somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Fold

Layer after folded layer, an endless origami - Duane Ackerson "The Vampire's Reflection"

Whose raiment was silver shot through with golden folds - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Like the air that folds a star - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Pauline Pavlovna"

That touched the ancient folds around his eyes - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

Which folded Faust in joy elysian - Benjamin West Ball "To D.S.H."

A map of furrows and folds - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"

Foxglove and zinnia fold their colors - Lou Barrett "Brief Truance"

On folded wings secret and silent - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"

To fold enchantment round their hearts - Charles Baudelaire "Beauty" transl. not credited

Fold your great wings about my face - Hilaire Belloc "The Night"

Folded my sorrows like fitted sheets - Andrea Blancas Beltran "Year of the Rat, Full Moon in Aries, and Coltrane Plays"

Folded into the violence of blueberries - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"

We'll fold you into sparrows - Katy Bond "Sestina for a Friend Misplaced and Recovered"

Folding in the smaller rain - Lucie Brock-Broido "After Raphael"

Numberless flocks in the field and the fold - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Beneath whose folds the trees grow pale - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"

The possible isn't always foldable - Victoria Chang "Dear P. [If you are]"

Folded down into yourself - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"

Ends in the folding of hands - Lucille Clifton "9th picture returning to the origin back to the source"

Folded in petals of the purest white - Arthur Colton "The Water-Lily"

Trees with folded wings - Hilda Conkling "Land of Nod"

Folded in by golden noons - Susan Coolidge "A Portrait"

As sheep within their folds - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"

Folded neatly inside my mask - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"

whose hand my folded soul shall know - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

In the fabulous folds of tomorrow - Geffrey Davis "King County Metro"

And down the wings of Pegasus would fold - Tomas de Iriarte "Epistle to Don Domingo de Iriarte, on His Travelling to Various Foreign Courts" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Of stars or cloud or summer's folded sun - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Till human Time shall fold its eyelids - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Tides fold over me - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

The four dimensions fold into a sandcastle - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"

Hidden in the folds of threadbare clothes - Chad Frame "A Union Victory"

Folding outward in twos and fours and sixes - Lora Gray "Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments"

The indomitable stirring of folded hands - Hazel Hall "The Circle"

A lamb not sheltered in any fold - Frances E. Watkins Harper "Out in the Cold"

This knot is a folded note - K.D. Harryman "Whipping"

Umbrellas fold their wings and sleep - Oliver Herford "In Darkest Africa"

Their prey hidden in land folded and patched - Ellen Hinsey "Varieties of Flight"

With serpent folds entwining round the stem - William H.C. Hosmer "Song [The hallowed wells of Learning]" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

From the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XXIII"

As a rose refolding toward evening - Mark Irwin "Dear Red"

the days shrink and fold away - Didi Jackson "Fall"

And fold between the stones - Allison Eir Jenks "Lament"

Fold their exiled hands in orison - Lionel Johnson "Our Lady of France"

Folded the pinions of my thought - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

The haunting mists still folded to their bosoms - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Folded my sorrows into the mantle of summer - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

Your life a folded telescope - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"

Folded within my hemisphere - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Folded buds of memories - Archibald Lampman "The Child's Music Lesson"

In folds of thwarting matter furled - Archibald Lampman "The Clearer Self"

Folded in like a dark thought - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"

Folded in the bedclothes of night - R.B. Lemberg "In the Third Cycle"

Folded in upon reflection - Audre Lorde "Domino"

Folded hearts where secrets hide - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Crocus Bed"

In her robe of folden sunshine - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Indian Summer"

The kind sky folding all - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Wanderlust"

Whose folds are flameless moons - Fiona MacLeod "The Rune of Age"

Small explosions from the folded air - Naomi Long Madgett "Afterthought"

Folding into the dim fringes of themselves - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"

The nerve I had to fold time - Farid Matuk "When I Look at Pictures"

That folds steel like a flag - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"

Each weary heart is folded deep - Theodore Maynard "At Woodchester"

The quiet orchards folded in the rain - Theodore Maynard "The Singer to His Lady"

The folded glory of the gorse - Charlotte Mew "Fame"

Fold them like the wings of frightened birds - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

A house is sky folded back - Claire Millikin "Cupboard"

Fold the lights of the night sky - Anis Mojgani "Leda"

allegory writing me into a fold of stillness - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"

Folded up like griffons - Maggie Nelson "Nap"

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

All implied and folded in the first - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Folded document of hope - Naomi Shihab Nye "Facebook Notes"

Fold grief like a blanket - Mary Oliver "Work"

Within the folding of those azure doors - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Fold my weary wings in peace - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"

Which careful memory in her folds has nursed - P. "Sonnet on My Little Boy's First Trying to Say 'Pa-pa' [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.443 June 26, 1852]

Light with folded hands - Marigloria Palma "Twilight" (translated by Carina del Valle Schorske)

Folds down the banners of the sun - Gilbert Parker "It Is Enough"

Two arms outstretched to fold the world - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"

From out the folded hills - Alexander Posey "The Deer"

Gray fog folds the houses round - Miriam Clark Potter "Princess Fire"

Folding screams into lace - Khadijah Queen "Precipitation Erasure"

Fold her under the faded shawl - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Alma Mater"

Folded in her cloudy gown - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Song of the Watcher"

My genocides folded into my wallet - Roger Reeves "Brazil"

We fold poems into parking lots - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

Great spears folding into letters - Adrienne Rich "Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot"

Softly triumphant folding immensities of light - Lola Ridge "Mother"

Through all the thirty-six folds of the turning and twisting waters - Rihaku "Exile's Letter" transl. by Ezra Pound

The banners of silvery fold - James Whitcombe Riley "The Circus Parade"

The Twilight folds her gloom - James Whitcombe Riley "Slumber-Song"

The folding arms of peace - Rennell Rodd "In Chartres Cathedral"

With those heavy folds of black - Alice Wellington Rollins "Sumner"

Some small folded breath of otherlife - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"

The clover was folding, leaf on leaf - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

And fold their wings of braided air - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Folded close beneath whisker and chin - Joyce Sidman "Shhh! They Are Sleeping"

That maps the good and the evil in the future's bewildering folds - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]

Folds the systems in a flood of light - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Circe folded in the sunset's gold - George Sterling "The Pain of Beauty"

All folded into one darkness - To-Em-Mei "The Unmoving Cloud" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)

Peace lay folded between our hands - Iris Tree "[Long ago we walked together in a garden]"

Beauty folded in the flowers and leaves - Jehangir Jivaji Vakil "Revelation"

Rustling the folds of the year - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"

Fold the kerchiefs into herons - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"

Folds an origami house on fire - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

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