Potential Titles: Circle

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Dark red circles filled with dust - Harold Acton "Green grow the Rushes, O"

All circles must unquestioningly obey - Joan Aiken "Π in the Sky"

Germ of that which makes our circle whole - John Albee "Evolution"

At the bottom of the seventh circles of hell - Nada Almosa "Queer Arab Dictionary"

Each step circled into tight archways - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

Dogs from doomsday's third circle - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"

Driving out of a nine-circle hell - Mary Jo Bang "Magic Makes Everything Right"

Swing upon circles of darkness - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"

Ribbon turning to circles of stone - Max Bodenheim "The Operation"

One long circle of despairing grace - Maxwell Bodenheim "Rattlesnake Mountain Fable I"

Backing away in a trapped circle - Bruce Boston "Alien Quarry"

So we could inhabit a circle of power - Bruce Boston "Marble People"

Beneath their circles of low packed smoke - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"

Life's circles spread their limits wider - John Philip Bourke "At Parting"

Outside the circles of control - Ana Bozicevic "About a Fish"

To span the sun's broad circle - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

The circle of eternal change - William Cullen Bryant "The Evening Wind"

The cormorant wheeled in circles round - William Cullen Bryant "Rizpah"

As they circled and rattled near the monster - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

The circles of perishing suns - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

The four square circle of a ring - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"

Those who don't close the circle - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Patterns from circled & inverted forms - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"

A circle dance on the Sabbath - Krystyna Dąbrowska "White Chairs" transl. by Karen Kovacik

Whose orbit didn't circle straight - Meg Day "If You're Staying, I'll Stay Too"

And circle in the dark of his blood - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"

Want the perpetuity of circles - Gregory Djanikian "Children's Hospital, Emergency Room"

Firmness makes my circle just - John Donne "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

I walked in a circle in my mind - Camille T. Dungy "The Average Mother"

Beyond the Circle of its Sphere - "An Elegy Written Among the Ruins of an Abbey"

Circles of the stormy moon - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"

Lost in the circles and diamonds - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"

Till they enclose mighty circles - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Seven empty chairs form a circle - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

How small a circle my dream makes - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

A circle of queens chattering - Stefania Gomez "At the New York City AIDS Memorial"

Within a true circle of motion - Joy Harjo "Eagle Poem"

That one you circle back to - Joy Harjo "Redbird Love"

Around a sunken circle of laughter - Clemonce Heard "The United States of Montessori"

Wander the morning in circles - Michael Heffernan "Save Yourself"

Within the circle of his breath - George Herbert "Mortification"

A sky of starlings circle - Conrad Hilberry "A Body in Between"

Circled the serrated hills - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"

Deconstruction found the moving circle - Brenda Hillman "The Eighties"

May run time in a circle - K. Iver "Family of Origin Content Warning"

forked tongue out tasting his own aimless circles - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"

The circle of wolves blinking gold - Saeed Jones "Last Portrait as Boy"

coiled around perfect circles and golden rectangles - Jessica Langer "Chaos"

The universe we circled aiming jagged stones - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"

Prowl the air in circles and evasions - D.H. Lawrence "The Mosquito"

When the circle of cold contemplation's complete - Lermontof "How Weary! How Dreary!" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Caught in the Circle of Pain - Amy Levy "Felo de Se"

Spun deep blue circles over hills - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"

Spacious circles luminous with mind - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

The unsurpassable openness of the circle - Mina Loy "The Dead"

Circle through a crumbling hour - Edwin Markham "The Goblin Laugh"

And make the circle strong - Edwin Markham [Untitled]

And the planets circle to eclipse - John Masefield "The Haunted"

A degree in a circle inside a void - Khaled Mattawa "Season of Migration to the North/Northwest"

Vines and creepers circle the crumbling frame - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"

Star in circle his web waits - George Meredith "Seed-Time"

Snake with a circle of fire - W.S. Merwin "The Stranger"

The suffering circles - Elizabeth Metzger "Won Exit"

And the circle keeps closing - Gabriela Mistral "The Teller of Tales" (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)

Which penned in Proteus' wizard circle sleep - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."

That jarred wider as the circle ran - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

The circles of grief turn pale - Pablo Neruda "General Franco in Hell" translated by Richard Schaaf

Circles the swells until subsumed by salt - Caroline Harper New "The Bathtub"

Chased shadows in frantic, endless circles - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

In circles around this reversal - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"

A sacred labyrinth of circles - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

My compass taps out of bearing in circles - dg nanouk okpik "Anthropocene Years"

Might circle back as memory - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: Departure"

The mystic circles leap - John Oxenham "New Year's Day--And Every Day"

Within the dark circle of his demons - Linda Pastan "It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank"

Within the circle of his wide domain - Philo "The Tribute"

Watch a sparrow circle the glass ceiling - Paige Quinones "At the Museum"

The rim about the circle of nothingness - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 3: The Void"

A vacuum that time should circle - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 1: The Ray"

Within the circle of its radiance - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Reappear upon its foreseen circle - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

Snow wraiths circle us - Lola Ridge "The Foundling"

Breaks out of the shivered circle - Lola Ridge "In Harness"

Gold at the uttermost circles fading - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

The ages circle down beyond recalling - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Falling Leaves"

About their shadow-haunted circle clings - Rennell Rodd "On the Border Hills"

Through the stately circles of the skies - Alice Wellington Rollins "Expression"

Circle and loop and double-cross - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"

Your circle of creation now expand - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

The magic circle which the moon draws - Clark Ashton Smith "The Masque of Forsaken Gods"

Her broken circle to restore - Lyman C. Smith "Canada to Columbia"

Into a wood too wide to circle - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"

Swim backwards in circles of blood - Frank Stanford "Cotton You Lose in the Field"

Within the ancient circles of shapes - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"

Blues and greens framed in a circle of filigree - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"

And truth from truth full circle run - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XIV. The Flags"

Circle the tree's girdling roots - MaKshya Tolbert "Ways to Measure Trees"

Circle circling circle - David Trinidad "Ode to Dusty Springfield"

Forming a gesturing circle beneath the Moon - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

A distance we've traveled in circles - Ocean Vuong "Homewrecker"

The circle of one century - Derek Walcott "Storm Figure"

The fire roots that circle him - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"

That circles the brain with sense - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"

Divide the circle of events - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Into my circled light they came - Francis Brett Young "Moths"

Down through my circle of light - Francis Brett Young "Moths"


Cast a shadow circlewise - Theodore Dreiser "The Spring Recital"


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A rhythmically surging semicircle - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"


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