Potential Titles: Fish

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As many Comets as fish - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

Fish with minnow as with fly - "Another Peep at the Links"

I reel the small fish of time - Ruth Awad "The Years of Water and Light" [Poetry Oct. 2019]

With five fish in a fountain - Mary Jo Bang "In the Book of All That's Befallen"

The ghosts of fish shall wake - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Poet's Dream"

Narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea - Elizabeth Bishop "The Moose"

Small fish and forgotten glass - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"

The fish swam like brilliant magicians toward the window - Susan Browne "Becoming a Poet"

When fishes flew and forests walked - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"

To see fishes and frogs sail about in the air - Ellen C. Clayton "The Birds and the Fishes"

Fish and venison and badger's fat - "Deirdre's Farewell to Scotland" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Urging schools of mint fish into shallows - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"

Which dead in great fishes' jaws - John Donne "The Calm"

Bearing fish and paper messages - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"

Gleaming fish that gasp in the death-bright dawn - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

Fish from the hollow tree - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 6"

And fish would feed upon the plain - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

A fish of my own spirit - Linda Gregg "Whole and Without Blessing"

Fish in their tin armor - Tony Hoagland "Disappointment"

Time balanced on a fish egg - Sy Hoahwah "Church for the Disliked"

Green aquarium of phantom fish - Aldous Huxley "The Reef"

The time of the flying fish - Kaneko Misuzu "Whale Memorial" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

The ocean is sky to fish and mollusk - Christopher Kondrich "Layer of Ash"

And the fish crawled into stones to sleep - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Saw the nimbus on each fish - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"

The fish in shadow-waved herds - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

Fishes in the breathing waters - D.H. Lawrence "Fish"

Slow fish speaking the language of silence - Philip Levine "Making It Work"

Farther apart than bird and fish - Lu Yun "For Ku Yen-hsien, a Poem for Him to Give to His Wife" transl. by Burton Watson

Her fish in other seas than those we now traverse - Harry Martinson "Aniara 6" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Rushing fishes streaked the sea with flame - John Masefield "The Setting of the Watch"

Joy was in those fish unknown - John Masefield "The Setting of the Watch"

As gannets when the fish are due - John Masefield "The 'Wanderer'"

The torqued and rippling surface and the beautiful ravenous fish - Joseph Millar "Job"

In phantasmagoria about fishes - Marianne Moore "Is Your Town Ninevah?"

As formal as the scales on a fish - Marianne Moore "The Steeple-Jack"

Like the fish of a bitter fountain - Pablo Neruda "Battle of the Jarama River" translated by Richard Schaaf

A fish trapped in the wind - Pablo Neruda "The Enigmas" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A darting fish in the water of the sky - Pablo Neruda "I Want to Return to the South (1941)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

With the arrival of the peaceful fish - Pablo Neruda "Modestly" transl. by William O'Daly

A fish between space and silence - Pablo Neruda "Morning with Air" transl. by William O'Daly

The fishes of the dawn - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Age" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Like fish from the strangest sea - Pablo Neruda "The Poet" transl. by Jack Schmitt

In the depths of change sometimes the shadows are fish - Margaret Noodin "Fundamentals of Leadership" transl. by the author

A clan fish whispers the language of waves - Margaret Noodin "Red Sky over Superior" transl. by the author

The river is famous to the fish - Naomi Shihab Nye "Famous"

To fish up dreams for just us three - Miriam Clark Potter "A Ballad of Three"

Once with fish and once with wine - D.A. Powell "The Miracle of Giving"

Catching fish to pay his debts - E.J. Pratt "The Passing of Jerry Moore"

A silver stream of fishes on the march - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

Fish among the elements - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"

Glitters with fishes of gold - William Shenstone "The Shepherd's Home"

Flickering fish and swirls of tiny plankton - Joyce Sidman "Deep Currents"

Dig holes into the water to find the fish - Marge Simon "Plaster Messiahs"

From the fish swallowing the tiger - Richard Solomon "Dream Caused by the Fight of the Bumblebee"

Rolled silent with somnolent fish - Alison Swan "Before the Snow Moon"

Ashamed beside the carefree fish - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson

Rafts of ducks diving for mollusks and fish - Keith Taylor "Dear Erie"

The king of water and fish and things - Gretchen Tessmer "Hey Man, Nice Shot"

The fish soar to find the ocean - Francis Thompson "The Kingdom of God"

The leaves are little yellow fish - William Carlos Williams "Metric Figure"

Through its head swim a million fishes - Dean Young "Undertow" [ Poetry Nov. 2007]



Dream-fish to beguile - Alpha Angela Bratton "Slumber Song"


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


Bade him leave his Fisher's net - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "On Lomonossoef" transl. by John Pollen


Beginner's luck and a fisherman's zeal - Lloyd Roberts "A-Fishing"

The sere old fishermen of madness - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell


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Fishnets trawling stars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7

Siphoning memory like gas through fishnets - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"


Bearded goblin-fish and sharks - Theodore Maynard "Blindness"


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