Potential Titles: Backward

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Facing forward instead of backwards - Duane Ackerson "A Ghost Story"

Walk backward up a flight of stairs - Alise Alousi "Skip"

The future running backwards - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The last night of the world"

Backward, through the drifting mist of years - Maurice Baring "Harvest in Russia"

Since there is no backward flight - Charlotte F. Bates "The Paradox"

To read us backward - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Looking backward on our dreary way - Cora "A Thought of the Future" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Drag me backwards into panic - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Backward down the blind gulfs of night - Edward Dowden "To a Year"

Whose honor is earned backward - Heid E. Erdich "TV News: Detox Closed"

Or are backward glances blind - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

Yet some backward longings press - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

My soul is backwards blown - John Gould Fletcher "Grass"

Looking backward on preceding time - "Flora: a Vision"

Backward borne far in a bygone age - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Yet backward let me take one look - G. "Retrospection" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

And flooded backwards over the border - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"

Backwards into the sun - James Galvin "Dying Into What I've Done"

Proceeded backward into the light - Deborah Garrison "A Friendship Enters Phase II"

In the far backward reaches of time - Louise Gluck "Faithful and Virtuous Night"

The warriors depart without a glance backward - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"

The cast no backward glances - Goethe [untitled]

My questing thoughts go backward - Herbert H. Gowen "The Quest for the Christ"

To sing the song backwards - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

Strive by backward reachings to redeem - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Some of us walk backwards - Joy Harjo "Call It Fear"

To try out its backwards variations - Galway Kinnell "Chamberlain's Porch"

Run backward into the past - Ted Kooser "A Jacquard Shawl"

Skating backward right out of that moment - Ted Kooser "Skater"

Falls like meteorite backward into space - D.H. Lawrence "Tommies in the Train"

Let there be bells rung backward - John Masefield "King Cole"

Leading her backward to the buried past - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

I tiptoed backwards toward our door under twisted reeds - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"

While reflected lights flowed backward - W.S. Merwin "227 Waverly Place"

A future backward destination - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"

From whence there flows no backward wave - O. "Good-Night" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.446, 17 July 1852]

A backward glance at peaceful days - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

And all the days are ebony backwards - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Ride backward into memory - D.A. Powell "Passing Through"

Days that pull backwards - Valencia Robin "Oil Pastels"

A place you walk into backwards - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"

The winds that blow you backward - Dora Sigerson Shorter "A Vagrant Heart"

Bramble bending backward for us - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

Swim backwards in circles of blood - Frank Stanford "Cotton You Lose in the Field"

Reading Proust backwards - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"

You can only count that backwards - Matthew Thorburn "Go Together Come Apart"

Time his hinge had backward sprung - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"

Drawn backward from the moon - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

Their song comes backward and upside down - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

The Rapture has occurred, but backwards - Audrey Zheng "Adam-Ondi-Ahman"


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