Potential Titles: Always

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Always keeping in mind the distinction between mushroom and toadstools - Duane Ackerson "Black Hole Hunter's Guide"

This division's products are almost always recalled - Duane Ackerson "The Dream Factory: Two Tours"

Always true to the Platonic ideal he dreams of - Duane Ackerson "The Painting Speaks"

Though it always mistakes the hour - Kim Addonizio "Darkening Then Brightening"

In hours always uncertain - Etel Adnan "Night"

Always in the present tense - Etel Adnan "Night"

Always remember your names - Nuola Akinde "Mothering"

You must always start with something - Mike Allen "Picasso's Rapture"

Depression is always in the details - Julia Alvarez "Heartland"

Always the strange order of smoke - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

Always in praise of the elder tongue - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

The always unknown passage - James Baldwin "Munich, Winter 1973 (for Y.S.)"

Always on the cusp of revolution - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

I talk but always to a mirror - Mary Jo Bang "Intractable, and Irreversible"

What tragedy was always trying to teach - Mary Jo Bang "Tragedy"

Always starts inside a single heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"

And always some cursed omen - Elizabeth Bartlett "Jinxed"

always before the final terror - Elizabeth Bartlett "weather forecast"

Never copper but always fire - b: william bearhart "No More Fire Here: A Sestina"

There is always something porous in the decorous - Josh Bell "One Shies at the Prospect of Raising Yet Another Defense of Cannibalism"

Returning, as always, to the past - Frank Bidart "California Plush"

Who always delighted to roam - Vera M. Brittain "Boar's Hill, October, 1919"

Some colors have always been illegal - Sue Budin "Passport, 1954"

Nostalgia (always dangerous) - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"

Navigation was always a difficult art - Lewis Carroll "The Hunting of the Snark"

Always a sparrow flitting in the flowerbeds - Bartolo Cattafi "My Love, Don't Believe" transl. by Dana Gioia

Always at a point of departure - Marianne Chan "On Buzz Aldrin's Birthday"

The possible isn't always foldable - Victoria Chang "Dear P. [If you are]"

A wind that always blows colder - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"

Heroes of a tradition always in the future - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

who knew the truth but didn't always choose it - Lucille Clifton "lee"

in which the past is always flowing - Lucille Clifton "the mississippi river empties into the gulf"

This one that always chaps and cracks - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

And always my eyes ached for the light - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Time is always ahead of us - Barbara Crooker "In the Middle"

There are always more names to speak alive - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

Always ourselves we find in the sea - E. E. Cummings "maggie and milly and molly and may"

you open always petal by petal - E. E. Cummings "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"

Always ended with a tumbleweed excuse - Micah Daniels "The Secret of Youth"

Always on the road of docile laurels borne - Juan Bautista de Arriaza "Tempest and War, or the Battle of Trafalgar. Ode" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Always be armed to abhor you - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz "A Satirical Romance" transl. by Judith Thurman

There are always buzzards in the sky - Salomon de la Selva "Tropical Town"

My roots always at a distance - Kristen De Leon "Reclaim"

Its promised summer always postponed - Carl Dennis "Holy Brethren"

Stepping always (we hope) between the lines - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #1"

And always they will slip away - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "Poem [Ah, I know what happiness is....]"

Where it rained always & without pity - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"

Where promised snow always refuses to fall - Cheryl Dumesnil "Breaking the Broken Things"

Always equated you with breath - Cheryl Dumesnil "Fever Dream"

Part of us always stays back - Cheryl Dumesnil "The Heart Has Four Chambers"

Always about to vanish - Stephen Dunn "I Caught Myself Thinking the Horizon"

Always occurs too late - Stephen Dunn "A Small Part"

Always more than distance - Roger Dutcher "More Than Distance"

Blazing always in the unprocessed wind - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"

The earth has always supported me - Elaine Equi "I Interview Elaine Equi on the Four Elements"

Calling always for rain - Eve L. Ewing "Shea Butter Manifesto"

From an empire that has always been ruined - Joseph Fasano "The Figure"

The dream always remembers the body - Andrew Feld "Opium Poppies I"

We shall go always a little further - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Always on the other side of the fire - Katie Ford "The Fire"

always nibbling at my edges - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

Always late with its light - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"

Always there is this unquenched desire - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

We always locked the flowers outside - Robert Frost "Locked Out"

Always the reticence of roses - Zona Gale "Roses"

The end was always just around the bend - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"

But the devil always trips up in the end - "The Game of Fate" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

Must always come around by Dreamland way - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"

Your grief always a marathon - Andrea Gibson "Ivy"

And it is always Doomsday - Andrea Gibson "Ode to the Public Panic Attack"

Always do seek our soul's decay - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"

What we bury will always return - Nikita Gill "Discoveries"

Always forgot to count me - Nikita Gill "The Epiphany"

Weren't always havens of contented ease - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Immortality"

Night will always bring the old hungers - Dana Gioia "Starting Over"

A world of always leaving - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Cage"

Of that blaze set always between - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Sometimes removed & always jagged - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"

That will always be her own to hold - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"

Always said no universe could hold him - John Grey "Son of an Astronaut"

The final verse is always the trees - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"

The sun will not always be so gracious - francine j. harris "Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monstitch Past 45"

Being anywhere is always in doubt - Tom Healy "Base Camp"

As wondering men have always done - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

In which the rocks have always been hollow - Jackson Holbert "Fragment [As if to begin some process]"

Always the forest at midnight - Mark Irwin "How to Gather It All Up"

Will always bring you home again - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"

Always had a heart something like ice - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

Best if we don't always reciprocate their hunger - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Stretched always toward the furthest limit - Troy Jollimore "On the Origins of Things"

Confused, but always on a journey - Laura Kasischke "The Time Machine"

One always caught in the clutch of another - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

A kind of love always caught in the underworld - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 1"

Always more brilliant than the right - Galway Kinnell "The Olive Wood Fire"

Always intended to live forever - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

Living always in the same lifetime - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

The always steadying presence of seeds - Joanna Klink "Given"

Always the same order of events - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"

Always on the ninth midnight - Andrew Lang "The Milk White Doe"

Tortoises always foresee obstacles - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Family Connections"

Who always remembers the language of miracles - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"

Not always in lightness, however - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."

A coin always landing tails - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

The beacons are always alight - Li Po "Fighting" transl. by Arthur Waley

That always misses where I'm not - Ada Limon "Joint Custody"

The mad keeper of numbers is always present - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Always he was in charge of his direction - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Sinatra always plays on payday - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"

Between desire and always - Audre Lorde "Echoes"

But always there was one unbidden guest - Amy Lowell "A Fairy Tale"

Thought that success always followed desire - Amy Lowell "The Fool Errant"

Always stronger in the face of annihilation - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

To feel the always coming on - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"

Always a scandal to fools - Anthony Madrid "You Better Be"

Proving the human heart has always ached - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"

The pain will always dream - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

A purpose always stacked on another purpose - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Always falling toward each other - Joanne Merriam "Surface Properties"

Always a sky made of water - W.S. Merwin "Coming to the Morning"

How the sun was always on the towers - Charlotte Mew "I Have Been Through the Gates"

Emptiness is always a constant - Jenny Molberg "Narrative"

The line drawn is always in the sand - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"

Always finish the same way - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Perfect Form"

Always a version of the liability - Carol Muske-Dukes "Grief Dream"

Always burdened by the rain - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Always found the flavor of sky - Pablo Neruda "This Is Where We Live" transl. by Alastair Reid

Where these nettles grew nettles have always grown - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"

How dirt has always befriended me - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

Once felt is always - Joyce Carol Oates "Five Confessions: III. Pain"

The remains of a white dwarf will always rot - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"

Where he'll always play defense - January Gill O'Neil "The Rookie"

Always to the garden's edge - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Stray"

Always I've been a hunter - Ekhmetjan Osman "My Love" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Always dwindling to just the two of us - Patrick Phillips "For Paul"

There has always been an index - Rena Priest "The Index"

But the echo was always hers - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "My mother the philosopher"

With the look of the always astonished - Sina Queyras "Years"

Time was always something you could make more of - Laura Read "Love Poem with Staples"

Weep always for my stone - Rainer Maria Rilke "Song of the Statue" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Always auditing where two and two are five - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The False Gods"

Left always to be vicious and to grow - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The New Tenants"

What falls away is always - Theodore Roethke "The Waking"

We entertain Him always like a stranger - "A Royal Guest"

Always willing to move one place along - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"

Always tearing at the hollyhocks - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait"

Discovery is always tinged with sorrow - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"

The border is always sealed - Salik Shah "Field Notes"

Among the weeds I'll always be - Joyce Sidman "Song of the Water Boatman and Backswimmer's Refrain"

Love always wakes the dragon - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"

the damage is always goldilocks style - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"

Always losing the scent when it crosses the Styx - A.E. Stallings "The Dogdom of the Dead"

Always was a matter of revision - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"

Who's always promising and walking out - A.E. Stallings "Failure"

Must not always beautify wreckage - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"

Seething always with passion and pride - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 184: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Always walking through halls of cloud - May Swenson "Earth Your Dancing Place"

Will always bear the beauty of chance - Arthur Sze "Under a Rising Moon"

Always roaming with a hungry heart - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"

One of us is lying always - TC Tolbert "felo-de-se-- Melissa"

Always wanted the tiger - Kristen Tracy "Presto"

The familiar because it feels soft and always - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

As if joy were always here - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer "Latent"

Always looking for bad luck - Perhat Tursun "The Heart" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Have always hated the rain - Jean Starr Untermeyer "Rain"

your mission statement was always insufficient - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

by your design it's always autumn - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

Escaping Orion who always pursues - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Starry Night"

Trees that always worry - Edward van de Vendel "Tree Sports"

The ocean is always knocking - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Tropical Depression"

Always October in my throat - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"

Have always followed your word - Joshua Weiner "Psalm"

And outcasts always mourn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

Always at some new loving treason - William Carlos Williams "The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven"

There is always the morning - William Carlos Williams "In Harbor"

Expect the ground to be always solid - William Carlos Williams "K. McB."

Always against a grey sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"

My honey is not always sweet - Adolf Wolff "Confidences"

The clouds, as they always do, present us the option - Charles Wright "I'm Going to Take a Trip in that Old Gospel Ship"

For always night and day - W.B. Yeats "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

Always at a distance from reality - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Let the gods look away as always - Kevin Young "Hive"

Though silence always has the last word - Adam Zagajewski "Radio Street"

Always full of emptiness - Matthew Zapruder "The Pavillion of Vague Blues"

A black door that will always remain closed - Matthew Zapruder "Poem for a Suicide"


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