Potential Titles: Pocket

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Pockets of mist in night's corneas - Sheikha A. "Nesters"

Slip his silver penny into your pocket - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"

Envelopes of money in other people's pockets - Elizabeth Alexander "The African Picnic"

Pockets pregnant with moondust in dimebags - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

The board met in their luxurious pocket universe - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"

Pockets filled with remnants of a day - Nina Bagley "Gathering"

The smell of holes burning pockets - Samiya Bashir "You're really faithful to your abusers, aren't you?"

This dream tucked into the pocket of a year - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

Kept a scandal in my pocket - Jericho Brown "Obituary"

Would trash the whole shift with the rattle of pocket change - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"

History's weapons fall from my pockets - Tina Chang "Revolutionary Kiss"

My pockets turned out to tiny ghosts - Gabrielle Civil "Three of Cups"

I keep a version of you in my pocket - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"

Torn pocket of time - Susan Comninos "Bequeathal"

Pocket pet of witches - Flower Conroy "Frog"

Whose slick fingers cheated cards and pockets - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"

Amber pockets against the snow - Chelsea B. DesAutels "Burials"

Its billion-mile-long pocket comb - Chris Dombrowski "February Sidereal with Backyard Doe"

Cash in the sky's dark pocket - Carol Ann Duffy "Death and the Moon"

The hole in the pocket after the money rolls out - Cornelius Eady "Diabolic"

With a pocket full of currants - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"

Birds that fell asleep in his pockets - Suzanne Gardinier "Mala 50/He broke his sling that killed birds"

From all pockets fills her box - John Gay "The Jugglers"

Disappearing into dream-emptied pockets - Carmen Gimenez "Be Recorder"

Putting away in the mind's pocket - Mona Gould "Communion"

A stone in his pocket - Leah Naomi Green "Week Five: Measure"

The pocketed dark behind fireplace brick - Pamela Gross "The Hive"

The woman with rocks in her pockets - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"

Pulled from death's pocket - Terrance Hayes "Coffin for Head of State"

Put on again the vest of many pockets - Jane Hirshfield "Vest"

Settled in each pocket square - Carly Inghram "Disappearing into a Fiction"

Pocket full of sage - Rachel Kolar "Sing a Song of Witches"

Pockets of graveled stone beneath the bank - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

My hands lost in my pockets - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

Urging the past out of its pockets of silence - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Carving out this pocket of air - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

No pocket to put you in - Ada Limon "Fin"

Old pockets that smell of pennies - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

With pockets filled for life - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"

Pockets full of closed fists - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

pinafore pockets full of oyster shells - Pattie McCarthy "a woman peeling apples, with a small child"

No pocket ever sees another - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"

Pockets of water converted into iron - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Jingling its pocket of thin coins - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Palestinians Have Given Up Parties"

Time holds us in its pocket - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay"

Hide inside a pocket of days - Naomi Shihab Nye "Thoughts That Came in Floating"

Only two charms in my pocket - Frank O'Hara "Personal Poem"

The ocean empties its pockets - Mary Oliver "Morning Walk"

The cool blue pockets of time - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

Pocketfuls of ancient seed - Grace Paley "It Doesn't Matter If"

Requited with a pocketful of eggs - Walter S. Percy "Cherries"

A pocket charm to protect - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

Pockets and heart are empty - Charles Reznikoff "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

Her pockets drained of meaning - Adrienne Rich "Eastern War Time"

Out of the black pockets of alleys - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Collects dry leaves in pools and pockets - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [This beauty that I see]"

Five-legged pocket spiders - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

Fear in my back pocket - Joyce Sidman "Journal of 73 Seconds"

The map of ancient Rome in your pocket - Charles Simic "A Word"

Dozens of pockets of gold - Gary Snyder "Why I Take Good Care of my Macintosh"

Nothing in your pockets but your fists - A.E. Stallings "Failure"

Bread crumbs in my pockets - Kristen Tracy "Local Hazards"

All pockets turned up empty afterwards - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

With not even a cent in my pockets - John Wieners "For Huncke"

Emptying his pockets in the dark - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"


The intricate Steps of pickpockets - Charles Simic "Classic Ballroom Dances"


A pocketbook full of bone readers - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"


The pocketknife seducing the orange - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Bordercrosser's Pillowbook"

Your pocketknife rage and love - Michael Lauchlan "Dad and I, in a Snap"


Whirling tanagers sucked in a wind-pocket - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"


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