth asks nothing - Philip Levine "The Secret"

An alert cat leaving nothing to chance - Philip Levine "A Theory of Prosody"

Leaving nothing to tell me who they are - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Nothing on this side of the quantum tunnel - Rebecca Lindenberg "The Splendid Body"

Held nothing but the empty dawn - Amy Lowell "Crepuscule du Matin"

Nothing she plants has roots long enough to hold - Tariq Luthun "The Summer My Cousin Went Missing"

Nothing a hoof could gallop from - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"

But the Moon she knew nothing - George MacDonald "The Wind and the Moon"

One cracked bowl holding absolutely nothing - Naomi Long Madgett "Packrat"

Nothing worse than wanting out - Randall Mann "Home"

Nothing but secondhand details - Randall Mann "September Elegies"

As though your desires mean nothing - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize

Might sail a million years in nothing - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

When you're done you have nothing in your hand - Donna Masini "My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire"

Nothing left but ideas we will never have - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

The crew making sure nothing goes awry - Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr. "Ice Magic"

Might be a metaphor for nothing - Erika Meitner "Jackhammering Limestone"

Nothing is real until it can be sold - W.S. Merwin "Journey"

Could be loved for what costs us nothing - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"

The skin touching nothing - Tyler Mills "Zinnias"

For you've nothing to do with our laws - "Monroe to Farragut" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

The sea has nothing to give - Marianne Moore "A Grave"

Nothing like a storm - Andrew Motion "The Ring"

Nothing but that goblet of roots - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Nothing but dreams of air - Pablo Neruda "Men XI" transl. by William O'Daly

A veil that has nothing behind it - E. Nesbit "The Will to Live"

Got nothing but leaky boats - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]

Spent my life on nothing - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]

Nothing like a doubt or qualm - "The Nine Holes of the Links of St. Andrews: I. The First or Bridge Hole"

That nothing but dreams comes true - Sarah Noble-Ives "On the Shining Way"

Double and nothing all at once - Naomi Shihab Nye "My Uncle's Favorite Coffee Shop"

Nothing big enough but freedom - Naomi Shihab Nye "Tiny Journalist Blues"

Whose highest kindness was to say nothing - Miller Oberman "Taharah"

Nothing left with which to venture - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"

The white and silky trumpet of nothing - Mary Oliver "At the Shore"

Took nothing with it except faith - Mary Oliver "Black Swallowtail"

Nothing but what sits in the mind - Mary Oliver "If the philosopher is right"

That nothing exists fierce or soft - Mary Oliver "If the philosopher is right"

A new nothing in the universe - Mary Oliver "Moccasin Flowers"

Nothing more pathetic than caution - Mary Oliver "Moments"

Know nothing about the sky - Mary Oliver "This Morning"

A storm out of nothing strikes - Paul Park "Ragnarok"

Nothing sweeter than sincerity - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"

Know nothing of east or west or love - Carl Phillips "Refrain"

The forest changes nothing - Carl Phillips "Soundtrack for a Frame of Winter"

Though leaves can know nothing - Carl Phillips "What They Did, Who They Did it With"

To dream so nothing occurs - Xan Forest Phillips "Black Heroism is Unskilled Labor"

A call to dream so nothing occurs - Xan Forest Phillips "Black Heroism is Unskilled Labor"

Time gives birth to nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The camp is time"

Possesses the perpetuity of nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"

To write their return to nothing from nothing - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Time"

All fluent in nothing - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

Carries a magic nothing can withstand - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Practice the want of nothing - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"

What is the odor of nothing - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"

A fact that is stated with nothing of malice - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

Nothing more than the night extended - Roger Reeves "Prayer to the Gods of the Night, II"

Into the blank, toward the nothing - Paisley Rekdal "Once"

Leaving nothing but the silence and the absence - Mark Rich "To Sleep"

Ask nothing of the spring - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Nothing buried or thrown away - Lola Ridge "Mother"

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

Nothing but lovely mistakes - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

The intense intoxication of nothing - Alberto Rios "We Dogs of a Thursday Off"

Laughs like nothing of his footprints - Carlos Manuel Rivera "Thanatos and Technophilia"

Nothing whole to take away - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

Memory a verb that melted to a nothing - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"

Growls at nothing but his own heartbeat - Mark Rudolph "Tarot Cards and UFOs"

Which is embraced by nothing - Rumi "Earthly Love and the Love Divine" transl. by R.A. Nicholson

The bundles of nothing that are our gift - Kay Ryan "The Material"

The double scrape of nothing - Kay Ryan "Nothing Getting Past"

Between twin immensities of nothing - Kay Ryan "Nothing Getting Past"

Nothing but waiting and watching the dust fall - David Salisbury "On Mars"

Brought nothing back but foam - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton

People so near nothing - Carl Sandburg "Anywhere and Everywhere People"

With nothing but the right pair of hands - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"

Penelope, who usurps and dishonors nothing - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

Nothing at all except Time which owns all things - Tobias Seamon "Halos"

Bodies like bells ringing through nothing - Alexandra Seidel "Kepler's Music"

Nature's bequest gives nothing - William Shakespeare "Sonnet IV"

Nothing left to discern - Charif Shanahan "Indeterminacy"

Clog my arteries with sweet nothings - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"

Nothing on our own - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Winter Bees"

knows nothing of the work that sets you free - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

The meek inherit nothing - Safiya Sinclair "Center of the World"

Born of nothing but salt-air - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

Walk vectors of sweet nothings - Bruce Smith "Ballad and Proposition"

she's got absolutely nothing to prove - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"

Nothing radical in being the enemy - Danez Smith "anti poetica"

Mesquites with nothing to lose - Analicia Sotelo "Eating the Moon in Cotulla, TX"

Nothing is more permanent than the temporary - A.E. Stallings "After a Greek Proverb"

Hears nothing but the white vowels of the wind - A.E. Stallings "Epic Simile"

Nothing in your pockets but your fists - A.E. Stallings "Failure"

A lamp that shone on nothing - Frank Stanford "Embark"

In the place where nothing stirs - James Stephens "The Goat Paths"

Crouching down where nothing stirs - James Stephens "The Goat Paths"

Garnered nothing but a dream or two - Arthur Stringer "The Man of Dreams"

While the sun is nothing but a foe - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 165: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Eavesdropping on fate or furious nothing - Sonya Taaffe "Radio Banquo"

But zero gravity condenses nothing - Gretchen Tessmer "A Jar of Condensed Milk"

Nothing but the wild rain - Edward Thomas "Rain"

The silent air is thinking of nothing - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VII. Ripples"

A savant of nothing - Chris Tonelli "from "A Test of Company""

nothing waiting to start again - Edwin Torres "In Each Look Our Years"

challenge my something with surrounding nothing - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"

Nothing spoke my language of smoke - Paul Tran "Hypothesis"

Nothing but my memory intact - Natasha Trethewey "Carpenter Bee"

And see nothing but dark - Natasha Trethewey "Saturday Drive"

Gone where nothing joins - Jean Valentine "They lead me"

Nothing could touch the little soul of the grain - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

All of this is nothing to the night - Mark Van Doren "Possession"

Thunder, low and far, remembering nothing - Mark Van Doren "Travelling Storm"

But offered nothing to anyone - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

Nothing to understand in hunger - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament XI"

The stars themselves did nothing - Derek Walcott "Steam"

Anger that nothing assuages - William Watson "England to Ireland"

Just faction politics, and nothing more - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"

Building joy from absolutely nothing - L. Ash Williams "Red Wine Spills"

Out of the nothing beyond the lake - William Carlos Williams "April"

Nothing about gravity - Katie Willingham "The Golden Record"

Nothing like the stillness - Katie Willingham "The Golden Record"

Knows nothing of savoring - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"

A thin sun warms nothing - Valerie Worth "Sparrows and Pigeons"

Where nothing is visible but light - Charles Wright "L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle"

And one slips into wanting nothing more - Charles Wright "In Praise of What Is Missing"

Death is the mother of nothing - Charles Wright "Twilight of the Dogs"

Nothing there of falsehood - Jay Wright "[Song into holiness]"

To the place where nothing shines - Lynn Xu "Earth Light: I"

knit a linked network of nothing - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"

Nothing here tall enough to pretend to reach - Kevin Young "Dog Star"

Sounding nothing like water - Jordan Zandi "River"

Of light awaiting nothing - Matthew Zapruder "As I Cross the Heliopause at Midnight, I Think of My Mission"

Otherwise known as nothing - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

The wildness that fears nothing - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

Full of nothing but laughter - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"


Nothingness.


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