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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-07-06 06:14 pm

Potential Titles: Single

With me its single lost refugee - Mike Allen "Space War"

The glow from a single white tulip - Alise Alousi "Pandemic"

That single fiery rift of heaven - Joseph Auslander "Is This the Lark!"

The single sad ribbon of later - Mary Jo Bang "The Elements of Style"

A single dream trope for doubling - Mary Jo Bang "I Was Dreaming"

Always starts inside a single heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"

Not a single house - Basho "This Old Village"

A single bird would rip it like silk - Ellen Bass "Any Common Destination"

This single sliver of history - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

A single rose upon a wand - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Whose single task is disbelief - Jaswinder Bolina "Phantom Camera"

A single anthem of blood - Jericho Brown "Good White People"

Not a single star to whisper - F. O. Call "Calvary"

A single feather of the driving storm - John Clare "Winter Walk"

Analyzed into a single instance - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"

All hours clapped dense into a single stride - Hart Crane "Recitative"

A wet rose single on a stem - H.D. "Sea Rose"

Each onlooker's single deepest sorrow unremarked - Chris Dombrowski "Brook Trout"

Had I a boat and a single oar- credited to an emigrant named MacAmbrois "The Exile's Song" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Single flash of measureless time - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet VII"

The giver of every single thing - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"

Originating from a single cast stone - Ashanti Files "Ripples"

Came singly unto her place - Robert Frost "In a Vale"

Climbed the track in single file - Wilfrid Gibson "Flannan Isle"

Or any single thing to break this tenuous leash - Mona Gould "Autumn Is Unfair"

Composed of a single contour - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear

A single passage of weak notes - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Winter with the Gulf Stream"

A single step turned a silent truce - Emily Igwike "my mother prepares ofe egusi"

A single singing line of dusky song - Helene Johnson "The Road"

The flame of my single space - June Jordan "On Time Tanka"

Not a single anguished cry of it remains - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

A single ant frozen in the dunes - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"

Misfortunes will never come single - "Kitty of Coleraine" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

The start of a single step - Alfred Kreymborg "Adagio: A Duet"

All of life compresses into a single molecule - Kien Lam "Big Bang Theory"

A single Tree stretched black on the moon - Ruth Lechlitner "At the Road's Turn"

Measure my single grain of grief - Ruth Lechlitner "Lines for the Year's End"

Every single word my mother could not whisper - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"

Single notes amid a glorious throng - Amy Lowell "Listening"

Could make profit on a single pin - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

The single quaver of a lonely lute - Douglas Malloch "Contrast"

Feed them a single crust - Campbell McGrath "My Sadness"

That single realmless point of time - D'Arcy McNickle "Man Hesitates but Life Urges"

A single feather of an iron bird - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A single wave of salt and crystal - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

In a single wave of pride and knives - Pablo Neruda "I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]" transl. by Galway Kinnell

Not one single drop of sleep - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Double Autumn" transl. by Mark Eisner

Being reduced to a single wish - Naomi Shihab Nye "A Definite Shore"

Made complete by single things - Naomi Shihab Nye "Even at War"

Can't remember a single right thing - Naomi Shihab Nye "Stay Afloat"

Not a single twinge of the heart - Mary Oliver "Storage"

a matter of a single uttered word - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

Their candle gives a single light - Dorothy Parker "Interview"

Before a single leaf has changed - Linda Pastan "The Blackbirds"

A single grain of rice falling - Po-Chu-i "Climbing the Ling Ying Terrace and Looking North" (translated by Arthur Waley)

A single drop would overfill - A.J. Requier "A Charm"

Singled from the anonymous host - Lola Ridge [Firehead untitled prologue]

In their stead an emblem single - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Flag"

A single root and separate bough - Isaac Rosenberg "If You Are Fire"

Love sold me for a single fault - Rumi "The Bird of My Heart" transl. by A.J. Arberry

Two generations in a single summer - Ira Sadoff "My First Roses"

A mile across each single door - "The Saltair na Rann, or Psalter of the Verses: II. The Heavenly Kingdom" transl. by Eleanor Hull

From a single stalk of meadow rue - Reg Saner "What Wilderness Tells You"

Whose twisted arabesques suggest no single form - Ann K. Schwader "The Night of Her Return"

Every single day till the end of your line - Salik Shah "The Last Scan"

A single bed spinning in space - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"

With single heart give praises - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

A choir singing on a single stem - Richard Solomon "Carrying Orchids in the Rain"

Souls bound by a single longing - "Southeast the Peacock Flies" transl. by Burton Watson

A single shawl wrapped tightly round - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"

All eight directions a single darkness - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Motionless Clouds" transl. by Burton Watson

Didn't waste a single crumb of joy - Kristen Tracy "Waiting for Crocuses"

Whittled down to a single red trip wire - Ocean Vuong "Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong"

The single lance of a candle - Derek Walcott "Roman Peace"

Within a single pulsing of the quick heart - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"

Lifting her single blossom - John Hall Wheelock "Legend"

A single hair balanced on a fingertip - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

One single heart undone - Charlotte Wilson "The Heart Knoweth"

Of your single deranged sense - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"

The years go by in single file - Elinor Wylie "Let No Charitable Hope"

And crossed the bridge in single file - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"


Orange is the single-hearted color - Sandra McPherson "Poppies"


Your singleness within the universe - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"

Test what singleness can bear - Kay Ryan "That Will to Divest"


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