Potential Titles: Open

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Opened in the sky a narrow door - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

Tearing the eye of the river open - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

Caught last night in open sea - "Abroad"

An eye that opens on another world - Duane Ackerson "The Blind Man"

Immediately, the sky opened with teeth - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Second Bait"

Open up my mouth & swallow the entire sea - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

Dreamed a city open to the sea - Francisco X. Alarcon "City of Bridges"

Opened the violet's soft blue eye - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"

A depth abysmal opens and receives - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

The crystal ether opens endlessly - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

The hour when the wonders open - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"

Awakening us to the open space - Elizabeth Alexander "One Week Later in the Strange"

And opened a world of possible - Kwame Alexander "The Undefeated"

The tunnel to their altar opened in his chest - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Our factories sleep with one eye open - Alise Alousi "Detroit 1998, a reminiscence"

Opening the door of remembering - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"

Her palms cupped open to the sky - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

Thrown open to the bewitching evening's twin sorceresses - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

Walked through the briars with her eyes wide open - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

The dark swelling of the open ground - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"

Opens up a secret that slept - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "About the angels"

An open door full of light - Julie Babcock "Driving at Midnight"

Drown with open eyes in light - Ingeborg Bachmann "The Great Freight" transl. by Bill Crisman

The ink from an open orbit - Mary Jo Bang "Dwelling in Our Time"

Where Sisyphus opened his red leather diary - Mary Jo Bang "I Could Have Been Better"

Glass slicing open the soles of my feet - Devan Barlow "Dear Charles Perrault"

Opening to foggy roses - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"

The door swinging open both ways - Lou Barrett "Seachange"

The eye of light opens - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Opening my mouth to the rain - Ellen Bass "Sometimes I'm frightened"

Biting open one thing to leave another - Jan Beatty "I'll Write the Girl"

Where brilliant flowers blow in open meads - William Rose Benét "The Tamer of Steeds"

My voice opens and calls you in - Emily Berry "The End"

Pried open for all the world to see - John Berryman "Dream Song 1"

Absence merges with open space - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

Death's thousand doors stand open - Robert Blair "The Grave"

An open wound weeping smoke - Richard Blanco "Winter of the Volcanoes: Guatemala"

Stumbled from the open windows - Maxwell Bodenheim "Insanity"

Music echoing through the open door - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"

Not all windows open - Sara Borjas "Lies I Tell"

The peacock feather in the open thesaurus - Mukut Borpujari "Stoic"

Silence is a muscle you open - Julia Bouwsma "Each Morning Drowns in Open Air"

A door just cracked open - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

Opened room enough in the sky for the stars - Russell Brakefield "The Way We Learned to Sing"

Open floors of steel - William Brewer "Resolution"

Then melt openly into layers of fire - Paul Cameron Brown "Cienfuegos"

Scissors to open twilight - Paul Cameron Brown "Not So Much"

Opens a thousand windows into one - Witter Bynner "The New World VII"

Jeweled gates swing open on their bands of gold - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]

Opening to dawn's young footsteps - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Know that at the end opens - Rafael Campo "California"

Steers for the open verge of blue - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A More Ancient Mariner"

To sail Death's unexplored and open deep - Edward Carpenter "By the Mouth of the Arno"

Spring opens like a blade - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

His eyes two open ovens - Tina Chang "Celestial"

Hybrid forms leave fences open - Tina Chang "Hybrida: A Zuihitsu"

Opened the silver pronged evening - Tina Chang "Wonder Cabinet"

On bare stone with open meridians - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

The opening of his iron book - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

An open vessel hungry for miracles - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "I Do Not Wish to Carry so Much Burden"

opened once and was gone - Lucille Clifton "jasper texas 1998"

Lifting like shame in the open - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"

The door stood open at our feast - Mary Coleridge "Unwelcome"

Once the oceans open up - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "Our Red Road"

Open the doors of astral vision - Flower Conroy "Frog"

Topple into sudden rifts, open into yawning chasms - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Every break and mystic chasm opening - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Wide open with chickpeas and ivy - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

The heart is a continuously open wound - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

you open always petal by petal - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"

opening in a rare Slowness of gloried air - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

Open space blooming awkward between - Jim Daniels "Final/Not Final"

Love opened a mortal wound - Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz "Love Opened a Mortal Wound" (translated by Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique)

And hold the book of wildflowers open - Oliver de la Paz "In Defense of Small Towns"

An open grave with all its magnets - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"

A window that never opens - Diana Marie Delgado "Songs of Escape"

The opening beauties of thy face - Mrs. Elizabeth Dimond "To My Granddaughter"

Have cried openly at the newborn color - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"

Open the door holding back dawn - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

Opening the view to thousands of landing geese - Chris Dombrowski "First Hour"

Opened the worn doors of his eyes - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"

Open this spare March evening - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

A rabbit-hole opens inside you - Timothy Donnelly "The Driver of the Car Is Unconscious"

Blown open to a blank page - Rita Dove "Dawn Revisited"

The doors of centuries opened wide - J.E. Dow "Napoleon"

With open mouth and no regrets - Stephen Dunn "Time"

A road of red clover opens - JJJJJerome Ellis "Before Stuttering"

Opens the door of battle - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 40. E-Ulmash, the Temple of Inana in Akkad" transl. by Sophus Helle

Crack open the globe - Heid E. Erdich "Again, Today"

Where wormholes close and open like anemone - Kendall Evans "Oracle"

The wind lies open on your lap - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"

One heart held open to another - Julia Fehrenbacher "The Only Way I Know Love the World"

Turns like a key, opening air - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

Opening fanlike to fall - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Who opens in autumn under stolen light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XIV"

Open to honeyed light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"

From the wind's open wounds - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"

Open my eyes to the husk of morning - Ariel Francisco "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

To make no more of a wall than an open gate - Robert Frost "The Cow in Apple Time"

Fearless of ever finding open land - Robert Frost "Into My Own"

Open to them all with a sober face - Zona Gale "Enchantment"

Opened my heart to the sun - Zona Gale "Inmost One"

Opens upward to admit the sunlight's gleam - Emanuel Geibel "[Schöne Lilie]" transl. by Edith Wharton

The sound of my heart finally opening - Andrea Gibson "Letter to the Editor"

To break open something forgotten - Nikita Gill "House of Hyperion, Titan of Light"

Road salt in an open dish - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"

Opening doors into moments reawakened - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"

To open against the prayer - Leah Naomi Green "C-section"

Open your palms to the moon - Linda Gregerson "An Offering"

Father and son and the open sky - Edgar A. Guest "A Boy and His Dad"

Willing the door open with your need - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"

That open slowly as eternity - Katherine Hale "Study in Shadows"

Opened its mouth to drink grace - Joy Harjo "By the Way"

Opens all the doors of our hearts - Joy Harjo "My Man's Feet"

Thrown open to the need of stars - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"

Who keep their mouths caved open - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"

Leaves the iron gate open - francine j. harris "roommates"

The star realms opening - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XXXIX"

Silent laughter and an open mouth - Robert Hass "Tomas Transtromer: Song"

Open danger's door - Robert Hayden "The Lions"

Aches like an open book - Terrance Hayes "God Is an American"

And yet the flowers don't quit opening - Terrance Hayes "Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy"

The oven as it opens every afternoon - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"

Osiris' arms open and wait seventy days and nights - Maryann Hazen-Stearns "Embalmer"

Opens inwards to a dark elderberry place - Seamus Heaney "The Grauballe Man"

Of open minds as open as a trap - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"

Touches a thousand open cities - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

When will water open its mouth - Bob Hicok "More than whispers, less than rumors"

Hoping never to open up the cupboard - Conrad Hilberry "Empty Plate"

Now in the open face of day - Leslie Pickney Hill "So Quietly"

Gates opened in the reeds - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Cut open my pilgrim heart - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Ginsburg"

Sleepwalking his open heart - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

Crack open my heart for you - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

When windows keep their promise to open - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

In order to keep open the possibly - Cynthia Hogue "The Simple"

Autumn's opening door - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

Opened the door of my heart - Jean Ingelow "Contrasted Songs: A Lily and a Lute"

Opened our eyes when his own were closed - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

To open the door of eternity - Islwyn "The Vision and the Faculty Divine" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Past the open gates of night - Marcus Jackson "What of Fire?"

Which opens your door to the past - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"

The hearts of those very few with open ears - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

To open them without a sound - Allison Eir Jenks "The Prisoner"

closed doors that refuse to open - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"

Sun flowers and sumac opening greedily - Helene Johnson "What do I care for morning"

Opening a doorway to the extraordinary - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"

Open up a window of heaven - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Memories of open wind convey - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"

The window that never opens - Taylor Johnson "States of Decline"

Open to a sky of windblown herons - Saeed Jones "Boy at Threshold"

A path of hard, open mouths - Saeed Jones "Coyote Cry"

Behind a door you can't open - Saeed Jones "Cruel Body"

On the open page of my desolation - Ingrid Jonker "When You Write Again" transl. by Jack Cope and William Plomer

Memory calls me to the earth's opening - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Like a fist when you open your hand - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"

Soldiers advancing from the open sea - Kaneko Misuzu "Waves" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

A ring of keys that can open any door - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

Ripped open again his sack of grain - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Open, lightning-struck and gashed - Janet Kauffman "A Body Walking in Clothes"

The fair and open face of heaven - John Keats "Sonnet X [To one who has been long in city pent]"

The melancholy meaning of open satchels - Jane Kenyon "Going Away"

The doors childhood almost opens - Galway Kinnell "Milk"

Fists slow to open in forgiveness - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

a goose opens its chest to a sound - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen"

My fingers open despite my mind - Christopher Kondrich "Ruin Valley"

Wide eyes of welcome open to you - Ted Kooser "Barn Owl"

Respectfully opening oak by oak - Ted Kooser "A Fox"

A new watcher opens a hyperdimensional eye - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

The knot fell open of itself - Steve Kowit "When He Pressed His Lips"

Only after will locked doors swing amply open - Youna Kwak "After"

Eros sleeps with the windows open - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

A gate that could open secrets - Joan Larkin "Mozart's Songbook"

The setting suns are open - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"

Open unseen gates with key of gold - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Great hands open towards the west - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

The split atom like a new dimension opens - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

For Olympus ne'er open'd its portals - Henry S. Leigh "The Olympic Ball"

Open myself to wonder - Paula Gordon Lepp "Can You Hear It?"

Kelp with its open attitudes - Dana Levin "Watching the Sea Go"

Windows open to let the fog roll - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

Night of open obsidian and owls - Ada Limon "Territory"

And open the beautiful gate - John Gunter Lipe "To Miss Vic"

Open for my welcoming - Amy Lowell "The Giver of Stars"

Opens doors to duty - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

In the opening zenith found its goal - Maria White Lowell "Rouen, Place de la Pucelle"

The unsurpassable openness of the circle - Mina Loy "The Dead"

Offer an opening I am too small to see - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"

Twilight opened gates unknown - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

The gap that opened up between her breaths - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swallow"

Expired words buried in open graves - Naomi Long Madgett "Packrat"

Opening ourselves sieved throats to breathe new air - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"

Broke open spirit secrets - Edgar Lee Masters "To-morrow Is My Birthday"

Here you come with your open hands - Louise Mathias "The Problem of Hands"

At the swallowing edge that dying opens - Farid Matuk "The Butcher's Fifth Quarter"

Watching lightning open up the sky - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"

The cockleburs tore our feet open - John McCarthy "Toughness"

Red dance of my opened fist - Jeffrey McDaniel "Jonathan"

A fall opening to swoop and glide - Anne Haven McDonnell "Owl"

Snowshoes bite the trail open - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

Ants & trees & the open breeze - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

The door opened halfway - Risalet Merdan "I Am Waiting for You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

As the road opened under them - W.S. Merwin "The Crust"

Opened from the darkness afterward - W.S. Merwin "The Mole"

Keep the lens of vision open - Claire Millikin "Amatorium"

Open the door of my feelings - Vilyam Molut "Gift of the Sky" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

To open locked doors with a sword - Marianne Moore "Sojourn in the Whale"

Every wind an open gate - T. Sturge Moore "The Sea is Kind"

Rich doors to richer guests were opened - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Thirst for wind and open space - Christopher Morley "At the Dog Show"

Light opening against my back - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Death and prism in my open fist - Angel Nafis "Directions to Finding You, or Maybe Just an Inferior Prayer"

The flamingo opened the doors - Pablo Neruda "The Birds Arrive" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Opening broken doors to the sea - Pablo Neruda "Fully Empowered" transl. by Alastair Reid

A prisoner with the door open - Pablo Neruda "The Rooming House on the Calle Maruri" transl. by Alastair Reid

While the doors of time open - Pablo Neruda "Seventh of November: Ode to a Day of Victories" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The eyelids of the pollen open - Pablo Neruda "Spring" transl. by Alastair Reid

Quartz opens its eyes in the snow - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: II" transl. by James Nolan

Swings open the doors of the earth - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XXVIII" transl. by James Nolan

Opened yourself like an underground door - Pablo Neruda "Swan Lake" transl. by Alastair Reid

The air with open veins - Pablo Neruda "The War (1936)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Just open the door to the sun - Hoa Nguyen "Swell"

Into the open jaws of our separate lanes - Idra Novey "Value City"

At whose touch time opened - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

Our hearts will open like sieves - Naomi Shihab Nye "A Definite Shore"

Imagine the luxury of open roads - Naomi Shihab Nye "In Some Countries"

Twelve others might open - Naomi Shihab Nye "Problems with the Story"

The body of the night opens - Mary Oliver "The Deer"

Open the dark fields of your mind - Mary Oliver "Flare"

The stone whose flower opens inward - Gregory Orr "River Inside the River"

Just let me stand here with an open eye - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

Sweeps us along to the Opening Door - John Oxenham "The Bells of Ys"

The blessing of an open window - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"

Opened the door to the fairy house - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"

Also what the knife has opened - Carl Phillips "Discipline"

Open nevertheless like hope - Carl Phillips "The Strong by Their Stillness"

A labyrinth of dead ends and false openings - Carl Phillips "Wherefore Less Lonely"

Opens heaven's lattice wide - Charles Phillips "Music"

splits open revealing mirroring paths - Xan Forest Phillips "no one wants to be rough anymore"

The lily newly opened - "The Poor Clerk (Ar C'Hloarek Paour)" (Translated by Tom Taylor)

Open my inward vision flies - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen

See the moon by opening a door - Julie Quiroz "Superpowers"

From the heart of an opening rose - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"

Equidistant between the open doors - Charles Rafferty "Two Pianos"

An open sea of a tiny lake - Theodore H. Rand "To W."

Open windows that lead to oblivion - M. Regan "The Hollow"

Simple textures falling open - Adrienne Rich "Messages"

The fog's irregular documents break open - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Where all hearts were open wide - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

From the door of my opened heart - Charles G.D. Roberts "Hill Top Songs"

By doors that were left open unawares - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The New Tenants"

Open a door onto a sea - Alireza Roshan "The Book of Absence" (translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach)

Open a door onto you - Alireza Roshan "The Book of Absence" (translated by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach)

Wishes that deny being opened - Purbasha Roy "A Thought for Wishes"

Go with chambers broken open - Kay Ryan "Still Start"

An open window in February - Ira Sadoff "Self-Portrait"

An umbrella opens inside me - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait"

Open when you wake - Carl Sandburg "Eyes"

Conducts us through an opening door - Charles Sangster "'Tis Summer Still"

The openings of the obvious - Tomas Sanchez Santiago "The Arrival"

To break open the air with your grief - Ollie Schminkey "The First Rule of Buoyancy"

The magnolias open their goblets up - James Marcus Schuyler "April"

Ancient opener of all ways to darkness - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

Opened milkweed with no agenda - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Unripe morning cut open too soon - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"

Open to show red lipstick - Brenda Shaughnessy "Nachtraglichkeit"

Where of old our eyes were opened - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: I. In the North"

Strange lights shall open as we pass - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: III. The Landsman"

Separately go to our dreams of opened heaven - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: V. A Song in August"

Open my armored wings - Joyce Sidman "Diving Beetle's Food-Sharing Rules"

A broken door I struggle with, but cannot open - Marge Simon "Plaster Messiahs"

pasqueflowers open their palms to straight rain - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"

A generator station opens its eye - Jake Skeets "Let There Be Coal"

Who feed in the untamed openings - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"

Our other earth opens a secret hand - Nathan Spoon "The Genie Speaks"

Opening the blank future like a letter - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"

Shadows caught with our mouths open - Gerald Stern "Ted Rosenberg"

Blow the globes of dew from opening buds - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"

And laugh in the open blue - Alfred B. Street "The Ausable"

A double key which opens to the heart - Sir P. Sydney "A Kiss" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]

Into the open day of wide forgetfulness - Carmen Sylva "Lethe"

without pretending that home is an open prison - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

the door opens into the burning of the world - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

you are singing the door open for us - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

Opening into some bright dream - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: XI. Shells"

Holding it open with a rock - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"

Destiny across an open desert - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"

The rabbit darts over the open road - Kristen Tracy "State Lines"

My open window filled with advice - Kristen Tracy "Taming the Dog"

Opens the secret chambers of our hopes - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

On the field's open page - Natasha Trethewey "Again, the Fields"

Open to the love of fire - Nadia Tueni [Untitled] transl. by Carol Cosman

Picking open a tabernacle - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

the flora of the open palm closing - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Bleeding The Calf"

Shut down and opened wrong - Jean Valentine "To Ireland"

A gallery of things to be cracked open - Jesus I. Valles "Barnes & Noble, 1999"

Not one path is open through the snow - Mark Van Doren "River Snow"

Opens one's heart to the law - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: Life" transl. by Alma Strettell

A question ready to open roots - Ocean Vuong "The Smallest Measure"

The drawers you dare not open - Derek Walcott "The Young Wife"

The portal the sun has opened - Charles William Wallace "Thus Life's Tale"

Of languages breaking open - Mark Wallace "Deep Cover Costumes"

That a story is open to answers - Jo Walton "Nemi"

That a question is open to lies - Jo Walton "Nemi"

Knocking open the door to a grief - Afaa Michael Weaver "Midnight Air in Louisville"

The ordinary opening beyond belief - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"

A wound made of fire opening in the sky - Marcus Whalbring "A Local TV Weatherman Describes the Apocalypse"

Leaves the doors between them open wide - Edith Wharton "Heaven"

The key that opens to green arches - Helen Hay Whitney "Tranquility"

Opening hearts of lilac - William Carlos Williams "April"

Crack a name open - Katie Willingham "Bad Instructions for Approaching Warp Speed"

Its opening a herald - Katie Willingham "The Golden Record"

Open my heart enough - Katie Willingham "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame"

The bright abyss that opens in that word - Christian Wiman "One Time 2: 2047 Grace Street"

To frame the circumference of their open despair - Nicholas Wong "101, Taipei"

The heart of the world lies open - Charles Wright "The Evening Is Tranquil, and Dawn Is a Thousand Miles Away"

Opens another form of illusion - Jay Wright "Six on Six on Six: The Dilemma of the Raised Sixth"

Until my voice and throat cracked open wide - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"

Plums lie open to the blackbird's beak - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

A door opening in the surf - Wendy Xu "Interim Poetics"

Love's heavy open door - Wendy Xu "Pledge"

The dirt path opening again in a dream - Wendy Xu "Writing Home"

Blow breath into your open mouth - Kevin Young "Nightstick [A Mural for Michael Brown]"

Wind and rain await the opening flower - Yu Wu-ling "Offering Wine" transl. by Burton Watson

The eye of the world opens and shuts - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

The eye of the world opens - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

In the mind's cool barely open eye - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

with their whole selves blown open - Maria Zoccola "Dry Land"


Invent me in the half-opened eye of night - Vandana Khanna "Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation"

The shadows half-opened - Pablo Neruda "The Creation" transl. by Dennis Maloney


Dread opener of the mysterious doors - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"


Staring at the open-mouthed stars - Mary Jo Bang "We Took Our Places"


With my pried-open prayers full of silt - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"


Classic as a book unopened - Brody Parrish Craig "Haircut in the Kitchen Sink"

A caverned ark ever unopened - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"

Up to Heav'n's unopening Door - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Huddled in dark unopened books - Charles Simic "In the Library"


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