Potential Titles: Get/Got
Jul. 3rd, 2010 08:50 pmTrying each to get a share - "Abroad"
If one could get down there and hide - Joan Aiken "Down Below"
Getting lost among mangoes and papayas - Francisco X. Alarcon "Earthly Paradise"
Long before time really got rolling - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
All made space from getting lost - Mouna Ammar "Homage to a Cat Stevens song"
Must get the journey done - James Baldwin "Munich, Winter 1973 (for Y.S.)"
Dreamland kept getting larger - Mary Jo Bang "Don't"
Getting into a bed of flowers - Mary Jo Bang "The Opening"
Get used to trash along the road - Elizabeth Barnett "You remember the feeling but not what made you feel that way"
What our world got wrong - Erin Belieu "Dum Spiro Spero"
I've only got the one death to my name - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"
Get closer to forgiving - Sheila Black "The Earth"
I need all the nutrients I can get - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
Cupid's got nothing on this mollusk congress - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"
Forgiveness was sitting in your kitchen when you got home - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "The Houseguest"
How the weather's getting on - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"
Let my heart get frozen - Leonard Cohen "Almost Like the Blues"
Watching the strike zone get smaller and smaller - Oliver de la Paz "When Benny Agbayani Became a Met"
Break the bones to get to the heart - Toi Derricotte "My great teacher, Galway Kinnell, taught me: 'Speak the unspeakable'"
In times of action get new taxes - John Donne "Love's Growth"
Nobody's got time for snowflakes - Elliott Dunstan "Inherited Battlefield"
When we don't want nuance to get in the way - Cornelius Eady "I'm a Fool to Love You"
Get past all human walls - Heid E. Erdich "Breaking and Entering"
No one gets all the days - Nick Flynn "Epithalamion"
Getting too old for my size - Robert Frost "The Housekeeper"
Got no parents snapped to life - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"
Gets your heart broken over cruel words - Nikita Gill "Your Soft Heart"
Light gets afraid of tomorrow - francine j. harris "feeder"
Your tricks for getting the most from the soil - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
To get even and humble proud heaven - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
A song about who gets miracles - K. Iver "Gospel for Missy During Our Three-Day Birthday Season"
Rules about who gets rescued - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
A mouse who gets eaten every night - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
When my thirst got great enough to ask - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
Each time we meet something gets subtracted - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Laments Her Reincarnation"
Until her throat got dusty - Faye Kicknosway "I Don't Know Her"
Once they got good at keeping warm - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"
you don't get out of the universe - Joseph Lease "The Dead Lands"
Who get drunk with sun - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"
You only get to savor it once - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
Had to go to get nowhere - Thomas Lynch "Argyle in Vapors"
Because we believed we couldn't get burned - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Getting dealt a thousand scratches by a million splinters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
Got caught stealing a candy bar - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"
Even the devil gets a peep at heaven - John Masefield "The Return"
Snapshots of all the people who've gotten lost - Jeffrey McDaniel "Compulsively Allergic to the Truth"
Leaves are getting brown - James E. McGirt "Winter"
Turn to dust on the steps we climbed to get here - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
Dante got the last word - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"
Memory is all the home you get - John Murillo "Mercy, Mercy, Me"
I keep my books until I get to zero - Pablo Neruda "Numbered" transl. by Ilan Stavans
Got nothing but leaky boats - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]
As it gets dark remember - Alice Notley "The Poem"
Get nowhere in time - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"
The clouds get enough attention as it is - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"
a serpent coiling up getting thicker - Jose Olivarez "you the business folk"
Devil-gotten sinners - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl’s rhyme"
Protection got confused with invitation - Carl Phillips "On Why I Cannot Promise"
Then get up for two bowls of tea - Po Chu'i "After Eating" transl. by Burton Watson
Got my first orchid at fifty - Cherise Pollard "Nodes of Growth"
The sun gets angry when you stare - Lola Ridge "Jude"
A pie gets one chance - Alberto Rios "Perfect for Any Occasion"
Got lost in the sky - Carl Sandburg "The Moon"
back to some childhood we never got to live - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"
By eating stolen bread her living gets - Friedrich Schiller "The Parallel"
A mansion have those vices got - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCV"
Where Cupid got new fire - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLIII"
And pleased with what he gets - William Shakespeare "Under the Greenwood Tree"
she's got absolutely nothing to prove - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"
From the bitter wind gets grief - "A Song of Winter" transl. by Kuno Meyer
While the poor get all the thunder - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"
Because my gloom gets some respite - James Stephens "Skim Milk"
Got a miser's beneficence - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 233: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Get into puddles with the sky - Amber Flora Thomas "Damaged Photos"
Getting past the hardest places - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson
A dragon's gotta get zen with emphemerality - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Whose somersault never got off the ground - Edward van de Vendel "Here's the Idea"
Knowing the impossibility of getting there - Nora Weston "Things Allergic to Sleep"
How the eagle's eggs he got - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
That is a star she's got in her beak - "Wildlife Encounter"
You've got to find Eurydice on your own - Charles Wright "No Direction Home"
Like the child I never really got to be - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"
New generations get crowned and walk away - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"
Has gotten a bonfire of support - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
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If one could get down there and hide - Joan Aiken "Down Below"
Getting lost among mangoes and papayas - Francisco X. Alarcon "Earthly Paradise"
Long before time really got rolling - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"
All made space from getting lost - Mouna Ammar "Homage to a Cat Stevens song"
Must get the journey done - James Baldwin "Munich, Winter 1973 (for Y.S.)"
Dreamland kept getting larger - Mary Jo Bang "Don't"
Getting into a bed of flowers - Mary Jo Bang "The Opening"
Get used to trash along the road - Elizabeth Barnett "You remember the feeling but not what made you feel that way"
What our world got wrong - Erin Belieu "Dum Spiro Spero"
I've only got the one death to my name - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"
Get closer to forgiving - Sheila Black "The Earth"
I need all the nutrients I can get - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
Cupid's got nothing on this mollusk congress - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"
Forgiveness was sitting in your kitchen when you got home - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "The Houseguest"
How the weather's getting on - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"
Let my heart get frozen - Leonard Cohen "Almost Like the Blues"
Watching the strike zone get smaller and smaller - Oliver de la Paz "When Benny Agbayani Became a Met"
Break the bones to get to the heart - Toi Derricotte "My great teacher, Galway Kinnell, taught me: 'Speak the unspeakable'"
In times of action get new taxes - John Donne "Love's Growth"
Nobody's got time for snowflakes - Elliott Dunstan "Inherited Battlefield"
When we don't want nuance to get in the way - Cornelius Eady "I'm a Fool to Love You"
Get past all human walls - Heid E. Erdich "Breaking and Entering"
No one gets all the days - Nick Flynn "Epithalamion"
Getting too old for my size - Robert Frost "The Housekeeper"
Got no parents snapped to life - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"
Gets your heart broken over cruel words - Nikita Gill "Your Soft Heart"
Light gets afraid of tomorrow - francine j. harris "feeder"
Your tricks for getting the most from the soil - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"
To get even and humble proud heaven - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"
A song about who gets miracles - K. Iver "Gospel for Missy During Our Three-Day Birthday Season"
Rules about who gets rescued - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
A mouse who gets eaten every night - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"
When my thirst got great enough to ask - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
Each time we meet something gets subtracted - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Laments Her Reincarnation"
Until her throat got dusty - Faye Kicknosway "I Don't Know Her"
Once they got good at keeping warm - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"
you don't get out of the universe - Joseph Lease "The Dead Lands"
Who get drunk with sun - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"
You only get to savor it once - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
Had to go to get nowhere - Thomas Lynch "Argyle in Vapors"
Because we believed we couldn't get burned - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"
Getting dealt a thousand scratches by a million splinters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
Got caught stealing a candy bar - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"
Even the devil gets a peep at heaven - John Masefield "The Return"
Snapshots of all the people who've gotten lost - Jeffrey McDaniel "Compulsively Allergic to the Truth"
Leaves are getting brown - James E. McGirt "Winter"
Turn to dust on the steps we climbed to get here - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"
Dante got the last word - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"
Memory is all the home you get - John Murillo "Mercy, Mercy, Me"
I keep my books until I get to zero - Pablo Neruda "Numbered" transl. by Ilan Stavans
Got nothing but leaky boats - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]
As it gets dark remember - Alice Notley "The Poem"
Get nowhere in time - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"
The clouds get enough attention as it is - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"
a serpent coiling up getting thicker - Jose Olivarez "you the business folk"
Devil-gotten sinners - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl’s rhyme"
Protection got confused with invitation - Carl Phillips "On Why I Cannot Promise"
Then get up for two bowls of tea - Po Chu'i "After Eating" transl. by Burton Watson
Got my first orchid at fifty - Cherise Pollard "Nodes of Growth"
The sun gets angry when you stare - Lola Ridge "Jude"
A pie gets one chance - Alberto Rios "Perfect for Any Occasion"
Got lost in the sky - Carl Sandburg "The Moon"
back to some childhood we never got to live - Sam Sax "My Hole. My Whole"
By eating stolen bread her living gets - Friedrich Schiller "The Parallel"
A mansion have those vices got - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCV"
Where Cupid got new fire - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CLIII"
And pleased with what he gets - William Shakespeare "Under the Greenwood Tree"
she's got absolutely nothing to prove - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"
From the bitter wind gets grief - "A Song of Winter" transl. by Kuno Meyer
While the poor get all the thunder - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"
Because my gloom gets some respite - James Stephens "Skim Milk"
Got a miser's beneficence - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 233: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Get into puddles with the sky - Amber Flora Thomas "Damaged Photos"
Getting past the hardest places - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson
A dragon's gotta get zen with emphemerality - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Whose somersault never got off the ground - Edward van de Vendel "Here's the Idea"
Knowing the impossibility of getting there - Nora Weston "Things Allergic to Sleep"
How the eagle's eggs he got - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
That is a star she's got in her beak - "Wildlife Encounter"
You've got to find Eurydice on your own - Charles Wright "No Direction Home"
Like the child I never really got to be - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"
New generations get crowned and walk away - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"
Has gotten a bonfire of support - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
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