Potential Titles: Bridge

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Stand on the bridge with my camera - Kim Addonizio "Salmon"

With bridges ready to embrace us - Francisco X. Alarcon "City of Bridges"

My name is not a bridge - Mouna Ammar "ID"

The sky is a bridge of stars - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Deep in the crumbling bridge's shade - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"

Good at trenches, bad at bridges - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"

In the rubble of a fallen bridge - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"

Two miles walked over a bridge - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"

The Lady of the Lake presiding over the bridge - Anthony Butts "Eight Modes toward Desire"

Ruined bridge at edge of night - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

And throw a golden bridge across - Phoebe Cary "Otway"

Horned dragons to bridge the ford - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

The bridge of fallen answers - Leonard Cohen "Drank a Lot"

On the bridge of misery - Leonard Cohen "Samson in New Orleans"

The bridge swings over salvage - Hart Crane "Recitative"

Gilded cats guarding the empty bridge - Jim Daniels "Listening to '96 Tears' by? and the Mysterians While Looking Down from My Third-Floor Window at a Kid Crossing the Panther Hollow Bridge"

Bridges without a trace of threnody - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Like a bridge toward starlight - Cheryl Dumesnil "Love Song for the Drag Queen at Little Orphan Andy's"

Lead me over a ballet of bridges - Safia Elhillo "Amsterdam"

On this splintered bridge to nowhere - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

The bridge across the Torrent's fall - George Blackstone Field "To You Who Can Never Understand"

Walk a bridge of dinosaur bones - Vievee Francis "The Scale of Empire"

Through a bridge of tree limbs - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Remnant"

A bridge of lava - Melody S. Gee "The Convert Wants Wounds, Not Scars"

When you come to the listening bridge - Ingrid Goff-Maidoff "The Listening Bridge"

Over each bridge of trouble - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"

A bridge between two shores of meaning - Laura Grothaus "Urban Legends of the Ohio River"

Make of my body a glass bridge - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

A bridge of questions in the solitude of dreams - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"

Old bridges breaking between - Seamus Heaney "Scaffolding"

Bend my life to bridge the tide - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"

Bridged by clouds of breath - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"

That pour beneath one bridge - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Hundreds of old pianos forming a bridge - Ilya Kaminsky "What We Cannot Hear"

a bridge you will never need to cross first - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

When the fog smokes the bridges - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

The rainbow bridge eternal that is Hope - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

Rolling all its bridges under - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

Bridges and blood boiled white - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"

Bridged by a road of molten glass - R.B. Lemberg "The Three Immigrations"

Bridge between ink and atmosphere - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"

Blow a different horn, burn a different bridge - Marissa Lingen "The Plural of Apocalypse"

Springing bridges of crimson lacquer - Amy Lowell "Red Slippers"

The keystone of his airy bridge - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

The bridge across the silent river gone - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"

Bridged with speech and sight - Don Marquis "Across the Night"

On the bridges to those slippery worlds - Khaled Mattawa "Malouk's Qassida"

A violin's bridge you cross or burn - Jamaal May "To Detroiters I Too May Have Called by the Wrong Names"

Bridge of bone and intellect - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"

On the bridge with one end - M.S. Merwin "Vixen"

To cross the bridge of ancient snow - Adam Mickiewicz "The Pass Across the Abyss in the Tschufut-Kale" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

The sound of the train rattling over the bridge - Joseph Millar "One Day"

Reverse that bridge of the falling sun - Claire Millikin "City of Disappeared Girls"

An incessant trembling bridge - Eileen Myles "Fifty-Three"

Walking toward you on this bridge of poems - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

How long to bridge the distance - Walter S. Percy "The Snail and Star"

Every fairy tale requires a bridge - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Telling a Bedtime Story"

Any body can be a bridge - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"

Awful bridge rising over naked air - Adrienne Rich "Victory"

Bridge across the abyss - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

The bridges that lead to Dream - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens. I" transl. by Jessie Lemont

River bridges and star charts - Alberto Rios "A House Called Tomorrow"

And a bridge had just fallen - Kay Ryan "Tripped"

A bridge redshifts toward oblivion - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"

Marched across the bridged Potomac - Edmund Clarence Stedman "How Old Brown Took Harper's Ferry"

Sudden subtle bridges - Gerald Stern "Grass and Water"

Twenty men crossing a bridge - Wallace Stevens "Metaphors of a Magnifico"

The bridge of the spanning pine-tree - Alfred B. Street "The Waterfall"

Though our bridges are orphaned arches - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

No trivial bridge of words - Henry David Thoreau "Friendship"

Make of my body a bridge - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"

Enamelled bridges arching from dream to dream - Iris Tree "[Ah! the spring, sudden, surprising]"

Waters are deep and bridges broken - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

Frail bridges to infinity - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Old Man"

Who build bridges between the dead and the living - Morgan L. Ventura "Dispatch from a Ruin in Mitla, the Town of Souls"

The bridge he's set to repeat - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"

Fresh butter was the bridge in front - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"

A bridge to theory and dreams - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

O'er the torrents fling your bridges - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]

And crossed the bridge in single file - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"

Only a bridge through the clouds - Matthew Zapruder "What I Need"

The pause between the thunder and the bridge - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"

Three goats balking at the bridge - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"

Each step a rope bridge hung in the air - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"


Bridge-builders of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

The drawbridge of the mind - James Baldwin "Conundrum (on my birthday) (for Rico)"

Footbridges love the past - Stephanie Burt "At the Providence Zoo"

Through a footbridge's fenced floor - Chris Dombrowski "I Canonize Dick Curran"

The old foot-bridge and the murmuring mill - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"

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


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