Potential Titles: Brush

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Days we take cover in like roadside brush - Ari Banias "Human Time"

Paint your tresses with silvered brush - John Philip Bourke "Till Day Is Done"

Brushing indigo along the wall - Sue Budin "Synesthesia"

Your fingers hot to cut away the green of brush and flower - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

Disintegrating at the barest brush of light - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"

brushing against the shadows - Lucille Clifton "one year later"

Brushed for a moment in gravel dust - James Crews "Tomatoes"

and brush the mischief from her eyes - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

Can follow Leonardo's rapid brush - Russell W. Davenport "Poems IX"

The dry brush set aflame by your truth - Kwame Dawes "Eat"

Brushed by a plum tree's wicked thorns - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

Picasso dipped his brush in their tears - Diane DeCillis "Weeping Women"

Dipped his brush in their tears - Diane DeCillis "Weeping Women"

Into the brush of another day - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Poem [Ah, I know what happiness is....]"

Whose fingers brush the sky - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXIV: The Wind"

Tossed off in a shudder of brushed steel - Rita Dove "The Bistro Styx"

Brushes dust from his lips - Cheryl Dumesnil "Good Morning Heartache"

And breath brushes across the hollow - Kevin J. Fellows "Bone Song"

Brush over star's dust - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Canyon"

Bruised by the brush of a swallow's wing - Theodora Goss "The Sensitive Woman"

Used a rosebud for a brush - Tom Hall "The Perfect Face"

Streaked by one touch of the careless brush - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

Brushed her mortal weeds against their wings - Jean Ingelow "The Dreams that Came True"

Brushed with someone else's perfume - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"

The stone moon descends to brush his shoulders clean - John James "Other Adam"

With brushes of comet's hair - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

The roads brushing the clouds - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"

As dusky birds brushed blues into a montage - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Brushes brown varnish over the past - Ted Kooser "A Sepia Photograph"

Her brown hair brushed with wet tears - D.H. Lawrence "A Baby Asleep After Pain"

A sharp sky brushes upon the myriad glittering chimney-tips - D.H. Lawrence "Bombardment"

A breath in a bubble spinning brushing the stars - D.H. Lawrence "Elegy"

Brushes the blossoms against the balustrade - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough

Racing the writing brush - Liu Cheng "Poem without a Category" transl. by Burton Watson

With determination and a brush of bells - Audre Lorde "For Craig"

Brushed the dust off of my sorrows - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "I Opened My Door" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

A jungle of weeds and brush - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson

Light garments brush against the dark - Virna Sheard "Before the Dawn"

Wind brushing through stands of spears - A.E. Stallings "Epic Simile"

Each time my brush is dipped into the ink - Tu Fu "The Poet Dreams" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Brush and brushfire was unburied and unbound - Leah Umansky "Unleashed" [Poetry Nov. 2020]

Who brushed the moon on thick to halt her travels - Michael Waters "Homo Sapiens" [Poetry, January 1988]



Time was a brushfire burning - Mary Jo Bang "The Still Knife Still Suspended"

Fevered blaze of backyard brush fires - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

Brush and brushfire was unburied and unbound - Leah Umansky "Unleashed" [Poetry Nov. 2020]


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A nervous brushwork of grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"


Pack my toothbrush and my cyanide molar - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"


Feral cats in the underbrush - Seth Abramson "The Woods in Concord"

Hiding in the underbrush with hopes - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"


Into a bat's wing-brush of air - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"


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