Potential Titles: Pretend

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In the midst of pretending to drown - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

Money pretending that its hands are tied - Rae Armantrout "Money Talks"

Pretending not to recognize you - Rae Armantrout "Poem"

To pretend to find ten thousands things - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

Pretending that the sky is empty - William Brewer "Oxyana, WV: Exit Song"

The enamoured sun pretending that he dies - Countee Cullen "Brown Boy to Brown Girl"

If I pretend I'm a machine - Holly Day "My Safety Net"

The sharks are pretending to be dolphins - Stephen Dunn "In Order to Be True to Life"

Another year of pretending - Tarfia Faizullah "Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth"

Pretended loss where there was none - Elisabeth Frost "The Uncured World"

Pretend our prison is our feast - Nikita Gill "A Mortal Interlude"

Pretending the Doubleworld was acceptable - S*an D. Henry-Smith "remedies I"

Not to pretend anymore that the terrible calm was Paradise - Danusha Laméris "Eve, After"

To take my starveling's portion and pretend - Amy Levy "A Minor Poet"

Pretending power over my stones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Jerusalem's Smile"

Pretend to recognize the spirit under the skin - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"

Pretends to remember to be listening - Patricia Smith "Prologue-- And Then She Owns You"

without pretending that home is an open prison - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

Nothing here tall enough to pretend to reach - Kevin Young "Dog Star"


The loud clangour of pretenders - William Carlos Williams "Homage"


Their fierce pretense of hardness - Maxwell Bodenheim "Rattle-Snake Mountain Dialogue"


without the pretension of release - Eunsong Kim "In English for Clarity"

In a commune of pretensions - Alice Notley "The Poem"

Of most superb pretentions - Tso-le-oh-woh "A Red Man's Thoughts"


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