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To hide in the form of something beautiful - Anne Carly Abad "Where the Waves Meet"

Stuffed with something bitter - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

Tell me something about the dandelion - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"

Something crimson is in the wind - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

Let something sour drip into your dreams - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

Until something resonated in the very air - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

You must always start with something - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

A handyman when something breaks down - Mouna Ammar "Ode to Ammou"

Makes the Moon say something new - Raymond Antrobus "Happy Birthday Moon"

Something for the mercurial stomach - Mary Jo Bang "Ghost and Grays"

red for something velvet deep - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

to name something blue - Samiya Bashir "Field Theories"

The something missing from this morning - Esther Belin "Personal Poem"

There is always something porous in the decorous - Josh Bell "One Shies at the Prospect of Raising Yet Another Defense of Cannibalism"

Because something else must belong to him - Reginald Dwayne Betts "Legacy"

Beneath each one there is something buried - Arna Bontemps "Golgotha Is a Mountain"

Feeling something of this country in her bones - Arna Bontemps "To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country"

A hymn to loving something so generous and good - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

Desperate for something sacred - Marianne Chan "Seafood City"

That something bright has vanished - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Something about the architecture of of time - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"

Hoping the moon may say something - Hilda Conkling "Night Goes Rushing By"

Something has flowered within the discontent - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

As something less or more than mortal - Jan Cronos "She Remains"

Something infinite about an ash - Russell W. Davenport "Poems III"

When something cherished burns - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"

Changing into something even harder to break - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"

Losing something new - Natalie Diaz "From the Desire Field"

Something as stubborn as the leaves - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"

Something there is that doesn't love a wall - Robert Frost "Mending Wall"

Something fine weaving us round - Zona Gale "The Bureau"

Consider this a metaphor for something - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: III"

Something devoid of genesis - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"

The cool burn of something not quite on fire - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"

Something a queen could not buy - Tom Hall "The Kiss"

For the end of something wild - Conrad Hilberry "Waning Moon"

Something invisible and weightless touching our shoulders - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

Punished for something obscure we had done - Edward Hirsch "Gabriel" [excerpt]

Looking for something to worship - Carly Inghram "Disappearing into a Fiction"

Something violet and lingering - Mark Irwin "Dear Red"

Something chill and obscuring and dead - Sade Iverson "The Milliner" [The Little Review v.1 no.5, July 1914]

I am a tributary of something greater - Major Jackson "Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected Over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park"

Always had a heart something like ice - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Something my enemies can't eat - Taylor Johnson "Menace to"

Eclipsed by something like desire - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Something spinning and made of history - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"

Like something strangled by an angel - Laura Kasischke "Ubi Sunt"

Each time we meet something gets subtracted - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Laments Her Reincarnation"

A sliver of something to be repeated - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

I know something about talking with ghosts - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Something stood among those lost trees - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Something dead under the foundation - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

How absence unfathomable becomes something I can carry - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

Left something of you behind - Chaman Lall "Departure"

Something itching beneath the surface - Danusha Laméris "Eve, After"

Waiting for something other than arrival - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"

Whenever something rich and rare - Henry S. Leigh "Clumsy Servant"

At a lecture on something I don't understand - Henry S. Leigh "The Gift of Gab"

And pastel somethings bloom - Jamaal May "I Have This Way of Being"

A siege does something like this - Jamaal May "Things That Break"

Something different through repetition - Maureen N. McLane "OK Let’s Go"

With something sinister we share - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"

Shaped from something still alive - Matthew Minicucci "Nostalgia"

Something ferried by the wind - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Dear God Please Make Me a Bird"

The creaking hinges of something only you can see - James Fujinami Moore "Diagnostic Quiz for Human Ghost"

Become something unbreakable - John Murillo "Poem Ending and Beginning on Lines by Larry Levis"

A picture of a symbol of something else - J. Alan Nelson "Flags and Maps"

Only wanted to set something free - Caroline Harper New "The Elephant Mother"

If peace was something we could taste - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

If peace was something we could walk to - Cristina M.R. Norcross "Breathing Peace"

Answering something you couldn't say - Alice Notley "No world is intact"

Something our lives forgot to give us - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem"

You learn something strange when you garden for souls - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

Summoned me to something sweet - Frances S. Osgood "A Farewell to a Happy Day" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

The persistence of something not planted - Stephanos Papadopoulos "The Station"

Morphed into something shiny and new - Andre F. Peltier "Gazing Waterward"

Something drags me with fear teeth - Kiki Petrosino "Purgatorio"

Weighed against something lighter than life - Tim Pratt "Ammut in Her Later Years"

Found something that he dare despise - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Lavater's Warning" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]

Something half a-kin to fear - Herbert Randall "The Old Bush Pasture"

Time was always something you could make more of - Laura Read "Love Poem with Staples"

Her first time seeing something forbidden - M. Regan "The Hollow"

Something greater from the distance - Alberto Rios "When Giving Is All We Have"

how to parlay a no good into something better - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"

Something strange and wild struck my heart - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]

Trying on something discarded - Ira Sadoff "Self-Portrait"

Telling myself something sweet and something sacred - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #98"

The knowledge that you have been living without something - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"

Something more than journey - Warsan Shire "Home"

Something spectral possesses the stalactites - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"

Instead of something sharper - Danez Smith "say it with your whole black mouth"

Something worse than rain - Patricia Smith "Man on the TV Say"

Something impossible up your sleeve - A.E. Stallings "Fairy-tale Logic"

Something that was in my mind yesterday - James Stephens "The Secret"

Urge on us something alien - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 140: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A metaphor for something we didn't understand - Keith Taylor "Tall Oaks"

Relief at finding something left - Tess Taylor "Eighteenth Century Remains"

Asked for something greater - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

Something to pay Winter's debts - Edward Thomas "But These Things Also"

Alive with something inconceivable - Bradford Tice "Milkweed"

Sheds something of herself - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Bear"

Married to something oracular - Z.G. Tomaszewski "If I Last the Night"

challenge my something with surrounding nothing - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"

Something that happens to me before a volcano - Mike Tyler "Palazzo Tartaruga"

In front of the sickle something rose - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

Something swift runs under the grass - Mark Van Doren "Wind in the Grass"

Waves of something like water - Claire Wahmanholm "Poem with No Children in It"

every second I become something new - M. Darusha Wehm "The Chrononaut"

On the brink of something brilliant - A.D.T. Whitney "Attic Salt"

Congratulate yourself like you've proved something - Katie Willingham "Whatever"

Something buoyed, something sun knocked - Jane Wong "The Waiting"

Both of them speak of something that is gone - William Wordsworth "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"

Something invisible blocks every road - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

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