Potential Titles: Grind

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And grind that shell into glass dust - Mary Jo Bang "Tomb in Three Parts"

The roaring mill where gods grind without pity - William Rose Benét "The City"

Grinding the dust of the sea - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "Dark Donegal"

And savage teeth shall grind and gnash - Tommaso Campanella "XLI. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.2. The Doom of the Impious" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Awakened glaciers grinding all to rubble - S. R. Compton "On the K-T Boundary"

They lie and wait for time to grind them to dust - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Hearts grinding like millstones - Martin Espada "The Socialist in the Crowd"

Grinds grain for you in her holy basket - "First Hymn" transl. by Sophus Helle (per translator's note, this claims, internally, to be Enheduana speaking but references things not built until well after her probable dates)

The grinding hours since I left - Meredith Holmes "In Praise of My Bed"

Grind the fable of my life down - Jane Huffman "On Moving"

Grinding a path through elderberries and laurel - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

Hours that grind us in our places - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Quiet winter grinding like teeth set in sleep - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

Grind granite to sand - Denise Levertov "The Blind Man's House at the Edge of the Cliff"

Grinding agony to foam - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Irma Gate of Heaven"

A millstone to grind chaff - Marianne Moore "To Military Progress"

Grind them in mortars of amber and gold - Sarojini Naidu "In Praise of Henna"

Instead of wheat they grind their memories - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Necessarily, the camp is the border"

Throttle your wheel's grinding power - Morris Rosenfeld "The Nightingale to the Workman" transl. by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank

Groping dreams with grinding claws and fangs - Siegfried Sassoon "The Death-Bed"

The grinding water and the gasping wind - Wallace Stevens "The Idea of Order at Key West"

Grinds on in smoke - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"


Each working the grindstone in turn - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Where Life is at her grindstone set - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Who have turned the Devil's Grindstone - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "He Went for a Soldier"

A fist of grindstone petals - tiana nobile "Petals"


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