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Find safe harbor at the point of a knife - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Safe harbor at the point of a knife - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Plunging doubt's knives into what I love - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"

Beyond the knives of a tractor - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"

Knife to the narrative root - Mary Jo Bang "Dwelling in Our Time"

The clatter of knives and twice broken glass - Mary Jo Bang "In November We Inched Closer"

Sobbing knife turn in the neck of grief - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"

A knife draws a line between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Nothing Compares to Daphne in Green"

Cousins to the knife - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"

Trusts only in the well-invented knife - Robert Blair "The Grave"

The sun shot brilliance of a polished knife - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"

Weird, tiny knives of nerves and wits - Louise Morey Bowman "The Birth-Night"

With knives of light - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

Where slander's knife gleamed - Roger Casement "Parnell"

Your hands dripping knives - Victoria Chang "Dear P."

And hides from sharp knives in the night - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Felt the smallest sandgrain like a knife - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

I was born holding a knife - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"

A keen knife of spirit stabbing - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

In me like a labyrinth of knives - Joy Harjo "Nautilus"

Knives to protect themselves from ghosts - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"

The knives of my fingers - Jalynn Harris "The Life of a Writer"

Carved myself into the civil shape of a knife - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"

Will answer to knife - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"

Have not forgotten the knife - Nicole Homer "Underbelly"

The sudden nip of knives - Richard Hughes "The Ruin"

A heart held back for the knife - John James "April, Andromeda"

Where the sharpest knives are kept - Camisha L. Jones "Ode to the Chronically Ill Body"

As one who seeks a knife - Ebenezer Jones "The Hand"

The knife in a pail of water - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Knives hierarchical in a glass case - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

A knife between the fifth rib and the sixth - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"

Jove bless his flashing knife - Joyce Kilmer "With a Mirror"

I was born holding a knife - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

No chance against the knife - David Lehman "Wedding Song"

Who survived the sharpest edge of a knife - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: The Old Craft"

The casual knives luxuriate - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

A knife in the breast of the hill - Douglas Malloch "Jim"

Where the wind's like a whetted knife - John Masefield "Sea-Fever"

Our knife clicked like an edict - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"

Before the cane knife's rust - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"

With sleep's dull knife - Edna St Vincent Millay "Midnight Oil"

Barefoot on the edge of a knife - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Between moon and knives - Pablo Neruda "Brussels" translated by Donald D. Walsh

In a single wave of pride and knives - Pablo Neruda "I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]" transl. by Galway Kinnell

Ancient dream of talons and knives - Pablo Neruda "The Judges" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Wound me with ten knives in the heart - Pablo Neruda "Maternity" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Who reached the last edge of the knife - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Hard road of knives - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A knife dissecting the stratosphere - Susan Nguyen "The First Language"

Slate makes knives for sharpening fingers - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

To both sides of the knife - Mary Oliver "The Osprey"

Born with a knife in one hand and a wound in the other - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

Cannot feel the knife of spring - Dorothy Parker "Story of Mrs. W--"

The knife of spring - Dorothy Parker "Story of Mrs. W----"

While the knife is the brother of man - Vesna Parun "Mother of Man" transl. by Mary Coote

Flowers with knife-sharp petals - Linda Pastan "Renunciation"

Also what the knife has opened - Carl Phillips "Discipline"

Whetting the knife that hides in a smile - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

A knife where my tongue lay - Sina Queyras "The Applicant"

The gleaming edges of Fate's sharpest knife - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Scar"

Reason's lens and knife - Theodore H. Rand "I Am"

In the velvet knife of night - Molly Raynor "Yamim Noraim///Days of A W E"

The jealousy knifed inside the mortal talent - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"

Whose soul had the edge of a knife - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"

Each word sharpening a knife - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"

Save me from the parade of knives - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"

Has the cut of a naked knife - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

The coward conquest of a wretch's knife - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXXIV"

The hardest knife ill-us'd doth lose his edge - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCV"

The sharpest knife in the drawer - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"

Cut out by survival's swift knife - Brenda Shaughnessy "Our Family on the Run"

That knife of sharp separation - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 124: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Knives dismantling the hills deer by deer - Kristen Tracy "Field Lesson"

Pierced with knives of flame - Iris Tree "Moods III"

A cadre of shame brandishing knives - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Strokes of tocsin and assassin's knife - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Guarded by hired knives - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"

With the light knifing low from right to left - Charles Wright "Stiletto"

With the laser knife of time - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #18" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Weave rafts for knife-eyed brides - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Says Her Prayers"


A paper-knife to penetrate heart & guilt together - John Berryman "The Possessed"


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

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


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