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thin as a blade with an edge that smarts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

Their edges lost without the needle - Rasha Abdulhadi "What Trauma Remembers About Us"

Reaching the edge of forests infinite - Rasha Abdulhadi "Young Adult Catalogue"

She walked on the edge of the steep - "Agnes and the Merman" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Turning the brittle edge of one high wave - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Metempsychosis"

Set on some precipice's perilous edge - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Those stars were letters swimming at creation's edge - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Still lies just outside the edge of my mind - Mike Allen "Space War"

Dance near every edge - Threa Almontaser "And That Fast, You're Thinking About Their Bodies"

At the scoured edge - Rae Armantrout "Music"

To the edge of all our days - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Taste the edge of August - Joseph Auslander "In Envy of Cows"

A broken glass on the edge of boredom - Mary Jo Bang "The Disappearance of Amerika: After Kafka"

That unbridled edge of anarchy - Mary Jo Bang "Electra Dreams"

Irresistible silence on the edge of a ruin - Mary Jo Bang "Etched, Tetched, Touched"

Your own tragic edge of a rug - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"

Lying on the edge of nothing - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"

The lot with an abyss at the edge - Mary Jo Bang "Heartbreaking"

Of time at the edge of a landscape - Mary Jo Bang "Here's What the Mapmaker Knows"

Irises edging a back wall - Mary Jo Bang "An Individual Equinox Suitable for Framing"

The edge of that insane remembering - Mary Jo Bang "Like Someone Asleep in a Cinema"

A perfect edge and a battling edge are battling - Mary Jo Bang "One Could Say the Train Is Resting"

Walked on the edge of an apology - Mary Jo Bang "Raptured"

The frayed edge of the dance floor - Mary Jo Bang "Reminds Me Ramona"

On the fluttering edge of oblivion - Mary Jo Bang "The Trip"

Somewhere at the fevered edge of day - Lou Barrett "Forty and Eight: 1943"

Light spilling around your edges - J. M. Bédard "Hatch"

Egrets at the edge of rain - Margo Berdeshevsky "Dusk"

Caught at the edge of the net of gems - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

A night set on edge - Brian Blanchfield "One First Try and then Another"

Long past the edge of anything calendrical - Julia Bloch "Valley Oak"

Upon the last edges of thought - Maxwell Bodenheim "Psychic Clowns"

Hang on the edge of to-morrow - William Stanley Braithwaite "Rhapsody"

a very black thing at the edge of a sward - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]

The burnt edge of an unfinished history - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"

Traveler at the frayed edge - Geoffrey Brock "You Are Here"

Somewhere past the map's rough edge - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"

Along the edge of winter - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"

Serrated edge of the known world - Paul Cameron Brown "Isles and Rivulets"

From the dark edges of the sensual ground - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Soul's Expression"

Near the edge of your mystery - Julie Byrne "I Live Now as a Singer"

Mute on the white edge of dawn - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"

Ruined bridge at edge of night - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

A vortex above the leading edge - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"

The edges of the sun - Miguel Casado "Regarding a Theory of Color"

On the edge of each spring leaf - Tina Chang "Astroturf"

Quantum foam roiling at the edge of being - M.C. Childs "Snow Man"

leaving the edges of me - Lucille Clifton "the death of fred clifton"

edge of before and after - Lucille Clifton "scar"

Down the edge of hostile spears- Eleanor Rogers Cox "Death of Cuchulain"

Seal edges & delete evidence of my escape - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"

This thin edge of December - Nancy Cunard "Parallax"

From the sharp edges of the earth - H.D. "Circe"

Scorched at the edge to white - H.D. "Fragment Forty-one"

Ancient rivers that green the desert's edge - Kwame Dawes "Eat"

Edging across the twilight air - Walter de la Mare "The Honey Robbers"

Ways to exceed the edges of shapes - Monica de la Torre "Theorem of Sorts"

The daggered edges of love - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"

Walk to the edge of the crevasse - Steve Denehan "The Crevasse"

Across its edge the nettle grows - "The Deserted Home" transl. by Kuno Meyer

A light along the edge of responsibility - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"

Language is a double edged gift - Dom "A WORD ON WORDS-revised 2002"

A plank one might walk to horizon's edge - Chris Dombrowski "Epithalamium"

Drag the edge of that memory - Timothy Donnelly "The Driver of the Car Is Unconscious"

Setting a nation's nerves on edge - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

With a blade of ragged edge - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

Lay prone on the perilous edge - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

The near edge of the purple horizon - Camille T. Dungy "Ars Poetica Apocalyptica"

At the near edge of the belligerent horizon - Camille T. Dungy "Ars Poetica Apocalyptica"

Kiss the edge of Saturn's outermost ring - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"

Tiny arias on the edge of a stone basin - Chiyuma Elliott "A Blessing Compared to a Window"

With the blunt edge of a practiced tongue - Claudia Emerson "Aftermath"

The tree edge of the future - Heid E. Erdich "Offering: The Child"

Collide at the edge of sight - Heid E. Erdich "Translation"

Lost her way on the edge of Fairyland - "Fairy's Album: V. Fairy's Dream"

The edge of a thing called life - George Blackstone Field "The Answer"

Cover our eyes with the edge of winter sky - Annie Finch "Winter Solstice Chant"

Stand at the edge of a hundred horizons - Sandy Florian "Abacus"

Sit at the edge of our great new void - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

Eroding edge of unattainable sound - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen G"

Through the edge of winter - Julie Fogliano "Spring, March 20"

always nibbling at my edges - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

On the edge of another blue world - Ariel Francisco "On the Shore of Lake Atitlán, Apparently I Ruined Breakfast"

The fading edge of all delight - John Freeman "The Wakers"

Stretched away unto the edge of doom - Robert Frost "Into My Own"

Edged by another snow - Tess Gallagher "Thieves at the Grave"

On the edge of my life - James Galvin "Show-and-Tell"

Astounding hunger for edges - Elizabeth W. Garber "Feasting"

Where the edges belong - Michelle Gil-Montero "First Forty Days"

At the edge of your own abyss - Nikita Gill "Young Zeus: The Crossroads"

Because the edge is an infinite pool - Carmen Gimenez "Flat Earth Dream Soliloquy"

The breathe full of edge - Rae Gouirand "Quince Suite"

Its edge in time and light - Rae Gouirand "Stanzas to Those Just Arriving"

Still fretted with clotted snow at the sand edge - Mona Gould "Colour in the Willows"

Till a harsh change comes edging in - Thomas Hardy "The Dream Is--Which?"

With a song at the torn edge - Joy Harjo "Javelina"

Into the cutting edge of the sky - Joy Harjo "She Remembers the Future"

With no blade edge against ourselves - Joy Harjo "Song for Thantog"

Breaking at the edge of midnight - Yona Harvey "Hickory Street, New Orleans"

Curling over the edge of the world - Ben Hecht "My Island"

Nocturnal prowl on the edge of other worlds - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Hyena"

Patrols the edges of sleep - Stephanie Heit "Window Dressing"

The edge of that unknown abyss - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Pared until only the edge remained - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"

Chewing the edges of night - Conrad Hilberry "Midnight"

Edges that sought release from envy - Brenda Hillman "The Bride Tree Can't Be Read"

Grown on the winter's edge - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"

Set upon sorrow's edge - Nora Hopper "April in Ireland"

fuchsia edges of the depths divine - fahima ife "metanoia"

Dancing to liquid edge - fahima ife "porous aftermath"

Evasion on edge of transfiguration - fahima ife "recrudescence"

Straddling the edges of memories - Carly Inghram "Painting the Hermit Crabs"

Ventures forth along the edge of night - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Wolf"

Spine stitched to shadow's edge - Saeed Jones "Eclipse of My Third Life"

A war burns at the edge of the map - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"

On whose edges the last escape is infinite - Fady Joudah "Black Hole"

Erasing the edges of herself every day - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

Air here at the edge of small fires - Janet Kauffman "Air Here"

Dark velvet edges them round - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Trace the dwindled edgings of its brim - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

The eagles at the river's edge - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

On the edge of another's nest - Jane Kenyon "Three Crows"

Builds a bulkhead 'twixt Despair and the Edge of Nothing - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Far from the edge where the sea pours into the stars - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"

From warehouses at the edge of the city - Edgar Kunz "Doors"

Gilding the edges of unread books - Danusha Lameris "Dust"

Over the edge of the soundless cataract - D.H. Lawrence "St Matthew"

Information clusters at the singularity edge of true - Yoon Ha Lee "Stella Rosetta"

Who survived the sharpest edge of a knife - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: The Old Craft"

crocodile at the edge of a freshwater marsh - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"

Stitched to the water's edge - Keegan Lester "Huntington Beach"

She should have feared my edge - Jessica Lévai "Rochambeau"

Whose breath whets the edge of the guillotine - Dana Levin "According to the Gospel of Yes"

The voiceless thousands at the edge of the curtain - Dana Levin "In the Surgical Theatre"

One step closer to the edge of truth - Philip Levine "Another Song"

The long river flowing to the edge of the sky - Li Po "At Yellow Crane Tower Taking Leave of Meng Hao-jan as He Sets off for Kuang-ling" transl. by Burton Watson

Foreman's shack at the mining pool's edge - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"

Without all those ghosts on the edge - Ada Limon "Sharks in the River"

Walk the edge of regret and wonder - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"

A lurch of earth on the edge of sleep - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"

The sharp edges of the night - Amy Lowell "The Taxi"

Strike the hard edge of a thought - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

What needs edge of proof - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"

Rough and dry around the edges - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"

From forest edge to city scarp - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"

A bloom of rust at your vision's edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

Hunt a storm-cell's shifting edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"

To find the silver edges of the world - Jeannette Marks "Cloud"

Wisdom is life upon the tickle edge - John Masefield "Esther"

At the swallowing edge that dying opens - Farid Matuk "The Butcher's Fifth Quarter"

Where the country has an ode's jagged edges - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"

Between the lines of such hard edges - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

At the story's frigid edge - Medbh McGuckian "Love Affair with Firearms"

Cut with the edge of despair - Arch Alfred McKillen "Apocalypse"

The edge of shade and shine - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Or edging over thunder - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Off the last vital edge of air - George Meredith "Night of Frost in May"

Mark the edge of the universe - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"

The edge of a silence about to become - M.S. Merwin "Walkers"

Curves out to an edge of time - N. Scott Momaday "Transparency"

Through the iron edge of the cliff - Marianne Moore "The Fish"

Teeth on the edges of sleep - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Barefoot on the edge of a knife - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Sharpened the edge of his soul - Pablo Neruda "Appointment with Winter" transl. by Alastair Reid

Who reached the last edge of the knife - Pablo Neruda "Song to the Red Army on its Arrival at the Gates of Prussia" translated by Donald D. Walsh

On the preciptitous edge of fever - Pablo Neruda "The South" transl. by Alastair Reid

Approach across the edge of words - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid

Their broken edges joined - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

Play at the edges of knowing - Mary Oliver "Bone"

Errant shells and jagged edges - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"

Always to the garden's edge - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Stray"

So the edges of your honey jars rattle - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"

The hard edge of historical light - Ed Pavlic "from "all along it was a fever: a what poem""

At the edge of that meadow inside me - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"

At the edge of a wrecked desire - Lynn Powell "Feedback for the Muse"

The gleaming edges of Fate's sharpest knife - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Scar"

Smooth over every jagged edge - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Bomba"

Crushed at the vineyards' edge - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

A broken honeycomb spilling over the waxen edges - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

Snare you on my sharper edges - Lola Ridge "Secrets"

Light from every edge - Rainer Maria Rilke "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (translated by Robert Bly)

The coming edge of the winter world - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"

Whose soul had the edge of a knife - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"

One edge away from disappearing - Mg Roberts "Cylanders II"

thank the edges for being jagged - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"

The dim edge of sleep - Robert Alden Sanborn "To a Child Falling Asleep"

Guide you from the edge of hard things - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"

May sustain itself by shadows at the edge of sight - Ann K. Schwader "Giving Up the Ghost"

On the edge of night's vast labyrinth - Clinton Scollard "Autumn by the Sea"

Roots clasping the high hill's edge - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Until their black feathers are edged in gold - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

The hardest knife ill-us'd doth lose his edge - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCV"

Even to the edge of doom - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"

The gray ones that linger at wood's edge - Joyce Sidman "The Gray Ones"

Romancing the edge of an echo - Cedar Sigo "On Strings of Blue"

In the edges before they join - Cedar Sigo "Struggle Itself"

A walk along the edge of our mountain - Michael Simms "Sometimes I Wake Early"

Who live on the edge of doubt - Maurya Simon "Angels"

Flaked a flint to a cutting edge - Langdon Smith "Evolution"

Every name on the edge of being gone - Brian Sneeden "Memory is Blood Soluble"

Upon the apprehension of edges - Richard Solomon "Ice in Formation"

Ancient boundary stone on the edge - Marin Sorescu "To the Sea" transl. by Michael Hamburger

On the ecstatic edge of sunbeams - Leonora Speyer "The Locust"

Alder thickets at the water's edge - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Invitation to a plunging ride over the edge of night - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Tethering at the edge of psychosis - Patricia Omozele Sukore "Where Did the Cockerel Story Start?"

Shredded his garments' edges - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 106: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

At the edge of loss - Arthur Sze "Stilling to North"

With the sharpness of a paper's edge - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

Hiding just past the edge of my loneliness - Keith Taylor "Banff: Running Away"

A dance in the wind at water's edge - Keith Taylor "Circle in the Wind"

Colours twinging on a prism's edges - Iris Tree "Nerves"

The rough edge of beauty - Natasha Trethewey "Photograph: Ice Storm, 1971"

Came to us from the edge of a spear - "The Tryst After Death" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Against the edge of the sky - Mark Turcotte "Dear New Blood"

A waiting for the edge to fall - Leah Umansky "Desire [even in the time of the tyrant]"

Did you hear the edge of winter crumble? - Mark Van Doren "Spring Thunder"

Joining gently the edges of time - A. Van Jordan "Vestiges"

To kiss the edge of their universe - Emily van Kley "Lacustrine"

Conscious cloud seeking its edge - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]"

To the very edge of that promise - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

Revoked edge of water and dry land - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

Out on the edge of the world - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Uluru"

The frames are edged with lichen - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"

Edged like teeth and dense with veins - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"

Holds an edge against the weather - William Carlos Williams "History"

At the edge of the petal - William Carlos Williams "The Rose"

Against their intractable edges - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"

And live at the edge of things - Charles Wright "With Horace, Sitting on the Platform, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"

A whitish light edging the earth's offerings - Charles Wright "Yellow Wings"

The rough edge of a universe - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

At the edge of the center of the Milky Way - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

At the edge of Never - Mark Wunderlich "Gone Is Gone"

Insisting on edges and cores - Jenny Xie "Ongoing"

The sharpest edges of this life's perimeter - Jenny Xie "Postmemory"

To provoke the dry edge of a border - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"


Ever is a double-edged word - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"

Hear the edgeless sound - Leonard Cohen "Roshi's Poem"

Break on our edgeless contours - Mina Loy "The Dead"

The sky's edgeless statement about vastness - Carl Phillips "Searchlights"

On the ice-edge of starvation - Emily van Kley "Birches --for A & D VK"

Rag-edged as a contorted filbert - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"

Saw-edged teeth in my peripheral vision - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

On sharp-edged, malachite wings - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

Wiser for the spiny-edge - Carolina Ebeid "Dauerwunder, a brief record of facts"

Your name scrapes against thick-edged leaves - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"

With his two-edged breath - Howard Futhey Brinton "The Man About Town"

The yarrow-edged side roads we walked barefoot - Diane Seuss "Toad"


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