Potential Titles: Except

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Except as an empire of trouble - Mary Jo Bang "Death and Disappearance"

Except to see sheep in the fog - Mary Jo Bang "The Electric Eventual"

Excludes nothing except why it was done - Paul Cameron Brown "Emptiness"

Nowhere except its own elsewhere - Julie Carr "A Fourteen-Line Poem on Heteronymic"

Eat from every plant except for the bitter one - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Except it finds a place given - Robert Creeley "Here Only"

Except to appear with answers - Meg Day "Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]"

Except for a frozen half-bitten fruit - Monica de la Torre "Divagar"

Except how water touches land - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Untouched by everything except the god who is the sun - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"

Do not exist except in wild dreams - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

Excepting now and then - Rose Fyleman "Cousin Gwen"

Forgotten now except by me - Dana Gioia "The Angel with the Broken Wing"

No exit except explosion - Marilyn Hacker "Headaches"

Except for spendthrift sorrow - Robert Hass "First Things at the Last Minute"

Except for candles and their faltering shadows - Conrad Hilberry "Crete: The Diktaean Cave"

Blind except for the fireflies - Conrad Hilberry "Path to the Cabin"

Dark, except for your hearts - Allison Eir Jenks "Old Soldiers"

Tells no one except the sycamore - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Except in shards of unreliable memory - Zilka Joseph "Once Upon a Shabbath"

Except the stubbornness of things - Philip Levine "The Return"

Except a burning learned just once - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Not an anarchist except in stars - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

Nought attracts except the vulture's wings - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

A day with no colors except brown - W.S. Merwin "Print Fallen Out of Somewhere"

Took nothing with it except faith - Mary Oliver "Black Swallowtail"

Except in the splurge of roses - Mary Oliver "Work"

Except within my secret ears - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

Except the scream of some wild bird - E.J. Pratt "Flashlights and Echoes"

Except for me all men are liars - Charles Rafferty "Advice for Beautiful Daughters Entering a World of Scoundrels"

Nothing at all except Time which owns all things - Tobias Seamon "Halos"

Except for my long shadow - Charles Simic "The Tiger"

Never lost except to prove the sweetness - Edward Thomas "Tall Nettles"

Except a broken and discouraged note - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

Faithless except to protect - Wendy Xu "Looking at My Father"


By rules of large exception - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

People who desire exceptional experience - Chloe Honum "St. Mary's Home for Unwed Mothers in Orahuhu, Auckland"

As large as its exceptions - Courtney Kampa "Law of Large Numbers"

That the exceptions have devoured the rule - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"


Unexceptional as a rain gauge - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"


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