Potential Titles: Bite

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A biting wind and a graveyard couth - Lennox Amott "Drink"

The sharp bite of the bad apple - Mary Jo Bang "Given to Believe"

Biting open one thing to leave another - Jan Beatty "I'll Write the Girl"

Hunger still in every bite - Sue Budin "Argyria"

And bite my thumb at the world - C.S. Calverley "First Love"

With acid teeth bite the wind as it passes - Rosario Castellanos "Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone" transl. by George D. Schade

Before biting winter comes - Hilda Conkling "Bluebird"

The light which bites and blights - Edward Dowden "Song and Silence"

The ice takes a bite - Heid E. Erdich "How We Walk"

Bites thorn and ice - Heid E. Erdich "Thrifty Gene, Lucky Gene"

The way a snake bites its tail - Maritza N. Estrada "Audience"

A silkworm's bitten mulberry leaves - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XIV"

Eating of the last sweet bite - Joy Harjo "Perhaps the World Ends Here"

The first bite is neither sweet nor bitter - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"

After the black bite of frost - Saeed Jones "Postapocalyptic Heartbeat"

Who takes the bite out of every bark - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"

The sharp biting file of action - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile]"

Cut them clean with my bite - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

The biting north wind breaks full - Archibald Lampman "Sunset"

Thimbles of blood and bite - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"

Their little bites distracting you from harder pain - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"

Snowshoes bite the trail open - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

And seen the rivers bitten black - Adam Mickiewicz "Mountains from the Keslov Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Bitten by a crab loyal to the hydra - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

With masks bitten by winter - Pablo Neruda "The Destroyed Street" translated by Donald D Walsh

Bitten out by the teeth of winter - Pablo Neruda "Horses" transl. by Alastair Reid

Two bites of the same dessert - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Address Book of a Lonely Man"

In the event that you are bitten by an angel - Tim Pratt "Angel Bites"

Fibers pulled through biting teeth - Danni Quintos "Possible Reasons My Dad Won't Return to the Philippines"

Sand at the bottom that bites at your feet - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "The Branch"

The bite of a softened cardamom pod - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"

A sip of the lake and a bite of the sky - Deborah Ruddell "Today at the Bluebird Cafe"

Hide from the biting hum of time - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"

A soul with a pockmarked, bitten past - Elizabeth Spires "Badger Disguised as a Monk"

Because someone has to teach us life's bite - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"

This clown's sharp teeth and jeering bite - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"

One bite of winter lingers - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Wintergreen"

With biting bitterness of mind - Charles William Wallace "False Womankind!"

A premonition of the first sweet bite - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"

Ten parts bark and no parts bite - Allan Wolf "Mars: A Martian Sonnet"

Bitten and erratic ghosts - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Bite right through the heart's restraints - Zheng Min "A False Image" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Backbite of bicker and rant - Mary Jo Bang "Packing the Heart"


Frostbite.


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


Beneath a sun-bitten sky - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"


Starved and wind-bitten oak - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"

Wind-bitten beech with badger barrows - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"


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