Potential Titles: Sift

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Sifting the distances of silence - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"

The dust of twilight sifting down - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

Sifting through fountains of salt - Alise Alousi "All Guesses Are Wrong"

All the lifetimes sift down like golden grains - Mouna Ammar "Inheritance"

Sifts and proves and balances - Karle Wilson Baker "Bluebird and Cardinal"

Sifts the star-streams between the Then and the Now - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Morning mist from purest ether sifting - Giosue Carducci "On the Sixth Centenary of Dante" transl. by Frank Sewall

Sifting through thick air - Nandi Comer "The Check In"

The years sift through their hands - Fanny Stearns Davis "Profits"

And sift them on the wind- The Ettrick Shepherd "May of the Moril Glen"

Sift memory for the hard lessons - Nikki Grimes "Lessons"

Salt and sand sifted by pain - Wendy Guerra "Peninsular Psalm" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

To win, to weigh, to sort and sift - Henry Clayton Hopkins "To --"

Sift down his charity of snow - Scharmel Iris "Foreboding"

Dew sifting in slow motion - Zilka Joseph "Man hu? Man Hu?"

Sifting through the dust behind us - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

Sifted to make cakes and castles - Dorianne Laux "My Mother's Colander"

The sun sifts through - Amy Lowell "Patterns"

Sifts down between the uneven roofs - Amy Lowell "Solitaire"

Even to the ultimate sifting dust - Edna St. Vincent Millay sonnet IX from Second April

Sift it down into fractions - Mary Oliver "Bone"

The sifted sunlight passed - George Sterling "The Gardens of the Sea"

A ragged ache of light sifts through - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Sifting the dust of road - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 210: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Heaven's motes sift to salt-white - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"


In the silver-sifted dark - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"


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