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Presence.


Always in the present tense - Etel Adnan "Night"

Present your hands to the basin of water - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"

Elements that made up the inevitable present - Mary Jo Bang "The Actual Occurences"

The deaths past and present in ashes - Mary Jo Bang "Once Upon a Time"

Speak to me only of the present - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"

The wisdom of the present hour - Park Benjamin "Press On"

Disdainful of the present world - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

I occupy the present tense - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

The opposite of the present tense - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

Whisper of things beyond the Present's reach - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Not thought of as present - Robert Creeley "Translation"

The tyranny of present danger - Kwame Dawes "Last Days"

And still the continuous loop of the present - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"

Heard Present echoing her horn - Irving Sidney Dix "Plant a Tree"

Eyes resolved on present victory - Edward Dowden "Europa"

The past as constant present - Mari Evans "How Sudden Dies the Blooming"

In celebration of the present snow - Noah Falck "Fatigue Performance"

Keep returning to the present - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"

By present impulse of the god - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"

Unkept by the present tense - Hanae Jonas "Pastoral"

We hold the present responsible - Fady Joudah "Epithalamion"

Of the permanent present - Galway Kinnell "First Day of the Future"

Their present all their future and their past - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"

As the present falls upon the past - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"

For a silence almost present - Denise Levertov "Intimation"

The mad keeper of numbers is always present - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

From habit past to present fact - James Russell Lowell "Fact or Fancy?"

Should have loved you presently - Edna St Vincent Millay sonnet II from A Few Figs from Thistles

And present my true account - John Milton "Service"

Applause for the present tense - Eileen Myles "Choke"

In present hours as in the years gone by - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "Love Not"

Faithful to this present trust - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Sub Rosa, Crux"

Beyond the landmarks of the present hour - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Present yourself as you are - Andre F. Peltier "The Modern Proboscis"

The way the present cuts into history - Carl Phillips "Back Soon; Driving--"

On the parallel sides of the present - Magda Portal [Untitled] transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver

And despair lays present ambush - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

And presently the gates of sun swung wide - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"

the present, a gold rotting in our palms - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"

Present in your absence - May Sarton "Elegy"

I can't be content here in my uncomfortable present - Jason Schneiderman "House with a Hot Tub and Pool"

Respond only to the absolute present tense - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Allowing ourselves the present moment - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"

Jealous of the present moment - Charles Simic "The Betrothal"

The sense of the invisible and true still present - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets V: Milton" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Strands pulled from the past, locked in the present - Claire Smith "Exhibits from Schneewittchen"

Like I'm some kind of present - Hope Anita Smith "Momma"

The Present lay like Eden round us - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Compare it with the Present's golden page - R. H. Stoddard "The World" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

The present upon the patterns of the past - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

One touch of the present dissolves the light dream - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Singing of the present - Z.G. Tomaszewski "A Storm Divided"

For future uses hoarding present force - William Watson "Sketch of a Political Character"

Raise the present on the past - Walt Whitman "For Him I Sing"

True illumination of the present instant - John Wieners "The blind see only this world/(A Christmas Card" [sic]

The clouds, as they always do, present us the option - Charles Wright "I'm Going to Take a Trip in that Old Gospel Ship"

Oblivion of the Present, Future, Past - Farnsworth Wright writing as Francis Hard "After Two Nights of the Ear-ache" [Weird Tales, Oct. 1937]

To the banks of the present - Jenny Xie "The Hunt"

The past sticks to the present like glue - John Yau "Russian Letter"

A birthday present wrapped in argument - Matthew Zapruder "The Lark"


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