Potential Titles: Bone

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What are bones if not seeds waiting - Lydia Abedeen "Birangona Song in a Walmart Parking Lot"

The shape of her two hundred and six bones - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

Bones of song tracing lines of flight - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

The noise of dead men's bones - Harold Acton "On the Theme of Ophelia's Madness"

And I'll wear it like bones, like skin - Kim Addonizio "What Do Women Want?"

A desert of living bones - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"

After the bones - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"

You felt the service in your bones - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"

And placed a lien on your bones - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"

A quest to reveal the bones of the sublime - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Bones X-rayed, stacked in narrow rows - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"

Auctioned into bone notes - Zaina Alsous "Dead as a Dodo"

The number of bones in a peafowl - Hala Alyan "Siri as Mother"

Bartered flesh and broken bones - Maya Angelou "Southeast Arkanasia"

Bones breaking down to the ground - William Archila "Bury This Pig"

You give language to black roosters & fossil bones - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"

Bone and marrow of my all - Simon Armitage "Poundland"

Hidden among the rattling old bones - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"

Rising, luminous, from its own bones - Rebecca Baggett "Chestnut"

The red clay of Macon dusting his bones - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

Built your bones out of air and hurt - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

be the blood within my bone - Elizabeth Bartlett "guadalajara"

Vacant of all but its bones - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Deserts waiting to expel your bones - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"

The bones of the past splinter - Ellen Bass "Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur"

Bones breaking like time in a song - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"

A bird of bones and air - Robin Becker "Hummingbird"

Wolves over a spilled bone - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two at the Crossroads"

The unrestrained fleet of bone - Joshua Bennett "Clench"

Sharp enough to cut bone & soul - Joshua Bennett "Invocation"

Working in sweat and skin and bone - Carina Bissett "Seven Swans"

The clashing bones of happiness and fear - Maxwell Bodenheim "Insanity"

Feeling something of this country in her bones - Arna Bontemps "To a Young Girl Leaving the Hill Country"

Until I am hollow as a bone pipe - Julia Bouwsma "The Schoolteacher Answers the Call"

Dragged and hung beneath a bone of moon - Russell Brakefield "Rag"

My bones will announce themselves - William Brewer "Resolution"

Worked on the bone of a lie - R. Browning "Master Hughes of Saxe-Gotha"

Among bones white and sweet - Rebecca Buchanan "The First Morning in May"

Undress my courteous bones - CM Burroughs "Questions During Protest"

Strewed our earth with hostile bones - Lord Byron "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"

Rigged with bones unbending - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"

Hollow as the bones of birds - Christian Campbell "Sculpture With Fragments of Stuart Hall"

Flat with bones which don't die - Stephanie Cawley "Not"

Raw bones of ambition - Jennifer Chang "Dorothy Wordsworth"

Where blood must spill and bones break - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"

Water so cold it hurt his bones - Ch'en Lin "Song: I Watered My Horse at the Long Wall Caves" transl. by Burton Watson

Bones by the shores of the Uncertain River - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson

Of curse in bone and kin - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

Cracking and burning bones as fuel - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"

How will they banquet on those bones - R.S. Chilton "Lines on Seeing My Sister Fill a Little Beggar-Boy's Basket with Cold Victuals"

With aching bones and heavy head - John Clare "Address to Plenty: In Winter"

Skin wrapping the thankful bones - Patricia Clark "Creed"

walk my bones and my heart - Lucille Clifton "the death of crazy horse"

Distinct from dirt and bone - Ama Codjoe "Primordial Mirror"

Like a bouquet in a cave of bone - Leonard Cohen "This Is for You"

Because we were the bones of bees - Susan Comninos "During COVID, She Dreams of Leaving a Masked Man"

Today the encounter displaces our bones - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Found a man with spears for bones - Dorsey Craft "The Wife's Lament: A Retelling"

The dice of drowned men's bones - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"

No rebellion in your bones - Adelaide Crapsey "To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window"

Voices lost in the dry hollows of bones - Shutta Crum "All That is Left"

Estrange the flesh from the bone - Countee Cullen "To You Who Read My Book"

Controlled burns and bone games and berries - Laura Da' "Bad Wolf"

Silence leaked from her bones - Jim Daniels "The Religious Significance of the Super Ball"

Make music to the bone - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Harmony (I)"

To gather your bones - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"

I promise to gather your bones - Tyree Daye "Field Notes on Beginning"

A pocketbook full of bone readers - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"

The valley full of the best bones - Tyree Daye "'tween my gone people & me"

And the clamor of bones - Monica de la Torre "Divagar"

Dries me to the bone - Christine de Pisan

Near that narrow field of bones - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

A prayer for my bones - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"

Break the bones to get to the heart - Toi Derricotte "My great teacher, Galway Kinnell, taught me: 'Speak the unspeakable'"

Our bones in a trillion pieces - Desdamona "Once and Future"

Behind this mortal bone - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Time and Eternity XXXV: Emancipation"

A bone has obligations - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XLIV"

As if my trade were bone - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XVII: Asleep"

Bones that contort into many forms - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"

The difficult music of bones - Jordi Doce "Guest"

Living to the tip of every bone - Max Eastman "X Rays"

In the story of my bones - Elaine Equi "Autobiographical Poem"

Lean into their bones - Heid E. Erdich "Long Pig"

A dance older than the shape of human bone - Gabriel Ertsgaard "Stardust Word"

Might commingle with a dire wolf's bones - Kendall Evans "This, a Kind of Prayer"

Over sheaves of bones - Tarfia Faizullah "Register of Eliminated Villages"

Bled out through the bone - Camonghne Felix "'But in what way does the blending of two slightly different cells bring about such a renewal of life?' --Freud"

Your bones are as heavy as the past - Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi "Letter from a Hot Air Balloon"

Sleeping gentle over steel bones - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

Bones scraping the sky - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

Reserved his bones for resurrection - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen B"

A pile of feathered bones at the door - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen L"

Hungry together by its rivers and bones - Katie Ford "[I Failed Him and He Failed Me]"

With all that restless bone - t'ai freedom ford "Answers"

Walk a bridge of dinosaur bones - Vievee Francis "The Scale of Empire"

Wolf blood and Fenrir lines that chill the bone - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"

Into the negative of bone - Santee Frazier "Fugal"

hard white bones shot with pitchblende - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

From the bones of Chaos - Nikita Gill "Eurynome: The Mother of All Things"

And every ivory bone defeated - Nikita Gill "Lamia to Scylla"

An endless fury in her bones - Nikita Gill "Modern Apollo and Artemis"

Drowning inside your own bones - Nikita Gill "A Secret from Me to You"

Carry witchcraft in our bones - Nikita Gill "Witch"

To the soul of their bones - Carmen Gimenez "Be Recorder"

Reaping the harvest of animal bones - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"

Tell my bones that they are each a lamb remembered - Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake "Someday I'll Love--"

Drifting in our separate bones - Rae Gouirand "Terminus"

Hovering bone bright beside you - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter"

Air that feeds his bones - Leah Naomi Green "To the Cardinal, Attacking His Reflection in the Window"

Sinew and bone she drew them - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"

Here in breath and bone - Thomas Hardy "The Casual Acquaintance"

Fallen moon rolling up the bone railroad - Joy Harjo "Backwards"

The nerve at the center of the bone - Joy Harjo "The Black Room"

Our bones are built of spirals - Joy Harjo "Heartshed"

Etched on the surface of their bones - Joy Harjo "Kansas City"

Old bones of lava beds - Joy Harjo "Nandia"

Into the history of living bone - Joy Harjo "Night Out"

The bones that cracked in your heart - Joy Harjo "What Music"

Just a bone song - francine j. harris "sift"

The craft's mystery improvised on bone - Seamus Heaney "Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces"

Secure soft slumber to his bones - Felicia Hemans "Epitaph on Mr W--, a Celebrated Mineralogist"

Demolish all his bones - Faylita Hicks "Hex for R. Kelly"

Sell these bones to the sea - Conrad Hilberry "Sea"

With bony claws of razored steel - John Northern Hilliard "A Fantasie of Dreams"

When I secreted zero at the bone - Cynthia Hogue "The Daughter"

Devour the corrupt bones of this world - Langston Hughes "Sunday Morning Prophecy"

With the love of my strained bones - Richard Hughes "Cottager is given the Bird (1921)"

That laps his flesh and iron bones - Aldous Huxley "Behemoth"

To the banquet of bones will betake him - ascribed to St Cellach of Killala "Hymn to the Dawn" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Envy the good bones in the garden - Carly Inghram "Assured Environments"

Our monuments rooting bones in all shores - Ashaki M. Jackson "A Proclamation"

Breach the blue of my bones - Gary Jackson "Multiple Man: Guest-staring me & you"

That history is a stirring in our bones - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

Reminding me I was all bones beneath - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

First, he became the bones of wistful memory - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

With the bones inside us silently howling - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Savage of breed and of bone - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Train Dogs"

cut away from the bone of debt - Fred L. Joiner "Austerity"

bruising the bones of every certainty - Camisha L. Jones "The Law of Motion"

Handmade armor of bone - Saeed Jones "Terrible Boy"

My bones breathe only air - Zilka Joseph "For the Birds"

Souls on crutches of bone - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"

The thick bones of winter - Donika Kelly "Commandments"

Working hard to deny the fact of bones - Christopher Kennedy "Ghost in the Land of Skeletons"

My bones, traitors who dream of fire - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"

A chorus of bone, river and soot - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

How we fever the dark's bones - Willie Lee Kinard III "Aubade: Nocturne"

Affection with a soul made of bone - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

Lured by bones' memory - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

Down to each numbered bone - Yusef Komunyakaa "Canticle"

Shattering green bones on cliffs of ice - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

My bones drank water - Maxine Kumin "Morning Swim"

Baring my bones to the whims of demolition - Lam Lai "I, New York"

We shrink eventual to the ultimate bone - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

A tailored suit for bones lost - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

Had to check my fingers for bone - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"

A thing made all of rattling bone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

Mournful, rattling bones and chains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Restate the strength of leaf and bone - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"

Chorus of soup bones and roots - Hailey Leithauser "Jiminy"

In her ears were rings of dead men's bone - Charles G. Leland "Bone Ornaments" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.1, July 1862]

Bones grown through with dandelion - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Torn sigils tangled in bones on the lawn - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"

All my bones scattered across the floor - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"

Your own bones will hold you up - Ada Limon "The Commute"

The coral-gossip of these good bones - Ada Limon "Fin"

Both brave and buried bones - Ada Limon "Not Enough"

Every bone in the snake is the hipbone - Patricia Lockwood "The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks"

Breaks skin, soars past bone - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Modern Fiction"

A shaking and cracking of dancing bones - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"

bones circling the belly of the Earth - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"

Empty your bones of heather and moor - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "grey seal"

Hold this thing that lives in your bones - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

Fog inside the bones - Ruth Madievsky "Fog"

Thank the bones that made your soup - Ruth Madievsky "You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies"

Your bare heart and your mended bones - Maya Marshall "The Field of Blood"

Shift her bones to shape the world twelve times - Maya Marshall "Musing on Lilith Lost to Time"

Bones of long since buried acres - John Masefield "Biography"

Firm in old bones your walls' foundations stand - John Masefield "The Haunted"

The bones of many a wreck - John Masefield "Mother Carey"

The stories from my bones - Pages Matam "Spoiled Child"

Wheels and bone strike - Airea D. Matthews "Sexton Texts a Dead Addict's Daughter During Polar Vortex"

Bridge of bone and intellect - Jamaal May "Unsigned Letter to a Human in the 21st Century"

Treated memory like bones - Shara McCallum "Palisadoes"

Chews the end of a bone already buried - Charlene McClure "Caretaker"

Quiver in the frailest bone - Claude McKay "Baptism"

Never feel it aching in your bones - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

Stitch together bone and sinew, muscle and nerve - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"

Music next to my bones - W.S. Merwin "A Birthday"

Shake the bones of your prophet - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

This structure of earth and bone - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"

We kill the parts of us, or at least bury the bones - Justin Rovillos Monson "Institutional(ized) Political Poem, or Poem for Disputed Territories"

Grace forged in tender bones - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Mercy Beach"

Our salt is in our bones - jessica Care moore "on memory (for Jeff Mills)"

A bird made of bone, solemn and dead - Gabriel Ascencio Morales "The Harrowing | Desgarrador"

A red noise of bones - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Only teeth and a few stubborn bones - John Murillo "Dolores, Maybe"

Festered bones under the yet unexploded sun - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

Church of their bones' desire - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

A tale of wounded bones - Pablo Neruda "Disaction" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Only a borrowing of bones - Pablo Neruda "October Fullness" transl. by Alastair Reid

For the vine that covers your bones - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Its plow for the farming of bones - Pablo Neruda "Puerto Rico, Puerto Pobre [Song of Protest]" transl. by Miguel Algarin

Discover our common love of bones - Caroline Harper New "Widdershins"

Each bone of my mother's regret - Hieu Minh Nguyen "I Want Nothing"

Grow old bones to eat pain - Hoa Nguyen "Crow Pheasant"

A god's bones upon the naked hills - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

The bones and structure of the world - Alfred Noyes "Leonardo da Vinci I: Hills and Sea"

Where voices become bones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl"

Made of bone and flesh and story - Naomi Shihab Nye "Janna"

The bones along the ocean floor - Achy Obejas "Recountal"

hungry for the fruit of cracked bones - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

To drink from a whale bone cup - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

this crypt dust settling my bones - Porsha Olayiwola "The Electric Slide is Not a Dance, Man!"

Anchor them with a pyramid of bones - David O'Neil "Poems: Victory"

Ghastly Famine's bony hand was stretched - Caroline F. Orne "A New England Legend" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

This black moon pulls at my bones - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

Will build their huts out of mud and bones - Gregory Orr "The Dead in Early Spring"

Small bones scattered in a field among burdocks - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together One: A Night in the Barn"

A child sleeping on a nest of bones - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Five"

Deep in the center of my remade bones - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"

Gold and silver freckles burning five-pointed holes into the bone - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"

Where the bones of poets bloom - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"

On the stairwell of bones - Linda Pastan "Anatomy"

Working upward across bone - Linda Pastan "I Am Learning to Abandon the World: for M"

These brittle bones, this unwieldy heart - Linda Pastan "Purple"

Use the harmony of our bones - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"

Track them with our bone dice - Kiki Petrosino "This Is How We Feed the Animals"

Feel our separation in my bones - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 13"

All bones but yours will rattle - Planche "The Sea-Serpent"

Nor juggle with men's bones - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"

Slow poison in the marrow of bones - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"

Crushed the bones of the moon - Rahim Yasin Qaynami "I Was That Person" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

If I had the bones for this - Khadijah Queen "Retreat"

Too much pressed into bones - Khadijah Queen "X"

Carve a home in my bones - Sina Queyras "I Am No Lady, Lazarus"

Who love me to the marrow of my bones - Danni Quintos "Quintos"

As these bones survive their flesh - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"

The struggle that spelled my bones - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Passe Blanc"

Our bones are hollow as a straw - Herbert Randall "White Gulls"

Pillars of bone flower - Julian Randall "The King Is Dead, Long Live the King"

Bony relic of forgotten days - Elizabeth Virginia Raplee "To a Skull on My Bookshelf" [Weird Tales Oct. 1937]

Bones of articulate hope - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"

The bones of what we used to be - Alexis Renata "To Those Who Inherit the Earth"

Sinewed dreams string together bones of hope - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

The fire her bones remember - Barbara Jane Reyes "Brown Girl Has Walked Into the Wild, Palms Open"

This earth and the bones within it - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

From the marrow of our bones - Adrienne Rich "For a Friend in Travail"

Obliterating sands upon its bones - Lola Ridge [Firehead untitled prologue]

Bone and sinew dragging mountains down - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

The white bones of fanged Jerusalem - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

A thousand winters in my bones - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VII: Thaddeus the Unborn 1: The Call"

Their bones recall summer leaves long lost - Lloyd Roberts "Dead Days"

Snow and the winds that eat into the bone - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"

That sang to rest old bones of warriors - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The Dark Hills"

To hide her silver, her metal bones - Nicky Russell "Machinist Hands"

Ate the bones of her enemies - Erika L. Sanchez "All of Us"

Hear our bones singing - Sonia Sanchez "10 Haiku (for Philadelphia Murals)"

The bones of the alphabet - Sonia Sanchez "This Is Not a Small Voice"

Laid on bones taken from the ribs of the earth - Carl Sandburg "Aztec Mask"

Painted over haggard bones - Carl Sandburg "Trafficker"

The loneliness stitched to my bones - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #66"

Not bound here by blood or bone - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #93"

Replied in threnodies through bones - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"

Felt the sirens wail between our bones - Ann K. Schwader "Flash Specters"

These bones we bartered for the rains - Ann K. Schwader "Maya Blue (At Chichen Itza)"

What star begot these bones - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

Their bones are coldsleep coral now - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

The twisted bones of things revealed - Ann K. Schwader "Wind Shift"

The bony ledges of reflection - Teresa J. Scollon "Exile"

Crush down continents of powdered bones - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

The wings and hollow bones of a damp bird - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

Truth lays bare the broken bone - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

That weave their thread with bones - Shakespeare "Twelfth Night"

Melting each frozen bone - Joyce Sidman "Invisibility Spell"

sandstone bones are left long under sage - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

Where a city's bones are strewn - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"

But secure in bone - Patricia Smith "What Was the First Sound"

My bones begging to stay - Richard Solomon "The Charnel Ground"

Sprinkle my bones with your salt - Richard Solomon "Salt Doll Reads about the Tsunami"

Crossing bones scattered in the red dirt ditch - Cathy Song "Waialua"

Quiet these too loud bones - Lyz Soto "Today I Am Full of Birds"

A Dagger's Point on human Bones - John Spateman "War"

Oak flesh that fades on iron bone - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

We stash bones in the closet when we don't have time - A.E. Stallings "After a Greek Proverb"

The rude democracy of bone - A.E. Stallings "The Cenotaph"

An odor the color of bones - Frank Stanford "Politicians"

Graven on tendon and bone - George Sterling "Earth Song"

For desperados and bleached bones - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"

The bones of one bare month - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Bones you cannot swallow - Mary Szybist "Withdrawal"

The dragonseed breeding of current and bone - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

The other half of the sea-god's bones - Genevieve Taggard "Skull Song"

Knuckles bared for blood and bone - Russell Thorburn "Tracking the Wolf"

Howling dunes across ancient bones - Edwin Torres "Bit by Bite"

All bone beyond wood - Edwin Torres "Skygrass"

Dwindled to bone and dust - Kristen Tracy "Fable Revisited"

Storms that rattle the bones of the forest - Iris Tree "[Tranquility stirred by a sudden spasm]"

The track now points to my bones - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"

Ancient maps scored inside the lace of their bones - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"

Threading of bullets in muscle and bone - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"

The ghost that's in his bones dreams in the sodden clay - W.J. Turner "Death"

Curled its soft lure into bone - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Slow bewildered bone - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Oracular"

Turning bones into sonatas - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"

Bones in the grass - Derek Walcott "Salsa"

Night already seeps through my brittle bones - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"

Fitting bones to the earth - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"

Kissed the bony branches into blossom - Charles William Wallace "The Old Benoni Tree"

Counting a spoil of screaming bone - Edith Weaver "Lost Cinderella"

A dog crunching bones for marrow - Joshua Weiner "Mongrel Death Blues"

Darkens the earth with bones - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

That I gnaw the bones of the town - Helen Hay Whitney "The Wanderer"

A gull made of bone and cloth - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: High"

While my very bones sweated - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Of winter branches and old bones - William Carlos Williams "The Soughing Wind"

Some bones to break in the years of fire - Nicholas Wong "Intergenerational"

Castle of old rag and bone - Valerie Worth "Rat"

Their bones crack in the west wind - Charles Wright "Our Days Are Political, but Birds Are Something Else"

Turn around and become ash bone - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"

In the bones of a star - Jay Wright "Imule"

The blessed bereavement of bones - Jay Wright "Kumu"

By bone tethered density - Jay Wright "Sasa"

Too ragged to cover your bones - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"

Bone in the wind's throat - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"

Your bones at the table - Khaty Xiong "The Seven Prisms of My Blood"

And beat upon the bone - W.B. Yeats "Young Man’s Song"

Like a fence made of bones - Jane Yolen "Fence of Bones"

The muscle gives back the bone - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

In crevasses between root & bone - Felicia Zamora "The Exercise of Forgiving"

Her lariat of bone unfolding - Cynthia Zarin "Faun"

The cry of the forsaken bones - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver

Only silence and green bones - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 12" transl. by Katherine Silver


Backbone.

Squeeze the air from her birdbone body - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda V"

White as bone-bleached sun - Julia Bouwsma "Each Morning Drowns in Open Air"

What we need after so many bone-bright days - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

Bone-cold root of nowhere - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Matches near bone-dry trees - Alise Alousi "Lynndie's Other Voice"

Bone marrow and unsung mantras - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Of this world's bone-shell - Dean Rader "Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's Funeral and Completed on the First Day of the New Year"

Sycamores peeling to bonewhite - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"

The curiosity of ghosts relating boneyard tales - Tobias Seamon "Near Life Experience"

Fishbone stuck to my throat - Lu Christófaro "I See You Too"

Crawl, half-bone, half-bruise - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

From our marrow-bone bodies - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"

Into the neckbone of the past - Tina Chang "Lion"


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