Potential Titles: Stalk

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Give grief her rooms to stalk - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

By the chained stalk of the uneasy mind - Stephen Vincent Benet "Always the Sonnetteer"

Texas heat stalks me like a question - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Sorrow stalks by the pilgrim's side - Walter Richard Cassels "Hebe"

Transplanted these memories leaf stalk and barrel - May Chong "Kamcia"

Blackened stalks of mint - H.D. "Mid-Day"

Stalking their muscled silhouettes - Meg Day "The Permanent Way"

A stalk of green panic and desire - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"

Tying knots in the daffodil stalks - Katie Ford "Breaking Across Us Now"

The smell of the wind stalks them - Louise Gluck "Before the Storm"

Velvet deer stalking the moon - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"

The raw stalks of beginning - Joy Harjo "Tobacco Origin Story"

by stalking various tomorrows - Jim Heston "In the Time of Lycanthropy"

Through mullein stalks and jimson-weeds - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"

As Satan spider-like stalked the orb of dark - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

An elaboration of stalk and stilts - Janet Kauffman "An Elaboration of Stalk"

A lie, a limit, the crimped stalks of beech - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"

On their stalks set like vestal primroses - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Climb the stalk of early winter - Donika Kelly "Winter Poem"

One stalk of corn can't bear fruit - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

Shakes all the stalking shadows - Archibald Lampman "The City of the End of Things"

The enemy stalking at noontide - Margaret Leigh "Sonnet: The Journalist"

A weed stalk is the devil's walking stick - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"

Gray thoughts stalk round me - Jeannette Marks "Too Late"

A coyote stalking the pinnacles - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Withering on their stalks uneaten - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Poet and His Book"

A transparent stalk rooted in sand - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

Stalk the hunter in his flight - Ekhmetjan Osman "My Love" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

One chance stalk of wheat - "Presence" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

Stalking with Liberty along - James Ryder Randall "My Maryland"

Stalking the first star - Lola Ridge "Jaguar"

While Death stalks free in the silent world - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"

Somewhere among the million stalks - Christina G. Rossetti "A Green Cornfield"

From a single stalk of meadow rue - Reg Saner "What Wilderness Tells You"

Trouble stalked beneath the sky - George Santayana "Resurrection"

While famine and pestilence stalk'd in thy train - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The War-Spirit"

Strip each stalk of its stolen crop - Tracy K. Smith "Ghazal"

Moths migrating out of the cane stalks - Cathy Song "Picture Bride"

Which stalked along the lovely shore - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)

The last thin acre of stalks that stood - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

Glowing amaranth droops upon its stalk - Helen Hay Whitney "Dear Dead Women"

And Horror stalked before each man - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

The grim tyrant stalks full panoplied in power - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

For stalking what was never there - Humbert Wolfe "February 14"


The stoic, dignified stalker through chaos - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"


Climbing the beanstalk down the gravity well - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Rattlebox III"


Kingfishers ghosting in cornstalks - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"


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