Potential Titles: Point

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Find safe harbor at the point of a knife - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Safe harbor at the point of a knife - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Refused to be whittled to a fine point - Elizabeth Acevedo "Self-Portrait as Lilith"

The needle of quick joy point truly - A.C. Ainsworth "The Meeting at Sea"

Whose crown was points of flame - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Somewhere past the point of fading - Mary Jo Bang "The Perpetual Night She Went Into"

In this point of moving time - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

Trains heading to all galactic points - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"

Fate points out our different ways - John Philip Bourke "The End of the Episode"

First point of scorn - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 24"

Flaming gleams of pointed light - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)"

On things of earth is by a pointed diamond writ - W.G.C. "Yesterday" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

The wish was enough to point to the sky - Nicole Callihan "The Origin of Birds"

Hand pointing the indigo way inward - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"

Always at a point of departure - Marianne Chan "On Buzz Aldrin's Birthday"

I am alive by luck at this point - Donte Collins "what the dead know by heart"

At the point where words retreat - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

The sharp points of envious wit - Abraham Cowley "To the Royal Society"

And blunts the points of pears - H.D. "Garden"

The dart that is pointed but to slay - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Thou, O Love, the traitor art]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Narcissus orbiting around his own fracture point - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"

Speak from the vantage point of craters - Diane DeCillis "The Myth of Father"

Pointed the ghost of a partridge - Chris Dombrowski "The Hunt"

Pointed with forgotten tears- Helen Parry Eden "Coal and Candlelight"

With endless points of arrival - Forrest Gander "Pastoral"

Tip my feet with points of fire - Louis Golding "Prophet and Fool"

The strongest point of time - Joy Harjo "Remember"

A point of no dimension - Conrad Hilberry "Script for a Cold Christmas"

A compass pointing in all directions of lifelines - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

Points of opal in the crescent coronet - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Trail to Lillooet"

A pointer to future liberation - Fady Joudah "Sandra Bland, Texas"

The far star points of his pinned extremities - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

A starburst compass pointing in all the directions - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"

Watches from an uncertain vantage point - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

Naked branches point to frozen skies - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Pointing at this shock of stillness - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Harpoon barbs and arrow points - Theo Nicole Lorenz "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn"

All helter-skelter points and angles - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

closes over your point of entry - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"

That single realmless point of time - D'Arcy McNickle "Man Hesitates but Life Urges"

Trapped between two mirror points - Joanne Merriam "Mirror Points"

Point to our radioactive elements - Joanne Merriam "Surface Properties"

Points a stark hand at the sky - Harriet Monroe "The Giant Cactus of Arizona"

Threading the points of needles - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"

Sneers at a pin's point - Lewis Morris "Clytaemnestra in Paris"

When Adam pointed at the storms - Caroline Harper New "Garden of Eve"

Pointing toward some distant Troy - Grace Nichols "Helen of the Gables"

Pointed toward my shore - Lorine Niedecker "My Life by Water"

A dark point of travelling thought - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

A point more steep in rot - Carl Phillips "Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm"

At the point of the August noon - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"

Missing Every Other Point - Adrienne Rich "Shooting Script 12"

Jeweled with a million flaming points - Lola Ridge "After Storm"

The fiery point of the drawn star - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

In a million avid points - Lola Ridge "Jaguar"

Two points of amber fire - Lola Ridge "Shadow"

Press a point in the tender arch - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

When the mazy stars neither point nor beckon - Carl Sandburg "Experience"

dismantling the weapons array pointed at the city - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"

Your points against the sapphire day - Clark Ashton Smith "Pine Needles"

A thousand arrows pointing in unison - Maggie Smith "Starling"

Clean lines pointing only forward - Tracy K. Smith "Sci-Fi"

A Dagger's Point on human Bones - John Spateman "War"

A small, pointed flame of sound - Leonora Speyer "The Locust"

Cloud-haunted turrets pointing high - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Amavi"

Clash in tourney on the least of points - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

To every compass point and corner - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 200: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The origin point of a meteor - Arthur Sze "The Radiant's"

To whispers of pointed demons - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"

The track now points to my bones - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"

It's not nihilism if there's really no point - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Give you each point of fissure and break - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"

Our presence at the point of each departure - Eric Wang "I Roll Up to the Club in a Gundam"

Full of weapons with menacing points - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"

Pointing to the life-giving water - William Carlos Williams "The Motor-Barge"

Fissures around points of contact - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

Dreaming's low boiling point - Jenny Xie "Expenditures"

A good record of that fatal point - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #18" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Far beyond the breakpoint - Caroline Harper New "The Sargassum Fish"


Shattered glass and a checkpoint - Mary Jo Bang "An Autopsy of an Era"

Tiers upon tiers of checkpoints - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Checkpoints of your own making - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

Stands at death's frontier checkpoint - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #17" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


Recorded memories and data points - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

Two more datapoints to prove some things last - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"


Dewpoint and a level field - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"


The diamond-point engraving done by air - Mary Jo Bang "Mistress Mary, Quite"


Gold and silver freckles burning five-pointed holes into the bone - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"


That motion is salvation granted at gunpoint - Ann K. Schwader "Goodnight Aileen"


Our spirits join at journey's midpoint - P'an Yueh "Thinking of My Wife" transl. by Burton Watson


The needlepoint of language - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"


Out of our pinpoint nothingness - Walter S. Percy "When I Survey"

Balanced on a pinpoint of time - Laurel Trivelpiece "The Turkish Bee"


The pivot-point of bliss - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"


Sharp-pointed skeletons of ancient geometric trolls - Jenny Blackford "Power Men"


Within the still-point of the song - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"


The final touchpoints of calligraphy - Rumi "Sanai" transl. by Coleman Barks


Vanishing Point.


As if zero were already a viewpoint - Mary Jo Bang "The Bread, the Butter, the Orange Marmalade"


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