Potential Titles: Practice

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Practice losing farther, losing faster - Elizabeth Bishop "One Art"

Founded on the practice of the hour - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: Alfred and Jennet"

Rough-hewn hours of practice and malcontent - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"

Practicing the ritual of betrayal - Jim Daniels "Last Picked"

With the blunt edge of a practiced tongue - Claudia Emerson "Aftermath"

Happy to practice speaking - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"

Of bees and beetles practicing some slight of wing - Conrad Hilberry "Radiation"

Practice the procrastination of the elm - Tony Hoagland "Taking My Medicine"

Collective practices of the personal - Bree Jo'ann "#Mood"

All his practice is deceit - Ben Jonson "Venus' Runaway"

Practiced how to hold the moon's broken bowl - Vandana Khanna "Goddess in the Dark"

Practices bending to the wind - Vandana Khanna "Why Sita Is Chosen"

Commentaries on borrowing practices - Eunsong Kim "Disclaimers for Debt"

I've been practicing curses more than half my life - Maya Marshall "Self-Portrait as a Recurring Reflection Elongated like a Length of Vertebrae"

Practicing our recitals of silence - Claire Millikin "Antique Doll"

Practiced to resist the jerk of drowning - Caroline Harper New "The Women of Weeki Wachee"

Practicing little gestures of rapture - D. Nurkse "Letters from the Capital"

Practice of a dexterous hand - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

Practice the want of nothing - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"

Remember the practiced smile of the skull - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"

Practicing the Zen art of vanishing - Philip Schultz "At the Manhattan Social Security Office"

The bustling practice of the world - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"

To teach the dinosaurs about ritual practice - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Practiced at the hollowed-egg art of leaving - Emily van Kley "Superior"

Practicing petty accomplishments - Jo Walton "Jane Austen Among the Women"

Practicing religions without a roof - Emanuel Xavier "Americano"

Practicing not being a sculpture - Matthew Zapruder "Water Street"


a skilled enough practitioner of failure - Chaun Webster "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"


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