Potential Titles: Stroke

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The strokes of many twelves - A.Y. Campbell "Animula Vagula"

Sharp strokes fall piercing, unceasing, and true - Martha Walker Cook "Buried Alive" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]

Split bodies stroked bright - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"

Before the woodman's fatal stroke - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

Or paint with bleeding stroke - Max Eastman "Thought of Protagoras"

Stroke the disheveled stars - Katherine Edgren "Listen to the Trees"

The final stroke of everlasting light - Charles Ghigna "Early Evening"

Black strokes on a graph of broken glass - Marilyn Hacker "Morning News"

Parted by the stroke of a mighty rod - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"

My fingers hurt from stroking the sun - Hao Guang Tse "to give the thing a name that belongs to something else"

Gently stroke the surface of stars - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"

With a stroke the stars renewed their burning - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swallow"

Solar wind strokes the ice-wall into light - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

The common strokes of fortune shower - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

We catch but broken strokes - John Oxenham "God's Handwriting"

The stroke of hammers ring all day - Alexander Posey "Coyote"

Fate's sharpest stroke is kind - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems I"

A stroke of light in my consciousness - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

Strike and bear the stroke - Edward Thomas "February Afternoon"

Strokes of tocsin and assassin's knife - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Uses tears and exacting brush strokes - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu


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The shallow sound of cymbal-stroke - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"


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