Potential Titles: Afternoon

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The density of an uncoiled afternoon - Rasha Abdulhadi "who is owed springtime--"

Eternal teas and afternoons - Harold Acton "In the Train de Luxe"

An afternoon of nurses and rumours - W.H. Auden "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"

between a range of sunlit afternoons - Elizabeth Bartlett "the now and here"

afternoon sheared from vine and cane - Lisa Bickmore "Concord"

Sunday afternoon starlight - Chris Dombrowski "February Sidereal with Backyard Doe"

The thawing February afternoon - Chris Dombrowski "Was it a sign? I think it probably was"

A broken violin on an August afternoon - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"

The orange floods of afternoon - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

Where afternoon melts into night - Arthur Davison Ficke "A Watteau Melody"

Solemn arches in the afternoons - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Silent under the steep cone of afternoon - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

The flats fields of dying afternoon - Zona Gale "The Kilbourn Road"

Attention fraying in late afternoon light - Marilyn Hacker "Interval"

The oven as it opens every afternoon - Ava Leavell Haymon "The Witch Has Told You a Story"

Handing back the mottled afternoon - Conrad Hilberry "Blood Work"

Parceled out in sixteen-second afternoons - Conrad Hilberry "Hurtle"

That afternoon all the sounds ceased - Geoffrey Jacques "Myopia"

Blossom bloody on an afternoon - June Jordan "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies"

Share an afternoon of mourning - June Jordan "In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr."

An afternoon of apricots and water - June Jordan "Poem for Haruko"

Afternoon sun cutting the ground into roses - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Smoke threads the afternoon - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

Burned sweat and salt into afternoon - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

The afternoon is full of dreams, my love - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"

The afternoon glows to me the old romance of David and Dora - D.H. Lawrence "Dreams Old and Nascent"

And bent toward the afternoon continuum - Ada Limon "Spring, 1989"

Only one sun-rust afternoon - Airea D. Matthews "Sexton Texts a Backslider After Breaking Lent"

Turtles bask in the last tatters of afternoon - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"

On a reaped afternoon - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

And the afternoon wind raises welts of sunlight - Joseph Millar "Job"

Making a hole in the afternoon - Joseph Millar "Venetian Siesta"

Irritate my afternoon like wool - Jane Miller "Life's Ironies"

the afternoon has seeped in well under the roof - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "Afternoon still-life" transl. by Phương Anh

Scavenged among the decayed in the afternoon mist - Kevin Prufer "Graves"

Wrists bright with the afternoon - Isaac Rosenberg "Sleep"

Into the changed look of the afternoon - A.E. Stallings "Evil Eye"

The ambered afternoon slanting through motes of dust - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"

The silken weavings of our afternoons - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

Know the influx of afternoon clouds - Arthur Sze "Xeriscape"

A thin trail that follows you deeper into the afternoon - Avia Tadmor "Nothing Promised"

A voice in the tired afternoon - Matthew Thorburn "Loneliness in Jersey City"

The afternoon's gold findings recede into the hills behind us - Noah Warren "Shuttle"

Stitching the afternoon together - Rosanna Warren "Boletus"

Some wind-dancing afternoon - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"

The crickets who think it's evening all afternoon - Dean Young "Colophon"

Can sleep into afternoon and still wake soaring - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]


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