Potential Titles: Carve

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Mallards carved in oily silken water - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

Carving your name on the cell wall - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"

Carved on Life's facade of hours - Auguste Angellier "The Garland of Sleep" transl. by Henry van Dyke

Carved his body from a bough of box-tree - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXIV: Brotherless Sisters" transl. by Sir John Bowring

The hollow they carve in the chest - Rebecca Baggett "Chestnut"

Speaks through your hollow carved wood - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

That carved these love knots - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

Carved of minerals pure and cold - Charles Baudelaire "Robed in a Silken Robe" transl. not credited

Salvage logs now kilned and carved - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"

A people carved of gravel and dust - Julia Bouwsma "Interview with the Dead"

Carved by the slag of too much coffee - Russell Brakefield "Raccoon Sighting Before Intimacy"

Carve the charter of your birth - Clarence Frederick Buhler "The March of Life" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.6, June 1864]

Carve your devotion - Dante Di Stefano "Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)"

And mists are carved away - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love I: Choice"

Factories carved into cliff-faces - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

Carve snow prints on a sidewalk vanished - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Quiet"

For music carved on Sumerian stones - Carolyn Forche "Dulcimer Maker"

Swallows carve lake wind - Carolyn Forche "Skin Canoes"

Carved with rude cipher - Ralph W.W. Fox "On Hearing that the Names Carved upon an Old School Table Are to be Removed"

There a cloud is carved - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"

Carved of ebony and ice - Joy Harjo "White Bear"

Carved me in the semblance of a god - Alice Corbin Henderson "From the Stone Age"

Carved myself into the civil shape of a knife - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"

People who carve their horns into daggers - Edward Hirsch "Black Rhinoceros"

The sundial's been carved in the dirt - Carlie Hoffman "Point of View Where Orpheus Makes a Pit Stop at a Fortune Teller in St Germain"

Carved from ruin upon ruin - William Dean Howells "The Faithful of the Gonzaga"

Catacombs that ancient fate had carved - Aldous Huxley "Mole"

Resting by her carven fountain - Sade Iverson "Ten Square Feet of Garden"

Carving its own vows on each other's skin - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Unless you carve witch hazel in the old style - Janet Kauffman "Uncalled-For"

In a carven censer of burnished words - Joyce Kilmer "Thurifer"

Slender face carved by wind - Christopher Kondrich "Degree of Nothing"

That carves the will to live - Alfred Kreymborg "Credo"

Suffering carves smoothness which cannot cut any longer - Alfred Kreymborg "Stones"

Sweet sleep in carven stone - Archibald Lampman "Sleep"

Carve each day a slice of doom - Michael Lauchlan "Letter to a Dead Friend"

Heaved lava over carved stone and manuscript - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"

Carving out this pocket of air - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Carved it to be our temporary castle - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Carved wood, wherein the death-watch ticks - John Masefield "The Haunted"

Your initials carved in dogwoods - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"

beside a road carved out of desert night - Andy Miller "All Those Bleached Bones"

So circuitous it carves new dimensions - Marci Nelligan "Sestina"

Carved from stone of pride - Pablo Neruda "Horses" transl. by Alastair Reid

That town of wood recently carved - Pablo Neruda "Where the Rain Is Born: The First Journey" transl. by Alastair Reid

carve words in the dark - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

And carve off each stain of the hurt - Brandon O'Brien "Elegy for the Self as Villeneuve's Beast"

How quickly one carves out a corner of the cosmos - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"

Until devotion carved a wound - Romeo Oriogun "Griot of Strange Places"

Carven filigree of Thought - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"

Carved its past out of God's shoulder - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"

Carve a home in my bones - Sina Queyras "I Am No Lady, Lazarus"

Water is carved like fern - Edgell Rickword "Winter Prophecies"

Carved out of marble clouds - Edgell Rickword "Yegor"

Has learned to carve many doors out of its darkness - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"

Carve it in doves and pomegranates - Christina Rossetti "A Birthday"

Carve our sorrows on the face of joy - Charles Sangster "Love's Renewal"

Carved out Eden between our ribs - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"

carved me from the old mesquite that stretched impossibly - ire'ne lara silva "me llamo viento"

Would carve the mask of Mystery - Clark Ashton Smith "A Precept"

Their houses carved into his lungs - Milo K. Szyszka "A Tale of Moths and Home (of Bones and Breathing) (of Extrinsic Restrictive Lung Disease)"

That carved this fretted door - Jane Taylor "The Squire's Pew"

Carven column whereon monsters cling - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours III" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Who carved a scorpion on his arm - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"

Carved from centuries of hunger - Ocean Vuong "The Smallest Measure"

Her body carves out rivers in the ground - "Wildlife Encounter"

Carving from the dark this difficult tree - Christian Wiman "Hard Night"

A space carved from shadow and air - Cynthia Zarin "The Impulse Wants Company"

Carved the city into hundredths - Art Zilleruelo "Someone's Property"


Their carver with heart of stone - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"


Half-carved by your hands - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"


Cherish uncarved blocks of stone - "The Way of Virtue: Away with Philosophers" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]


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