somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Spin/Spun

Spinning a deadly tattoo - Kwame Alexander "Animal Ark"

Spinning throughout the darkened sky - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

In the spinning blossom of your love - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"

Spinning in the hope current - Mary Jo Bang "She Couldn't Sing At All, At All"

Spinning on beauty and hope - Lou Barrett "Double Portrait with Wineglass"

Everything has to spin away - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

Spin bodies to the wall and back - Samiya Bashir "At Harlem Hospital across the street from the Schomburg the only thing to eat is a Big Mac"

Hard with years of thought-spinning - Maxwell Bodenheim "Images of Life and Death: Life"

Spin their miracles of motion - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"

Spins in an act of revision - Russell Brakefield "The High and Lonesome Sound: I. Fiddle"

Barges spinning on a mud-sick river - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"

Spin my golden web in the sun - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "I Spin My Golden Web"

With a fated spin of the wheel - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"

How the wind feasts and spins - Hart Crane "Recitative"

Catching the light, spinning it into gold - James Crews "Here with You"

The blue spinning record of grief - Jim Daniels "Treaty"

Spinning the guileless hours away - Walter de la Mare "Voices"

Would spin a web before your eyes - Eugene Field "Heigho, My Dearie"

I spin in her cool, calming storm - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"

Fix the thing upon a spinning cylinder - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"

Wind spins across the landscape - Roberto Carlos Garcia "This Moment/Right Now"

The looms of Destinies spinning antique dooms - Louis Golding "Down Tottenham Court Road"

Can spin Sagittarius into spider - John Grey "Skywatching"

Imagining another spin of the wheel - Joy Harjo "Original Memory"

Spinning his eyes in their own pirouette - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"

In which time spins differently - Fady Joudah "Black Hole"

Something spinning and made of history - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"

Feet tireless to spin the unseen - Emma Lazarus "Chopin"

The spinning world her wheel - Frances Ledwidge "A Rainy Day in April"

Sweet dreams their cobwebs spin - Ida Lee "The Homestead"

Spin inside your paper house - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"

Spin a whole road map of a world - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Where the orb spider continues to spin a hole - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Hoping the sound spins into a tune - Tariq Luthun "After Spending an Evening in November Trying to Convince My Mother We'll Be Fine"

And spin me, tiny time-machine! - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "dandelion"

Trillions of atoms spinning inside her body - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"

Bears in tutus will spin - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"

Before the centripetal spin of galaxies - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"

An ancient wheel spinning a knotted thread - George Meredith "Bellerophon"

Needle spinning between North and South - Tyler Mills "ectopic"

Spins her thread from the spool of her heart - Janice Mirikitani "For a Daughter Who Leaves"

Four stars spinning in my palm - Anis Mojgani "4 stars"

Wheels of heaven dizzily spinning - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Into the spinning prism of snow - Carol Muske-Dukes "Orphanage"

Spinned from night and knuckle - Angel Nafis "I Know I'm Pretty Cuz the Boys Tell Me So"

Spinning the threads and strands of destiny - Pablo Neruda "Ode to an Aged Poet" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Under the gray waves' spinning threshold - Mary Oliver "West Wind 8"

See yourself spinning - Phan Nhien Hao "Seattle Memory" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

Long poles upon which spin six hells - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Poor Bahamut"

From which she spins the lily - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

Spins dooms and weirds and meltings - Edgell Rickword "Winter Prophecies"

Whirled betwixt their spinning bands - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

Time spins like a crazy dial - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Light spinning a gossamer trestle - Lola Ridge "Saint's Bridge"

Akin to the velocity of a spinning star - Lola Ridge "The White Bird"

Spins her wool by moonlight - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"

Yellow sun and shadow are spinning gold behind - Lloyd Roberts "The Wood Trail"

A single bed spinning in space - Brenda Shaughnessy "Why Is the Color of Snow?"

And spin into whorls of light - Joyce Sidman "Snail at Moonrise"

Spinning her wild white thread - Leonora Speyer "Abrigada"

The stations spin like cooling stars - Sonya Taaffe "Radio Banquo"

Spinning another galaxy - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Morning"

The world spinning towards dusk - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Two Chairs Under an Apple Tree"

Queen of the loom and spinning wheel - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"

Spinning with spider-hands the miser's web - Iris Tree "Smoke"

Dry air dusty and spinning with flies - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"

Dark sisters spinning with the grace of death - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"

Sets spinning on waxen wings - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Spins with no intention to arrive - Moon Bo Young "Life Centered Around" transl. by Hedgie Choi

Spinning and twisting a hundred miles away - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"

Spinning through my silent heart - Zheng Min "The Beauty of Life: Suffering*Struggle*Endurance" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Lines like spokes to a spinning wheel - Marilyn McCabe "Web"

Flax in search of a spinning wheel - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"

Queen of the loom and spinning wheel - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"

Spun like yarn across the copper sun - Harold Acton "Discoveries"

Split as flowers spun of glass - Harold Acton "Ventilation"

Disbelieving finery spun from flight - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"

Cream spun around into butter - Elizabeth Alexander "Butter"

Enclos'd in a case, which the Silk-Worm had spun - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"

Spun sugar in branches & twigs - Laure-Anne Bosselaar "Lately,"

Tangled still was the skein she spun - John Philip Bourke "Under the Heel of Fate"

Of spun fire and woven gloom - F. O. Call "Calvary"

The weird our fates had spun - W. Wilfred Campbell "The World-Mother"

Radiant webs, by hope and fancy spun - Susan Coolidge "After-Glow"

Washed and white and newly spun - Frances Cornford "Spring Morning"

A new course woven and spun - Dom "Year's End"

Beauty fine-spun, amber-clear - Edward Dowden "Edgar Allan Poe"

The verb spun at the center - Carolina Ebeid "Dead Dead Darlings"

A million silver planets spun - Ellen Glasgow "The Vision of Hell"

Jet-streams of oxygen spun like pinwheels - Ian Goh "Firework"

Spun round in sable curtaining - John Keats "Hyperion"

In gold and shadow spun - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"

Spun from the moon and woven dark with willow - Ruth Lechlitner "How Many Summers"

Poised for hours in her spun palace - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"

Spun deep blue circles over hills - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"

Rotated and spun in our own isolations - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

Spun away by the churning silence - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

Till all the allotted flax were spun - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

A cloth of shining silver spun - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"

Truths spun at dusk - Shara McCallum "The Border"

The gold that our fancy had spun - Louis J. McQuilland "The Lost Land"

A breath of days spun through years - Matt W. Miller "Far Away"

Spun silk of mercy - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"

Not all spun sugar and gossamer - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Spun deep into the quilt - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

Raiment spun from upper air - Plesheef "Spring" transl. by John Pollen

Drank the galaxy that spun small and cautious - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"

Spun from cycles of eternity - Henrietta Cordelia Ray "Life"

Whenever right is spun the fibre of its strands - Amy Redpath Roddick "The British Lands"

Spun of the floss of the moon - Clinton Scollard "A Kerry Garden"

Warped and woven there spun we - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Webs of radiance spun - Clark Ashton Smith "The Nemesis of Suns"

Like woven amber, finely spun - Clark Ashton Smith "Strangeness"

All the weight of spun sugar - Alison Swan "A House in the Country"

With soft spun verses and tears unshed - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Spun by light and dropped into shadow - Amber Flora Thomas "Damaged Photos"

Silken tissue spun from the blue distance - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: X. The Marsh Circle"

Looms where we have spun our fancies - Iris Tree "Nerves"

Upon a dark ball spun in Time - Walter J. Turner "Giraffe and Tree"

blue jays spun down from outer space - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

What threads the fatal sisters spun - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The glass globe of hand-spun conjurings - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Homespun warp of circumstance - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Calls thy thread misspun - Benjamin Stillingfleet "Sonnet"

Self-spun cocoon of prudence wound - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Confiding in our threads of life unspun - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"

That improvised word-spun truth - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

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