Potential Titles: Easy

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staying alive should be easier than it is - Kaveh Akbar "Against Dying"

Easy as inventing an oak tree - Hala Alyan "Step Two: Higher Power"

Marching to an easy puppet beat - Mary Jo Bang "When April Was Beginning, and End"

Enough to avoid making an easy sum - Erin Belieu "Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease"

Out of comfort and easy dreaming - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

My heart an easy prey - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

An easy breeze at blossom time - Arna Bontemps "God Give to Men"

So easy to surrender - William Brewer "Debris"

Suspect of easy heavens - William Brewer "Ode to Suboxone"

How easy to dismiss my grief - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"

With easy rhetoric and ready hand - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"

Tricked by the easy speech of tyranny - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"

Stoops to an easy clover - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life III"

Easy prey for the dockside phantoms - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

The easy glide of our past tense - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"

That guile be easier than innocence - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

The spaceship dilemma is easy to fix - Daniel Errico "In Space"

Turn it into oxygen for easy breathing - Nikita Gill "The Forest"

Never an easy dream - Saeed Jones "Isaac, After Mount Moriah"

Drawn to the easy sound of sleep - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Because two syllables are an easier loss to bear - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

And by an easy slaughter earn the guerdon - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

The moon's my favorite easy chair - Hailey Leithauser "The Old Woman Gets Drunk with the Moon"

Easy vow of tardy kindness - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Suicide"

The sky lies easy to his plow - Pablo Neruda "To the Dead Poor Man" transl. by Alastair Reid

Hard to regret beauty and easy to lie - Caroline Harper New "The Bioluminescent Bays of Vieques"

And renounce all easy hope - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

Hear the trees in their easy hours - Mary Oliver "Do the Trees Speak?"

For bleeding and blistering, and easy bravado - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

Easy games for a spirit - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"

Easier to bear than sorrow - Carl Phillips "Electric"

And at first look easy - Carl Phillips "Island"

Easy sales of lasting pleasure - Francis Quarles "The World's Fallacies"

In easy riddles taught the secret - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

Not easy to believe in your own dream - Rosemarie Waldrop "Pleasure Principle"

Exerting Beauty's easy privilege - Arthur Waugh "The Beautiful Swan"

An easy thing to walk apart - Margaret Widdemer "The Old Suffragist"



Some wild, easily shattered rose - Robert Frost "A Line-storm Song"

Enticing maps and menus of easily affordable adventures - Dana Gioia "Travel"

Fragile mirrors easily broken - Ivor Gurney "Strange Service"

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

How easily autumn shakes the yellow leaves - Adele Kenny "Survivor"

With the disdain that beauty so easily conceives - Harry Martinson "Aniara 1" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Rest easily in the shadow - Lynn Riggs "The Hollow"

Easily identifiable beneath the funny mask - Dean Young "Acceptance Speech"

The wind won't go away so easily - Kevin Young "Dog Star"


Uneasy.


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