Potential Titles: Pick

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The jury picked to hear your plea - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"

Who pick up sticks and stones - Nina Bagley "Gathering"

Pick our teeth with thunderbolts - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

to pick apart the carcass moon - Elizabeth Bartlett "washday in the tropics"

Sets a trap, picks a spot, begins the vigil - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

Picking river sage and rare angelica - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Pick up their lonesome songs - Hilda Conkling "Snowflake Song"

Drive our pick through the mineral of our apprehensions - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"

As a dove picking lilies - Trace Howard DePass "[th(e)reat] --> siege engine"

Instinct picking up the key - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Time and Eternity XLI: The Forgotten Grave"

Picking chokecherries in the marsh - Chris Dombrowski "A History of Barbed Wire"

Lightning's pity picks you - Heid E. Erdich "Girl of Lightning"

Spilled for crows to pick - Heid E. Erdich "One Girl"

Does grief pick those who are wounded? - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"

Caramels you pick like berries - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"

Thyme picked outside our back door - Rebecca Foust "Abeyance"

The fields having been picked clean - Louise Gluck "All Hallows"

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

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

Picking a path through the driftwood - Matthea Harvey "Nude on a Horsehair Sofa by the Sea"

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

Picking a dish of sweet berries and plums - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"

Picking apart the physics of swimming - K. Iver "For Missy Who Never Got His New Name"

No patterned pods for the picking - Fred L. Joiner "Sikasso Snow"

Better things than picking lentils out of the hearth - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Only a devil could have picked it and walked off - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

And pick up pebbles larger than their heads - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

Picking through the ruins for my roots - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Picking thyme and rue - Rachel Kolar "Sing a Song of Witches"

Pick out my death from the weeds - Christopher Kondrich "Map of Belonging"

a wire picking up missiles on the strip - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

Iron pick will tear a pathway - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

The sparrow who picks about the gravel - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

With our Fate pick a quarrel - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"

Pick a Fight in an Empty Room - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "magpie"

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

Picking black daffodils in the shades of broken stones - Michael Marsh "Gargoyle Poems: Spiders Dance"

Picking my name out of the wind - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"

Didn't pick the rider as carefully as the horse - Frank O'Hara "Having a Coke with You"

Picking up a fistful of sand - January Gill O'Neil "Early Memory"

Who picked brittle locusts for food - Melissa Range "Kermes Red"

Picking up the slipped threads - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Picking up the pieces of a broken mirror - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"

And pick an X-ray to float on - Mary Szybist "Girls Overheard While Assembling a Puzzle"

Picking open a tabernacle - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

A flower or two picked from mud - William Carlos Williams "March"

Nor picked the yellow lilies - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"

And pick the sun out of the sky - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"

The age of iron, pick, and spade - Francis Brett Young "Song of the Dark Ages"

Pick a sky and name it - Saadi Youssef "Freedom" transl. by Khaled Mattawa


Preserve handpicked days in memory - Natasha Trethewey "Gathering"

Any pickaxe disguised as love - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"

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


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