Potential Titles: Talk

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This scar is how I talk to you - Raymond Antrobus "Closure"

Money is talking to itself again - Rae Armantrout "Money Talks"

I talk but always to a mirror - Mary Jo Bang "Intractable, and Irreversible"

Spiked with all the dirty talk a snail could want - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"

Their unearthly scattered talk - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

Streets where the wind talked to us - Diana Marie Delgado "They Chopped Down the Tree I Used to Lie Under and Count Stars With"

Finds the in betweens where frequencies talk over each other - Mark Dimaisip "Where Frequencies Talk Over" [Strange Horizons 10 Feb. 2025]

Who wouldn't talk to the birds - Chris Dombrowski "Poem with Several Keatsian References, Poem Burning Up in the Fire I Lit to Warm My Son, or Do as I Say Not as I Do"

Lip-read the heavens talking on in light, syllabic stars - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"

Talk of to-morrow's cowslips - Ebenezer Elliot "Spring"

One of your talking wounded - James Fenton "In Paris with You"

And the breakers talked with Death - J.T. Fields "The Captain's Daughter" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

In silken talk with wind - Zona Gale "A Meeting"

Idle talk's quintessences - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"

Talked our way home over starlit plains - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 4. Summer 1969"

Light imperious talk of water freed - Rosalie Dunlap Hickler "January Thaw"

A way to talk about raw force - Mary Hickman "Helen"

A scrap of talk on the road - Conrad Hilberry "Let It Be Night"

The risky enterprise of talking - Brenda Hillman "Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work"

With tongues that talk no more to me - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXXVIII"

When we talk about limits, we disappear - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

Once our skulls shut up their nasty talk - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

I know something about talking with ghosts - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Listened hours to the sea talk - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

Memory's talk is undoubtably true - Henry S. Leigh "See-Saw"

In their happy talk not joining - Lermontof "Dream" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Hand in hand, we stand without talking - Li Yung "Parting in Autumn" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

We never talked about the war - Mack W. Mani "Sanctuary"

The rushes talking in their dreams - Charlotte Mew "The Changeling"

And Weavers talk in unknown Phrases - "Mundus Foppensis" [PG lists 'Dubious author: John Evelyn"]

The world was filled with talking Martís - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong

Ignite dull talk to fables - Lola Ridge "Chinese Print (To E.A.K.)"

Talked in mellow day-ends - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"

Talking to a spread of white stars - Carl Sandburg "Shirt"

Whether love talks and roses grow - Carl Sandburg "To a Dead Man"

Clock talking to a clock - Charles Simic "The Wail"

Men in tailored suits talk about dimensions - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"

Couldn't talk about without slicing at each other - Keith Taylor "In Spite of Myself"

Aspens at the cross-roads talk - Edward Thomas "Aspens"

Talks me through dusk - Edwin Torres "E.G. as I.E."

Trailing talk behind each tiny summit of rock - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"

Another chance without talking - Edwin Torres "Under Venus's Hair"

our pillow talk of acceptance & cigarette ash - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "A Blues For Eunice Waymon"

And the narwhals wouldn't talk to her anymore - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Talked to spend desire - John Wieners "In Public"

Had their gin and tonic talks - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


Adverbs from the leaf-talk of the elves - Stephen Vincent Benet "Talk"


Mouths too busy for small talk but not for lies - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"


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