somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Wash

Geography awash in pitch - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 10"

Awash in wonder and wrath - A.M. Juster "Three Visitors"

Not enough clean water left to wash it off - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

Let the blue light wash away the blood - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

When we wash our face in cinders - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Lines to My Love"

Washed themselves in salted rivers - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Thoughts washed against a reef - Mary Jo Bang "Anniversary"

A flotsam of ill-omens washed these shores - Lou Barrett "The Unraveling"

As if to wash this dusty world - Basho transl. by David Young

The guilty land is washed in innocent blood - S.J. Bates "The Sacrifice" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Washed in life's river - William Blake "Night"

Wash me with a wave of wind upon the barley - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"

Washing over the voiceless stones - William Brewer "Halfway House Diary"

Between washing and the well - Lucie Brock-Broido "Soul Keeping Company"

The sparrows washing in the dusty gravel - Julian Talamantez Brolaski "sky hammer"

Where waters wash with exquisite music shoreward - Fleda Brown "Afternoons at the Lake"

Mind washed clean, scrubbed down - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"

Among the betraying cliffs and dry washes - Cyrus Cassells "Courage Song for Scott Warren"

Washed his soul in the west wind - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book II. The Gathering of the Chiefs"

To wash my eyelids in the rain - Leonard Cohen "So Long, Marianne"

Some glass weight washed on the sand - Alicia Cole "Once, I Was a Mermaid"

Who comes to wash himself in death - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Washed and white and newly spun - Frances Cornford "Spring Morning"

washed with a wild and thin despair of violin - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

The wash and whisper of far waters - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

Washed up onshore like so much driftwood - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

we wash away the empire's sins - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"

the year that marked us but we cannot wash away the wind - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"

a gray winter blizzard washed in blue tones - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"

Wash the dim shores of old Eternity - M.G. "Apostrophe to Time" (The Knickerbocker v.23:4, April 1844)

Put on this jubilee, walk inside it, wash with it - Sarah Getty "The Wash"

All the five seas wash my veins - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"

The lees of the Atlantic washed ashore - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"

The riverbed's washed dream of gold - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"

Washed of the hot day's dust - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

And wash them with untimely tears - "Hours of Childhood"

To wash overripe stars - Ishion Hutchinson "Aubade"

Washed away sleep from the eye of the narcissus - Muhammad Iqbal "The Secrets of the Self"

Shoulders washed by ocean's foam - "The Isle of Arran" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Where a path of tears washed through - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"

Anything that washes away easily - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"

Until we washed our hair with stars - Allison Eir Jenks "Letters from Our Fathers"

Hums and ticks like a washed penny - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Curiosities"

Washed of every crimson stain - Fenton Johnson "The Vision of Lazarus"

Washed by spacious light - Lawrence Joseph "Water Street"

Spin you in my palm to wash out time - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Aroma of basil and tangerine washed over - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Washed away the last wrecked fragments - Emma Lazarus "La Madonna della Sedia" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, March 1875, v.XV no.87]

Wash yourself raw and crackling - Aimee Le "Beautiful People"

Black narrow lists no tears can wash away - Richard Le Gallienne "Christmas in War-Time"

The nightly ritual washings and lockings - Sandra J. Lindow "The Wolf from the Door"

Wood and clay will wash away - "London Bridge"

And spends three days washing out his ears - Lu Yu "Sending Tsu-lung Off to a Post in Chi-chou" transl. by Burton Watson

Blank as a washed beach - Herbert Woodward Martin "A Dusting of Snow"

Every thought washed of color - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"

the curses cannot be washed off - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

Washed by a water greater than the world - Alfred Noyes "Goethe I: The Discoverer"

An orchard with white-washed trees - David O'Neil "Poems: Moods and Moments"

With eyes washed in the fire - John Oxenham "Philosopher's Garden"

And wash my wound in the snows - John Crowe Ransom "Winter Remembered"

dreams wash spirits in midnight waters - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

spirits washed in midnight waters - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Washed out of the world with fire and blood - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

No ether-bath can wash the stigma out - Friedrich Schiller "Actaeon"

Silt of stars washed down from skies - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Marker Memory"

Washed their faces clean of love - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Washed over with champagne - "Song" from Poems on Golf by the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society

When the rain has washed the dark - George Sterling "The Forest Mother"

Has burnt a mark no rivers wash away - Carmen Sylva "Lethe"

Washed in tears, in blood, in rivers of despair - Carmen Sylva "Rest"

Washed with the tears of the Universe - Rabindranath Tagore "Urvasi"

Our world's a thin wash of muted tones - Keith Taylor "Sea and Ran: Lake Michigan"

Washed the eyes of the stars - Edward Thomas "The Trumpet"

washing their marbles in the vestry - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

Everything was washed to wilting - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "I Saw My Father Today"

And only bitter land was washed away - Margaret Walker "Childhood"

Washed brains don't rinse so simple - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"

Washed up on shores of silence - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

A career of washing lettuce - John Wieners "Charity Balls"

How history does not wash away - L. Ash Williams "Red Wine Spills"

Until time had been washed finally under - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Washed within a wave of golden - Francis Brett Young "Testament"

In an empire awash with light - Hanif Abdurraqib "I Was told the Sunlight Was a Cure"

Awash in wonder and wrath - A.M. Juster "Three Visitors"

Awash in a fog of deities - Maggie Nelson "Proposal"

In the gleam of the gold-washed sea - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

Deep on moon-washed apples of wonder - John Drinkwater "Moonlit Apples"

Because the black dresses sit unwashed - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"

Highways burnt then whitewashed - Alise Alousi "What Every Driver Must Know"

The adagio echoes in that whitewashed cave - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"

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