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A boat afloat on a river of tears - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

First the ghost boats - Samuel Ace "I hear a dog who is always in my death"

To the boats born so happy - Etel Adnan "Night"

All the boats on the horizon - Mary Jo Bang "On the Nature of Hardwiring"

Won't hold a sliver of a boat - "The Book of Odes: No.61 Who Says the River Is Wide?" transl. by Burton Watson

Loading a boat to look for whales - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"

A boat on the waters of solitude - William Brewer "Playing Along"

An unmoored boat drifting aimlessly - Chia Yi "Rhyme-Prose on the Owl" transl. by Burton Watson

dreaming a small boat through centuries of water - Lucille Clifton "shadows"

A silver boat on the beautiful river - "The Cradle of Gold" transl. by Alfred Perceval Graves

Close-seated in one crimson boat - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

Sail your boat of sorrow to another shore - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Lay dollar store boats in the gutters - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"

Had I a boat and a single oar- credited to an emigrant named MacAmbrois "The Exile's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Sing to Charon in his boat - Michael Field "[It was deep April, and the morn]"

In fire the great boat beats the seas - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

Boat in night's dense harbor - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7"

On a drowning boat - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"

Boats and barges anchored to the sands - Robert Graves "I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned?"

Boat of potent fever - Joy Harjo "Granddaughters"

The brittle boat abandoned - Conrad Hilberry "December 26"

Two boats upon a sea of glass - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Derelicts"

A boat to carry them out of the wreckage - D.H. Lawrence "After the Opera"

To sail my paper boats - Albert Lee "My Realm"

My shadow, in your dark boat - Denise Levertov "A Defeat"

Heading home by evening boat - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson

His ribcage filled with tiny boats - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"

Mending his boat's broken beam - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "Who Was He? A Story of Peter the Great" transl. by John Pollen

Who is the boat and who is the sea? - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"

Suppose the boat should be upset - "Milking Pails"

A stubborn boat of stone and music - Pablo Neruda "The Ship" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Got nothing but leaky boats - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]

Boat of heartache and ecstasy - Hai-Dang Phan "River to River"

A cowboy in the boat of Ra - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

In the dim phantom boat that glided past - Rainer Maria Rilke "Lament" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Boats of mercy embark - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

Launched them like paper boats - Ira Sadoff "My First Roses"

Cross a sulphuric lake in a leaky boat - A.E. Stallings "Fairy-tale Logic"

Lift the anchor from each stone boat - Frank Stanford "My Day Is Over"

The boat was built of stones - Wallace Stevens "Prologues to What Is Possible"

Tie the boat to the willow-trees - Tu Fu "The Excursion" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough

The stuff Hope takes to build her brittle boat - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"

No footbridge or boat over Lethe - Charles Wright "Bees Are the Terrace Builders of the Stars"

A boat laden with starlight - Xu Zhimo "Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again" (translated by Hugh Grigg)

The neighbor's boat not yet docked - Kevin Young "Halter"


Crows flapped down to keep the boatman company - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson


The boat-yard of the last gondola maker - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"


A toy dog left on a rowboat adrift - Mary Jo Bang "Today You're the Still Photographer"


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