Potential Titles: Rib

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Strip each rib down to light - Ellen Bass "Wilderness"

The ribs of March are kicking through - Russell Brakefield "The Way We Learned to Sing"

On the ribs of some forsaken coast - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"

Of breath exhaled from wooden ribs - Iris Jamahl Dunkle "House Empty Speaks a Loud Truth, 2018"

Within the rib complex of some dissolved creature - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"

The mountain's twisted ribs - Anthony Euwer "Nature's Totems"

Dismantled ribs of light - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen j"

Through the flutes of my ribs - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"

Making his stony ribs thy stony stairs - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

A garden inside my own ribs aflourish - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Caged by the brittle twigs of my ribs - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"

A knife between the fifth rib and the sixth - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"

Showing their ribs to the wind - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

Growing a rainforest between my ribs - Angel Leal "Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father"

How a rib seeks its twin - Cynthia Manick "A Taste of Blue"

Its rusted ribs were stolen from the junkyard - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

Without these rock-ribbed facts - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"

Ribs in the body politic - January Gill O'Neil "Old South Meeting House"

with dust and ribs required - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

The rooms between each rib - Kiki Petrosino "Thigh Gap"

Play a tune on xylophonic ribs - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 8"

White as god's own ribs - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"

With the lights of their ribs - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"

All the ghosts rattling my ribs - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"

In these lonesome ribs - James W. Riley "The Lugubrious Whing-Whang"

As though ghost ribs had been added - Kay Ryan "Post-Construction"

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

Carved out Eden between our ribs - Ann K. Schwader "To Theia"

Into the Black Sea's ribs were hurled - Taras Shevchenko "Hamaleia" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

The fleshless earth's outjutting ribs - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"

A voice bleeds beneath my ribs - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

Ribs perfectly arranged around the emptiness - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

With every rib humming - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"

That my ribs might make a belfry - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks XI: Cathexis"


Outtop the blue-ribbed sky - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Spirit of War"


My rib cage expanding and contracting in iambics - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

His ribcage filled with tiny boats - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"


Rock-ribbed and ancient - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"


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