Potential Titles: Edge
May. 5th, 2010 01:23 amthin 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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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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