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Turned me to this paper solitude - Julia Alvarez "By Accident"

Paper all of Arkansas with your missing - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"

A village made of thick paper - Taneum Bambrick "Saying I Am a Survivor in Another Language"

Ecstasies on paper wings - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"

Will paper their walls with maps and broken promises - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"

From the paste and paper of myself - William Brewer "Ode to Suboxone"

Our paper house sat on the banks of the red river - Nicole Callihan "Fable"

Scrape the papery skin from a ginger root - Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello "The Houseguest"

With hundreds of thin paper wings - Billy Collins "Cliche"

Cross the paper waves and printed sands - "Datasonnet for Prince Giolo"

The fevered breeze of a paper fan - Diane DeCillis "Nest"

All that shaky camouflage of paper - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"

Papering over the cracked grief - Louise Erdrich "The Sacraments"

Hear the paper thump on lost porches - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Bearing fish and paper messages - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"

Unrolling October's paper curtain - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen L"

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

Without a chance to blaze upon the unities of a paper scene - Thom Gunn "During an Absence"

And these papers overwhelm an archive - Raquel GutiƩrrez "Would It Kill Me to Be a Nicer Guy?"

On paper wings flit dimly through the night - Reginald Heber "The Whippiad: A Satirical Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIII, v.LIV, July 1843]

A paper lantern leading the way - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

Make a paper wolf for me - Joan Houlihan "H. Antecessor"

People are made of paper - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"

The paper walls of time - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

An excuse on a small scrap of paper - Rindon Johnson "There Is a Black Fly in Your Chardonnay"

The sky tore strips of wax paper - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"

The unfolding of an infinite paper princeling chain - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Praise not the wasp & the paper nest - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""

All his books & papers going to dust - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

Their room furnished with scattered papers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

To sail my paper boats - Albert Lee "My Realm"

Spin inside your paper house - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"

Luck thin as paper - Lu Yu "The Merchant's Joy" transl. by Burton Watson

Unlock space with a paper key - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"

Aeroplanes and paper darts - Furnley Maurice "The Shadow Show"

When I fed it tin and paper - Eve Merriam "Catch a Little Rhyme"

Paper spoons in a broth of wind - Wayne Miller "Nocturne"

Paper muslin ghost - Marianne Moore "Pedantic Literalist"

A girl of paper and moon - Pablo Neruda "Nuptial Substance" translated by Donald D Walsh

Illuminating golden geometry's papers - Pablo Neruda "Paraguay" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Asking to see God's identity papers - Mary Oliver "I Wake Close to Morning"

A thousand paper coffins laid end to end - Gregory Orr "Before We Met"

paper from the inner bark of sandalwood - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

Headlong through your paper sky - Dorothy Parker "August"

A paper lantern the hornets fill - Jacques J. Rancourt "Where to Begin?"

Set paper boat songs alongside egrets and geese - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

Iron and paper and light and salt - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"

Holding paper bags around a barrel fire - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"

The guard rails papered by lichen - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

Wanted to paper the walls with butterflies - Margaret Ross "Evolution"

pour dragon milk into paper cups - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"

Launched them like paper boats - Ira Sadoff "My First Roses"

Crossing the river of shorn paper - Natalie Scenters-Zapico "Paper Cuts"

Layered with paints and cut paper - Leslie Contreras Schwartz "A Body's Universe of Big Bangs"

Themes from a lifetime of words on paper - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"

The sorrow of white paper - Elizabeth Spires "A Little Song"

Just a paper giant - Evaleen Stein "The Picture-Book Giant"

Trapped between papered walls - Melissa Studdard "Everyone in Me Is a Bird"

With the sharpness of a paper's edge - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

Paints a chess-board on paper - Tu Fu "The River Village" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough and Amy Lowell

Only a scrap of paper, old and worn - H.K.W. "Lines Written After Perusing a Letter Written by Robert Burns" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.737, 9 Feb. 1878]

The curling paper serpent sheds his printed skin - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

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


Fog has been blotting paper to my tears - Dean Young "Son of Fog" [Poetry April 2005]


On a runway paved with flypaper - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"


Working with a slide rule protractor and graph paper - Nicholas Christopher "1943"


The mad swirl of leaves and newspapers - Philip Levine "A Walk with Tom Jefferson"


Five paper airplanes poking at turned dirt - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"


When I kept my belongings in paper bags - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"


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


A paper-knife to penetrate heart & guilt together - John Berryman "The Possessed"


Paper-wager and victory-rake - Marcus Jackson "40 Ounce"


Becomes confetti circling in a paperweight - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"


Signposts in sorrow & paperwork - Stephanie Heit "Forecast"


Sandpaper.


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

Invented plums and tissue paper - Laura Kasischke "The Pain"

Beer as thin as tissue paper - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"


Wallpaper.


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