Potential Titles: Self/Selves

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Herself.

Himself.

Itself.

Myself.


The curse to know one's self unknown - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

What might come of flinging oneself into thirst - Tariq Luthun "Finding Myself in the Direct Messages of Someone I Do Not Know Is in Kuwait"

Yet, one cannot take a lawsuit out on oneself - Cate Marvin "Lying My Head Off"

The prospectus of looking at oneself - Brandon Shimoda "The Desert"


Ourselves.


Compromise the seed of self - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"

The quality of my self served stigmatas - Gia Anansi-Shakur "The Owl"

The other half of my divided self - Mary Jo Bang "Close Observation Especially of One Under Suspicion"

Keep this foundling self - Lou Barrett "Fanny"

clockwise back to a better self - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"

Scattering the self into thinking - Jennifer Chang "We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once"

The self is an invisible glass - Ken Chen "Brief Lives: Descartes in Love" [excerpts]

The dread watch-tower of man's absolute self - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "To a Gentleman"

Fair as the summer's self - Susan Coolidge "Mary"

Nature's self thy Ganymede - Abraham Cowley "The Grasshopper"

And make Neptune's self to quake - Rev. William Crowe "From Purchase's Pilgrimage, Versified and Designed as a Motto to 'Voyages for the Discovery of a N.W. Passage'"

Turned each to his own self - H.D. "Circe"

And nature's self wear mourning - Sir William Davenant "The Dying Lover"

The wallpapered shadow of a secret self - Meg Day "Big Sky Domestic"

Broken glass from the self's smashed bottles - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

In scorn for miserable aims that end with self - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Bedlam of a parallel ejected self - Chiyuma Elliott "Works on Paper"

Sure as footsteps in my waiting self - Annie Finch "Samhain"

That beauty's self rose visible in the world - John Freeman "The Body"

A joyousness beyond the self - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"

Between my senses and my self - H.L. Hix "Blur"

my Self in the unyielding barrenness - Ra Malika Imhotep "an armistice between my dead folks and my delusions"

A malady of my baffled self - Kimberly Johnson "Farrow"

Bearing the weight of a whole self - Mary Karr "County Fair"

Relinquishes self and will and want - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: Christ Human"

Postulate the exact shade of the astral self - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

The thrumming wilderness of self - Donika Kelly "Out West"

Mirrors in which the self is projected - Elizabeth Knapp "Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman's Instagram Account"

In a bubble of sound and self - Michael Lauchlan "Haul"

Because subject-verb agreement cares not for self - Amari Low "Themself"

The pent chamber of habitual self - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Adorn the self to be adored - Sally Wen Mao "Nucleation"

Took into body my own self - Yesenia Montilla "a brief meditation on breath"

In the dark tree of the self - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Cuts her own self from the clay - Angel Nafis "King of Kreations"

Weave a dream of self - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

One sleeping self inside a woken self - Sasha Pimentel "Lament of Submerged Persons"

The bracken of your invasive self - Carl Phillips "Civilization"

The self is a thousand localities - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [The self is a thousand localities]"

The sharded self of the lightbulb - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"

For some fraction of the self - Kay Ryan "Playacting"

Carrying impulse pain and self - R.S. Saha "Kin"

Museums of the exaggerated self - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Three"

May I for my own self song's truth reckon - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

The self's delicate apparatus crumpled - Vijay Seshadri "Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels"

And fortify your self in your decay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"

Unavoidable assertion of a self she refused - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"

The strangulation of the self - Brandon Shimoda "The Desert"

The fiction of silence and a better self - Bruce Smith "Garden"

The self's rivalry unraveled - Richard Solomon "Wormwood (For Linda)"

Self with self in secret tourney - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

A second of the self - Wallace Stevens "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together"

Left my dusty self upon the sand - M. Letitia Stockett "Sleep"

Every kind of self that can be - Mary Szybist "In the Beginning God Said Light"

The sun's self unstain'd and bright remains - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: VII"

On the stage life's self did strive to set - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XI"

The smallest stone of the self - Susan Tichy "Public Speech"

languishing as ghost of her famous self - David Trinidad "The afterlife of fame"

Weaves the one self she wears - John Hall Wheelock "Night Has Its Fear"

The self stripped of alimonies, stripped of pearls - Amie Whittemore "Lunar Eclipse"

This unhealable self - C. K. Williams "Dissections"

An absence declares its blunt self - Wendy Xu "Writing Home"

The roughest fabric of the self - Josephine Yu "Prayer to Saint Joseph: For the Restless"


The weight of our absent selves - Maya Angelou "After"

Our thought & selves housed by history - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

The heavy flavors of their final selves - Kai Coggin "Essence"

In the green jungle of wild selves - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"

Become our separate selves - Edward Hirsch "Dr. X"

Our drawn over selves - Matt Rasmussen "Ekphrastifilia"

The many selves I had - Ira Sadoff "Old Selves"

Selves more solid than stars - Mary Szybist "Approaching Elegy"

Not only tears and time but souls and selves - Shveta Thakrar "A Love in Twelve Feathers"

Surviving their own dead selves - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Grave-Digger" transl. by Alma Strettell

with their whole selves blown open - Maria Zoccola "Dry Land"


Anarchy of self-abandoned will - Edward Dowden "Andromeda"

My insomniac answer to self-addressed prayers - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"

Erupting with the self-assurance of the new - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

Self-betrayal in its sudden burn - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

Stung by the self-betrayal - Carol Moldaw "Arthritis"

And blot their censure with self-blaming - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: II"

So many self-conscious molecular assemblies - Christopher Buckley "Desire"

In the first twilight of self-conscious Time - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Your self-conscious secret fruits - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"

The stone of self-control - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Big Bang as Seen on a Chrysanthemum Stone"

Sincere in self-deception - Margaret Widdemer "An Old Portrait"

By equities of self-defence - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

To cross the lines of self-defence - Leonard Cohen "The Letters"

A self-destructiveness no memory can repeal - Charles Wright "Homage to Samuel Beckett"

Manifestations of self-discipline - Jen Bervin "shakuhachi repertoire, handwritten from liner notes"

puppet for self-discovery - Nnadi Samuel "Orchard of Failed Sciences"

We fools self-doomed to motley - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Of soot and self-doubt - Assetou Xango "Give Your Daughters Difficult Names"

Darker woe come o'er calm self-enjoying thought - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

Sends you to self-ignited forests - Khaled Mattawa "The Pages You Loved"

As a self-imagined Atlas - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"

Flames of my self-inflicted glory - Anthony Madrid "Try Never"

Phantom suns in self-irradiance drowned - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"

No design of self-respect or self-knowledge - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

An exile in a self-made skiff - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

Let his weakness die in self-reclaiming dust - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

No design of self-respect or self-knowledge - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

The bloodied, the self-righteous, and the forsaken - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"

Built for terror and self-sacrifice - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Doo-Wop"

The self-same knots of air and ice - Linda Gregerson "Spring Snow"

Self-spun cocoon of prudence wound - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Light's flame with self-substantial fuel - William Shakespeare "Sonnet I"

Whose every atom is self-willed - James Russell Lowell "Pessimoptimism"


In the selfhood of wasps - Tony Hoagland "The Truth"


Selfish.


I am tired of being selfless - Gwynne Garfinkle "Ralph Touchett Awaits Revision"

For selfless valour and the primal fire - Ivor Gurney "Hospital Pictures 5. The Miner"


Themself/Themselves.

Yourself/Yourselves.


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