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Potential Titles: Language

The language of invisible ink - Elmaz Abinader "Because You Create Amazing Things"

In one language of gestures - Elizabeth Acevedo "Ode to the Head Nod"

Mountains are a language - Etel Adnan "Night"

Made up a language in which to exist - Elizabeth Alexander "Toomer"

A surging current of feared language - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"

Hope changes the outcome of language - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"

Language is a chain of accidents - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Never chose the language we spoke - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"

Each glance was a language that broke - Lennox Amott "The Friends"

A silent language which can speak - Lennox Amott "Stanzas Addressed to a Lady Coming of Age"

Speaking a language of holes - Raymond Antrobus "Dear Hearing World"

You give language to black roosters & fossil bones - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"

In the language of angels - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "A time of angels"

Languages beyond borders and blockades - Zeina Azzam "Nine Spice Mix"

No language unique to time - Mary Jo Bang "She Remembers His Hat"

Past language into anachronistic light - Catherine Barnett "The Specious Present"

Those starry rays which speak a language known - Charles Baudelaire "Obsession" transl. by Cyril Scott

Use an obvious language that deceives - Maxwell Bodenheim "Landscape"

Language plucked from history's catalogue - Russell Brakefield "Florist's Apprentice, Age 19"

The language of my inmost heart - Anne Bronte "To Cowper"

Sound a language that calls all language home - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Who accords to his language the license to outrage - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

Strange language and new laws - Francis Burrows "The Well"

No language could my grief define - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "Regret"

Of another language in his sleep - Denver Butson "My Brother"

Languages in verse and note - Anthony Butts "Voices' End"

Language of the protector - Tina Chang "Lion"

The grieving speak a different language - Victoria Chang "OBIT [Friendships]"

Without language for its opposite - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

Polishing me into language - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

guard your language - Lucille Clifton "california lessons. 2, history"

The language of a fine lament - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

To see is only a language - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Written During a Temporary Blindness in the Year 1799"

A language we speak to ourselves - Michael Collier "Goat on a Pile of Scrap Lumber"

Language uttered in a dream - William Cowper "To the Same"

Like the language of an adder - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Says She's Not the Madwoman in the Attic"

and the language of leaves repeats - E. E. Cummings "Amores (X)"

In the language of luxury - Jim Daniels "Foundation"

Tears are the language of the unspeakable - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"

Learn the language of rain - Tyree Daye "No Ghost Abandoned"

Learned the language of resentment - Kristen De Leon "Reclaim"

In no less than six languages - Diane DeCillis "Falling in Love at the Speed of the William Tell 'Overture'"

Through dark's thin language - Jay Deshpande "Wanting a Child"

The language that I cannot learn - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

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

A phrase stricken from our language - Chris Dombrowski "Weekly Apocalyptic or Poem Written on the Wall in an Ascending Space Capsule"

Earnest language breaks upon my dreaming ear - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Wrinkling out a language of ancient trees - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Praise"

At midnight in the ancient language of bronze - Martin Espada "Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World"

Better than the language of galaxies - Martin Espada "Of the Threads that Connect the Stars"

Dance against language and abandon verse - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "The Sunset and the Flowered Tree"

And all the languages of frost - Andrew Feld "Late-Breather"

To step out of my language - Camonghne Felix "On Entropy"

The weather beneath your language - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen m"

Into a new language of branching gestures - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen n"

This garden of stolen language - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 8"

Language from a ghost - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"

Language springs from the land - John Gallaher "My Life in Brutalist Architecture #1"

The love language of my grandmother's hands - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"

All your possible languages - Kimberly Grey "The Function of You and I"

Speaking this, their heart language - Sandra Gustin "Cause of Death"

Language is a political act - Sandra Gustin "Cause of Death"

My fist speaks in four languages - Roy G. Guzman "The Age of Aquarius"

The language which the birds employed - Hafiz "The Divan XV" (translated by H. Bicknell)

A language that could free you - Joy Harjo "For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars (for we remember the story and must tell it again so we may all live)"

The language of damp earth - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"

A language of lizards and storms - Joy Harjo "We Must Call a Meeting"

To learn my heart's language - Jim Harrison "Hard Times"

The unparsed language of water - Jim Harrison "Spring"

Language to pervade the heart - Felicia Hemans "To the Eye"

To understand the language of the whales - Tony Hoagland "Legend"

That cannot be addressed in language - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"

The language burns on the other side of a closed window - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

The first language is not our own - Linda Hogan "Map"

Waves the only language - Erin Coughlin Hollowell "Maria and Oceanus"

This was the language of the future - Prosper C. Ìféányí "In the Future, My Mother Teaches Us How to Speak the Alpha-Numeric Language"

When the language of the promise is wrong - Luisa A. Igloria "Why appropriation is not necessarily the same as mastery"

A shrug of a life in sacred language - Major Jackson "On Disappearing"

The coincidence of language and time - Omotara James "A Flair for Language"

The language of the unheard - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #260: Swampert"

The lightning wrote an unknown language - James Weldon Johnson "The Crucifixion"

New things in an old language - James Weldon Johnson "A Poet to His Baby Son"

Repetition is my language - Taylor Johnson "Derrida/Coleman"

Language conquers from within - Fred L. Joiner "Sovereignty"

In the language of sharp turns - Saeed Jones "Jasper, 1998"

Our languages separate as oil on water - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

Start speaking an imaginary language - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

To make of silence a language - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"

Paris makes me speak this strange language - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

privacy is a language we don't speak - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

In the old language of dust and mud and stars - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

A language we can't speak yet - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

There's a tyranny of language in my fluted bones - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

Searing language into brains ill-equipped to use it - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

If language can be a kind of crying - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

Isn't that the language of the holy? - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"

Pray in languages notched like harps - Else Lasker-Schuler "Reconciliation" transl. by Robert Alter

Wiser than the oldest language - Rickey Laurentiis "Epithalamion"

Who always remembers the language of miracles - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"

Collecting words in a different language - Li-Young Lee "Big Clock"

Languages only they still speak - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"

Whispered in language of stone and rock - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

Listening to the language of muck and exultation - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

As they say in the language of that place - Philip Levine "Coming Close"

Slow fish speaking the language of silence - Philip Levine "Making It Work"

Their last words reach us in the language of light - Philip Levine "Waking in March"

Gave names in any known language - Robin Coste Lewis "Self-Portrait as the Bootblack in Daguerre's Boulevard du Temple"

Drought my first language - Casandra Lopez "The Hottest June"

And profess four strange languages - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

Language of decay written in clockwork - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Our language in the lateness - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Hold still the planetary language - Canisia Lubrin "In the Vault of Morning"

In the language you fear - Jamaal May "FBI Questioning During the 2009 Presidential Inauguration"

Their ancient language preserved as awe - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"

Singing in our ancestors' language - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

The rock language of all your elegant scars - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"

Language is a formal exit - Mark McMorris "Dear Michael (2)"

Decipher the language of insects - W.S. Merwin "After the Alphabets"

Surpassing the power of language - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"

The language that left us first - E. Ethelbert Miller "The Ear is an Organ Made for Love"

The language of signs and pigments - N. Scott Momaday "Pigments"

The stars had language of their own - Dugald Moore "Julia"

Placed my grief in the mouth of language - Lisel Mueller "When I Am Asked"

The heat that language weaves - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Cold language of fuchsias - Pablo Neruda "Botany" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Drink the pure wine of language - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid

In the language of philodendrons - Caroline Harper New "Etymology of Chlorophyll"

Prays in no language but his own - Naomi Shihab Nye "Half-and-Half"

Without a line of language - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"

Loosen my language from my teeth - Brandon O'Brien "Cento for Lagahoos"

The language is hope - January Gill O'Neil "Old South Meeting House"

Backpacks of holy language - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"

The language of hope - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Underground"

Legends would be written about us in the language of cranes - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"

In her language of radial burn - Kiki Petrosino "Maria"

A nexus of language & feeling - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

Language of resemblance choose - Ambrose Philips "To the Honourable Miss Carteret"

The language of age in her face - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"

A loss in the shape of a language - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"

The violence of language in every space - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"

A language I wish I had never learned - Paige Quinones "Viability Study"

Language is a prison that fails - Charles Rafferty "Words"

Have mastered this language of loss - Molly Raynor "I Come from Women Who Made Love"

Though they speak the same language - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"

Laments in a language, uncommon, and rare - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

the little heart of our language - Giovannai Rosa "a force is a push, or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america)"

Undertake the hijacking of language - Prageeta Sharma "Poetry Anonymous"

A language that contains us all - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"

Gave birth to deeds that language fails to name - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Bonaparte at St. Helena"

This language of mirrors at the end of the world - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

To speak the language of the wound - Tom Sleigh "Three Wishes"

Without lineage or language - Wallace Stevens "So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch"

Geometry a welcome language - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"

The lost language of the book of Life - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The language of survival cold within my teeth - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "The Dream of the Anit-Ekphrasis"

Language that turns me cruel and useful - Fargo Tbaki "Palestine Is a Futurism: The Dream"

A language not to be betrayed - Edward Thomas "I Never Saw That Land Before"

Withdrawn from the vault of language - Edwin Torres "Me No Habla Spic"

An undercurrent of hidden language - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"

Nothing spoke my language of smoke - Paul Tran "Hypothesis"

This bullet-borne language - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"

Cold tracks of language collapse into cinders - Chase Twichell "To the Reader: If You Asked Me"

The abrupt language of her going - Pamela Uschuk "Green Flame"

Within the chains that language wrought - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours IX" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Too deep for language to impart - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours XV" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy

Ruptured by a bullet seeking language - Ocean Vuong "Dear Rose"

All the language of acquiescence - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"

All the language of enclosure - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"

As deep as the roots of language - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

Of languages breaking open - Mark Wallace "Deep Cover Costumes"

Losing language in my sleep - Valerie Welaufer "I do not remember my own name"

Inscribing the language of water - Marjory Wentworth "The Music of the Earth: Celebrating Pablo Neruda"

Language drilled through ice - Allison Benis White "Description of Symptoms"

No language ever brought a living word - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"

A common language of alarm - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"

Language of leaves and rain - Valerie Worth "Wood Thrush"

The needlepoint of language - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"

Fortunes in a dead language - Josephine Yu "The Compulsive Liar Apologizes to Her Therapist for Certain Fabrications and Omissions"


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