Potential Titles: Lock

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Remain locked forever - Francisco X. Alarcon "Lamentario/Lamentations"

Our story locked with a lost key - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"

Locked in the memories of forgotten men - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

a replica of the first lock and key - Alise Alousi "Burnished in Future Time"

Locked doors & heavy whispers - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"

Filled with dripping water and locked doors - Julie Babcock "Wolfwoman"

Shall remain forever locked - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Under lock and key in the netherworld - Mary Jo Bang "Awake, I Listened"

Locked between two rows of metal teeth - Mary Jo Bang "The School of Knowledge"

Lock the box with the key inside - Mary Jo Bang "The Storm We Call Progress"

No key of mine unlocks one lock of one gate - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Hear Pandora fumbling with the lock - Paul Bernstein "Treasure Chest"

Checked the locks three times - Emily Berry "[This spirit she]"

Her locks covered with grey despair - William Blake "Earth's Answer"

Until the key kisses the lock - Mahogany L. Browne "Goodnight, Moon"

Lock'd with a key which Fate keeps - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

The heart of the locked battle - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred"

I locked out the wasteland, but they'll come - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"

As if we owned the lock, the key, the hinges - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"

Inside the locked rooms of night - Cynthia Cruz "Deathscape Lullaby"

Locked her words in rocks - Bruce Ducker "Picnic"

To curse all the locks in our world - Aziz Isa Elkun "Chimenqush--A Flower Bird" transl. by author

Sweet deceiving lock me in delight - John Fletcher "Right Good Is Rest"

We always locked the flowers outside - Robert Frost "Locked Out"

Houdini picks the locks of death - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

Houdini picking the locks of god - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

The memories of the lost turning in their burnished locks - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"

The iron key in the rusted lock - Marilyn Hacker "For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back"

Enough cold locked inside you - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"

As night itself picks the lock - Conrad Hilberry "The Cur"

Light locked against us - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"

From inside their locked, glass places - Laura Kasischke "Ubi Sunt"

Mists of memory locked within - Fanny Kemble "Absence"

The rocks that lock with loitering feet - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"

Locked in the dust-mote mottled skies - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

Henchmen busy with locks & chains - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Locked in a knot of his fingers - Ted Kooser "A Man with a Rake"

Our biochemical keys fit fossil locks - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Raised by Wolves"

Only after will locked doors swing amply open - Youna Kwak "After"

Held locked in the veins till the last fire - Philip Levine "Breath"

In the locked archives of the clock - Philip Levine "Salt and Oil"

When too late to lock the door - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

The nightly ritual washings and lockings - Sandra J. Lindow "The Wolf from the Door"

Solver of problems, picker of locks - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"

When prison locks and iron bars will fail - H.P. McKnight "A Prisoner's Thanksgiving"

Silence of the thunders locked - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

The key that locks your heavy heart - Charlotte Mew "The Pedlar"

The key that locks your tired eyes - Charlotte Mew "The Pedlar"

What does fear cherish that it locks so well? - Alice Meynell "The Treasure"

To open locked doors with a sword - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"

Lock myself into this snowing - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

An apartment building of locked jaws - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

Locked away from the jewels of the city - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

And convert the iron into locks - Pablo Neruda "The Invisible Man" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Until their hearts were locked in place - Caroline Harper New "Notes on Devotion"

A heart that locked its doors and left - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Visiting Hours"

Memories in iron lock boxes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Patience Conversations"

Take out the locked box of the warped evidence - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

Eyes lock in deadbolt time - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"

Instead of being locked up in gold - Mary Oliver "This World"

The Idea locked into permanence - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

And a lock of silver wool - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Enchanted Sheep-Fold"

The puzzle of gate and lock - Lynn Powell "In the Thin-Lipped, Purifying Weather"

A shadowy hallway of locked doors - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"

The locked shadow of their wings - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Locked mammoths of iron - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

In dreamless sleep locked fast - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

Uncatches some remote lock - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

On the snow-locked ground - May Sarton "December Moon"

Her four elements are locked in the arms of decay - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Locked in the silence of the heart - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"

Lock and step and key in hole - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"

Lock with keys of Heaven - Dora Sigerson Shorter "An Imperfect Revolution"

Strands pulled from the past, locked in the present - Claire Smith "Exhibits from Schneewittchen"

Bolted doors that lock the corridors of Time - Ezra Hurlburt Stafford "The Last Orison"

Locked in generous limits - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"

The iron key that locks your heart - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

And my mother is rattling the lock - James Stephens "The Appointment"

Stubborn as a stolen lock refusing the key - Yvanna Vien Tica "Rites of Becoming a White Lady"

and doors shorn of locks - David Trinidad "The afterlife of fame"

How each fist knots, each knuckle locks - Divya Victor "Blood/Soil"

The key that locks me from a world of pain - "La Vie Poetique" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Inherit a palace of locked doors - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Tropical Depression"

Locked against all circumstance - Helen Hay Whitney "Amor Mysticus"

Set a lock upon his lips - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

A curse locks a rusty wooden door - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton

Locked within yourself and asking - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"


Stargrit. Heartlocked. Vowstrung - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"


Interlock.


Landlocked behind the barbed wire - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"


Nailed in lockers sealed with beeswax - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"

storage locker of unpaid bills and auctioned objects - Asiya Wadud "number four"


In vain the locksmith changes keys - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Candy-Pull"


The roaches march in lockstep - Mike Allen "Ascending"


Heavy with padlocks, bolts, and cording - Oliver Herford "Rudyard Kipling"


Dry snow under the storm-locked sills - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"


Unlock.


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