Potential Titles: Crack
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somethingdarkerCracking him into squares of safety glass - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"
And crack the sky with laughter - Harold Acton "Hilarity"
Crack their wind-swift fingers - Harold Acton "Words"
Even before the bird cracked its brittle tough shell - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"
Walking down cracked sidewalks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
The sky fell and cracked the earth - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
Exiting a cracked glass - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"
To poke in at every hole and crack - Clara Doty Bates "Saarchinkold!" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
Here until the crack of doom - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
And Time's cracked fingers number them all - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Patient misfortune of cracked glass - Jaswinder Bolina "Phantom Camera"
When the old hollowed earth is cracked - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Answer the crack of the whip - John Philip Bourke "The Gospel of Shirk"
History cracks our spines - Julia Bouwsma "Untold"
A door just cracked open - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Along cracking walls of sky - Shannon Bramer "Dreaming Upside Down"
Thunderheads cracking their knuckles - William Brewer "Against Enabling"
The cracked cup at my elbow - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"
Sharp explosions of the cracking ice - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall
Blow your trumpets till they crack - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
Cracking and burning bones as fuel - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"
The cracked shell of another creature's child - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
A woman made of water can never crack - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"
avoided the cracks split by the ancient roots of trees - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"
the cracks of imperfection mended by my hands - Karla Cordero "Everything Needs Fixing"
This one that always chaps and cracks - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
When the sharp wedge cracks my arid heart - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
With a shiver of cracked eggshells - Laura Da' "The Honest Tongue"
The hairline crack of sanity - Jim Daniels "The Dark Miracle"
Swiped change and cracked promises - Jim Daniels "Last Picked"
On soil where myths splinter and crack - Najwan Darwish "A Violet Darkness" transl. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
Ivy leaf from crack of doom - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
Must keep dancing till it cracks - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"
Crack open the globe - Heid E. Erdich "Again, Today"
Papering over the cracked grief - Louise Erdrich "The Sacraments"
Cracks in the bell of the moon - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"
Echo the aspen's crack and moan - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7"
Through the cracks of the clock hands - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"
cracked just enough for spirit to seep in - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
Heard like the cracking of suns - Louis Golding "The Advent of Mars"
An egg that cracks my coffin - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"
Right there by the crack in the wall - "Grandmamma Spider" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
To camouflage cracked hearts - Nikki Grimes "Common Denominator"
The crack of a perfumed nightmare - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Running towards a cracked sky - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: II. Two Horses"
The rainbow was a crack in the universe - Joy Harjo "Vision"
The bones that cracked in your heart - Joy Harjo "What Music"
Lampposts and cracked teeth - francine j. harris "to the man on the bus"
See the ground starve and crack - francine j. harris "Wetland"
Steel pillar with cracks - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"
Cracks the shell of our sleep - Conrad Hilberry "Explosions at 4:00 A.M."
My promises have cracked and dropped away - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"
Crack open my heart for you - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"
And seal cracked lips of distrust - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
A crack extends from horizon to horizon - Shilpa Kamat "Consequences"
Hidden in the cracks of the roof tile - Kaneko Misuzu "Stars and Dandelions" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
The cracked earth radiated out for miles - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"
Crack your jaw on a chandelier - Aimee Le "Theft"
A shaking and cracking of dancing bones - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"
On their sand basements lean and crack - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
One cracked bowl holding absolutely nothing - Naomi Long Madgett "Packrat"
A cup cracked through with sky - J. Michael Martinez "Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self"
An elbow cracking the Earth in half - Jamaal May "Megalophobia"
A complete world sealed along cracked lines - Maureen N. McLane "What I'm Looking For"
No whip of cracking thunder - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson
When the cage door cracks - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"
From a seaborn eternity to a pistol crack - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Cracked gold on fire - Alice Notley "Individual Time"
hungry for the fruit of cracked bones - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"
The usual flames rising up from the cracks of everything we know - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"
The walnut cracking on the gravel - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
Alleyways cracking with plastic syringes - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
A hall of screaming cracked mirrors - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"
Played with soul-sinews cracking - Herbert E. Palmer "A Game of Chess"
Midnight seeps from the cracks - Kiki Petrosino "Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770-1863"
Sound as cracked as an eggshell - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 06801"
Cracking a star of rays - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"
Cracking the black river glass - Lynn Riggs "Shadow on Snow"
A real crack in an imaginary dam - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"
Moss swelling in concrete cracks - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
No gold to repair cracked pottery lips - R.S. Saha "Kin"
The gravel under the garden path cracks - David St. John "Iris"
Should your armor crack - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Downtrodden"
That can find a crack in the invisible - Tom Sleigh "Three Wishes"
The years poured back from one cracked jar into a perfect basin - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"
In the cracks of your cold volcanoes - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"
Where earth's foundations crack - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
Poured through the soot in the street cracks - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
Enough to make the cartwheels crack - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
A wee cracked cup on the closet shelf - "Two Little Girls" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
The half-cracked shield of mockery - Louis Untermeyer "Monolog from a Mattress"
A gallery of things to be cracked open - Jesus I. Valles "Barnes & Noble, 1999"
Crack its melancholy galaxy - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Crossover Album"
Wanted a day with cracks - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"
Stars dancing to the crack of a leaf - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"
Crack a name open - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"
Can change in its deepest cracks - Yolanda Wisher "west of philly"
The crack between this world and the other - Charles Wright "I'm Going to Take a Trip in that Old Gospel Ship"
The small crack between here and everywhere else - Charles Wright "No Direction Home"
Their bones crack in the west wind - Charles Wright "Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else"
Those who exist between the cracks - Charles Wright "Well, Get Up, Rounder, Let a Working Man Lay Down"
Until my voice and throat cracked open wide - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
The cracked tune that Chronos sings - William Butler Yeats "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"
A cracked snow globe whose magic pool drips serum - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Play crack-the-whip in the abyss - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"
A white stucco ceiling with its million spider-cracks - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
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And crack the sky with laughter - Harold Acton "Hilarity"
Crack their wind-swift fingers - Harold Acton "Words"
Even before the bird cracked its brittle tough shell - Mouna Ammar "Bold as a Feather"
Walking down cracked sidewalks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
The sky fell and cracked the earth - William Archila "Bury This Pig"
Exiting a cracked glass - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"
To poke in at every hole and crack - Clara Doty Bates "Saarchinkold!" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]
Here until the crack of doom - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
And Time's cracked fingers number them all - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Patient misfortune of cracked glass - Jaswinder Bolina "Phantom Camera"
When the old hollowed earth is cracked - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Answer the crack of the whip - John Philip Bourke "The Gospel of Shirk"
History cracks our spines - Julia Bouwsma "Untold"
A door just cracked open - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Along cracking walls of sky - Shannon Bramer "Dreaming Upside Down"
Thunderheads cracking their knuckles - William Brewer "Against Enabling"
The cracked cup at my elbow - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"
Sharp explosions of the cracking ice - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall
Blow your trumpets till they crack - Lewis Carroll "Fame's Penny-Trumpet"
Cracking and burning bones as fuel - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"
The cracked shell of another creature's child - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
A woman made of water can never crack - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"
avoided the cracks split by the ancient roots of trees - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"
the cracks of imperfection mended by my hands - Karla Cordero "Everything Needs Fixing"
This one that always chaps and cracks - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
When the sharp wedge cracks my arid heart - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"
With a shiver of cracked eggshells - Laura Da' "The Honest Tongue"
The hairline crack of sanity - Jim Daniels "The Dark Miracle"
Swiped change and cracked promises - Jim Daniels "Last Picked"
On soil where myths splinter and crack - Najwan Darwish "A Violet Darkness" transl. by Kareem James Abu-Zeid
Ivy leaf from crack of doom - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"
Must keep dancing till it cracks - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"
Crack open the globe - Heid E. Erdich "Again, Today"
Papering over the cracked grief - Louise Erdrich "The Sacraments"
Cracks in the bell of the moon - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"
Echo the aspen's crack and moan - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7"
Through the cracks of the clock hands - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"
cracked just enough for spirit to seep in - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"
Heard like the cracking of suns - Louis Golding "The Advent of Mars"
An egg that cracks my coffin - Rigoberto Gonzalez "La Pelona as Birdwoman"
Right there by the crack in the wall - "Grandmamma Spider" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
To camouflage cracked hearts - Nikki Grimes "Common Denominator"
The crack of a perfumed nightmare - Joy Harjo "Nine Lives"
Running towards a cracked sky - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: II. Two Horses"
The rainbow was a crack in the universe - Joy Harjo "Vision"
The bones that cracked in your heart - Joy Harjo "What Music"
Lampposts and cracked teeth - francine j. harris "to the man on the bus"
See the ground starve and crack - francine j. harris "Wetland"
Steel pillar with cracks - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"
Cracks the shell of our sleep - Conrad Hilberry "Explosions at 4:00 A.M."
My promises have cracked and dropped away - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"
Crack open my heart for you - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"
And seal cracked lips of distrust - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
A crack extends from horizon to horizon - Shilpa Kamat "Consequences"
Hidden in the cracks of the roof tile - Kaneko Misuzu "Stars and Dandelions" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi
The cracked earth radiated out for miles - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"
Crack your jaw on a chandelier - Aimee Le "Theft"
A shaking and cracking of dancing bones - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"
On their sand basements lean and crack - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
One cracked bowl holding absolutely nothing - Naomi Long Madgett "Packrat"
A cup cracked through with sky - J. Michael Martinez "Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self"
An elbow cracking the Earth in half - Jamaal May "Megalophobia"
A complete world sealed along cracked lines - Maureen N. McLane "What I'm Looking For"
No whip of cracking thunder - Mei Yao-ch'en "Back from Green Dragon, Presented to Hsieh Shih-chih" transl. by Burton Watson
When the cage door cracks - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"
From a seaborn eternity to a pistol crack - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Cracked gold on fire - Alice Notley "Individual Time"
hungry for the fruit of cracked bones - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"
The usual flames rising up from the cracks of everything we know - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"
The walnut cracking on the gravel - Cindy Juyoung Ok "To Bear the Ruse"
Alleyways cracking with plastic syringes - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
A hall of screaming cracked mirrors - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"
Played with soul-sinews cracking - Herbert E. Palmer "A Game of Chess"
Midnight seeps from the cracks - Kiki Petrosino "Louisa County Patrol Claims, 1770-1863"
Sound as cracked as an eggshell - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 06801"
Cracking a star of rays - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"
Cracking the black river glass - Lynn Riggs "Shadow on Snow"
A real crack in an imaginary dam - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"
Moss swelling in concrete cracks - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
No gold to repair cracked pottery lips - R.S. Saha "Kin"
The gravel under the garden path cracks - David St. John "Iris"
Should your armor crack - Joyce Sidman "Blessing on the Downtrodden"
That can find a crack in the invisible - Tom Sleigh "Three Wishes"
The years poured back from one cracked jar into a perfect basin - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"
In the cracks of your cold volcanoes - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"
Where earth's foundations crack - Algernon Swinburne "In Guernsey: To Theodore Watts"
Poured through the soot in the street cracks - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
Enough to make the cartwheels crack - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson
A wee cracked cup on the closet shelf - "Two Little Girls" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
The half-cracked shield of mockery - Louis Untermeyer "Monolog from a Mattress"
A gallery of things to be cracked open - Jesus I. Valles "Barnes & Noble, 1999"
Crack its melancholy galaxy - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Crossover Album"
Wanted a day with cracks - Rosanna Warren "Man in Stream"
Stars dancing to the crack of a leaf - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"
Crack a name open - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"
Can change in its deepest cracks - Yolanda Wisher "west of philly"
The crack between this world and the other - Charles Wright "I'm Going to Take a Trip in that Old Gospel Ship"
The small crack between here and everywhere else - Charles Wright "No Direction Home"
Their bones crack in the west wind - Charles Wright "Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else"
Those who exist between the cracks - Charles Wright "Well, Get Up, Rounder, Let a Working Man Lay Down"
Until my voice and throat cracked open wide - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"
The cracked tune that Chronos sings - William Butler Yeats "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"
A cracked snow globe whose magic pool drips serum - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Play crack-the-whip in the abyss - Joy Harjo "Day of the Dead"
A white stucco ceiling with its million spider-cracks - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
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