Potential Titles: Straw

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Straw sandals dancing lightly on the cobbles - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

The damp straw smell of darkness - Ellen Bass "Lighthouse"

Draw straws for mercy - Russell Brakefield "The Wraith in the Creek"

Trimmed with cinnamon straws - Charles E. Carryl "The Walloping Window-Blind"

In the straw of amazement - Leonard Cohen "Dimensions of Love"

But she only thatched it with straw - "The Fox and the Geese"

Fingers burning into straw, into gold - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

In a nest of straw and baling twine - Ted Kooser "Barn Owl"

A belt of straw and ivy buds - Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

Any straw will help a nest - George Meredith "The Three Singers to Young Blood"

Made of straws of night - Claire Millikin "After Ballet"

Sailing out of his house of straw - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"

Reach for yet another fistful of straw - Carl Phillips "The Steeper the Fall"

These workers of the golden straw - Theodore H. Rand "Marie Depure"

Our bones are hollow as a straw - Herbert Randall "White Gulls"

On his bed of straw and reeds - James Whitcomb Riley "Das Krist Kindel"

A wind of scattered straws - Frederick George Scott "Samson"

And taught King Lear how to wear a crown of straw - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Dealing with walls being built on straw - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 139: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A wisp of straw once coiled about their shoots - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"

Dribbles his honey in straw - Charles William Wallace "Browning"

Straw grey, frost grey - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"

Will ride the horses made of straw - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"


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