Potential Titles: Bottom

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At the bottom of the seventh circles of hell - Nada Almosa "Queer Arab Dictionary"

The sediment at the bottom of my heart - Julia Alvarez "In Spanish"

The sleep of a sunken log at the river's bottom - William Archila "Childhood"

Won't see his own shadow hit bottom - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Red light district"

To the bottom of the rain - James Baldwin "Inventory/On Being 52"

Found a way to go to the bottom of the world - Mary Jo Bang "On the Nature of Hardwiring"

From top to bottom of the fatal stair - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

The stones at bottom of my mind - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XXXV: Disenchantment"

In the bottom of the night - Cornelius Eady "Revenge (Running Man)"

The blank pools at sleep's bottom - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"

At the bottom of a wishing well - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Seawall soliloquy number two: she built a seawall"

Those unreadable receipts at the bottom of a purse - Janet Kauffman "Zooplankton and More"

The bottom hem of nowhere - Galway Kinnell "The Shroud"

Truth, rising from the bottom of her well - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"

Weeping at the bottom of the pool - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"

The bottom of the monstrous world - John Milton "Lycidas"

Hope trembled at the bottom of the enemy's bottles - Pablo Neruda "The Masks" transl. by Richard Schaaf

Let the bitterness sink to the bottom - January Gill O'Neil "In the Company of Women"

Dredged from the rock bottom of your heart - Lynn Powell "Feedback for the Muse"

The lava-dusted bottom of a cup - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

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

Asleep at the bottom of a blind lake - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Is Slow to Love"

The brown at the bottom of red - Wallace Stevens "The Green Plant"

Gleams in the deep bottom of a well - Matthew Thorburn "Forgotten Until You Find It"

A reward at bottom and at top - Edwin Torres "Water"

Has no bottom in my mind - John Updike "Endpoint"

With mirrors held to the bottom of lakes - Divya Victor "Make/Do"

From the bottom of the labyrinth - Maximilian Voloshin "The Birth of a Poem" transl. by A. S. K. [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]


A heart attack on the bottom line - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Determined to drag one down to their bottom line - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"


Bottomless.


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