Potential Titles: Knot

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The ravelled knot of tongues - Raymond Antrobus "Echo"

Under her knotted boards where wild kittens hide - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Ghost House"

That carved these love knots - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

Let the string be knotted on its linear axis - Mary Jo Bang "Speech Is Designed to Persuade"

A writhing knot of unclean vipers - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

Knotted and cramped by fingering cold - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Song of Cold and Pain"

Knobbed and knotted sugar fists - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

To cut the knot of narrative - Russell Brakefield "Myth"

Where knotted grass neglected lies - Anne Bronte "Home"

Some method to unloose a knot - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert I: The Garden"

Each knot a way to relive the day - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"

Duty's knot shall soon be sever'd - Walter Richard Cassels "Beatrice di Tenda"

Spring from knots in tree-trunks - Jose Santos Chocano "The Orchids" transl. by Alice Stone Blackwell

Knotted together under the spotlight - Samantha H. Chung "Time Traveler's Haibun: 2024"

A knot of life intwined with faith - Vittoria Colonna [Untitled] transl. by Brenda Webster

The last knot that love could tie - Richard Crashaw "An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife, Who Died and Were Buried Together"

Untie or break that knot again - John Donne "Batter my heart, three person'd God (Holy Sonnet 14)"

Knotted as rose of Sharon - Michael Field "Relics"

Whose nests are littered with knots - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

A small knot of fire - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 2"

Knots where his growth scarred him - Carolyn Forche "Dulcimer Maker"

Tying knots in the daffodil stalks - Katie Ford "Breaking Across Us Now"

That slips the knot of tomorrow - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

A knotted life - Cynthia Grady "Log Cabin"

The self-same knots of air and ice - Linda Gregerson "Spring Snow"

Crossed through knots of a curse - Joy Harjo "Deer Dancer"

Caught in a knot of regret - Joy Harjo "Washing My Mother's Body"

This knot is a folded note - K.D. Harryman "Whipping"

This knot is a map back to me - K.D. Harryman "Whipping"

A knot of overlapping lines - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"

Handing you a knot of crimson blooms - Conrad Hilberry "With Esperanza on the Roof"

A knot of spinster Katydids - Oliver Wendell Holmes "To an Insect"

Netted clasp of knots and rings - William D. Howells "Saint Christopher"

Knotted to a strand of barbed wire - John James "Scarecrow"

Unknit the knots unnoticed - Kimberly Johnson "Ode on My Episiotomy"

An undoer of complicated knots - Rodney Jones "For Katy"

With knots in my veins, thorns on my tongue - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"

Knots unravel'd by the Road - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

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

The knot fell open of itself - Steve Kowit "When He Pressed His Lips"

Knotted in heaven upon the fine light - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

Disentangled the murderous knot - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

How a diamond comes into a knot of flame - Audre Lorde "Coal"

The knot escapes into the air - Anthony Madrid "Injured Bone"

As raised by demons' knotted whips - George Martin "The Drunkard"

Up in the middle of knotted branches - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

These knots of unsorted dreaming - Khaled Mattawa "Trafficker Monologue"

An ancient wheel spinning a knotted thread - George Meredith "Bellerophon"

With knots in her voice - Edna St Vincent Millay "She Is Overheard Singing"

A slender finger pulling at these knots - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"

Knots tying threads to everywhere - Lisel Mueller "Curriculum Vitae"

Making a net in a knot of thorns - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Knotting lengths of licorice - Idra Novey "Value City"

Of wind knotted with cries - Naomi Shihab Nye "Almost, Never"

Tie knots around the heads of weeds - Naomi Shihab Nye "Feather"

Knotted in the throat of a finch - Naomi Shihab Nye "Problems with the Story"

Some truer me in knots of matte and glowing rage - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Beast"

A series of sonic knots - Kiki Petrosino "The Departure"

Having knit, untie the knot - John Presland "A Villa on the Bay of Naples"

Tears tied knots in my throat - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "I Went to You Last Night"

My year of pulling the knots loose - Molly Raynor "Yamim Noraim///Days of A W E"

Coherently webbed and knotted - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Stagnate like a knot in time - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

And the sacred knot thereon - T.W. Rolleston "The Dead at Clonmacnois"

That same tricky knot begging - Gabrielle Octavia Rucker "I Don't Say Goodbye, I Only Say Ciao"

Darkness and silence knotted to suspense - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

a knot in a history of rope - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"

In these shadows knotted through the stars - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"

Knot by knot they fall undone - Ann K. Schwader "Frost Ghosts"

The certain knot of peace - Sir Philip Sidney "Sonnet"

Recoiled at my knotted thorns of dread - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

Cuts the strained knot of destiny - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

A knot in my most likely never - Arthur Solway "What Is Not"

A common roof, with knots and laces - Eileen Spinelli "Those Sociable Weavers"

A knot that gold and silver can buy - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"

From the knotted feet of the pine-trees - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

Rusted nails fell from the knots - Tennyson "Mariana"

From the knots that held the peach - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Mariana"

The tiny wild knot of a heart - John Updike "Bird Caught in My Deer Netting"

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

In the beginning there were knots - Jenny Xie "Alternative Endings"

The knots of narrative - Jenny Xie "The Hunt"

Scratches at the tight knots of my chords - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"

Turning my knots to butter - Kevin Young "Hurricane Song"


Our love double-knotted, saddle-stitched - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

Broken love-knots, quaintly curled - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"

Our bodices with love-knots laced - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Twisted in a pallid shadow-knot - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"


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