Potential Titles: Slip

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The moon's answers slip around behind it - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"

The terrible music of the slipping hours - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"

Slip his silver penny into your pocket - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"

Slipping away carried off in the stream - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

My rooms slip in and out of higher dimensions - Mike Allen "Space War"

To slip across barriers of being - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Understanding"

He slips a painted acid in the drink - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"

Slips from presence to memory - Joshua Bennett "Aubade with Insomnia"

Bloodhounds straining at the slip - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"

For when time would slip free altogether - Scott Cairns "Draw Near"

Each particle a Basho frog slipping into the pond - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

Slipped behind the comb of sunrise - Brody Parrish Craig "Full"

And always they will slip away - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Poem [Ah, I know what happiness is....]"

Moonlight slipping from his eyes - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"

Air slips between my teeth - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"

The sun has slipped his tether - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Waiting"

Husks whence the kernel slips - Eleanor Farjeon "In the Oculist's Anteroom"

Slip like water from your palms - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

Slipped from a flowering sun - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten III"

Slip from one black cloak into another - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"

That slips the knot of tomorrow - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

Mile after mile slipping in between - Angelina Weld Grimké "Paradox"

Slipped a code into your shoe - Brenda Hillman "The Late Cold War"

For the fairies to slip through - Florence Hoatson "The Little White Gate"

The hour you slipped away - Walter Edwards Houghton, Jr. "Recall"

Sudden flashes of the slipping skies - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"

the slip of a rain-glazed rock - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"

Tall brick buildings slipping into a ravine - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Slip unnoticed between this world and the next - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"

Slip from a reel of translation - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Slip into total eclipse - Christopher Kondrich "Map of Belonging"

Dementia boiling in the abyss if we slip - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

The hours slip bitterly over - Archibald Lampman "One Day"

As the tigers slip like smiles through the bamboo - Stephen Leggett "Seeing Tigers"

Slipped among sedges out of sight - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Out where gray waters slip - Jeannette Marks "Gray Waters"

Cannot wait to slip into the void - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize

Young as the slip of the new moon - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

The slip of the new moon - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Slipping lyrics over lips - Anastasios Mihalopoulos "Orpheus as the Last Living Blue Whale"

Slipped past me like a wraith - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"

Slips red thread around its spool - Janice Mirikitani "For a Daughter Who Leaves"

A fugitive's note slipped quick to the future - John Murillo "On Metaphor"

Such a brief slip of minutes - Naomi Shihab Nye "Each Day We Are Given So Many Gifts"

The selkie who slips her wet pelt - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"

Slipped through blades of rain - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

Yellow lading slips among the weeds - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"

Just one slip in the whole of forever - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Plate Spinning"

Slipped on the slick rag of the future - Roger Reeves "Children Listen"

Picking up the slipped threads - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Feet that dance on slipping earth - Lola Ridge "Incompatibility"

Slipping pebbles shriek through their claws - Dora Sigerson Shorter "The Suicide's Grave"

the night slips down my throat - Avi Silver "Passing Diamonds"

Slipped down from starry heavens to walk in other step - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

And the climber slips down gulfs of fear - Clark Ashton Smith "The Unrevealed"

Slipped into the embrace of the night - Jean M. Snyder "Benediction"

Slips me Charon's obol - Richard Solomon "Dream Caused by the Fight of the Bumblebee"

Slips past the sun's long kiss - Tess Taylor "Solstice"

Won from the rays slipped off the sun - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"

Crescent sliver slips unseen - Edwin Torres "E.G. as I.E."

Slips between our whim - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"

As it slips from a curl of birch skin - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

And one slips into wanting nothing more - Charles Wright "In Praise of What Is Missing"

My hand slipping to the west - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"


Pressed upon a slippery, dodging ghost - Max Bodenheim "Definitions"

Slippery with dew and laughter - Joy Harjo "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"

Down wet and slippery roads to hell - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

On the bridges to those slippery worlds - Khaled Mattawa "Malouk's Qassida"

Slippery frozen places of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Four Steichen Prints"

Its secret in the slippery wheels - Charles Simic "The Pieces of the Clock Lie Scattered"

Comes slippery on ordinary days - Safiya Sinclair "Sophia the Robot Contemplates Beauty"

Watching the slippery elm made new - Alison Swan "Some Things I Needed to Know"

Trying to leverage this slippery trait of memory - Bogi Takács "The Person Who Reminds the Other Person to Cast a Spell"


Her children bright in the slipstream - Deborah Garrison "Sestina for the Working Mother"

Promise me the slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

Where space drips into our slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

Daydream a new reverie into the slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"


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