Potential Titles: Line
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somethingdarkerBones of song tracing lines of flight - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"
The mind's red line - Stephanie Adams-Santos "from Xibalba [Outside the water sings]"
Distorted trumpet, torn bass line - Carl Adamshick "New year's morning"
The voices between these lines - Francisco X. Alarcon "Other Voices"
Writing cursive lines on shifting slate - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
His pain inside immaculate lines - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
His menagerie lined up close behind - Alise Alousi "Back to School"
Waiting in line for ourselves - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"
Old lines sunk deep in the forehead of the intersection - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
A line of footsteps side by side - Auguste Angellier "Dreams" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Lined my splinters with blindfolds - Julie Babcock "The Grey Goose"
Which explains the long line of wolves - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"
little lines run crazy across the lettuce - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
A line of hibiscus drawn in shade - Taneum Bambrick "After Picasso's 'The Rape'"
With three lines of gold in its ceiling - Taneum Bambrick "Oven Street"
An unbroken line dividing outside from in - Mary Jo Bang "Before the Absolute Perfection Dying Achieves"
Where a line turned into a mountain - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"
A knife draws a line between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Nothing Compares to Daphne in Green"
Latest monarch of a star-crossed line - Maurice Baring "Epitaph
A long line of aerial cartwheels - Catherine Barnett "The Specious Present"
with blue lines running in the mind - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
Had scrawled vague lines of gold - Stephen Vincent Benet "Going Back to School"
A silver lining of a poor sort - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"
Somehow silent in lines of flesh - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
In a thousand minor lines - Maxwell Bodenheim "Short Story in Sonnet Form"
The shifting shadow of a stain on your rigid lines - Maxwell Bodenheim "To --" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Measures out the earth in lines of life - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"
Nopales as second line of home defense - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
A heart attack on the bottom line - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Snowplows etch lines in the whiteness - Sue Budin "After the Blizzard"
Those lines we think define us - Sue Budin "False Borders"
Cast its shadow across the line - Sue Budin "False Borders"
History in jagged squares, broken lines - Sue Budin "On Beauty"
Lined with the silk of our dreams - Anthony Butts "Triptych"
See that first line before you cross it - Scott Cairns "Embalming"
The last line that sunders sand and surf - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Through materials, outside of the border lines - M.C. Childs "Electrical Symbols"
Run the line straight through regardless - M.C. Childs "Electrical Symbols"
To cross the lines of self-defence - Leonard Cohen "The Letters"
Dark all down the line - Leonard Cohen "Never Got to Love You"
Draw a line beyond your names - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"
Showing the lines of a silver path - Arthur Colton "By the Sea"
Trailing lines of crows - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Streamed malignant lines of fire - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Encircled by no little line - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"
The strain of the straight lines - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"
Ritual lines of the mazes your ancestors wrought - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
With secret symbol of line and word - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Family lines drawn and redrawn into travelogues and diaries - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Straight lines straddling heaven and hell - Diane DeCillis "Fugitive Laughter"
Five hundred steel cages lined up - Toi Derricotte "The Minks"
Stepping always (we hope) between the lines - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #1"
Undivided by the hard lines of empire - Tarik Dobbs "A Djinn in Sakhnin"
Horizon like a querulous line of grief - Chris Dombrowski "Geology Lesson"
The harsh cadence of a rugged line - John Dryden "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham"
Accelerate down the line to steal home - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"
In their long unbroken lines - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
That bright line of flame-lipped masters - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
When every brighter line is vain - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
From the traversed maze of the lines - Gilbert Frankau "Headquarters"
Wolf blood and Fenrir lines that chill the bone - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"
Trip along drift lines searching - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"
The straight lines of the rain - Zona Gale "Contours"
Line and green and melody - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
One white line of praise - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
The crows balance and rocking on the windy lines - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"
Tundras with paths lined with wet spikes - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"
A lead line into the spirit world - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Love at the end of the train line - Joy Harjo "Rainy Night"
A latitude is a guiding line - Matthea Harvey "Translation"
When the charging lines advance - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
A line of turnips where the seed ran out - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"
The line between still life and portrait - Mary Hickman "Still Life with Rayfish"
A knot of overlapping lines - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"
These wide rooms of devious line - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"
Threshes the clover between our lines - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
A perfect catastrophe set into lines - John James "Klee's Painting"
While they front the firing line - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"
A single singing line of dusky song - Helene Johnson "The Road"
Long, terraced lines of circling light - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Exit ramps lined with eighteen wheelers - Richard Jones "Rest"
Braided lines in the palm of my hand - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
A straight line on the lucid path - Fady Joudah "Pisces"
Moonlit lanterns line the serene currents - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"
With the lining of the universe - Bhanu Kapli "Collude"
A factory line where molten lead spilled - Mary Karr "All This and More"
Lined with the forgotten ashes of scullery maids - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Our own name on the line - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"
Drawing of chalk lines, pastel and charcoal - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Songs of burning line your throat - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"
Histories peeled from your palms, line by line - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Reveals What It Takes to Be Holy"
Find our story where the lines meet - Vandana Khanna "On the Eve of Being Reincarnated"
The lines of our cropped and mangled vines - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"
I dream the line of letters - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"
Where a cold wind pinches clothespins down an empty line - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"
Betrays his path by crooked lines - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"
Shade by shade and line by line - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"
Map a line of sisters - Linette Lao "Becoming"
In lines of dancing light - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Outweigh the day's clean lines and angles - Yoon Ha Lee "Equinox"
Archways lined with faded saints - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"
Stretched in never-ending line - William Wordsworth Longfellow "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Flew away to line the nests of birds - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"
Lining this morbid crackle of roads - Tariq Luthun "Fruit"
This pure fragment, this collapse of lines - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"
Fret the east with lines of fire - J.W. Mackail "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee"
When the line of battle passed - Douglas Malloch "The Chickamauga Oak"
Reads the fate-foretelling lines - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
The tors in their unyielding line - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"
Lines like spokes to a spinning wheel - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Between the lines of such hard edges - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Where the dead wait in line - Michael McGriff "Men Keep on Dying"
Caress each flaming line - H.P. McKnight "Dedication"
A complete world sealed along cracked lines - Maureen N. McLane "What I'm Looking For"
Heroic lines on virtue's state - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Angry Gallery First-Nighters"
Lines rehearsed though never written - Michael Mesic "Night Letter"
The lines of change were etched between - Michael Mesic "Urn"
The coat lined with a thousand invisible scars - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"
A quick line taut in the mind - N. Scott Momaday "The Mythic Harpoon"
The line drawn is always in the sand - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
Venus' mantle lined with stars - Marianne Moore "Spenser's Ireland"
A barren line from whence to where - Lewis Morris "The New Creed"
Butterflies on power lines - Valzhyna Mort "Singer"
Past these indefinitely tensed lines - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Hanging"
You will never go outside the lines - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"
Lined with its rags of absence - Pablo Neruda "One Day Stands Out" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The railroad line to invisibility - Tim Newcomb "From Beauty to Us, By Way of Art"
Yellow amber gems to line it - Hoa Nguyen "Netting (Language Ghost)"
The lines they draw seem never true - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"
All foes without the line - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Lined with tall sentinel poplars - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"
Lines between our pain and earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Holy Land"
Without a line of language - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"
A line from privacy to throat - Ladan Osman "The scalps of the women with the best prophecies are dry this season"
Wool's to line a miser's chest - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"
Crossing the river and crossing the line - Andre F. Peltier "Graceland"
Iron fences line the streets - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
Your life lined up like azaleas - Kiki Petrosino "Prophecy"
Whip-stitched into the lining of that question - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
A line of undulating grace - Ippolito Pindemonte "On the Hebe of Canova" translated by Felicia Hemans
Barbed wire snapped from the line - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
The map of lines on her forehead - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"
Line up and wait to fall - Matt Rasmussen "Ekphrastifilia"
A line of shivering violin-bows - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"
The fifteenth line of a sonnet - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"
These lines force one foot in front of the other - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Relinquenda"
Like a crazy quilt stretched on a line - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Found in these fugitive lines - James Whitcombe Riley "Albumania"
A line that birds cannot see - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"
Before our line of leaping steel - Charles G.D. Roberts "Cambrai and Marne"
Threw forward its cold, unconquered lines - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"
And nods assent to each familiar line - Rennell Rodd "In a Church"
Their black wavering lines in the sky - Marjorie Saiser "Crane Migration, Platte River"
Continuance along infinite lines - David Salisbury "On Mars"
The shadows draw over in terrible lines - David Salisbury "On Mars"
The singed end of a family line - Sam Sax "Poem in Which the Writer Sees Himself in an Old Textbook, 1943"
Between these penciled lines of dusk & dawn - Ann K. Schwader "Deconstructing Night"
From the lines of faded ink - Frederick George Scott "Old Letters"
The line that I had drawn with bleeding thumb - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
The hours break the line - Tim Seibles "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
Every single day till the end of your line - Salik Shah "The Last Scan"
Line their pantry shelves with the antioxidant beads - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Uncovering the dictates of graven line - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
Clean lines pointing only forward - Tracy K. Smith "Sci-Fi"
A lagging line of babbling curs - William Somerville "The Chase"
Calls the river line to attention - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"
Breaks the line along the failing tide - Leonora Speyer "Deep Sea Fishing"
Order breaks tension where the lines turn - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Laid bare in the last line's turn - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "When You're Away, I Consider Form"
Beyond the struggling lines that push his dread designs - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
That scourge the thundering line - Muriel Stuart "Words"
Neither keeps to its side of the line - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 54: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Bloodred lines of loss and blame - Algernon Swinburne "Time and Life"
Winter's moon will draw its line in naked truth - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"
The magnetic lines of the moment - Arthur Sze "The Glass Constellation"
Fires crackling in jagged lines - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"
Deal in straight lines with a god of double faces - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
Where all the lines of time intersect - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"
Made of loops and lines - Matthew Thorburn "Wouldn't Hold"
A line saw itself clear to its end - TC Tolbert "What Space Faith Can Occupy"
Beckoning step and line - Edwin Torres "Skygrass"
Tarnished prisons lined with white and gold - Iris Tree "Streets"
So framed for Adam's guilty line - Richard Chenevix Trench "Lines I"
Weary weaving of curves and lines - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Stretch their straight lines unbent - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Silence" transl. by Alma Strettell
Betrays his path by crooked lines - "Verses for an Album" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
The line between water and grammar - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: Any Single Thing"
Pattern and line gather quiet - Valerie Wallace "House of McQueen"
Our gallant army in line of battle drawn - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
And roll upon our serried lines - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Our lines bristle with burnished steel - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
A line of melody sings soprano - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"
Line up brooms with triangle skirts - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Come Shaker Life"
First of a long line of towering ships - Edith Wharton "With the Tide"
With lines of Nature's geometric signs - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Lining the way to an old altar - William Carlos Williams "March"
Across the field lined with golden bells - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Bell Theory"
On a field lined with forsythia - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Bell Theory"
Fractured lines of light - C. Dale Young "Eclipse"
Just past vision's humming line - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
An angel in assembly-line armor - Brandon Som "Resistors"
The baseline of your memories shifts - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
From beelines to star routes - Elizabeth Bartlett "Landscape: With Bread"
Where bloodlines and rivers are woven together - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
Creep beyond the subtle borderline of sleep - Ann K. Schwader "Darkest Anodyne"
Determined to drag one down to their bottom line - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
Clothesline.
Coastline.
Each brick house delineated a fence of silence - Toi Derricotte "Blackbottom"
Faultline.
The headlines wrote themselves - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
To swaddle you in yesterday's headlines - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"
Lifeline.
Katydids lined-out their hymns in the trees - Robert Morgan "White Autumn"
Outline.
Ridgeline ponderosas wind-pardoned - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
against the shoreline's erratic discipline - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
Skyline.
Bound in advance by the story line - Mary Jo Bang "The Earthquake in this Case Was"
Salvaging among the tideline's bitter gleanings - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"
We chose evolution in our own timeline - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"
Carrying her fever over the treeline - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"
As hope sunk below the waterline - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"
hard wrackline of a year's ebb - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"
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The mind's red line - Stephanie Adams-Santos "from Xibalba [Outside the water sings]"
Distorted trumpet, torn bass line - Carl Adamshick "New year's morning"
The voices between these lines - Francisco X. Alarcon "Other Voices"
Writing cursive lines on shifting slate - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
His pain inside immaculate lines - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"
His menagerie lined up close behind - Alise Alousi "Back to School"
Waiting in line for ourselves - Zaina Alsous "Subjunctive"
Old lines sunk deep in the forehead of the intersection - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
A line of footsteps side by side - Auguste Angellier "Dreams" transl. by Henry van Dyke
Lined my splinters with blindfolds - Julie Babcock "The Grey Goose"
Which explains the long line of wolves - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"
little lines run crazy across the lettuce - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
A line of hibiscus drawn in shade - Taneum Bambrick "After Picasso's 'The Rape'"
With three lines of gold in its ceiling - Taneum Bambrick "Oven Street"
An unbroken line dividing outside from in - Mary Jo Bang "Before the Absolute Perfection Dying Achieves"
Where a line turned into a mountain - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"
A knife draws a line between heaven and earth - Mary Jo Bang "Nothing Compares to Daphne in Green"
Latest monarch of a star-crossed line - Maurice Baring "Epitaph
A long line of aerial cartwheels - Catherine Barnett "The Specious Present"
with blue lines running in the mind - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"
Had scrawled vague lines of gold - Stephen Vincent Benet "Going Back to School"
A silver lining of a poor sort - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"
Somehow silent in lines of flesh - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
In a thousand minor lines - Maxwell Bodenheim "Short Story in Sonnet Form"
The shifting shadow of a stain on your rigid lines - Maxwell Bodenheim "To --" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]
Measures out the earth in lines of life - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"
Nopales as second line of home defense - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
A heart attack on the bottom line - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Snowplows etch lines in the whiteness - Sue Budin "After the Blizzard"
Those lines we think define us - Sue Budin "False Borders"
Cast its shadow across the line - Sue Budin "False Borders"
History in jagged squares, broken lines - Sue Budin "On Beauty"
Lined with the silk of our dreams - Anthony Butts "Triptych"
See that first line before you cross it - Scott Cairns "Embalming"
The last line that sunders sand and surf - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Through materials, outside of the border lines - M.C. Childs "Electrical Symbols"
Run the line straight through regardless - M.C. Childs "Electrical Symbols"
To cross the lines of self-defence - Leonard Cohen "The Letters"
Dark all down the line - Leonard Cohen "Never Got to Love You"
Draw a line beyond your names - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"
Showing the lines of a silver path - Arthur Colton "By the Sea"
Trailing lines of crows - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Streamed malignant lines of fire - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Encircled by no little line - James H. Cousins "A Song of Decadence"
The strain of the straight lines - Jim Daniels "The Worn Knees and Elbows of My Alcoholic Uncles"
Ritual lines of the mazes your ancestors wrought - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
With secret symbol of line and word - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"
Family lines drawn and redrawn into travelogues and diaries - Oliver de la Paz "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
Straight lines straddling heaven and hell - Diane DeCillis "Fugitive Laughter"
Five hundred steel cages lined up - Toi Derricotte "The Minks"
Stepping always (we hope) between the lines - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #1"
Undivided by the hard lines of empire - Tarik Dobbs "A Djinn in Sakhnin"
Horizon like a querulous line of grief - Chris Dombrowski "Geology Lesson"
The harsh cadence of a rugged line - John Dryden "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham"
Accelerate down the line to steal home - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"
In their long unbroken lines - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"
That bright line of flame-lipped masters - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"
When every brighter line is vain - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]
From the traversed maze of the lines - Gilbert Frankau "Headquarters"
Wolf blood and Fenrir lines that chill the bone - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"
Trip along drift lines searching - CMarie Fuhrman "Anne"
The straight lines of the rain - Zona Gale "Contours"
Line and green and melody - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
One white line of praise - Edward F. Garesche, S.J. "Niagara"
The crows balance and rocking on the windy lines - Kerry Hardie "Acceptance"
Tundras with paths lined with wet spikes - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"
A lead line into the spirit world - Joy Harjo "Becoming Seventy"
Love at the end of the train line - Joy Harjo "Rainy Night"
A latitude is a guiding line - Matthea Harvey "Translation"
When the charging lines advance - Richard Haywarde "The Beating of the Heart" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
A line of turnips where the seed ran out - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"
The line between still life and portrait - Mary Hickman "Still Life with Rayfish"
A knot of overlapping lines - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"
These wide rooms of devious line - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"
Threshes the clover between our lines - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
A perfect catastrophe set into lines - John James "Klee's Painting"
While they front the firing line - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"
A single singing line of dusky song - Helene Johnson "The Road"
Long, terraced lines of circling light - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"
Exit ramps lined with eighteen wheelers - Richard Jones "Rest"
Braided lines in the palm of my hand - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"
A straight line on the lucid path - Fady Joudah "Pisces"
Moonlit lanterns line the serene currents - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"
With the lining of the universe - Bhanu Kapli "Collude"
A factory line where molten lead spilled - Mary Karr "All This and More"
Lined with the forgotten ashes of scullery maids - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Our own name on the line - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"
Drawing of chalk lines, pastel and charcoal - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Songs of burning line your throat - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"
Histories peeled from your palms, line by line - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Reveals What It Takes to Be Holy"
Find our story where the lines meet - Vandana Khanna "On the Eve of Being Reincarnated"
The lines of our cropped and mangled vines - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"
I dream the line of letters - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"
Where a cold wind pinches clothespins down an empty line - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"
Betrays his path by crooked lines - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"
Shade by shade and line by line - Archibald Lampman "Winter-Store"
Map a line of sisters - Linette Lao "Becoming"
In lines of dancing light - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
Outweigh the day's clean lines and angles - Yoon Ha Lee "Equinox"
Archways lined with faded saints - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"
Stretched in never-ending line - William Wordsworth Longfellow "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Flew away to line the nests of birds - Lois Lorimer "Rescue Dog"
Lining this morbid crackle of roads - Tariq Luthun "Fruit"
This pure fragment, this collapse of lines - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"
Fret the east with lines of fire - J.W. Mackail "On the Death of Arnold Toynbee"
When the line of battle passed - Douglas Malloch "The Chickamauga Oak"
Reads the fate-foretelling lines - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"
The tors in their unyielding line - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"
Lines like spokes to a spinning wheel - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Between the lines of such hard edges - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Where the dead wait in line - Michael McGriff "Men Keep on Dying"
Caress each flaming line - H.P. McKnight "Dedication"
A complete world sealed along cracked lines - Maureen N. McLane "What I'm Looking For"
Heroic lines on virtue's state - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Angry Gallery First-Nighters"
Lines rehearsed though never written - Michael Mesic "Night Letter"
The lines of change were etched between - Michael Mesic "Urn"
The coat lined with a thousand invisible scars - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"
A quick line taut in the mind - N. Scott Momaday "The Mythic Harpoon"
The line drawn is always in the sand - Yesenia Montilla "Maps"
Venus' mantle lined with stars - Marianne Moore "Spenser's Ireland"
A barren line from whence to where - Lewis Morris "The New Creed"
Butterflies on power lines - Valzhyna Mort "Singer"
Past these indefinitely tensed lines - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Hanging"
You will never go outside the lines - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"
Lined with its rags of absence - Pablo Neruda "One Day Stands Out" translated by Donald D. Walsh
The railroad line to invisibility - Tim Newcomb "From Beauty to Us, By Way of Art"
Yellow amber gems to line it - Hoa Nguyen "Netting (Language Ghost)"
The lines they draw seem never true - Meredith Nicholson "Striving"
All foes without the line - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]
Lined with tall sentinel poplars - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard II: Malesherbes and the Black Milestones"
Lines between our pain and earth - Naomi Shihab Nye "Holy Land"
Without a line of language - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"
A line from privacy to throat - Ladan Osman "The scalps of the women with the best prophecies are dry this season"
Wool's to line a miser's chest - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"
Crossing the river and crossing the line - Andre F. Peltier "Graceland"
Iron fences line the streets - Puma Perl "Domino Nights"
Your life lined up like azaleas - Kiki Petrosino "Prophecy"
Whip-stitched into the lining of that question - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
A line of undulating grace - Ippolito Pindemonte "On the Hebe of Canova" translated by Felicia Hemans
Barbed wire snapped from the line - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
The map of lines on her forehead - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"
Line up and wait to fall - Matt Rasmussen "Ekphrastifilia"
A line of shivering violin-bows - Beatrice Ravenel "The Humming-Bird"
The fifteenth line of a sonnet - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"
These lines force one foot in front of the other - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "Relinquenda"
Like a crazy quilt stretched on a line - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Found in these fugitive lines - James Whitcombe Riley "Albumania"
A line that birds cannot see - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"
Before our line of leaping steel - Charles G.D. Roberts "Cambrai and Marne"
Threw forward its cold, unconquered lines - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"
And nods assent to each familiar line - Rennell Rodd "In a Church"
Their black wavering lines in the sky - Marjorie Saiser "Crane Migration, Platte River"
Continuance along infinite lines - David Salisbury "On Mars"
The shadows draw over in terrible lines - David Salisbury "On Mars"
The singed end of a family line - Sam Sax "Poem in Which the Writer Sees Himself in an Old Textbook, 1943"
Between these penciled lines of dusk & dawn - Ann K. Schwader "Deconstructing Night"
From the lines of faded ink - Frederick George Scott "Old Letters"
The line that I had drawn with bleeding thumb - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"
The hours break the line - Tim Seibles "All the Time Blues Villanelle"
Every single day till the end of your line - Salik Shah "The Last Scan"
Line their pantry shelves with the antioxidant beads - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Uncovering the dictates of graven line - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"
Clean lines pointing only forward - Tracy K. Smith "Sci-Fi"
A lagging line of babbling curs - William Somerville "The Chase"
Calls the river line to attention - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"
Breaks the line along the failing tide - Leonora Speyer "Deep Sea Fishing"
Order breaks tension where the lines turn - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Laid bare in the last line's turn - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "When You're Away, I Consider Form"
Beyond the struggling lines that push his dread designs - Richard Henry Stoddard "Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode"
That scourge the thundering line - Muriel Stuart "Words"
Neither keeps to its side of the line - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 54: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley
Bloodred lines of loss and blame - Algernon Swinburne "Time and Life"
Winter's moon will draw its line in naked truth - Carmen Sylva "The Shadow"
The magnetic lines of the moment - Arthur Sze "The Glass Constellation"
Fires crackling in jagged lines - Arthur Sze "Python Skin"
Deal in straight lines with a god of double faces - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"
Where all the lines of time intersect - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"
Made of loops and lines - Matthew Thorburn "Wouldn't Hold"
A line saw itself clear to its end - TC Tolbert "What Space Faith Can Occupy"
Beckoning step and line - Edwin Torres "Skygrass"
Tarnished prisons lined with white and gold - Iris Tree "Streets"
So framed for Adam's guilty line - Richard Chenevix Trench "Lines I"
Weary weaving of curves and lines - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Stretch their straight lines unbent - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Silence" transl. by Alma Strettell
Betrays his path by crooked lines - "Verses for an Album" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
The line between water and grammar - Rosemarie Waldrop "In Pieces: Any Single Thing"
Pattern and line gather quiet - Valerie Wallace "House of McQueen"
Our gallant army in line of battle drawn - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
And roll upon our serried lines - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
Our lines bristle with burnished steel - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]
A line of melody sings soprano - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"
Line up brooms with triangle skirts - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Come Shaker Life"
First of a long line of towering ships - Edith Wharton "With the Tide"
With lines of Nature's geometric signs - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Lining the way to an old altar - William Carlos Williams "March"
Across the field lined with golden bells - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Bell Theory"
On a field lined with forsythia - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Bell Theory"
Fractured lines of light - C. Dale Young "Eclipse"
Just past vision's humming line - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
An angel in assembly-line armor - Brandon Som "Resistors"
The baseline of your memories shifts - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]
From beelines to star routes - Elizabeth Bartlett "Landscape: With Bread"
Where bloodlines and rivers are woven together - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
Creep beyond the subtle borderline of sleep - Ann K. Schwader "Darkest Anodyne"
Determined to drag one down to their bottom line - G. O. Clark "Some Zombies One Should Avoid"
Clothesline.
Coastline.
Each brick house delineated a fence of silence - Toi Derricotte "Blackbottom"
Faultline.
The headlines wrote themselves - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
To swaddle you in yesterday's headlines - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"
Lifeline.
Katydids lined-out their hymns in the trees - Robert Morgan "White Autumn"
Outline.
Ridgeline ponderosas wind-pardoned - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
against the shoreline's erratic discipline - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
Skyline.
Bound in advance by the story line - Mary Jo Bang "The Earthquake in this Case Was"
Salvaging among the tideline's bitter gleanings - Suzanne Gardinier "Gapped Sonnet"
We chose evolution in our own timeline - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"
Carrying her fever over the treeline - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"
As hope sunk below the waterline - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"
hard wrackline of a year's ebb - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"
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