Potential Titles: Bark (tree)

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The bark peeled from a memory - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

with rough of bark to blossom - Elizabeth Bartlett "challenge"

Their barks are host to a protean foxfire - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

Behind the black bark of the moon - Jennifer Foerster "from 'Shadow Poems'"

Stitched us a new bark throat - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

The sweet of bitter bark and burning clove - Robert Frost "To Earthward"

Taking protective colouring from bole and bark - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"

Married to the asylum of pine and bark - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

Tumbled sands and shattered bark - Zilka Joseph "The Angels of Konkan"

In a hermit coat of bark - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The hard oracular orifices of tree bark - Aditi Machada "Rhapsody"

Or warm brown of tree bark - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"

From under a thumb of bark - Mary Oliver "West Wind 10"

paper from the inner bark of sandalwood - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

Confined within cells of bark & wood - Kiki Petrosino "The Spell"

Tearing the calluses of bark from our wounds - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"

Whose skin resembles the bark of an ancient oak - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"

This dense huddle of gentle bark and quiet drape - Ellen Rowland "What Branches Hold"

To consider the aftertaste of bark - Deborah Ruddell "The Woodpecker"

Mulberry bark that was beaten enough to braid - Terisa Siagatonu "Praise Poem in the Key of Diaspora"

Find a name scrawled in the bark - Susan Stewart "Poem from Holderlin"

Tallow ripple cleaving the bark - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"

My voice of leaves and varicolored bark - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"


A geography of peeled sunlight and cedar bark - Julia Bouwsma "The Tray of Spades"

Soft genealogy of birch bark and fiddleheads - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Green-barked yew supports the sky - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer

The tragic ring-barked forests - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"


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