Potential Titles: Tight
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somethingdarkerHidden 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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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"
Navigation Links:
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Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
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