Potential Titles: Room

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Give grief her rooms to stalk - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Rooms I could never breathe in - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"

My rooms slip in and out of higher dimensions - Mike Allen "Space War"

In the back rooms of the heart - Julia Alvarez "Fights"

A cobalt glow in an empty room - Hala Alyan "Siri as Mother"

Allowed room for grief to burn him - Mouna Ammar "The Scent of Goodbye"

In a room with a thousand doors - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"

Radical in the dark room - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

A room that tilts inward - Mary Jo Bang "A Room in Cleopatra's Palace"

Reduced to ideas and empty rooms - Mary Jo Bang "Where Once"

Lighting fires in the empty rooms - Ellen Bass "Not Dead Yet"

Stood inside a shattered room - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Dream of Samarkand"

Within a room of tortured angles - Maxwell Bodenheim "Feminine Talk"

Darkness hangs our room with pendulums - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

Until there is no room for breath - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, when I said all I ever wanted was land"

Whispers in an undisclosed room - Jari Bradley "Unruly"

Opened room enough in the sky for the stars - Russell Brakefield "The Way We Learned to Sing"

Not room enough in all the Field - John Bunyan "Upon the Lark and the Fowler"

Making a room bubble like a shoal of bream - Marianne Chan "The Lives of Saints"

Rooms that fit in my mind - K-Ming Chang "Closet Space"

Keeps your rage room temperature - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

Rooms we did not choose - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

Marveled at my room to breathe - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"

A room full of endless balloons - Tiana Clark "Particle Fever"

Who gives her soul an empty room - Leonard Cohen "Death of a Lady's Man"

Lost in the room of a private dream - Billy Collins "The Parade"

He saw the devil in every room - C. A. Conrad "From FRANK" (Nov. 2003)

Inside the locked rooms of night - Cynthia Cruz "Deathscape Lullaby"

In this, the last and final room - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"

Which vanish to make room - Krystyna Dąbrowska "White Chairs" transl. by Karen Kovacik

Swearing there is no room there for us all - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

Rooms you had adorned for me - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Reflects a narrow, rocky room - Irving Sidney Dix "The Glen"

Makes one little room an everywhere - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"

My room of quiet space - Max Eastman "In My Room"

The echoes of a room without furniture - Carolina Ebeid "Dead Dead Darlings"

In the dark room shifting the candles - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"

Four wax candles in a darkened room - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"

Finds in our canoe no room - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

A narrow room of mysteries - Heid E. Erdich "Quiet Cupboard"

leading only to false rooms beyond - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

Breaking the winter of my room - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"

Of rented rooms and white air - Carolyn Forche "The Angel of History"

What room for thought or choice? - Gilbert Frankau "The Observers"

A strange room entered by wild moonlight - John Freeman "Waking"

Peacocks sweep the fairies' rooms - Rose Fyleman "Peacock"

A maze of mildewed storage rooms - Dana Gioia "Haunted"

In vast echoing rooms behind glass cases - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"

Faded from the room of sighs - Louis Golding "I Dream'd I Died"

Never enough keys for all the hidden rooms - Preston Grassmann "The Doors of a Drowned City"

Each room's sealed confidence - Pamela Gross "The Hive"

Found me in haggard rooms - Thomas Hardy "The Dream Is--Which?"

This room of whirling atoms - Joy Harjo "Death Is a Woman"

The timeless room of lost poetry - Joy Harjo "A Refuge in the Smallest of Places"

For all he loved had room - Felicia Hemans "Epitaph on Mr W--, a Celebrated Mineralogist"

This room with too many windows - Faylita Hicks "Photo of X, 2005: What Dreams Are These?"

The final room is fire - Conrad Hilberry "Crete: The Diktaean Cave"

These wide rooms of devious line - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

All the oxygen lit the room - Cynthia Hogue "The Daughter"

Be passionless in the room - Richard Hughes "The Image"

Room made of metal and want - fahima ife "more poverty interwoven with equal happiness"

Hearts for peace make room - Jean Ingelow "The Letter L"

Their eyes carrying late rooms of light - Mark Irwin "Dear Red"

In the room where she never sleeps - John James "Forget the Song"

Typing in a room full of monkeys - Nicholas Johnson "One of the Monkeys"

Tiptoed into darkened rooms of sleep - Richard Jones "Rest"

Room for your cry in my mouth - Saeed Jones "Nocturne: Beheaded"

Echoes in the cramped, dusty room - Zilka Joseph "Once Upon a Shabbath"

Searched the rooms of the moon - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

And fill the room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "The Exequy"

The room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

O Small Room of Myself - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

Lived in a room of mirrors - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

A room inside an icy moonlet - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

To admit the murdered into rooms of vast crushed comfort - Youna Kwak "After"

Here in the room of our insomnia - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

This room made warm by our own resources - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

We squat in vacant rooms - Aimee Le "Theft"

Rooms where the time-imprisoned gather - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

Sealed rooms deep in the dying earth - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

That leaves no room for hope - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

In a high room between two rivers - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

The clatter of sun in a room - Ada Limon "The City of Skin"

Where phlox and marigolds dispute for room - Amy Lowell " The Fruit Garden Path"

Grows up hidden in far-off rooms - Lu Yu "In a Boat on a Summer Evening, I Heard the Cry of a Water Bird. It was Very Sad and Seemed to Be Saying, 'Madam Is Cruel!' Moved, I Wrote This Poem" transl. by Burton Watson

No room for men's fears - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Ascension Crater of Solitude"

Waking in strange rooms - Thomas Lynch "The Exhibitionist"

Pick a Fight in an Empty Room - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "magpie"

In the rooms of a beautiful inn - John Masefield "Laugh and Be Merry"

All the rooms the sky makes - Farid Matuk "My Daughter Among the Names"

Poltergeists in the rooms of each other - Jamaal May "Love Poem Moving Back and Forth Across Glass"

Whose third eye brightens the room - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"

Shatter the room with light - Claire Millikin "Fire"

Does wind stay trapped in a room - Rajiv Mohabir "Kabira"

My sobs echoing through the empty rooms - Tyler Mortensen-Hayes "After the Heartbreak"

Makes room for the silence - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

A work room for the unknown - Pablo Neruda "Men IX" transl. by William O'Daly

Left in the room of our memory - Nkosi Nkululeko "Continental Breakfast"

More room in your heart for love - Mary Oliver "Storage"

Caged in a room of mirrors - Gregory Orr "The Cage"

As we sit together in the disappearing room - Cecily Parks "Hackberry"

The rooms between each rib - Kiki Petrosino "Thigh Gap"

Secret nature's treasure room - John Presland "To April"

No room in this glad June - May Probyn "Is it Nothing to You?"

The room's shadow hid the rest - Anne Proctor "Verse: A Legend of Provence"

Every room in the palace of my memory - Molly Raynor "Yamim Noraim///Days of A W E"

Who entered the room without nod or knock - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

There is no room left for my wonderland - Rennell Rodd "By the South Sea"

The memory-haunted, lonely rooms - Alice Wellington Rollins "There Will Be Silence Here, Love"

Till all the rooms of warmth fill with smoke - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"

Prowling the living room for the lightning - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"

Drops down from the echoing room of night - Joyce Sidman "Bat Wraps Up"

The trampolined floor of a windowless room - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

With bears that each night enter my room - Juliana Spahr "Ode to Goby"

The haunted rooms obey - A.E. Stallings "The Eldest Sister to Psyche"

And corners of the room go prismed - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"

Lamps in rooms of pain - George Sterling "Night-Sentries"

This haunted room where Sorrow and I have slept - Arthur Stringer "The House of Life"

leave room for levitation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

Under the room of what we say - Jean Valentine "At the Conference on Women in the Academy"

In a hotel room for fifteen years - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

The room made of broken mockingbirds - Ocean Vuong "Untitled (Blue, Green, and Brown): oil on canvas: Mark Rothko: 1952"

Rooms full of master's Egos - Brad Walrond "Calculus I, II, III"

The room, far as fear - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward "The Room's Width"

Most visible in the empty room - Rosanna Warren "Muse Not Muse"

In a room shredded with our pleasure - Michael Wasson "So Call it Grace"

The gray of a glass of water in a dimly lit room - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

Kept my life in a small room - Kirk Wilson "Gifts"

Where endings approach room temperature - Jenny Xie "Misconjugate"

Unfulfilled potential exits the room - Wendy Xu "Pledge"

My favorite room for sleep - Emily Jungmin Yoon "American Dream"


Dusted the anteroom with alibi gray - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"


Waiting room made out of marzipan - Ana Bozicevic "Paris Pride Parade"

The universal ballad of the waiting room - Gregory Pardlo "Epistemology of the Phone Booth"


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