Potential Titles: Wet

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The wet highway of this decayed Rome - Richard Aldington "In the Via Sestina"

Night coming like wet - Peter Balakian "Ode to the Duduk"

To grasp with wet hands - Mary Jo Bang "Gretel"

Wet star-dust clung to the skin - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"

Melt into mad, wet math - Joshua Bennett "On Flesh"

Potentials in the wet clockwork of the brain - Russ Bickerstaff "Why Norm Jones Never Feels Like He Gets Anything Done in a Day"

In the wild wet sunset's glance - Edmund Blunden "The Watermill"

And disappearing into bright wet mirror - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

Wet with the morning and the evening dew - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Into tomorrow's wet world - Ching-In Chen "South in Hundreds"

Wet and streaked with daylight - Billy Collins "Reading Myself to Sleep"

Down the wet ways of despair - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

Nereids who dwell in wet caves - H.D. "Acon"

Caught root among wet pebbles - H.D. "Sea Poppies"

A wet rose single on a stem - H.D. "Sea Rose"

Metamorphoses into a wet thorn - Carolina Ebeid "Scripts for the Future"

The wet pitch of the water's mirrors - Chiyuma Elliott "Dear Little Song"

The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee - Robert Frost "A Line-storm Song"

Wet against my fingers in a dream - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"

Unveiled eyes with tears are wet - Robert Graves "Children of Darkness"

The loud, wet rim of the universe - Rachel Eliza Griffiths "Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees"

Tundras with paths lined with wet spikes - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"

Once bereft of wet and wildness - Gerard Manley Hopkins "Inversnaid"

Wet trees hang above the walks - William D. Howells (uncredited) "The Old Homestead" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Down wet and slippery roads to hell - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

Wet black stones for pillows - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"

Shaped twelve sparrows from wet clay - Zilka Joseph "Sparrows and Dust"

Leaving the meadow wet with tears - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

Firing bullets of wet light - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

The warm, wet breath of apples - Ted Kooser "Applesauce"

Like a hail of wet fruits - Aimee Le "Praise Poem for Mtn Dew"

High tide's wet letters - M.L. Liebler "This Atlantic Language"

Wet eyes hungry for decades-old debts - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

With night dews chilled and wet - George Martin "Celestine"

Like the words, wet with music - Claude McKay "To O.E.A."

The yeast of wet metal - Pablo Neruda "The Wave" transl. by Jack Schmitt

By field and fold and sweet wet wood - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

The selkie who slips her wet pelt - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"

Better than soot or algae's wet sigh - Gaia Rajan "Dent"

And the bells of the heather are wet - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Star of the Morning"

The wet rags of the wind - Lola Ridge "Celia"

One was the smell of cool wet moss - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "At the Water"

I'll run below the wet young moon - Lloyd Roberts "Young Blood"

Fresh tears wet upon the hard cold face - Rennell Rodd "Imperator Augustus"

With the tears of heaven wet - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"

In the wet air of the future - Leslie Sainz "Sonnet for Ochun"

Down on the floors of salt and wet - Carl Sandburg "Bones"

For fear to wet a widow's eye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet IX"

Where nature swings its wettest, coldest fist - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Whose streets with tears are wet - George Sterling "The New State"

Choirs of wind and wet and wing - Wallace Stevens "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle"

Waved me from the white wet - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

The wet intention of day - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

Blurry headlights athwart wet asphalt - K. Ceres Wright "Mission: Accomplished"

With one talon over the wet snow - Ray Young Bear "Our Bird Aegis"


Follow the tide's wet-black eyes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sail"


And lash the wet-flanked wind - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"


Prowling the wetlands for ghost crabs - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

A silky frenzy steeps the wetlands - Philip Schultz "Welcome to the Springs"


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