Potential Titles: Shoulder

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With a rock on my shoulders - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"

My shoulders reaching to the sky - Ellen Tracy Alden "[Once on a time, in early dawn of summer]"

With golden peacock proudly on one shoulder - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXII: The Peacock and the Nightingale" transl. by J.W. Wiles

With shouldered scythe still bare - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

Shoulder-strung rhythm of panic - Julia Bouwsma "Paddling the Storm"

A dwarf on a dead giant's shoulders sees more - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

Her turning shoulders wind the hours - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

Shoulders slumped with star burden - Chris Dombrowski "Gentle Reader"

Rest your cheek on the shoulder of the mountain - Chris Dombrowski "Tablet"

That blade in the shoulder of grace - Camonghne Felix "Tonya Harding's Fur Coats"

Weather inscribed into our shoulder blades - Max Garland "In the Meantime"

Hundreds of shoulders leaned against their strength - Mona Gould "You Wrote"

On the shoulder of the dark universe - Joy Harjo "Bird"

Rub your shoulders with scissors - francine j. harris "dickhole and denise"

Salt my shoulders with ocean - francine j. harris "somewhere outside acme, i believe in castles"

Around the naked shoulders of the sun - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Helping Hand"

The tall kingdom over your shoulder - Seamus Heaney "Act of Union"

In the mirror of your shoulder - Mary Hickman "Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait"

Something invisible and weightless touching our shoulders - Edward Hirsch "Fall"

Their shoulders held the sky suspended - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVII: Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries"

That lift the shoulder of a god - Aldous Huxley "Stanzas"

Shoulders washed by ocean's foam - "The Isle of Arran" transl. by Eleanor Hull

The stone moon descends to brush his shoulders clean - John James "Other Adam"

Those phosphorescent shoulders of the night surf - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"

I shoulder my way into a crowded heaven - Ashley M. Jones "Song of My Muhammad"

And flung the planets over his shoulder - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Air settles on their shoulders, infiltrates their hair - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Peeling stars from my shoulders - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

The stars lost from our shoulders - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

The horizon meeting my shoulders - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

A hawk that loves my shoulder - Vachel Lindsay "The Celestial Circus"

Rip its talons from your shoulder - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

Like salt over a shoulder - Ruth Madievsky "Electrons"

The busy angles of my shoulders - Jamaal May "Ask Where I've Been"

Light moves on your turning shoulders - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"

Poured on the shoulders of sorrow - Pablo Neruda "Cristobal Miranda (Shoveler, Tocopilla)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

stand on the shoulders of a smaller atlas - Achy Obejas "Heroes in exile"

your hand on the shoulder of the wild - Sharon Olds "Song to Gabriel Hirsch"

Until they lined up shoulder to shoulder - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong

Crows gossip shoulder to shoulder - Walter Pavlich "Awareness"

On the shoulders of the soul - Robert Pinsky "On a Line of Hart Crane's"

Carved its past out of God's shoulder - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"

The silent hand on my shoulder - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"

The moon wheels its white shoulder - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"

Who rode on what shoulders - Adrienne Rich "Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot"

The lilies braced their narrow shoulders - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"

Shook the moonlight from his shoulders - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

To believe the universe will tap your shoulder - Sahar Romani "Sign"

Onto her cold and bruised shoulders - David St. John "Iris"

His shoulder full of brightness - "Sickbed of Cuchulain: Summons to Cuchulain" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Shouldering past the swirling dust motes - Tracy K. Smith "Wade in the Water"

When cellos shoulder the tune - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"

Sky around your shoulders - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"

Shawls of lost memories about their shoulders - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"

High on the shoulders of thinner air - John Moncure Wettarau "Bee Fantasy"

Leopard skin about her shoulders flung - Helen Hay Whitney "The Joy of Life"

The felt mat seats us shoulder to shoulder - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson


an industry of inertia in their shoulder blades - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"


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