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Innumerable.


I lie down each numbered night - Anne Carly Abad "Exchange"

A god in the minus numbers - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"

The number of bones in a peafowl - Hala Alyan "Siri as Mother"

In liquid numbers drowsy falling - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Sleep's Serenade"

As the fleeting days that numbered them - Lennox Amott "Stanzas Addressed to a Lady Coming of Age"

His numbers have their use - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.VIII--The Sunshine of Poetry"

And Time's cracked fingers number them all - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

A limited number of patterns - Jen Bervin "shakuhachi repertoire, handwritten from liner notes"

Heavenly blessings without number - Mary D. Brine "Grandma's Memories"

The Goddess of Numbers multiplying into dawn's light - Anthony Butts "Song of Starry-Eyed Children"

Actually, not much of a number - Anne Carson "Pinplay" [selections]

A dismal little number - Anne Carson "Pinplay" [selections]

Kafka's number one fan - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

Shrines without name or number - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"

Multiplied beyond the reach of numbers - "The Coral Island" [The Mirror of Literature v.10, no.279 (20 October 1827)]

The moment the numbers add up - Jim Daniels "Balancing the Checkbook"

A small number of promises called tomorrow - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"

Deep and majestic let the numbers flow - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Draperies for archaeologists to number - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

Whose needles numbered our myriad notions - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Any number times zero - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

Those numbers pale and horrid - Richard Glover "Admiral Hosier's Ghost"

In loose numbers wildly sweet - Thomas Gray "The Progress of Poesy"

A wrong number at midnight - Marilyn Hacker "Nearly a Valediction"

Added to an irrational number - Joy Harjo "Unmailed Letter"

Words and the curl of numbers - Conrad Hilberry "A Thin Song for a Girl"

Rings with a numbered chime - William H.C. Hosmer "My Study"

Oppose the chosen number of my days - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"

Punched the saddest numbers on the jukebox - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

Hear these tuneless numbers - John Keats "Psyche"

The flood of stifling numbers ebbs - John Keats "To Fanny"

Down to each numbered bone - Yusef Komunyakaa "Canticle"

Clothed you in vanishing numbers - Christopher Kondrich "Dwelling"

Their numbers as great as your soul - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

The mad keeper of numbers is always present - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

The swallows without number - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"

Hung upon the magic numbers - Mrs. S.T. Martyn "To Mrs. E.C.K."

Four numbers like four lucky birds - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (II)" transl. by Alastair Reid

An infinite number of grandfathers - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid

Where numbers cancel out names - Aaiun Nin "Broken Halves of a Milky Sun"

Construct temples to worship their Perfect Numbers - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"

Guess the number of seeds in a cucumber - Dorothy Parker "Parties: A Hymn of Hate"

Those slower, too-complicated numbers - Carl Phillips "Brothers in Arms"

The bad luck of odd numbers - Khadijah Queen "Something About the Way I Am Made Is Not Made"

Calculate the right numbers to escape the inevitable - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"

In the secret of our numbers - Carl Sandburg "Smoke and Steel"

Count out cities and forget the numbers - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

Stone and steel of your sleeping numbers - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"

A number of which will legitimize their presence - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

Breaks the spell of the ancient, numbered hours - A.E. Stallings "First Miracle"

Reply in the numbers of sadness - E. Clementine Stedman "Stanzas"

Had numbered all the nerves of pain - George Sterling "The Swoon"

To number blue infinities of bliss - Francis G. Stokes "Blue Moonshine"

Murmuring numbers that never added up - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"

His hours without number - Isaac Watts "The Sluggard"

A finite number of concentric rings - Wendy Xu "Praxis"

Lucky numbers that failed you - Matthew Zapruder "Come On All You Ghosts"


Virtues enumerated add up - Janet Kauffman "Virtues Enumerated Add Up"


Numberless.


To ask the placenta for its numerical origin - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"


The numerous letters the magnolias make - b ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"

Numerous as the ocean sand - Arthur Weir "Champlain"


Outnumber a noon's roses - Walter de la Mare "Nod"

Aware of being outnumbered by the spoons - Courtney Kampa "Credo"

When sometimes demons far outnumber angels - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Long Live" transl. by Nicholas Kontovas and edited by Gulnisa Nazarova


Renumbered into an urn of dust - francine j. harris "eight days until your ashes turn one"


On leases of short-number'd hours - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIV"


Unnumbered.


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