Potential Titles: Skull

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Holding crushed bird skulls in your hands - Kim Addonizio "Here"

An engraving in the urn of my skull - Zaina Alsous "Ibis"

Heard bees buzzing inside their skulls - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"

In the theater of the skull - Mary Jo Bang "She Remembers His Hat"

The skull with its spare coat of reason - Mary Jo Bang "When Meeting Beauty"

Extend the geometric skull - Elizabeth Bartlett "World of Tomorrow"

That loves to dwell 'midst skulls and coffins - Robert Blair "The Grave"

In the backlot of my father's skull - Wo Chan "Such As"

Snatch a skull for midnight wine - Leonard Cohen "It Uses Us!"

With fire in his skull for torch - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"

Hollow skulls of the innocent dead - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Heart Has Four Chambers"

An angry lion smashing skulls - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 20. E-Ninnu, the Temple of Ningirsu in Lagash" transl. by Sophus Helle

That pours freely through my damaged skull - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."

Drinking coffee from polished skulls - Mona Gould "Black Coffee"

With an emperor's skull for a drinking-cup - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"

Across that high court of the skull - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"

Once our skulls shut up their nasty talk - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

The deep sockets of your idealistic skull - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"

Seated on the skulls of cows - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Drink from the skull of the celestial wolf - Ekhmetjan Osman "Uyghur Impressions 7: Muselles Wine" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

My skull expands in recognition - Kiki Petrosino "The Departure"

Singing arch of my skull - Carl Sandburg "In Tall Grass"

Your skull for its sorrows - Reg Saner "What Wilderness Tells You"

Remember the practiced smile of the skull - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"

Filling the auditoriums with empty skulls - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"

A crimson spider hidden in a skull - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

A skull that glared upon the stars - George Sterling "The Dream of Wilhelm II"

Crown the skull with flower or thorn - George Sterling "Strange Waters"

Your skull is a cup hungry for light - Jacqueline Suskin "How to Fall in Love with Yourself"

Streams through our sandgrain skulls - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"

In that tower built of skulls - Perhat Tursun "Elegy" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Left your memories back in the skull - Yee Heng Yeh "Lost and Found"


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