Potential Titles: Fix

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The anchor of our hope is fixed - A.L.O.E. "Emigrant's Hymn"

And starry eyes on lattice fixed - Harold Acton "Capriccio Espagnol"

Fixed in architectural silence - Mouna Ammar "ID"

A certain kind of fix that falters precariously - William Archila "Spirits"

With devious feet, and void of fixed intent - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"

Forever fixed on Brahma's airy throne - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

When distance is the fixed abyss - Mary Jo Bang "Ashes"

Aligned and fixed like the stars overhead - Mary Jo Bang "Here We All Are With Daphne"

Fixed to the list of her eye - Mary Jo Bang "Night Falling Fast"

Fixed idols made by flesh and mind - Max Bodenheim "Decadent Cry"

Fixed on scraping out my veins - William Brewer "Daedalus in Oxyana"

Bearing fixed war through shifting victories - George S. Burleigh "Temper Life's Extremes" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

This rough scene fixed in memory - Scott Cairns "First Storm and Thereafter"

Eyes fixed in an unknown direction - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams

Fixed and glowing on the air - John Drinkwater "May Garden"

Fixed on the enormous galaxy - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Character"

Fixed the sacred crown inside your sacred court - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle

Unique in meaning and fixed in order - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

Fix the thing upon a spinning cylinder - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"

Fixing the flowers on a stranger's grave - Andrea Gibson "Radio"

The traffic shimmers in its fixed trajectories - Dana Gioia "Psalm of the Heights"

In the fixed dusk of his negligence - Louise Gluck "Lamentations"

Fixed and fleshless and certain - Brionne Janae "Child's Pose"

Fixed and stern as fate's decree - Emily Pauline Johnson "Silhouette"

Direction and distance traveled from the last known fix - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

Her eyes like stars fixed on the future - Ted Kooser "A New Potato"

Before our names were fix'd - Henry S. Leigh "The Twins"

A fixed doom that mocks our poor resistance - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things II: Song" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Fixed in the whirling heavens - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

Where my extended Soul is fixt - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"

Fixed to the bow of a smashed ship - Tyler Mills "ectopic"

Stand fixed in steadfast gaze - John Milton "Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"

And fix the future hours, dark or bright - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

And fixed for me an axis - Ladan Osman "Sun to Void"

The sun fixes each shadow - Linda Pastan "The Still Point"

More than a fixed container - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"

A harlequin's cloth face of fixed hilarity - Tim Pratt "Mask"

A fixed sea floor of grief - Sina Queyras "Years"

Fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"

Gold candles fix'd in heaven's air - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXI"

Fix them in some still more perfect order - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"

Fixing emblazoned zones and fiery poles - Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"

Just as the color of water is fixed - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 82: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A fixed abode in the stars - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 205: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Prosperity and decline have no fixed dwelling - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Drinking Wine 1" transl. by Burton Watson


Infixes deep its restless twists - William Blake "The Book of Thel"


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