Potential Titles: Step

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Ghosts stepped from dark corners - Rasha Abdulhadi "Lanternseed"

Attempt an additional step after reaching the top - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"

You have already stepped out of your body - Carl Adamshick "Moon Seen Through Windshield"

To aid the tardy steps of reason - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Will they warn her if her next step goes awry? - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Unlikely steps on the gallows of wave function - Mike Allen "Pulse"

Every treacherous step leading elsewhere - Mike Allen "Space War"

Names become the first steppings into ruin - Ahmad Almallah "Some Verse for the Depressed Rebel"

Each step circled into tight archways - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

Through every step of life's endurance parade - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"

Stepping through blue curtains of sky - Margaret C. Anderson "Life Itself"

With furtive step and cheek of flame - Matthew Arnold "A Southern Night"

The broken stair with perilous step shall climb - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Found the prints of steps divine - Maurice Baring "Dostoyevsky"

Step out of girlhood's orchard - Lou Barrett "At a Jerusalem Market"

The same slow steps as our hide-and-seek sun - Samiya Bashir "Second Law"

Every step shifts the surface - Kyce Bello "Far Country"

That his step broke calm - Gwendolyn Bennett "Wind"

Stepped down from galaxies - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

Who countest the steps of the sun - William Blake "The Sunflower"

The interval between two steps - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

Wanders one step toward the stars - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"

Step from the star to the mountain - Thomas Boyd "Love on the Mountain"

The conquering steps of day - Charlotte Bronte "Apostasy"

Step from the mouths of your dens and speak - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

Treading down the steps of cloud - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Step out grandly to the infinite - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Soul's Expression"

The step of each pure image - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Stepping to more infectious rhythms - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"

With intrepid step began to climb - Giosue Carducci "On My Daughter's Marriage" transl. by Frank Sewall

Stepped into an avalanche - Leonard Cohen "Avalanche"

Like the steps of passing ghosts - Adelaide Crapsey "November Night"

Softly stepping from the slender Moon - Danske Dandridge "Silence"

Sweet chance, that led my steps abroad - W.H. Davies "A Great Time"

That led my steps abroad - William H. Davies "A Great Time"

Who has stepped out of that sky - Meg Day "Another Night at Sea Level"

Stepping always (we hope) between the lines - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #1"

Forget the distance, count no steps, nor stop to blow - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

Strange constellations tracing his steps - Chris Dombrowski "Like a pearl in a sea of liquid jade"

The wayward steps of Fortune - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"

Stepped out of the myths and into his life - Joseph Fasano "Odysseus"

To step out of my language - Camonghne Felix "On Entropy"

On history's worn stone steps - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen n"

My wandering steps impel - G.G. Foster "To an Old Rock"

Fumbling for weedy steps with foot and hand - John Freeman "Waking"

In leaves no step had trodden black - Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken"

Stepped in a papery nest of ground wasps - Paul Guest "Walking the Land"

The feathery step of the faithful wind - Louise Imogen Guiney "Aglaus"

The tilt of the sea still in their step - Matthea Harvey "Translation"

Each step of Edward's conquering host - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

And twisted roots his steps betray - Oliver Herford "The Wakeful Princess"

The balm of distance recedes before your steps - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

With music waiting on her steps - Thomas Hood "Fair Ines"

With each step and each moment - Ahmet Igamberdi "My Star" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

A single step turned a silent truce - Emily Igwike "my mother prepares ofe egusi"

Stepping on wings of diamonds - Carly Inghram "Disappearing into a Fiction"

Drifted down the steps in an ebony fog - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

When I step outside I become fire - Sara Eliza Johnson "Combustion"

Have mounted every step of ice - G.H. Johnstone "Ipse Ego..."

make small steps. in this wild place - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving at the Sipsey River"

The sidewalks stay empty of my steps - Camisha L. Jones "No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain"

One step closer to annihilation - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"

Each step farther into my own silhouette - Saeed Jones "Last Portrait as Boy"

Seven steps together bind - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Her steps persistent like a chant - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

With steps that do not tire - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Every step more near the end - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Art thou already weary of the way?]"

All those false steps around the fire - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Step out before the endgame - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

The start of a single step - Alfred Kreymborg "Adagio: A Duet"

Stepping with hospitable sorrow around the bodies - Youna Kwak "After"

To the year's first altar step - Archibald Lampman "April"

With loitering step and quiet eye - Archibald Lampman "In November"

Our wandering steps and wistful eyes - Archibald Lampman "September"

The last step out of the east - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"

Aim your steps to the left - Hailey Leithauser "Shoot-Out at the So-So Corral"

The stones that hear no steps - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Stone"

One step closer to the edge of truth - Philip Levine "Another Song"

With nine turns in a hundred steps - Li Po "The Szechwan Road" transl. by Arthur Waley

at night, the glass steps are silent - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"

in a dance over the obsidian steps - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"

That distant lands his steps might trace - Kirton Lindsey "Fanny" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.17 no.481, March 19, 1831]

My steps fall ringed with light - Amy Lowell "Apology"

With silver steps and paths of gold - Amy Lowell "The Coal Picker"

Night has its own quiet stepping - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"

A grisly demon dogs our steps - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things II: Song" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Five grey dogs attended his steps - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XI"

Time's step is slow to follow - Jeannette Marks "The Broke Door"

Step by step, the vanished years - Jeannette Marks "Mist"

Beyond that last, gray step - Jeannette Marks "Mist"

What lilt signed your step - J. Michael Martinez "Self-Portrait as Letter Addressed to Self"

Only first step on the way - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "A Little Picture: After the Proclamation of the 19th Feb., 1861, Freeing the Serfs" transl. by John Pollen

Turn to dust on the steps we climbed to get here - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"

The moor-hen stepping from her reeds - Charlotte Mew "On the Asylum Road"

Stepping-stones of dust - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

Carry her steps into a new life - Janice Mirikitani "For a Daughter Who Leaves"

Step forth from the high hall - Miu Hsi "Poem in the Form of a Coffin-Puller's Song" transl. by Burton Watson

Stepping back from the light - Jenny Molberg "Our Lady of the Rio Grande"

Solitude walks one heavy step more near - Harold Monro "Solitude"

With step as noiseless as the summer air - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

More than the step past you - Walter Dean Myers "Lawrence Hamm, 19, Student Athlete"

To step on what wants me drowned - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"

Could join my wolf steps to the steps of men - Pablo Neruda "Meeting Under New Flags" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Upon the same steps that her gods tread - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly

The steps of tomorrow will pass by - Pablo Neruda "Tina Modotti Is Dead" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The steps of an ancient ritual - Grace Nichols "Masquerade"

Steps of the forgotten trudging through - Naomi Shihab Nye "Footfall"

Step across without stretching - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Turned my steps to the retreating hills - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Had heard their shadowy step before - Thomas W. Parsons "Stanzas"

Each step blessed but slant - Kiki Petrosino "New South"

To step into our desires as if they were owed us - Kathryn Petruccelli "Instinct"

The sound of sadness stepping barefoot - Phan Nhien Hao "Day Flowers in the Highlands" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

The same river twice stepped in - Maya C. Popa "One Way or Another"

These steps are the ones I have to take - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Relinquenda"

Stepping forth from the forest to challenge Apollo - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"

Creak when the wind steps on you - Lola Ridge "Betty"

She steps silent from the sky onto sand - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"

A tangle nets and trips his steps - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"

Undeclared war echoed from my step - Ann K. Schwader "Medusa, Becoming"

Lock and step and key in hole - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"

And the darkness of thy steps - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

The intricate Steps of pickpockets - Charles Simic "Classic Ballroom Dances"

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

I've forgotten the steps of my departure - Frank Stanford "Embark"

Dry lichens on the altar steps - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Ten dark steps of tangled rapture and tears - Arthur Stringer "Life"

A stage lighted and waiting for your step - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"

Stepping through a lava tub - Arthur Sze "The Radiant's"

Step deeper into myself - Arthur Sze "Sight Lines"

Seeping from each step of our high ground - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

Moments when you step alone from the forest - Keith Taylor "To Face the Ordinary"

Dancing with a measured step from wrecked and shattered towns - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"

Beckoning step and line - Edwin Torres "Skygrass"

Silver steps to our appointed star - Iris Tree "Islands"

Traversing the waves in tiny steps - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Count down stone steps into the dark - Chase Twichell "Downstairs in Dreams"

Step by step in mouldering moss - Henry van Dyke "Light Between the Trees"

Stepping light as snowfall - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"

Twin stairs of gold suspend their steps of blue - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

Keeping step in brave communion - "Victory's Band" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Impede the slow steps of the pompous ages - William Watson "History"

Though her searching steps be light and fleet - Helen Hay Whitney "Spring and Autumn"

Stepped out of eternal dream - John Wieners "Billie"

No darkness steps out of the woods - Charles Wright "Across the Creek Is the Other Side of the River"

Each step from the moon - Yanyi "Landscape with a Hundred Turns"

A step into absence - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Slow as a shadow in my steps - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Each step a rope bridge hung in the air - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday"

Then stumble one step back - Zheng Min "Student" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung


Doorstep.


Footstep.


The roaches march in lockstep - Mike Allen "Ascending"


Reminding you of past missteps - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]


Sidestep.


Platters of fungus climbing like stepping stones - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"

Beneath their feet a living stepping-stone - Margaret Widdemer "The Old Suffragist"


Two-step with beloved ghosts - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"


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