Potential Titles: Kill

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Clip imagination's wing and kill delight - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"

From the glass to the killing floor - William Archila "Spirits"

A litter of mimics about to make a killing - Mary Jo Bang "Filming the Doomsday Clock"

To kill for some other purpose - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"

Where grief alone would kill - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: Rosamund's Song of Hope"

After the one that kills us - Susan Briante "13 Questions for the Next Economy"

Let us not with one stone kill - Nickole Brown "Parable"

Beauty can kill more beautiful things - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"

Which kills from ashes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Claws to cling and beak to kill - Roger Casement "Hamilcar Barca"

And kill the lingering day - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

The rule of our native killers - Leonard Cohen "The Killers"

The haunting has killed before - Kwame Dawes "It Bruises, Too"

Shows the power of luminous Truth to kill - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

In those tobacco killing fields - Tyree Daye "Ms. Shirley Writes Us a Letter from the Other Side"

Cleave this killing doubt asunder - Max Eastman "A Hymn to God: In Time of Stress"

Revolutionaries the bullets cannot kill - Martin Espada "Wake Up, Mario"

Strength enough to kill the rain - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 1"

The killers of the terrible heat above - Scott E. Green "Killers from the Light, Killers from the Heat"

Who wear feathers when dressed up to kill - Oliver Herford "The Harpy"

Built to kill by slow degrees - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Victory"

Who killed the curse and broke the ban - Chas. G. Leland "The Proclamation [September 22, 1862]" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.5, Nov. 1862]

The spirit of killing is in the spears - Li T'ai-Po "The Northern Flight" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

They cannot thrive who killed thee - Andrew Marvell "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn"

So pure it would kill - Jenny Molberg "Civilization"

We kill the parts of us, or at least bury the bones - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

Enough rye whiskey to kill - D.A. Powell "[the cocktail hour finally arrives: whether ending a day at the office]"

Killed my father to steal the name - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"

To escape this year's killing season - Roger Reeves "Tag at Pullman National Monument"

Nightshade would caress and kill me - Christina Rossetti "[A rose has thorns as well as honey]"

No stab the soul can kill - Anonymous "The Soul's Errand"

Pain killing pain - Wallace Stevens "Esthetique du Mal"

Launched forth their fleet legions to capture and kill - Alfred B. Street "Averill's Raid" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

A killing precision in each - John Updike "The Old Bills"

Dashed through all the flames to kill the witch - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

Paradise until the freeze came killing - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Cahuilla Bird Songs"

The kills osprey commit - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"

Kills everything but Love - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

Kill the thing which haunts you - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"


The shoes Jack Giant-killer wore - James Beattie "Epistle to the Honourable C. B."


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