Potential Titles: Mere

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Maybe they have merely taken unreasonable risks - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

Merely by listening to echoes - Mary Jo Bang "The Oracle"

A mere distraction from the sun's leap - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

The light that lifts from a black mere - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"

Found electricity in mere ambition - Lucie Brock-Broido "The One Thousand Days"

More fallible than mere caprice - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Through mere inertia trembling - Edward Dowden "If it Might Be"

Through mere excess of nothingness - Anthony Euwer "The Caves of Josephine"

And mere murderous hearts - Kimberly Grey "We Are Mostly Alright"

Mere pain the price of the returning - Ivor Gurney "The Volunteer"

Merely chaff from life's storehouse - Fenton Johnson "Harlem: The Black City"

Merely what vanishes - Galway Kinnell "The Road Between Here and There"

Cursed too by no mere vacant breath - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Wind and mere are phantom-choked with voices - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"

in a matter of mere eons - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

No mere skill of subtle tracery - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

Pride is merely for an hour - Walter S. Percy "The Glory Dwells"

plotted against by merely being us - Ed Roberson "(...As for the Swallows, All They Were Doing)"

Disguised merely as ourselves - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

Mere lees is left this vault to brag of - Shakespeare "Macbeth"

Merely a million angels - Patricia Smith "To 3, No One in the Place"

Mere misdirected will - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"


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