Potential Titles: Smoke

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Flattened by metal swollen smoke - Elmaz Abinader "This House My Bones"

Rising on phoenix limbs from black smoke - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"

Black leaves and smoke - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

Each corner exhaling the smoke of decisions - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

That speak of history in ghosts and smoke - Ryu Ando "The Oblique Light at Kakushima (A Memory of Persimmons)" [Strange Horizons 24 Feb. 2025]

Disappear into smoke and laughter - Raymond Antrobus "The Perseverance"

Always the strange order of smoke - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

Slow as black smoke - Tommy Archuleta "Remedio: Ocotillo (Candlewood)"

questions within the black smoke - Jarid Arraes "Movement"

Sliding along a smoking opal ladder - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"

And blow away the smoke of fear - Elizabeth Bartlett "Insomnia in the City"

Smoke climbing the sky's cup - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

A fog that came like bitter smoke - Stephen Vincent Benet "Three Days' Ride"

The smoke in graceful volumes soars away - Park Benjamin "Evening" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.1, Jan. 1842]

Smoke across the dazzle of the sand - Stella Benson "The Inevitable"

Put on a shawl of smoke and haze - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"

An open wound weeping smoke - Richard Blanco "Winter of the Volcanoes: Guatemala"

Through the sear of smoky coal and burnt hair - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"

Messages in a grammar of smoke - Jaswinder Bolina "Body in a Phone Booth"

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

To-day is written in curling smoke - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"

Falling through the broken smoke of a fireman's net - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

With the smoke of your fierce exultations - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Spitting white ash smoke - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"

With skin and ink, blood and smoke - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"

Thunder to smoke and choke the sun - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

One turret of smoke like ivory - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

Whittled down to smoke and doubt - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"

Still waste in helpless flame and barren smoke - William Cory "Asterope"

As your smoke compiles a too well known biography - Hart Crane "Passage"

The year broken into smoky panels - Hart Crane "Pastorale"

Turning on smoked forking spires - Hart Crane "Possessions"

With scalding unguents spread and smoking darts - Hart Crane "Repose of Rivers"

Clouded by smoke and desire - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"

In smoke of battle lost - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"

Smoke clears from her smile - Geffrey Davis "What We Set in Motion"

Lift enough smoke to reach you - Tyree Daye "No Ghost Abandoned"

The smoke now builds a stair - Charles de Kay "Dawn in the City" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Dec. 1878]

The Devil, disguised as smoke - Diana Marie Delgado "Before the Moon Tangles Your Hair"

A pillared wreath of smoke by day - Delta "The Covenanters' Night-Hymn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCC, v.LXV, Feb. 1849]

Long tendrils of tobacco smoke - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

The ruler of the underworld smokes cigars - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

A soldier is smoke waiting for wind - Rita Dove "Alfonzo Prepares to Go Over the Top"

Amidst the black and rolling smoke of sin - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

In a space without smoke - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"

The smoky candle end of time - T.S. Eliot "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar"

The burnt-out ends of smoky days - T.S. Eliot "Preludes"

That once spoke the tongue of smoke - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"

Fountain of smoke - Martin Espada "Not Here"

This is why I speak smoke - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"

Following a pillar of smoke - Nava EtShalom "Charisma"

Palaces o'erspread with smoke lie waste - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull

We drove toward a cloud of smoke - Blas Falconer "Use Your Words"

A cloud of smoke that rose above the city - Blas Falconer "Use Your Words"

Wildfire and smoky patches draw our rage - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

Paint her border with a smoke's thread - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Painter"

With a smoke's thread - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Painter"

Beasts that live on smoke - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 5"

A field of smoke to sow - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 16"

The children of thunder, red smoke and shells - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen A"

A massless eddy in a trail of smoke - John M. Ford "Sonnet: Against Etropy"

Nearly smothered with heat and with smoke - "The Fox and the Geese"

A whirl of flame-stabbed smoke - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"

From the smoke rise the flame's snake-eyes - John Freeman "The Chair"

Saturn's little ring of smoke - Denice Frohman "Shooting in the Dark"

And the sun shrunken yellow in smoke - Robert Frost "The Gum-Gatherer"

With atrocity's own smoke - James Galvin "Fire Season"

Nothing left of me but smoke - Deborah Garrison "On New Terms"

Savor the smoke of that sinister century - Dana Gioia "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"

In the smoky canyons of Manhattan - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"

The smoky lamps of our desire - Louis Golding "Cold Stars"

Ropes of smoke that braid into a weather - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Down dirty streets in stench and smoke - Robert Graves "Oh, and Oh!"

Blind with wood smoke - Winnie Lewis Gravitt "Sippokni Sia"

Flares in the mind and leaves a smoky mark of dread - Thom Gunn "The Annihilation of Nothing"

The cough of the myriad smoker - francine j. harris "The neighbor's buddy watching my screen through the window"

The smokes of outlawed coasts - Robert Hass "Tomas Transtromer: Song"

Smoke thinned to song - Terrance Hayes "The Golden Shovel"

Address the sky with smoke - Ava Leavell Haymon "Festival of Lights"

An abyss smoked & metal flat - Juan Felipe Herrera "María de la Luz Knows How to Walk"

Breed Her anger with our smoke - Faylita Hicks "Kaleidoscope Cracked Wide Open on Fifth and Trinity"

Like an urgent twist of smoke - Conrad Hilberry "Loping Road"

Breathe the smoke of our distraction - Tony Hoagland "No Thank You"

One part water and three parts smoke - Florence Hoatson "Jerry"

In their fissure of smoking heath - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

As smoke from the roof of a world on fire - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

This smoke of thought blow clean away - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLIII: The Immortal Part"

Flame wind, ember wind, wind of moonlit smoke - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"

Kitchen smoke and calm night air - Ashley M. Jones "Harriette Winslow and Aunt Rachel Clean Collard Greens on Prime Time Television"

Letting reason go up in smoke - Camisha L. Jones "Accommodation"

Squinting away the cigarette smoke - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"

Then vanished in puffs of luminous smoke - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

In the freezerspill of smoky Arctic starlight - Mary Karr "Metaphysique du Mal"

Too soon the sun had died in amber smoke - Joseph E. Kellerman "the phantoms" [Futuria Fantasia, v.1, no.4, spring 1940]

A harsh gigantic growth of smoke and fires - Henry Kendall "A Death in the Bush"

Smoke threads the afternoon - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

Not even smoke or ashes - Faye Kicknosway "And He Did Not Know Her"

Smoke screens of oratory - Kim Unsong "Expand Territory"

Let the fire crackle and smoke hum for hours - Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa "The Wicked Lady"

Too young to remember the smoking gun - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"

To find my own in letters like smoke - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"

And breathe the drifting smoke of memory - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

My birthday went up in smoke in a fire at City Hall - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"

With flying fringes dim as smoke - Archibald Lampman "After Rain"

When the fog smokes the bridges - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

Sent regrets by smoke - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"

A man dreaming liquid smoke - Michael Lauchlan "Late on Her Birthday"

Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke - D.H. Lawrence "The Enkindled Spring"

Blood-born mistletoe in the shady smoke - D.H. Lawrence "Under the Oak"

Clouds of ash with smoke and thunder - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"

His elaborate head-piece of smoke - Dana Levin "The Gods Are in the Valley"

For the double audience of smoke - Dana Levin "Styx"

The light overflowing with smoke - Philip Levine "Smoke"

Red stars swirling through purple smoke - Li Po "Autumn River Songs 14" transl. by David Hinton

A cigarette smoking itself in the ashtray - Sandra Lim "Cattiveria"

And all smoke passes through me - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

With herons blowing like smoke across the sky - Amy Lowell "Hoar-Frost"

A pale smoke of violin - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: Second Moment"

The white Pierrot, wreathed in smoke - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: Second Movement"

Grimed with the smoke of furnaces - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Where the battle's smoke have obscured the day - Anne C. Lynch "The Battle of Life" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Cheated with a spectral smoke - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

To see my life through smoking blood - Frederic Manning "The Vigil of Brunhild"

Changing every word from smoke to splendor - Harry Martinson "Aniara 48" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Spitting smoke and cinders at the moon - John Masefield "A Ballad of Cape St. Vincent"

The smoke of every sullen street - Theodore Maynard "Cecidit, Cecidit Babylon Magna!"

Loneliness covered in smoke and fog - John McCarthy "Ghost Friends, Sangamon County"

Where shadows exhale their spirits of smoke - John McCarthy "Portrait of a Preacher's Secret, Dekalb, Illinois"

Only smoke from flailing ghosts - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Tehura"

Or upward roll as sacrificial smoke - Claude McKay "Enslaved"

Rocks & dust & outer smoke in outer space - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

The bittersweet smoke of burning leaves - T.C. Mill "From Summerland"

Worth its weight in smoke - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Merry Maid"

Fog filled with dust, rain full of smoke - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Rain at the Mill"

Breathing smokes that writhe and twist - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Wayside and Highway in Autumn"

Vase filled with smoke's children - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"

Ash and smoke will play fire games - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"

As undeniable as smoke - Yesenia Montilla "High Stakes"

Until your breath becomes holy smoke - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"

Legacies of skin, smoke, & salvation - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Stacy"

A two-headed snake of smoke - jessica Care moore "After 1986 (for Brad Walrond)"

Forgotten smoke of the weeping amethyst - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

When the smoke lifts its decisive wheels - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Like horses filled with smoke - Pablo Neruda "Spain Poor Through the Fault of the Rich" translated by Richard Schaaf

Inheritance of smoke - Pablo Neruda "We Together" translated by Donald D. Walsh

I accept the smoke because I accept the flame - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Aftermath VIII. Deliverance"

And Babylon shall be consumed in smoke - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Paul to Timothy"

Savory smoke from ancient fires - Naomi Shihab Nye "Grandfathers Say"

The smoky smell of déjà vu - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"

know the sound of smoke - Jose Olivarez "you the business folk"

At night, smoke warmed the stars - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

This smoke turns people into shadows - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Four: Smoke"

Faint smoke that glides from candles lighting death - Kostes Palamas "The Dead" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

Has found a mate in the powder's smoke - Kostes Palamas "To the Poet L. Maviles" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

In a city's smoke and steam - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "The Geebung Polo Club"

Through the dead smoke of myriad sacrifice - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"

Tall smoke of his shadow - Kiki Petrosino "I Married a Horseman"

Of apples, victory, tangerines, and smoke - Carl Phillips "Archery"

A thing of smoking arms and ember eyes - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"

The Smoke was too heavy to rise - John Prine

Wreathed in smoke and iron - Michael Prior "Wakeful Things"

Far fingers of smoke trembling over the distant city - Kevin Prufer "House Hunters"

Smoke rising grey to white - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"

Feed me pitted pomegranates full of smoke - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

I burn and there is no smoke - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"

A rosegold gown of smoke - Molly Raynor "Yamim Noraim///Days of A W E"

When the world becomes blur of smoke & storm - Molly Raynor "You Know You've Got Covid Brain"

All wickedness shall go in smoke - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

Memory lifts her smoky mirror - Adrienne Rich "Eastern War Time"

The billowy upland filmed with smoke - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet III"

Gives power to a woman born of brimstone, steam, and smoke - Doug Rogers "Satan's Mistress" [Futuria Fantasia, v.1, no.2, Fall 1939]

Hurling their smoked shells back into the sea - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"

Smoke rising devoted to anything - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"

As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn - George William Russell "Immortality"

what this city of smoke & blood has to tell - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"

Till all the rooms of warmth fill with smoke - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"

Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth - Carl Sandburg "Chicago"

Wrapped in the smoke of memories - Carl Sandburg "Knucks"

Smoke of the finished steel - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

The smoke changes its shadow - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

Many a head that's filled with smoke - Friedrich Schiller "Bacchus in the Pillory"

Through rolling smoke the Demon's eye - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

Smoky quartz in a steel bottle - Solmaz Sharif "Self-Care"

A smoke of weeping silver - Safiya Sinclair "A Bell, Still Unrung"

Smoke of black clouds heralding - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

Out of the frame into smoke and storm - Bruce Smith "Beautiful Throat"

Casting smoke like a spell - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

As if smoke revises the story of the air - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

With smoke still scumbling the air - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"

The thin plume of cautious smoke - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

Scraps of smoke flying above your roof - Cathy Song "Waialua"

Smoke's reputation - A.E. Stallings "Burned"

With schnapps and smoke and psalm - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Peter Stuyvesant's New Year's Call: 1 Jan. A.C. 1661"

The smoke-drift of puffed-out heroes - Wallace Stevens "The Course of a Particular"

As masts and hulls became flying ash and vanished smoke - Su Tung-p'o "At Red Cliffs, Thinking of Ancient Times" transl. by David Hinton

Carry the leafing jade smoke of willows - Arthur Sze "At the Equinox"

Black smoke looming like dark mountains - Keith Taylor "Prairie Fire"

Smoke and mystery waiting for an emergency rescue - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"

Vanish off like blue smoke plumes - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"

In the storm smoking along the wind - Edward Thomas "This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong"

Beneath the haze of a century's smoke - Matthew Thorburn "The Angel and the Lady"

A smoke of contradictions - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"

Nothing spoke my language of smoke - Paul Tran "Hypothesis"

Making her a mountain of smoke - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"

The smoke of fire-spangled passion - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

Danced in a red smoke of dreams - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

Burn to a blue smoke of forgetting - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

The smoke's unbroken wreath - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"

Smoke scatters summer air - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Puff"

Grinds on in smoke - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"

Played against olive and smoky lime - Rosanna Warren "Muse Not Muse"

Smoke poured over the mountain's edge - Dāshaun Washington "Half-light"

No smoke rising from your fingertips - Jamie Wasserman "Spontaneous Human Combustion"

Charcoal-smudged, smelling of smoke - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"

A syrup, sweet-bitter with smoke - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"

Smoke from a few lean chimneys - William Carlos Williams "The Storm"

An oblique cloud of purple smoke - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"

Before fire is the vapour and smoke of a furnace - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 22" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

Because the breath in our nostrils is smoke - "The Wisdom of Solomon 2" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

Pay attention to blossoms and smoke - Nancy Wood "The Sacred Songs of Our Ancestors"

And wreathes of smoke sent up - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

The smoke of hypothesis - Jay Wright "Kumu"

Tarnished with smoke of the flood - Elinor Wylie "Sea Lullaby"

The smoking stars gather together - "XXV" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

An arrow made of smoke - Matthew Zapruder "Poem (for Grace Paley)"

Drinks smoke from an hourglass - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Candle-smoke curls around my sight - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

Inside it whispers candlesmoke - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"

Used to chainsmoke on the mezzanine - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"

Smelled of grass and gunsmoke - Kinsale Drake "(Re)location"

everyone knows how to run through gun smoke - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"

Smoke-beings flung in constellations - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"

With the slow smokeless burning of decay - Robert Frost "The Wood-pile"

Made of smokeless flame and shadowless light - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

The mask and smokeless altars interpose - Lynn Xu "[And as the procession]"

All bright and glittering in the smokeless air - William Wordsworth "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"

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The dismal walls, smoke-tainted green - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XI"

Rinsing my eyes of smoke-tears - Hilda Morley "Song of the Terrible"

Whoever ran pell-mell from smoke-witted man - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"

The smoke-wreath on the crater's verge - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"

Woodsmoke rising to the ashy stars - Patrick Phillips "For Paul"


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