Potential Titles: Cinder

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When we wash our face in cinders - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Lines to My Love"

Skinned the surface of cinders - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Who smells of ginger and cinders - Mary Jo Bang "Pilgrimage"

Grow from cinder and stinking ash - Margo Berdeshevsky "Somewhere Everywhere"

My heart was as a cinder - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

A shower of cinders through the air - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Slag"

Like a cinder fading black at last - F.W. Harvey "Prisoners"

Acid rain from a sky the color of cinders - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"

Shall the earth to cinders doom - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Ash and cinder of star-fire - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"

Spitting smoke and cinders at the moon - John Masefield "A Ballad of Cape St. Vincent"

Compose a nocturne of cinders - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

More than the cinders of Alexandria - Michael Meyerhofer "Theodote"

The ancient cinders of a heart - Pablo Neruda "Night XCV" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Tiny cinders of moth wings - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Divergence"

Reduced his past to cinders - Linda Pastan "Life and Death on Masterpiece"

Black lace crisp as cinders - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Lost among the used-up cinders - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"

A man sunken to less than cinders - Carl Sandburg "Pool"

Raking the cinders of a crucible - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

You can sign your name right on cinders - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

Cold tracks of language collapse into cinders - Chase Twichell "To the Reader: If You Asked Me"


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