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With 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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