somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Whatever

Whatever it is that possesses them - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

That whatever is named will obey - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Drown whatever it holds in its throat - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Whatever power wields the watering can - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"

To unsheathe whatever torches they would - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"

Whatever narrow miseries I make - Jericho Brown "Taken"

Whatever he did he was sure to regret - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

Mindless of whate'er befalls you - Frank Oliver Call "On a Swiss Mountain"

Whatever doors we've forgotten - Jennifer Chang "About Trees"

At the right hand of whatever spirit guides us - Patricia Clark "Creed"

Whatever you think of borders - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"

Whate'er we prize of love and worth - D.F. "The Fall of the Year" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.719, 6 Oct. 1877]

Whatever sorrow shadows you - Nikki Grimes "Crucible of Champions"

Whatever is left of moonlight - Nathalie Handal "Tout rivye gen zen/All rivers have gossip"

whatever we are after this - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."

Of whatever grief calls itself - Terrance Hayes "Twenty Measures of Chitchat"

Whatever follows the wild fires - Conrad Hilberry "Danse Macabre"

Cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world - A.E. Housman "Last Poems IX"

Whatever will not flower again - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XLVI"

That always leavens whate'er we hold of worth - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

Whatever fate singes with fire - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"

Whatever the population of the field - Mark Jarman "Then Saw the Problem"

Accept whatever the tides bring - Imaikalani Kalahele "Contact Zone"

Whatever unannounced whiteout blizzard hits our blood - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"

Gather up whatever is glittering - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

Whatever melody my voice had steeped in tears - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Francie"

Fate is whatever has already happened - Katy Lederer "That Everything's Inevitable"

Whatever of ourselves we leave bare - Anni Liu "Lake of Isles"

Whatever the hollow year must offer - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

For whatever remains after the sea rises - Tariq Luthun "For Those We Left Behind"

Renouncing whatever they chose - Anthony Madrid "Injured Bone"

Forced to be whatever we resemble - Claudia Masin "Tomboy" (translated by Robin Myers)

To whatever replaces the horizon - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

For whatever night is left - Wes Matthews "Immortality"

To find whatever mainspring made things go - E.L. Mayo "Letter to My Grandfather's Picture"

Whatever vermilion myth flies - Claire Millikin "Elegy for Sage Smith"

Whatever road the gravel makes - Angel Nafis "TarBaby Fly!"

Whatever kite begs the sky - Angel Nafis "TarBaby Fly!"

Whatever small light bees bestow on fallen leaves - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

Whatever flowered had to fade - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Understand"

For whatever we might want time to do - G.E. Patterson "The Keeping Room"

The ocean keeping whate'er it gains - Florence Peacock "Lost at Sea" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.137-v.III, 14 Aug. 1886]

Give him whatever he takes - Iain Haley Pollock "the smoke of the country went up"

Bought whatever had most blooms - Po-Chu-i "Planting Flowers on the Eastern Embankment" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Whatever double-hung treason - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist Watching the Election Results Come In"

A potion for whatever you don't want - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"

I'll take whatever prize sage Clotho gives - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

For whatever being human could mean - Tim Seibles "Faith"

Whatever score I have to settle with sorrow - Prageeta Sharma "Seattle Sun"

Whatever menace be - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"

The lingering itch of whatever - Dorothea Tanning "Lucky"

Just barrel right into whatever ignites them - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

Taking whatever his hands will give - Natasha Trethewey "His Hands"

beat back whatever hordes come haunting - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

Whatever the awful silence must surely have revealed - Jamie Wasserman "German Man Found Dead in Home 5 Years After He Died"

Whatever is closest to shadow - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"

Whatever dreaming enters - Katie Willingham "Correction: Tonight Is Not the Longest Night in the History of Earth"

Whate'er the sense take or may refuse - William Wordsworth "Most Sweet It Is With Unuplifted Eyes"

Whatever I forget is gone - Jane Yolen "Never Look Back"

Follow whatever instructs them - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

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