Potential Titles: Wasp

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Old wasp nests fallen by the door - Nina Bagley "Gathering"

Wasps on the mudbanks - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"

Wasps and scorpions and tarantulas - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

Brambles where wasps go - Paul Cameron Brown "Fire Bush"

Pierced by the radar alum of wasps - Paul Cameron Brown "The Necklace Garden"

Converts water into wasps - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"

Giving you a palm full of wasps - Kwame Dawes "Purple"

Underneath the murmur of the wasp - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"

Stepped in a papery nest of ground wasps - Paul Guest "Walking the Land"

In the selfhood of wasps - Tony Hoagland "The Truth"

Flowers to bring worms and wasps - Ashley M. Jones "Photosynthesis"

In a haze of honeysuckle and wasp - Vandana Khanna "Sita's First Kiss with Suburban Landscape"

Praise not the wasp & the paper nest - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""

The wasps' nest in the rafters, broken - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"

Swaddled wasps in its wood - Aimee Le "Inventory of a Year Before Debt"

The lethal dose of wasp venom - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

A wasp bowing before significance - J. Michael Martinez "Meister Eckhart's Sermon on Flowers and the Philosopher's Reply"

The wasps poised at the yellow plums - John Masefield "The Return"

Where the map edges blister, and the compass wasps - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Curious about the opinion of wasps - Pablo Neruda "Bestiary" transl. by Elsa Neuberger

Wasps sang at the windows - Mary Oliver "Flare"

As wasps find poison - John Boyle O'Reilly "Name of Mary"

Wasps settling into the juniper - Carl Phillips "The Blue Door"

Focus on the wasp at the window - Roger Reeves "Brazil"

With eyes like angry wasps - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"

Light fine as a wasp's sting - Lola Ridge "In Harness"

Where no wasp wanders in - Lola Ridge "A Worn Rose"

ungracious as a wasp - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"

velvet ants and paper wasps testify - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

A wealth of wasps - John Updike "Vero Beach Birthday"

Like overwintered wasps plotting assassinations - Matthew Wimberley "The Celebrated Colors of the Local Sunsets"


With her ear against a dead wasp nest - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"

A wasp nest on the back porch - Anis Mojgani "4 stars"

Leaving its wasp-nest flaws - Marianne Moore "The Paper Nautilus"

The silver wasp-nests hang like fruit - Elinor Wylie "Escape"


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