Potential Titles: Table
Aug. 2nd, 2011 02:03 amWith tables broken and chairs o'erthrown - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"
Boredom leaves crumbs on the table - Mary Jo Bang "The School of Knowledge"
A table in the shade of a parasol tree - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"
The memory of my mother's table - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"
Across a table top of tension - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"
The table bare and quiet as dust - Diane DeCillis "Music from Another Room"
Like some strange bouquet for her table - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
Only one chair at your table - Camille T. Dungy "Characteristics of Life"
A place at their table for animal and divine - Elaine Equi "Wolves of the Sacred Heart" [Poetry July/Aug. 2014]
Warm on the table of my truce with the world - Martin Espada "After the Goose that Rose Like the God of Geese"
Surfeit from the table of the gods - Linda Gregerson "Prodigal"
Who at the table feigns with sorry jest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On the Fly-Leaf of the Rubaiyat"
If rain sat at my table - Bob Hicok "More than whispers, less than rumors"
Table tops zinging with boomerangs - Jenny Johnson "In the Dream"
Piled up before her on a banquet table - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"
At the opposite end of the table - Aimee Le "The Best Lesson"
Centerpieces on another table - Aimee Le "The Best Lesson"
Had moved his table of mirrors - Gary Lehmann "The Heat of the Moon"
Two different kitchen tables - Ada Limon "Joint Custody"
The table ripe with fruits and metal parts - Angela Liu "The Machine Family"
At the profane communion table - Mina Loy "Love Songs (section III)"
The kitchen table spread with mutton bones - Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe "The Lay of the Sheriff"
A table that eats its own legs off because it's fallen in love with the floor - Cate Marvin "Scenes from the Battle of Us"
Our table of the vanishing point - Claire Millikin "After Ballet"
Four blazing cups on the table - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Play cards at the devil's table - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Flat tables spread with wind - Naomi Shihab Nye "At Portales, New Mexico"
A few phrases pieced together around a kitchen table - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Story, around the Corner"
Our table set only with memories - Linda Pastan "The Burglary"
Dining at the table of history - Phan Nhien Hao "Summer in Lisbon" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
The table of history littered with leftovers - Phan Nhien Hao "Summer in Lisbon" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
A puzzle on the table, half completed - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
A wintry hunger mopes beyond that table - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"
Written on a grain of rice by someone at a folding table - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
His table is bedecked with moss - anonymous? "The Royal Court"
Where her secluded oak table always waited - David St. John "Los Angeles, 1954"
Call the ghost to my fragile table - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"
A fair table all of the beaten gold - Frederick Sheldon "Belted Will"
A lamp above the incorruptible table - Maria Luisa Spaziani transl. by Lynne Lawner
She shall not be companion of my table - Leonora Speyer "Friends"
Rusty cup-stains on the tables - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
The table throws its weight of shadow - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
Shares the table with deceit - John Updike "Transparent Strategems"
Let the dust settle on my dressing-table - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
the roundtable turned square - jessica Care moore "She Was"
A tabletop scattered with ruins - Mary Jo Bang "Interrupted Briefly by a Borrowed Phrase, the Scene Proceeds"
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Boredom leaves crumbs on the table - Mary Jo Bang "The School of Knowledge"
A table in the shade of a parasol tree - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"
The memory of my mother's table - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"
Across a table top of tension - Paul Cameron Brown "Rain Film"
The table bare and quiet as dust - Diane DeCillis "Music from Another Room"
Like some strange bouquet for her table - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
Only one chair at your table - Camille T. Dungy "Characteristics of Life"
A place at their table for animal and divine - Elaine Equi "Wolves of the Sacred Heart" [Poetry July/Aug. 2014]
Warm on the table of my truce with the world - Martin Espada "After the Goose that Rose Like the God of Geese"
Surfeit from the table of the gods - Linda Gregerson "Prodigal"
Who at the table feigns with sorry jest - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On the Fly-Leaf of the Rubaiyat"
If rain sat at my table - Bob Hicok "More than whispers, less than rumors"
Table tops zinging with boomerangs - Jenny Johnson "In the Dream"
Piled up before her on a banquet table - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"
At the opposite end of the table - Aimee Le "The Best Lesson"
Centerpieces on another table - Aimee Le "The Best Lesson"
Had moved his table of mirrors - Gary Lehmann "The Heat of the Moon"
Two different kitchen tables - Ada Limon "Joint Custody"
The table ripe with fruits and metal parts - Angela Liu "The Machine Family"
At the profane communion table - Mina Loy "Love Songs (section III)"
The kitchen table spread with mutton bones - Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe "The Lay of the Sheriff"
A table that eats its own legs off because it's fallen in love with the floor - Cate Marvin "Scenes from the Battle of Us"
Our table of the vanishing point - Claire Millikin "After Ballet"
Four blazing cups on the table - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Play cards at the devil's table - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"
Flat tables spread with wind - Naomi Shihab Nye "At Portales, New Mexico"
A few phrases pieced together around a kitchen table - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Story, around the Corner"
Our table set only with memories - Linda Pastan "The Burglary"
Dining at the table of history - Phan Nhien Hao "Summer in Lisbon" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
The table of history littered with leftovers - Phan Nhien Hao "Summer in Lisbon" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
A puzzle on the table, half completed - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
A wintry hunger mopes beyond that table - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"
Written on a grain of rice by someone at a folding table - Margaret Ross "Evolution"
His table is bedecked with moss - anonymous? "The Royal Court"
Where her secluded oak table always waited - David St. John "Los Angeles, 1954"
Call the ghost to my fragile table - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"
A fair table all of the beaten gold - Frederick Sheldon "Belted Will"
A lamp above the incorruptible table - Maria Luisa Spaziani transl. by Lynne Lawner
She shall not be companion of my table - Leonora Speyer "Friends"
Rusty cup-stains on the tables - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
The table throws its weight of shadow - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"
Shares the table with deceit - John Updike "Transparent Strategems"
Let the dust settle on my dressing-table - Li Yi-hang "Looking into Mist" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
the roundtable turned square - jessica Care moore "She Was"
A tabletop scattered with ruins - Mary Jo Bang "Interrupted Briefly by a Borrowed Phrase, the Scene Proceeds"
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