Potential Titles: Protect

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To protect the words gathered by light - Elmaz Abinader "Losing Words Fast"

Protect us from the envy of others' eyes - Alise Alousi "Tangent"

Beauty protecting against summer scorch - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Protected from the weight of the snow - Joseph Bruchac "Tutuwas"

Protects the mastiff's sleep - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Hovel" transl. by Frank Sewall

Set for the protection of infinity - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

To protect my heart-songs - Nikki Grimes "A Safe Place"

Knives to protect themselves from ghosts - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"

Cherub with protecting wings - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Orange creeping vines, parasitic, protecting you - Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner "Kaōnōn"

A potion to protect your lover's skin from fire - Emily Jiang "Life Lessons"

Protected by mandates of good nature - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Scenting the air with protective promises - C.H. Lindsay "The Legacy of Granny van Helsing"

Protected by official oblivion - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria E. Dweller of Heaven"

The impulse to protect what you know you could destroy - Maya Marshall "Daddy on the Sofa"

Safe if she protects her king - Maya Marshall "Why Don't You Parent a Little?"

Protect every laugh inside - Jamaal May "FBI Questioning During the 2009 Presidential Inauguration"

The silver fence protecting Adam's grave - Marianne Moore "When I Buy Pictures"

Protect them from my weeping - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A pocket charm to protect - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

To protect the true face - Margaret Ross "Evolution"

A rage of waves protects our horizon - Tracy K. Smith "Flores Woman"

Protected by seven months of cold and ice - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Faithless except to protect - Wendy Xu "Looking at My Father"


The mobile protection of a smile - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

Manifest through the lens of protection - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"

Without protection from the world - Carolyn Forche "Blue Hour"

Their thorns are their innocent protection - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

Should need protection from the crows - Linda Gregerson "Another Diana"

While the sand whispered spells of protection - Marcus Jackson "Evasive Me"

Derivatives of rain without protection - Claire Millikin "Some Dolls"

Protection got confused with invitation - Carl Phillips "On Why I Cannot Promise"

Protection against the swords of the world - Clark Ashton Smith "A Song of Dreams"


So much protective malevolence - Jim Harrison "The Golden Window"

Taking protective colouring from bole and bark - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"

Scenting the air with protective promises - C.H. Lindsay "The Legacy of Granny van Helsing"


Language of the protector - Tina Chang "Lion"


Unprotected in the secret Antarctica - Wendy Guerra "Winter Sports" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder


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