Potential Titles: Wrap

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A mortgage statement wrapped around an artichoke - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

Wrap the last rose of faith - Rasha Abdulhadi "Quailing"

Before the paperboys can deliver the day wrapped in plastic - Duane Ackerson "The Great Gnome Escape"

Wrapped in a notebook leaking light - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"

Wrapt among the balms and hieroglyphs - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "At the Funeral of a Minor Poet"

Wrap the song in the leaves of the lotus - Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"

Wrapped up safe in all my ghosts - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Wrapped in all that seaweed and salt - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"

Early fall wrapped in a shawl - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

The snake wrapped around a rusted tree - Mary Jo Bang "W Is for Whatever"

The axe wrapped in tree roots - Mary Jo Bang "What Is a Mouth?"

Lies wrapped in golden glory - Cora C. Bass "Sea and Cliff"

In my matchless graces wrapt - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

Soldier wrapped in linen and thick red noise - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"

This crocheted fog I wrap close - Julia Bouwsma "Annie in the Boat"

The transient wrappings upon our lives - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"

Winter wrapped them in a winding sheet - George W. Bungay "The Lesson of the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Wrapt in wealth of honeyed dreams - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Humming Bee"

Wrapping the clouds about him - Walter Richard Cassels "Spring"

Skin wrapping the thankful bones - Patricia Clark "Creed"

A dreamer wrapped in pleasant thoughts - Mrs. Martha W. Cook "A Spirit's Reproach" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

They wrap their wounds in pride - Countee Cullen "Black Magdalens"

Wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth - Countee Cullen "Epitaphs: For a Poet"

Wrapped in their cool immunity - Countee Cullen "The Wise"

Woman wrapped in frightful light - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Wrapped in a great, frightful light - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle

Wrap myself in thunder's rolling cloak - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Descent"

Wrapping a scoop of snow in tissue paper - Carolyn Forche "Night Shift in the Home for Convalescents"

Wrapped once more in dreams - Rose Fyleman "Smith Square, Westminster"

Wrapped with a century of ivy - Andrea Gibson "Ivy"

Wrapped in ancient symbols - Nathalie Handal "Dor"

Let pythons wrap themselves around you - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

Wrap you in its thousand arms - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"

Wrapped in buckskin and silver - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"

Wraps its disaster in darkness - H.C. Harwood "Incompatibility"

A cloud wrapped with ivy round - "I Saw a Peacock"

Wrapped her in a shawl of woven sparks - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"

Wrapped in all her summer harmonies - Emily Pauline Johnson "Low Tide at St. Andrews"

Wrapped in a mist of sound - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Wrapped in sullen mist and rain - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

Wrapt in a halo as soft, and as bright - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"

Every zero wraps around like an echo - Christopher Kondrich "Degree of Nothing"

The little gifts of loneliness come wrapped by nervous fingers - Ted Kooser "Pocket Poem"

Leave it close wrapped in silence - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

wrapped your wrists in chains of fervent foam - Yoon Ha Lee "Sea-Sweet"

Under wraps and off the books - Hailey Leithauser "Sex Circumspect"

Wrapped in mold and silver - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Entelechy wrapped in scales of life and death - Jong-Ki Lim "The Fall of Snakes"

Wrapped in mysteries of light - Edwin Markham "The Whirlwind Road"

Wrapped me in the scorn of your silence - Don Marquis "The Struggle"

Wrapped up in silence - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Locusts wrap the sun in gauze - Khaled Mattawa "Psalm of Departure"

Bale-fires burn and cities wrapped in flame - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

My fevered face wrapped in grass - Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger "Midmorning" transl. by Carlie Hoffman

Wrapped safe as a spider wraps its prey - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

Wrapped in ammunition staircases - Valzhyna Mort "Guest"

And flames wrap hill and wood - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Wraps you in its mortal flame - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems II" translated by W.S. Merwin

Wrapped in cold rain and bells - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

Your cold secrets wrapped in a storied veil - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

Wrap my eyes with linen fair - Dorothy Parker "Portrait of the Artist"

Old worm of wrapped-up gossamer - Walter S. Percy "The Chrysalis"

Black bat airs wrap me - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"

Wrap them in scarlet shrouds - Paige Quinones "Ode to My Womb"

A courage wrapped in absolute tact - Adrienne Rich "Char"

Struggle through the clouds that wrap me - Amy Redpath Roddick "Perfect in Thy Promise"

wrap memories around our fingertips - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"

Wrapped in the smoke of memories - Carl Sandburg "Knucks"

Wrapt in the cloak of silence - Clinton Scollard "A Song for Joyce's Country"

To view the city wrapped in silence deep - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"

The clouds which wrap this world - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"

As darkness wraps me in its arms - Joyce Sidman "Heartless"

Wrap each word and hold it - Hope Anita Smith "Words"

Though ache and exhaustion wrapped me - "Southeast the Peacock Flies" transl. by Burton Watson

Wraps our yearning souls around - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"

A single shawl wrapped tightly round - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"

Wrapped in their ashen light - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"

Wrapped in her weariness - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Bear"

black neon wrapped in sky blue linen - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"

Wraps my soul in dread repose - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

Till angels wrap the spheres in fire - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"

A birthday present wrapped in argument - Matthew Zapruder "The Lark"

Wrapped in ash paper and fog - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 17" transl. by Katherine Silver


From your ghost-wrapped throat - Gala Mukomolova "Vasya, in Bed"

Mist-wrapped vines and rocky caves - Han-Shan "[As for me, I delight in the everyday Way]" transl. by Burton Watson


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A wraparound window overlooking the universe - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"


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