Potential Titles: Map
Jan. 2nd, 2011 11:38 pmA shadow on a map of blood - Elmaz Abinader "After Breakfast"
In countries that don't exist on the map - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"
A map of furrows and folds - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
Looking at the map of her hands - Mary Jo Bang "Let's Say Yes: 5. Opened and Shut"
An ancient sphinx omitted from the map - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Small map unfolding a globe - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"
Will paper their walls with maps and broken promises - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
Map pins on a dream-warm itinerary - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"
The darkening map of this moment - Geoffrey Brock "You Are Here"
Somewhere past the map's rough edge - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
Risk misfortune's unrelenting map - CM Burroughs "Supposition"
Sketch an anarchist's map to the future - Chen Chen "The School of the Unschoolable"
Zipped in their maps of skin - Susan Comninos "Naked Admission: a Fantasy"
Of maps that lead to vacancies - Meg Day "Batter My Heart, Transgender'd God"
The way a border on a map twists into thorns - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Maps to other moons - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"
In the map of my hand - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Maps are ghosts - Natalie Diaz "They Don't Love You Like I Love You"
Map of thine own fortitude - Helen Parry Eden "Bournemouth to Poole"
Restlessness is the last ordinary map - Chiyuma Elliott "The Winter Mirror (Explanation)"
The star map of my arms - Heid E. Erdich "Tick Check"
The path on my map led us slightly askew - Daniel Errico "The Island of Bum Bum Ba Loo"
Ready with maps if you've gone astray - Daniel Errico "The Particular Way of Odd Ms. McKay"
Master the map of never - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"
Remapped each morning - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"
tomorrow they will map shattered portraits - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"
Carry our own map to disaster - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Every Human Is a Black Box"
Enticing maps and menus of easily affordable adventures - Dana Gioia "Travel"
A map by which their future was ne'er confined - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"
If there is a map for grief - Kimberly Grey "What We Have Lost"
And follow no one's map - Jin Ha "The Long-Distance Traveler" (translated by the author)
Who were maps drawn of blood - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
No map for how to live past this - Leslie Noyes Harrison "The Four Elements"
This knot is a map back to me - K.D. Harryman "Whipping"
Mapped the earth as we imagined it - Samuel Hazo "High, Higher, Highest"
her maiden name clotted in a map older than 'america' - DaMaris B. Hill "Come. Pray. Know"
Stars fizzle in the map of still time - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"
The outdated map on his wall - Douglas S. Jones "A Tuesday Night"
A war burns at the edge of the map - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"
Mapping out hell with my feet - Saeed Jones "In Nashville"
Weather invariably comes with maps - Fady Joudah "Isomers & Isotopes"
Did not draw the map that shows the sticky trail - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
A black hole in the lake on the old maps - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Undo the map his hands made - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"
The complicated, fading map of cures - Ted Kooser "Father"
A fragile old heart, the brown map of a life - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"
Mapping the nodes of universal birth and death - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"
Map a line of sisters - Linette Lao "Becoming"
As dull maps and solemn charts attest - Emily Lawless "From the Burren"
Old maps made of flowers - Angel Leal "Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father"
Our thrones of maps and mirrors - Ada Limon "High Water"
Spin a whole road map of a world - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Picture maps of destiny - Mina Loy "At the Door of the House"
Where mercy prepares the map - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"
Where the map edges blister, and the compass wasps - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
Looked for maps out of myself - Jamaal May "Ode to Forgetting"
Maps desire's coordinates - Shara McCallum "Fury"
A breathing map to display the curvature of our world - Nancy Mercado "Going to Work"
Fling down that map and measure - Joaquin Miller "Usland to the Boers"
What is a map but a useless prison? - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
What is a map but the delusion of safety? - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
Relief maps of regret - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Torrent"
A constellation of maps - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
Like an ancient map of pain - Walter Dean Myers "Junice Lomax, 23, Unemployed"
Dissecting the lonely map - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid
The massive map of the granite - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XV" transl. by James Nolan
Fractured into maps and spells - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Those curious beautiful tinted maps - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
Dreaming a map of the globe - Sharon Olds "Voices"
To watch bees map a garden - Carl Phillips "Soft Western Light"
Growing songs more delicious than your maps - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
The map of lines on her forehead - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"
Studying maps drawn for the absurdity of navigation - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"
The map of the future - Adrienne Rich "Shooting Script 14"
The map of chance and purpose - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
Scenes now painted on the map of Time - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
Constant since the oldest maps - Kay Ryan "Gaps"
My freckles mapping where I begin - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #81"
A destination no longer on maps - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Three"
A star chart might work better than a map - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Missing Time"
Strangers with myths for maps - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
And maps the birds in his head - Jacob Shores-Arguello "Workshop"
The map of ancient Rome in your pocket - Charles Simic "A Word"
where does the map end? - Danez Smith "three Black poems from August"
A puzzle that no longer has a map - Hope Anita Smith "Instructions on How to Lose a Mother"
That maps the good and the evil in the future's bewildering folds - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Have mapped every centimeter and shipwreck - Keith Taylor "Castle, Nowhere"
Ancient maps scored inside the lace of their bones - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
Someone else's map of laughing - Pimone Triplett "From Another Other Within, Without"
Until it becomes my own dim map - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Mapping his way through sun-strikes - Charles Wright "In Memory of the Natural World"
The map we left behind - Jay Wright "Sasa"
What lives on that map never sees the light - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
The stars are a map in the noon of it all - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"
In honor of faded maps - Adam Zagajewski "Grazyna"
Rolled up the map of Angers - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Carry a bloodmap for a lost country - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
Its most mapless lost cause - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"
Who labor and toil in unmapped soil - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Venus Nell" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]
The unmapped seas took tribute - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
We travel unmapped roads - Alberto Rios "The Cities Inside Us"
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In countries that don't exist on the map - Kaveh Akbar "Love Poem with Bighead"
A map of furrows and folds - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
Looking at the map of her hands - Mary Jo Bang "Let's Say Yes: 5. Opened and Shut"
An ancient sphinx omitted from the map - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Small map unfolding a globe - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"
Will paper their walls with maps and broken promises - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
Map pins on a dream-warm itinerary - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"
The darkening map of this moment - Geoffrey Brock "You Are Here"
Somewhere past the map's rough edge - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"
Risk misfortune's unrelenting map - CM Burroughs "Supposition"
Sketch an anarchist's map to the future - Chen Chen "The School of the Unschoolable"
Zipped in their maps of skin - Susan Comninos "Naked Admission: a Fantasy"
Of maps that lead to vacancies - Meg Day "Batter My Heart, Transgender'd God"
The way a border on a map twists into thorns - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Maps to other moons - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"
In the map of my hand - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Maps are ghosts - Natalie Diaz "They Don't Love You Like I Love You"
Map of thine own fortitude - Helen Parry Eden "Bournemouth to Poole"
Restlessness is the last ordinary map - Chiyuma Elliott "The Winter Mirror (Explanation)"
The star map of my arms - Heid E. Erdich "Tick Check"
The path on my map led us slightly askew - Daniel Errico "The Island of Bum Bum Ba Loo"
Ready with maps if you've gone astray - Daniel Errico "The Particular Way of Odd Ms. McKay"
Master the map of never - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"
Remapped each morning - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"
tomorrow they will map shattered portraits - Robert Frazier and Andrew Joron "Cities in Fog"
Carry our own map to disaster - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Every Human Is a Black Box"
Enticing maps and menus of easily affordable adventures - Dana Gioia "Travel"
A map by which their future was ne'er confined - Maxwell I. Gold "Where the Moon Smiles"
If there is a map for grief - Kimberly Grey "What We Have Lost"
And follow no one's map - Jin Ha "The Long-Distance Traveler" (translated by the author)
Who were maps drawn of blood - Joy Harjo "She Had Some Horses: I. She Had Some Horses"
No map for how to live past this - Leslie Noyes Harrison "The Four Elements"
This knot is a map back to me - K.D. Harryman "Whipping"
Mapped the earth as we imagined it - Samuel Hazo "High, Higher, Highest"
her maiden name clotted in a map older than 'america' - DaMaris B. Hill "Come. Pray. Know"
Stars fizzle in the map of still time - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"
The outdated map on his wall - Douglas S. Jones "A Tuesday Night"
A war burns at the edge of the map - Saeed Jones "History, according to Boy"
Mapping out hell with my feet - Saeed Jones "In Nashville"
Weather invariably comes with maps - Fady Joudah "Isomers & Isotopes"
Did not draw the map that shows the sticky trail - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
A black hole in the lake on the old maps - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Undo the map his hands made - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"
The complicated, fading map of cures - Ted Kooser "Father"
A fragile old heart, the brown map of a life - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"
Mapping the nodes of universal birth and death - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"
Map a line of sisters - Linette Lao "Becoming"
As dull maps and solemn charts attest - Emily Lawless "From the Burren"
Old maps made of flowers - Angel Leal "Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father"
Our thrones of maps and mirrors - Ada Limon "High Water"
Spin a whole road map of a world - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Picture maps of destiny - Mina Loy "At the Door of the House"
Where mercy prepares the map - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"
Where the map edges blister, and the compass wasps - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
Looked for maps out of myself - Jamaal May "Ode to Forgetting"
Maps desire's coordinates - Shara McCallum "Fury"
A breathing map to display the curvature of our world - Nancy Mercado "Going to Work"
Fling down that map and measure - Joaquin Miller "Usland to the Boers"
What is a map but a useless prison? - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
What is a map but the delusion of safety? - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
Relief maps of regret - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Torrent"
A constellation of maps - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"
Like an ancient map of pain - Walter Dean Myers "Junice Lomax, 23, Unemployed"
Dissecting the lonely map - Pablo Neruda "Loves: Terusa (I)" transl. by Alastair Reid
The massive map of the granite - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XV" transl. by James Nolan
Fractured into maps and spells - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Those curious beautiful tinted maps - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
Dreaming a map of the globe - Sharon Olds "Voices"
To watch bees map a garden - Carl Phillips "Soft Western Light"
Growing songs more delicious than your maps - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
The map of lines on her forehead - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"
Studying maps drawn for the absurdity of navigation - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"
The map of the future - Adrienne Rich "Shooting Script 14"
The map of chance and purpose - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"
Scenes now painted on the map of Time - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "An Indian's Grave"
Constant since the oldest maps - Kay Ryan "Gaps"
My freckles mapping where I begin - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #81"
A destination no longer on maps - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Three"
A star chart might work better than a map - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Missing Time"
Strangers with myths for maps - Ann K. Schwader "Quiet in Her Mind"
And maps the birds in his head - Jacob Shores-Arguello "Workshop"
The map of ancient Rome in your pocket - Charles Simic "A Word"
where does the map end? - Danez Smith "three Black poems from August"
A puzzle that no longer has a map - Hope Anita Smith "Instructions on How to Lose a Mother"
That maps the good and the evil in the future's bewildering folds - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Have mapped every centimeter and shipwreck - Keith Taylor "Castle, Nowhere"
Ancient maps scored inside the lace of their bones - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"
Someone else's map of laughing - Pimone Triplett "From Another Other Within, Without"
Until it becomes my own dim map - Crystal Valentine "Blood Sex"
Mapping his way through sun-strikes - Charles Wright "In Memory of the Natural World"
The map we left behind - Jay Wright "Sasa"
What lives on that map never sees the light - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
The stars are a map in the noon of it all - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"
In honor of faded maps - Adam Zagajewski "Grazyna"
Rolled up the map of Angers - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Carry a bloodmap for a lost country - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"
Its most mapless lost cause - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"
Who labor and toil in unmapped soil - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Venus Nell" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]
The unmapped seas took tribute - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"
We travel unmapped roads - Alberto Rios "The Cities Inside Us"
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
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