Potential Titles: Small

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Small 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"

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"

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"

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"

Learn the work song of smaller creatures - Omar Berrada "A Thistle Will Do"

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"

Small fish and forgotten glass - Mahogany L. Browne "Country of Water"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

Small suns blessed by dew drops - Joy Harjo "Eat"

A passion for small streams - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Middle Creek, W. Va."

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."

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

Corners small enough to swallow - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew Olzmann Regarding Sirens and Shipwrecks"

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"

A small part of the habitat's rapture - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"

The small, bitter hawks of grief - Claire Millikin "Pierced Dolls"

Empire's small victories enthroned - Rajiv Mohabir "Water-Owl, Cuvier's Beaked Whale"

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"

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"

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"

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"

Drank the galaxy that spun small and cautious - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"

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"

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"

The small passion of your footsteps - Tomas Sanchez Santiago "The Arrival"

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"

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"

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"

With two small shadows following after - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"

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"

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


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