Potential Titles: Small
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somethingdarkerSmall sun caught up in the quicksilver lies - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"
A small branch signifying the impossible - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"
The periodic pleasure of small happenings - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"
A small sphere set loose upon four stretched dimensions - Jenise Aminoff "Love's Not Time's Fool" [Strange Horizons 29 Sept. 2025]
Into the small chambers that flicker like fireflies - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
The god of small slaughters - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"
I reel the small fish of time - Ruth Awad "The Years of Water and Light" [Poetry Oct. 2019]
Small love effaced by a late disbelieving - Mary Jo Bang "Begin Here"
Small but audacious acts of theft - Mary Jo Bang "Behind this Passion"
Ophelia in her small lake - Mary Jo Bang "Z Is for Zed at the End"
The small clamors that drown out the one large clamor - Ari Banias "Tautology"
Who says that childhood's woes are small - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Set small fires to prevent larger ones - Ennis Rook Bashe "How to Hallucinate Your Zombie Lover"
Small Mercies sliced from the root - Ellen Bass "Roses"
Hold the odds not small - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
Small and obvious life fogged every wonder - William Rose Benét "The City"
Small & distinctly mortal forms of loveliness - Joshua Bennet "Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch"
No small iron gods in our pockets - Joshua Bennett "Summer Job"
Learn the work song of smaller creatures - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
Believe in the small writ large, writ impossible - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"
In the smallest fleck of imagination - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"
Small map unfolding a globe - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"
The wren with sorrows small - William Blake "On Another's Sorrow"
Hell in the smallest places - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"
Finding the earth too small - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
This small bit of apricot to remember - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]"
Grew against the smallest profit - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Folding in the smaller rain - Lucie Brock-Broido "After Raphael"
Chasing this small white ball up and down the fairway - Stacey Lynn Brown "Polaroid: Links"
Small fish and forgotten glass - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
Pinpointing the small space of their lives - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Entitled to take in this very small star - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
The small worthwhile pieces - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
Born from small waters - Ching-In Chen "Inside me, a family"
Piled up small stones to make a town - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Sweep my small corner of the universe - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"
dreaming a small boat through centuries of water - Lucille Clifton "shadows"
Scare the small birds from the corn - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Choral Song of Illyrian Peasants"
Small to shine so - Hilda Conkling "Blue Grass"
how parts of our small universe dissolve like sugar cubes in water - Karla Cordero "Everything Needs Fixing"
Add to the wind their small tears - Andrea Cote "Dear Beth" transl. by Sasha Pimentel
Though small the error at the string - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"
The small hard teeth of worms - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Felt the smallest sandgrain like a knife - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
As small as a world and as large as alone - E. E. Cummings "maggie and milly and molly and may"
No smallest voice - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
With small grace reveal - H.D. "We Two"
A small number of promises called tomorrow - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
In Time's smallest clock's minutest beat - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"
Watching the strike zone get smaller and smaller - Oliver de la Paz "When Benny Agbayani Became a Met"
To consume small troubles - Aubrey de Vere "Sorrow"
In that small space of branches and of sky - Clarissa Scott Delany "Solace" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Small pinching wants supplied by Charity - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Gather lifetimes on one small petal - Dante Di Stefano "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns"
Even the eye's small water - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Small epiphanies falling through the fingers - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
A small braid of mayflies - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"
As raindrops speak small lullabies - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Nature"
Small drips of Sunday's cloud - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Praise"
Paint the small wing of a moth - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
Resuscitate their small portion of the light - Camille T. Dungy "How Great the Gardens When They Arrive"
Grief will ride in on the smallest of bodies - Camille T. Dungy "Notes on what is always with us"
A small child trapped on a merry-go-round - Tim Earley "Vacation Bible School"
Your small tapering flame of passion - Max Eastman "A Visit"
Small heiress of celestial peace - Helen Parry Eden "Coal and Candlelight"
Smaller than a molecule, untethered - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"
Know a small part of the invisible - Katherine Edgren "This Morning, My Father"
With a thousand small deliberations - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
From their father's house this small advantage may obtain - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Worked on smaller debris first - A.M. Fals "Space in Our Relationship"
Made small by those obsessions - Summer Farah "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"
On our small, transactional earth - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
A small knot of fire - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 2"
Too small to make a morning - Julie Fogliano "Summer, September 10"
Small winds lift coyotes - Carolyn Forche "The Place That Is Feared I Inhabit"
The small lights of winter campfires - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"
Small emperors of patience - Vievee Francis "The Scale of Empire"
Beneath the Song my fine, small ache - Nora May French "Pass By"
Ache of smallest, unforgotten things - Nora May French "When Plaintively and Near the Cricket Sings"
If that small sailing cloud will hit or miss the moon - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"
If design govern in a thing so small - Robert Frost "Design"
A small, stretched canvas of time - Charles Ghigna "Early Evening"
How small a circle my dream makes - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
In the way of small miracles - Nikita Gill "The Book"
Small ragdoll figures toppling over and over - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
Small enough to hear the dawn breaking - Theodora Goss "Thumbelina"
Though your small mind designed me - Lore Graham "To My Creators"
In small vaults of light - Leah Naomi Green "Carrot"
And now her small survivals - Linda Gregerson "Another Diana"
Dreaming of a smaller violence - Kimberly Grey "Where We Have Been"
The small but clustering duties of the sick - Thom Gunn "Lament"
Small suns blessed by dew drops - Joy Harjo "Eat"
A passion for small streams - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Middle Creek, W. Va."
The show of small things that seemed great - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Revulsion"
And would not share the smallest atom of her Heart - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
One small silver nothing - Brenda Hillman "Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work"
Small rivulets still flowing downhill - Jane Hirshfield "I wanted to be surprised."
A small infinity unfolded in the wilderness - David Hornibrook "Aubade"
Something small tattooed to the moon's skin - David Hornibrook "Compline"
The sky sucked water from small puddles - David Hornibrook "Pax Americana"
Just why their crop of thinks is running small - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Corners where small hilarities gathered, teasing - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"
All her small perfect shadows - Jenny Johnson "Little Apophat"
Catch with a small snag - Kimberly Johnson "Ode on My Episiotomy"
An excuse on a small scrap of paper - Rindon Johnson "There Is a Black Fly in Your Chardonnay"
make small steps. in this wild place - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving at the Sipsey River"
Divide the world into increasingly small squares - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
Carried away the small shadows - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"
Air here at the edge of small fires - Janet Kauffman "Air Here"
Still tasting of small poisons - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as a Girl Conceding"
Of smallest children grown - Galway Kinnell "The Frog Pond"
With bold countenance and knowledge small - Rudyard Kipling "A Centurion of the Thirtieth"
a small lie buried in a garden - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"
O Small Room of Myself - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"
Small but important repairs - Ted Kooser "A Jar of Buttons"
With small hope from the center of darkness - Ted Kooser "Screech Owl"
Steadfast as small change - Steve Kowit "The Prodigal Son's Brother"
A small fire in the brain - Stephen Kuusisto "Essay on November"
Comes the small busy sparrow - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"
Small loans by pledges great renewed - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
Till his small borrowings will yield no more - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
One of a billion small miracles - Dorianne Laux "Third Rock from the Sun"
Over the small nebula of misted glass - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Screens from the world a corner choice and small - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"
Smaller than the egg of your first life - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
Took a somewhat smaller price - Henry S. Leigh "Etiquette"
Reaches the zenith of a very small hill - Keith Leonard "Abecedarion on the Good Father"
The small ventures of birds and beasts - Philip Levine "For the Country: The President"
Took them through seven small seas to a great ocean - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
will make it feel small enough to fit - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
In the small hours even God drinks alone - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
With small birds living in the hollows of her eyes - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
Where a small god burns old photos for warmth - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
A small greyhound run down both hart and hind - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Small stars jetting maroon and crimson - Amy Lowell "Vintage"
Too cold and dry for spiritual small potatoes - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
Arsonist of all smaller fires - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Offer an opening I am too small to see - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"
A small series of miracles - D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie "Miracles Welcome"
Small explosions from the folded air - Naomi Long Madgett "Afterthought"
And live with the knowledge that I am small - Maya Marshall "The Big Water"
Marbles, kites, or trinkets small - Wallace E. Mather "The Sailor Boy" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.10, Aug. 1886]
Corners small enough to swallow - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"
The May-fly and the Man each flutter out the same small span - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
A small key at the groaning gate - Theodore Maynard "Treason"
Exchanged for smaller needs - Shara McCallum "Dear History"
obliterate myself with small tasks - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"
Becomes a small raft of fire - Michael McGriff "Men Keep on Dying"
Gathering within to become smaller, more defined - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"
A small part of the habitat's rapture - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"
The small, bitter hawks of grief - Claire Millikin "Pierced Dolls"
Unregarded by the mighty but detested by the small - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Empire's small victories enthroned - Rajiv Mohabir "Water-Owl, Cuvier's Beaked Whale"
The smallest self-mercy he might allow - Christopher Morgan "Promised Detonations" [Strange Horizons 22 Sept. 2025]
Too small for the weight of his gaze - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
With a thousand small golden hands - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
A small part of the calamity - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
Our own small sins grown in the dark - Caroline Harper New "Interview with a Cervidologist"
Buried each gift in small boxes along the beach - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"
Whatever small light bees bestow on fallen leaves - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"
The small fire of pennies - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"
A small chandelier fostering a golden air - Grace Nichols "Ode to a Daffodil"
In one small grain of this immortal wheat - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
Begin again with the smallest numbers - Naomi Shihab Nye "Burning the Old Year"
Small calcium words uttered in sequence - Naomi Shihab Nye "Different Ways to Pray"
The thousand small birds of January - Naomi Shihab Nye "Postscript"
Praise all small forgotten miracles - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Traveling Onion"
Small as the hope of stumbling feet - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
stand on the shoulders of a smaller atlas - Achy Obejas "Heroes in exile"
The vestige of his small world - Romeo Oriogun "Griot of Strange Places"
Small bones scattered in a field among burdocks - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together One: A Night in the Barn"
How small, how impotent is Truth's defence - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Morning comes with small reprieves - Linda Pastan "I Am Learning to Abandon the World: for M"
Our bodies small gifts of innocence - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"
Your small breath troubles the flour - Kiki Petrosino "Confession"
Small voices in a field unfolding - Carl Phillips "In a Perfect World"
Something smaller and more human than belief - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"
Drank the galaxy that spun small and cautious - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"
To the same height both great and small - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Lavater's Warning" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Small tributaries open from his nudge - Wyatt Prunty "Mole"
The hydrogen core of some small man's darkness - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist, Gaslit"
Against small violent spark of will - Sina Queyras "Years"
Magnetized for small disasters - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with Where We Live"
Without some small attempt at strife - "A Report from Below" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.403, 5 Dec. 1829]
The lurking danger of the barb'd hook, keen and small - James Richardson "Forty--Less One" [St. Nicholas v.V no.9, July 1878]
To trouble rivers with their small fierce eyes - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"
The small town where my memory still lives - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"
A small galaxy between us - Valencia Robin "Game Day"
Grew dead without and small within - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
Clenched like two small sacks of stolen nickels - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
Small pools their prisons are - Isaac Rosenberg "Song"
With smaller grudge to justice - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"
But sought small solaces unclean - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"
The small passion of your footsteps - Tomas Sanchez Santiago "The Arrival"
Small fibs brought home to nest - M. Bartley Seigel "Afterword"
His reciprocity opens a small hole in space-time - M. Bartley Seigel "Rabbit Snares"
Small shadows standing lost in the huge night - Edward Shanks "The Glow-Worm"
Some small folded breath of otherlife - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"
Too small for any hope or promise - Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Road"
The small humming merchants of the hive - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
With small blue flames for garnishing - Albert W. Smith "The Boy and the Basilisk"
Like a small stone against her back - Hope Anita Smith "Sleepover"
Some small magic to make onion soup - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Console myself with small furies - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"
A small reservoir of furious music - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
Our world is small and isolated - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
A small, pointed flame of sound - Leonora Speyer "The Locust"
From the seven strands of the small harp - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"
And the small death of the wild card - Frank Stanford "Embark"
A small part only of my grief - James Stephens "Skim Milk"
A small part of the pantomime - Wallace Stevens "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Small in the distances of space - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
My chest too small to hold the blossom - Alison Swan "Catalogue"
Of rushing toward smallness - Mary Szybist "In the Glare of the Garden"
A small cairn and tobacco from a broken cigarette - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
the mechanism of small animals & hard weather - Brian Teare "Convince me you have a seed there"
The smallest stone of the self - Susan Tichy "Public Speech"
Became an ocean for a country of smaller oceans - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"
our small volley of prayers & dreams - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
The small range of wavelengths called the visible - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"
Small minds muddle the truth further - Wang An-Shih "Reading History" transl. by David Hinton
Great planets slip their arcs as the small pale stars multiply - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Our smallest hopes, evening's fading beacons - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"
With two small shadows following after - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Small acts that are just and right - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
Kept my life in a small room - Kirk Wilson "Gifts"
Your small breath of life - Nancy Wood "Birth Ritual"
Hinges of small capture in its apex of watch - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
The small crack between here and everywhere else - Charles Wright "No Direction Home"
Space in the smallest of denominations - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Small gifts laden with love's intentions - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
A small star into orbit and revolution - James F. Yockey "What If"
The scrape of electrons in our voices turned small - Dean Young "Interference & Delivery" [Poetry, January 1988]
Held small birds in air until they sang - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
The small print between rocks - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 5" transl. by Katherine Silver
Mouths too busy for small talk but not for lies - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"
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A small branch signifying the impossible - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"
The periodic pleasure of small happenings - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"
A small sphere set loose upon four stretched dimensions - Jenise Aminoff "Love's Not Time's Fool" [Strange Horizons 29 Sept. 2025]
Into the small chambers that flicker like fireflies - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
The god of small slaughters - Fatimah Asghar "How We Left: Film Treatment"
I reel the small fish of time - Ruth Awad "The Years of Water and Light" [Poetry Oct. 2019]
Small love effaced by a late disbelieving - Mary Jo Bang "Begin Here"
Small but audacious acts of theft - Mary Jo Bang "Behind this Passion"
Ophelia in her small lake - Mary Jo Bang "Z Is for Zed at the End"
The small clamors that drown out the one large clamor - Ari Banias "Tautology"
Who says that childhood's woes are small - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"
Set small fires to prevent larger ones - Ennis Rook Bashe "How to Hallucinate Your Zombie Lover"
Small Mercies sliced from the root - Ellen Bass "Roses"
Hold the odds not small - Clive Bell "The Legend of Monte della Sibilla"
Small and obvious life fogged every wonder - William Rose Benét "The City"
Small & distinctly mortal forms of loveliness - Joshua Bennet "Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch"
No small iron gods in our pockets - Joshua Bennett "Summer Job"
Learn the work song of smaller creatures - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"
Believe in the small writ large, writ impossible - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"
In the smallest fleck of imagination - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"
Small map unfolding a globe - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"
The wren with sorrows small - William Blake "On Another's Sorrow"
Hell in the smallest places - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"
Finding the earth too small - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
This small bit of apricot to remember - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]"
Grew against the smallest profit - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"
Folding in the smaller rain - Lucie Brock-Broido "After Raphael"
Chasing this small white ball up and down the fairway - Stacey Lynn Brown "Polaroid: Links"
Small fish and forgotten glass - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"
Pinpointing the small space of their lives - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Entitled to take in this very small star - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"
The small worthwhile pieces - Kevin Carey "Set in Stone"
Born from small waters - Ching-In Chen "Inside me, a family"
Piled up small stones to make a town - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Sweep my small corner of the universe - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"
dreaming a small boat through centuries of water - Lucille Clifton "shadows"
Scare the small birds from the corn - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Choral Song of Illyrian Peasants"
Small to shine so - Hilda Conkling "Blue Grass"
how parts of our small universe dissolve like sugar cubes in water - Karla Cordero "Everything Needs Fixing"
Add to the wind their small tears - Andrea Cote "Dear Beth" transl. by Sasha Pimentel
Though small the error at the string - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"
The small hard teeth of worms - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
Felt the smallest sandgrain like a knife - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"
As small as a world and as large as alone - E. E. Cummings "maggie and milly and molly and may"
No smallest voice - e.e. cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
With small grace reveal - H.D. "We Two"
A small number of promises called tomorrow - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
In Time's smallest clock's minutest beat - Walter de la Mare "The Tryst"
Watching the strike zone get smaller and smaller - Oliver de la Paz "When Benny Agbayani Became a Met"
To consume small troubles - Aubrey de Vere "Sorrow"
In that small space of branches and of sky - Clarissa Scott Delany "Solace" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Small pinching wants supplied by Charity - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]
Gather lifetimes on one small petal - Dante Di Stefano "My Eighteen-Month-Old Daughter Talks to the Rain as the Amazon Burns"
Even the eye's small water - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Small epiphanies falling through the fingers - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
A small braid of mayflies - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"
As raindrops speak small lullabies - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Nature"
Small drips of Sunday's cloud - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Praise"
Paint the small wing of a moth - Edward Dowden "By the Window"
Resuscitate their small portion of the light - Camille T. Dungy "How Great the Gardens When They Arrive"
Grief will ride in on the smallest of bodies - Camille T. Dungy "Notes on what is always with us"
A small child trapped on a merry-go-round - Tim Earley "Vacation Bible School"
Your small tapering flame of passion - Max Eastman "A Visit"
Small heiress of celestial peace - Helen Parry Eden "Coal and Candlelight"
Smaller than a molecule, untethered - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"
Know a small part of the invisible - Katherine Edgren "This Morning, My Father"
With a thousand small deliberations - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"
From their father's house this small advantage may obtain - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Worked on smaller debris first - A.M. Fals "Space in Our Relationship"
Made small by those obsessions - Summer Farah "After Mount Tamalpais, I Tell Etel Adnan About Supernatural"
On our small, transactional earth - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
A small knot of fire - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 2"
Too small to make a morning - Julie Fogliano "Summer, September 10"
Small winds lift coyotes - Carolyn Forche "The Place That Is Feared I Inhabit"
The small lights of winter campfires - Katie Ford "All I Ever Wanted"
Small emperors of patience - Vievee Francis "The Scale of Empire"
Beneath the Song my fine, small ache - Nora May French "Pass By"
Ache of smallest, unforgotten things - Nora May French "When Plaintively and Near the Cricket Sings"
If that small sailing cloud will hit or miss the moon - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"
If design govern in a thing so small - Robert Frost "Design"
A small, stretched canvas of time - Charles Ghigna "Early Evening"
How small a circle my dream makes - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"
In the way of small miracles - Nikita Gill "The Book"
Small ragdoll figures toppling over and over - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
Small enough to hear the dawn breaking - Theodora Goss "Thumbelina"
Though your small mind designed me - Lore Graham "To My Creators"
In small vaults of light - Leah Naomi Green "Carrot"
And now her small survivals - Linda Gregerson "Another Diana"
Dreaming of a smaller violence - Kimberly Grey "Where We Have Been"
The small but clustering duties of the sick - Thom Gunn "Lament"
Small suns blessed by dew drops - Joy Harjo "Eat"
A passion for small streams - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Middle Creek, W. Va."
The show of small things that seemed great - Sophia Margaretta Hensley "Revulsion"
And would not share the smallest atom of her Heart - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"
One small silver nothing - Brenda Hillman "Micro-minutes on Your Way to Work"
Small rivulets still flowing downhill - Jane Hirshfield "I wanted to be surprised."
A small infinity unfolded in the wilderness - David Hornibrook "Aubade"
Something small tattooed to the moon's skin - David Hornibrook "Compline"
The sky sucked water from small puddles - David Hornibrook "Pax Americana"
Just why their crop of thinks is running small - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Corners where small hilarities gathered, teasing - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"
All her small perfect shadows - Jenny Johnson "Little Apophat"
Catch with a small snag - Kimberly Johnson "Ode on My Episiotomy"
An excuse on a small scrap of paper - Rindon Johnson "There Is a Black Fly in Your Chardonnay"
make small steps. in this wild place - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving at the Sipsey River"
Divide the world into increasingly small squares - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"
Carried away the small shadows - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"
Air here at the edge of small fires - Janet Kauffman "Air Here"
Still tasting of small poisons - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as a Girl Conceding"
Of smallest children grown - Galway Kinnell "The Frog Pond"
With bold countenance and knowledge small - Rudyard Kipling "A Centurion of the Thirtieth"
a small lie buried in a garden - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"
O Small Room of Myself - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"
Small but important repairs - Ted Kooser "A Jar of Buttons"
With small hope from the center of darkness - Ted Kooser "Screech Owl"
Steadfast as small change - Steve Kowit "The Prodigal Son's Brother"
A small fire in the brain - Stephen Kuusisto "Essay on November"
Comes the small busy sparrow - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"
Small loans by pledges great renewed - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
Till his small borrowings will yield no more - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
One of a billion small miracles - Dorianne Laux "Third Rock from the Sun"
Over the small nebula of misted glass - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
Screens from the world a corner choice and small - Richard Le Gallienne "Alfred Tennyson"
Smaller than the egg of your first life - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
Took a somewhat smaller price - Henry S. Leigh "Etiquette"
Reaches the zenith of a very small hill - Keith Leonard "Abecedarion on the Good Father"
The small ventures of birds and beasts - Philip Levine "For the Country: The President"
Took them through seven small seas to a great ocean - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
will make it feel small enough to fit - Anne Liberton "Dad's Recipe for Never-Keeping"
In the small hours even God drinks alone - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"
With small birds living in the hollows of her eyes - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
Where a small god burns old photos for warmth - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
A small greyhound run down both hart and hind - "The Long Ballad of Sir Marsk Stig (Extract)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Small stars jetting maroon and crimson - Amy Lowell "Vintage"
Too cold and dry for spiritual small potatoes - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
Arsonist of all smaller fires - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"
Offer an opening I am too small to see - Emilie Lygren "Meditation"
A small series of miracles - D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie "Miracles Welcome"
Small explosions from the folded air - Naomi Long Madgett "Afterthought"
And live with the knowledge that I am small - Maya Marshall "The Big Water"
Marbles, kites, or trinkets small - Wallace E. Mather "The Sailor Boy" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.10, Aug. 1886]
Corners small enough to swallow - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"
The May-fly and the Man each flutter out the same small span - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]
A small key at the groaning gate - Theodore Maynard "Treason"
Exchanged for smaller needs - Shara McCallum "Dear History"
obliterate myself with small tasks - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"
Becomes a small raft of fire - Michael McGriff "Men Keep on Dying"
Gathering within to become smaller, more defined - Leslie McIntosh "ANAMNESIS"
A small part of the habitat's rapture - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"
The small, bitter hawks of grief - Claire Millikin "Pierced Dolls"
Unregarded by the mighty but detested by the small - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Empire's small victories enthroned - Rajiv Mohabir "Water-Owl, Cuvier's Beaked Whale"
The smallest self-mercy he might allow - Christopher Morgan "Promised Detonations" [Strange Horizons 22 Sept. 2025]
Too small for the weight of his gaze - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"
With a thousand small golden hands - Pablo Neruda "History" transl. by Dennis Maloney
A small part of the calamity - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
Our own small sins grown in the dark - Caroline Harper New "Interview with a Cervidologist"
Buried each gift in small boxes along the beach - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"
Whatever small light bees bestow on fallen leaves - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"
The small fire of pennies - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"
A small chandelier fostering a golden air - Grace Nichols "Ode to a Daffodil"
In one small grain of this immortal wheat - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard IV: At Paris"
Begin again with the smallest numbers - Naomi Shihab Nye "Burning the Old Year"
Small calcium words uttered in sequence - Naomi Shihab Nye "Different Ways to Pray"
The thousand small birds of January - Naomi Shihab Nye "Postscript"
Praise all small forgotten miracles - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Traveling Onion"
Small as the hope of stumbling feet - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
stand on the shoulders of a smaller atlas - Achy Obejas "Heroes in exile"
The vestige of his small world - Romeo Oriogun "Griot of Strange Places"
Small bones scattered in a field among burdocks - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together One: A Night in the Barn"
How small, how impotent is Truth's defence - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Morning comes with small reprieves - Linda Pastan "I Am Learning to Abandon the World: for M"
Our bodies small gifts of innocence - Nome Emeka Patrick "Naked"
Your small breath troubles the flour - Kiki Petrosino "Confession"
Small voices in a field unfolding - Carl Phillips "In a Perfect World"
Something smaller and more human than belief - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"
Drank the galaxy that spun small and cautious - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"
To the same height both great and small - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Lavater's Warning" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]
Small tributaries open from his nudge - Wyatt Prunty "Mole"
The hydrogen core of some small man's darkness - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist, Gaslit"
Against small violent spark of will - Sina Queyras "Years"
Magnetized for small disasters - Charles Rafferty "The Problem with Where We Live"
Without some small attempt at strife - "A Report from Below" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.403, 5 Dec. 1829]
The lurking danger of the barb'd hook, keen and small - James Richardson "Forty--Less One" [St. Nicholas v.V no.9, July 1878]
To trouble rivers with their small fierce eyes - Lola Ridge "Easter Morning"
The small town where my memory still lives - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"
A small galaxy between us - Valencia Robin "Game Day"
Grew dead without and small within - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
Clenched like two small sacks of stolen nickels - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"
Small pools their prisons are - Isaac Rosenberg "Song"
With smaller grudge to justice - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"
But sought small solaces unclean - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"
The small passion of your footsteps - Tomas Sanchez Santiago "The Arrival"
Small fibs brought home to nest - M. Bartley Seigel "Afterword"
His reciprocity opens a small hole in space-time - M. Bartley Seigel "Rabbit Snares"
Small shadows standing lost in the huge night - Edward Shanks "The Glow-Worm"
Some small folded breath of otherlife - Brenda Shaughnessy "Big Game"
Too small for any hope or promise - Richard Siken "The Torn-Up Road"
The small humming merchants of the hive - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
With small blue flames for garnishing - Albert W. Smith "The Boy and the Basilisk"
Like a small stone against her back - Hope Anita Smith "Sleepover"
Some small magic to make onion soup - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Console myself with small furies - Patricia Smith "5 p.m., Tuesday, August 23, 2005"
A small reservoir of furious music - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
Our world is small and isolated - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
A small, pointed flame of sound - Leonora Speyer "The Locust"
From the seven strands of the small harp - Leonora Speyer "To a Song of Sappho discovered in Egypt"
And the small death of the wild card - Frank Stanford "Embark"
A small part only of my grief - James Stephens "Skim Milk"
A small part of the pantomime - Wallace Stevens "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Small in the distances of space - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
My chest too small to hold the blossom - Alison Swan "Catalogue"
Of rushing toward smallness - Mary Szybist "In the Glare of the Garden"
A small cairn and tobacco from a broken cigarette - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
the mechanism of small animals & hard weather - Brian Teare "Convince me you have a seed there"
The smallest stone of the self - Susan Tichy "Public Speech"
Became an ocean for a country of smaller oceans - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"
our small volley of prayers & dreams - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
The small range of wavelengths called the visible - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: The Problem with Pronouns"
Small minds muddle the truth further - Wang An-Shih "Reading History" transl. by David Hinton
Great planets slip their arcs as the small pale stars multiply - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Our smallest hopes, evening's fading beacons - Lauren K. Watel "The Last Act"
With two small shadows following after - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Small acts that are just and right - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
Kept my life in a small room - Kirk Wilson "Gifts"
Your small breath of life - Nancy Wood "Birth Ritual"
Hinges of small capture in its apex of watch - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
The small crack between here and everywhere else - Charles Wright "No Direction Home"
Space in the smallest of denominations - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Small gifts laden with love's intentions - Yi Lei "Nature Aria" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
A small star into orbit and revolution - James F. Yockey "What If"
The scrape of electrons in our voices turned small - Dean Young "Interference & Delivery" [Poetry, January 1988]
Held small birds in air until they sang - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
The small print between rocks - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 5" transl. by Katherine Silver
Mouths too busy for small talk but not for lies - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"
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