Potential Titles: Crow

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Where one crow balances - Kim Addonizio "Salmon"

Where the healthy crows hover - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"

Attendants in crow masks bathed exquisite vultures - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Storm a cloud of crows - Alise Alousi "How to Name the Baby"

the shadow turned crow - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

The blue eye of that young crow cocked to me - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Their foes crashed crow loud around - May Chong "Kamcia"

The crow's luxury of carrion - Serena Chopra "Garden Variety with Lesbians"

Invasions were begun for crows - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

Trailing lines of crows - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

And scan the skies for crows - Walter de la Mare "The Scarecrow"

Three crows perched on the dresser - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"

The wide arcs of crows - Chris Dombrowski "I Canonize Dick Curran"

Two crows rowing through the rain - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"

Overhead the ancient crows - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"

Crows hold their sour conversation - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"

Spilled for crows to pick - Heid E. Erdich "One Girl"

Crows cackling between us - Carolyn Forche "Burning the Tomato Worm"

hanging gardens frosted by albino crows - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"

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

The crows balance and rocking on the windy lines - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"

No witnesses but the crows - Stephanie Heit "White Wedding"

Nothing quieted the crows - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Crows & apples sanction their appeal - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Like a crow in a lemon tree - Mark Irwin "Here"

Cleanses me with an extinct crow's feathers - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Foucault lectures to the ghosts of crows - Mónica Alexandra Jiménez "Theft"

A band of black, belated crows - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

A crow gasping for air - Amanda Johnston "Facing US"

In the crow's plummeting cry - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Attracting crows to sit on the sill and caw - Zilka Joseph "Green Kaanji and Destiny"

Thinned by crows and frost - A.M. Juster "Sundowning"

The crows mournful at the mouth of the cave - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Left Behind"

Save your heart from the crows - Yusef Komunyakaa "Warhorses"

The mess of crows that fills the apple tree - Danusha Laméris "Omens"

And the quaint crows flock thicker - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"

Crows shall build in the eagle's nest - Andrew Lang "The Sudden Bridal"

Dozens of crows quarreling forth - Stephen Leggett "Seven Winter Poems"

This scattershot of crow and jay - Hailey Leithauser "Dolor"

A crow in the clock - Ada Limon "The Commute"

Even as the sober crow goes - Ada Limon "Overjoyed"

So high the crows are dizzy - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Never home till the crows have gone to rest - Lu Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

A black crow spits out white fog - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Deaf Old Man"

Twelve black crows in mourning - Herbert Woodward Martin "Twelve Black Crows"

Where neither dove nor crow has flown - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"

A rooster trying to crow in August - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Icicles hang from a crow - John McCarthy "-30 Degrees"

Harvested fields scavenged by crows - John McCarthy "Ghost Friends, Sangamon County"

Crows are turning hostile architecture into homes - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"

That to young sunlight crows - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

That crow is flying after that cuckoo - Harold Monro "The Fresh Air"

Prostrate where the crow falls - Marianne Moore "To Military Progress"

Like the crow over death - Pablo Neruda "Unity" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Swarming like thin crows - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Crows sing sadder songs in this haunted land - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

The mirror crooning to a lonely crow - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

And the sea crows sunk with oil - Caroline Harper New "If We Stage The Wizard of Oz with Alligators"

Would go on admiring crows - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "The Common Crow Fibonacci"

Crows gossip shoulder to shoulder - Walter Pavlich "Awareness"

Crow whose one wing rests on the evening - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

Pierced with the white crow of dawn - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

A crow in the cage with a parrot - Saadi "They Put a Crow in the Cage" transl. by Coleman Barks

Wearing her best crow feathers - Elly Luisa Salah "Wedding Party ... Featuring, My Mother"

But only the crows - May Sarton "The O's of November"

Soul sister to the whippoorwill & crow - Ann K. Schwader "Lavinia in Autumn"

A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXX"

Shout to flush the brooding crows - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"

Crows circling over my head - Charles Simic "Heights of Folly"

The traffic of crows - Charles Simic "My Quarrel with the Infinite"

A feast for the hooded crows - Frank E. Smedley "The Enchanted Net"

Flights of sparrows and hooded crows - Bruce Smith "Ferment"

A fence of crows - Eileen Spinelli "What's That Sound?"

No prouder than the crow - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Oriole"

Where the starving crow would pass - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Crows and hawks wheeling above - Su Tung-p'o "[Throw on rouge and powder]" transl. by Burton Watson

Crows flapped down to keep the boatman company - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson

The crow that caws at the core of the sea - Saheed Sunday "Fluorescence"

Crows have usurped the role of swans - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 181: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Crows shout down from the canopy - Alison Swan "The Old Days"

As the crows harass an owl - Alison Swan "The Old Days"

Watched over by a murder of crows - Alison Swan "There Is Always This"

Crows in the volunteer hickory sapling - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Fine food for the crows - "They Fought South of the Wall" transl. by Burton Watson

Dreaming up ways to thwart the crows - Kristen Tracy "To the Tender"

Counting crows and listening to cricket whispers - Lucy A.E. Ward "Haystacks"

Saw the sombre crow flap by - John Greenleaf Whittier "Red Riding-Hood"

A fling of crows disperses and is gone - Christian Wiman "Hard Night"

Where the hooded crow is waiting with the raven - Humbert Wolfe "THE WOODCUTTERS OF HÜTTELDORF"

The raucous crows' raw caws - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


Here's the crow's-foot for a sign - Don Marquis "'King Pandion, He Is Dead'"


Long after the roosters had crowed his name - Kevin Young "The Dry Spell"


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