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Hidden behind the airtight jars - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"


Through the tightest drawn evenings - Kazim Ali "Hesperine for David Berger"

Amidst a tightening lattice of hungry radiance - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

Each step circled into tight archways - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

This tight mask of pain - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Meeker souls in tight constellations - Simon Armitage "Gravity"

Mouths closed so tight they're lipless - Margaret Atwood "Half Hanged Mary"

The terrifying hand which holds you tight - James Baldwin "Christmas carol"

Sewn tighter than truth - Mary Jo Bang "Time Speeds, Said Louise, When a Fever Rises"

Heart furling tight around new hurts - Lisa M. Bradley "The Skin Walker's Wife"

Ash tight fingers, the steel laws of fate - Paul Cameron Brown "Barbary White"

Tight enough to choke back tears - Jim Daniels "Church Reform"

To keep us in your tight grip - Ruben Dario "To Roosevelt" transl. unknown per poets.org

Coiling tighter with each brief orbit - Chris Dombrowski "May"

Her mind so tight against the stitching - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"

Close tighter than midnight knows - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"

Weave the lattice extra tight - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"

Stitch them tight or burn them down - K.D. Harryman "Whipping"

Little poisons gripping tight my lips - Ashley M. Jones "Love Note: Surely"

While we felt all muscles tighten for escape - Mary Karr "The Patient"

The tightened chain of rough existence - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile]"

Wind the hot gnaw of hunger into a tight spool - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

Enslaved in tight frames - Kim Unsong "The Poor"

Twisting and tightening the stars that have turned off - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

In tight cravat and shiny tile - Henry S. Leigh "The Lord Mayor's Apotheosis"

A tight nest of broken eggs - Philip Levine "Blood"

packed tightly in a carped of underground despair - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"

Held tight with our own explosives - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

A glimpse of hope in the tightest of spots - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

Too tightly pressed for curses - Edgar Lee Masters "Victor Rafolski on Art"

Your own broken heart held tightly in your fist - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

Tighten to a thought - Edna St Vincent Millay "Interim"

That light where honey tightens - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Shut tight, without dreams - Mary Oliver "Now comes the long blue cold"

A moment clenched tightly - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Tightly tinged with crimson - Alexander Posey "Callie"

The many questions tightening - Henriette Roland-Holst [Untitled] transl. by Manfred Wolf

The tight roots of some dead universe - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"

Loose approaches to tightening mazes - Kay Ryan "Latents"

Clenched tight on godspeak shrapnel - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"

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

And checked them with a tightened rein - R.H. Stoddard "Rome"

Tightening strings upon our spirit's fiddles - Iris Tree "Nerves"

Choking tight fists of air - Jamie Wasserman "German Man Found Dead in Home 5 Years After He Died"

Shut his rusty valves the tighter - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

In a jacket of gold leaves drawn tight - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

Drawn tight against the city wind - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

Only the night is wound up tight - Charles Wright "Time Is a Graceless Enemy, but Purls as It Comes and Goes"

That tight place where most of us live - Charles Wright "Well, Get Up, Rounder, Let a Working Man Lay Down"

Scratches at the tight knots of my chords - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"


The tight-fitting black truth of my narrative - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"


Balancing on a tightrope of sound - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"

Peace Walks a Tightrope - Anna Grossnickle Hines "Tough Act"

Walking the perilous tightropes of tension - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"


Along the miles of tight-strung wire - Dana Gioia "The Argument"


Two stops apart on a tightwired continuum - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"


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