Potential Titles: Thin

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thin as a blade with an edge that smarts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Memory"

His poor thin thread of voice - Harold Acton "Trepak"

Becoming thinner than dust - Etel Adnan "Conversations with My Soul"

A resume of thin successes - Julia Alvarez "Lunch Hour, 1971"

Until the fear was a thin broth you could swallow - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"

Each thin thread tethered - William Archila "Spirits"

Only a thin veil hangs between - Julia A. Baker "Mizpah"

Razor thin minutes slot without stop - Mary Jo Bang "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice"

Brain thin whips to beat you down - Djuna Barnes "She Passed This Way"

its echoes are thinned - Elizabeth Bartlett "while I live"

A thin wind across a wire - Terry Blackhawk "Chambered Nautilus, with Tinnitus and Linden"

Looses its thin divine kindness - Maxwell Bodenheim "After Feeling Deux Arabesques by Debussy"

Thin furies of emotion - Maxwell Bodenheim "Description and Exhortation"

The thin substance of our ambitions - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"

The thin cycle of streetlamps on pavement - Russell Brakefield "This Is America and We Are Boys"

Spread ourselves thin and far - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Pre-Op Holding Room"

Whose visions were too thin - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Vision of Poets"

Throw thin shadows on the ground - William Cullen Bryant "The Planting of the Apple Tree"

In the thin places of contentment - Anthony Butts "Lessons in Nostalgia"

Alone in this thin place of existence - Anthony Butts "Triptych"

So thin it forgets - Dana Jaye Cadman "Ghosts"

The thin pulse of long-dead pulsars - M.C. Childs "Snow Man"

Thin joys, huge pain - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Thinned the seeds already sprouting - Kai Coggin "Essence"

Thin anonymous light - Aaron Coleman "The Broken Man's Permission"

With hundreds of thin paper wings - Billy Collins "Cliche"

condemnatory fingers thinned of pity - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"

washed with a wild and thin despair of violin - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

This thin edge of December - Nancy Cunard "Parallax"

Print a shadow like a thin twig - H.D. "Sea Iris"

If you feed me with thin parchment - Kwame Dawes "Eat"

Through dark's thin language - Jay Deshpande "Wanting a Child"

A moose crossing the thin August river - Chris Dombrowski "Motherless Children (Traditional)"

Camels and goats grown thin - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"

Thin as the fingernail of god - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"

A time of thin decision - Mari Evans "A Lace of Perforations"

Thinning with the milkweed - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"

Thin fluttering streamers of breeze - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Living thin wooden years around the aspen - Carolyn Forche "Song Coming Toward Us"

Take the thin call of bells - Katie Ford "A Spell"

A white moon stares Time's thinning fabric through - John Freeman "Shadows"

The steady shadows shook and thinned and died - John Freeman "The Wakers"

Hammered thinner than memory - Dobby Gibson "After Reading Kobayashi Issa's The Spring of My Life On My 49th Birthday"

Fanged with thin disdain - Louis Golding "Lady of Babylon"

Each murder, a thinly veiled fundraiser - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"

This mansion made of thinnest air - Patricia Hampl "This Is How Memory Works"

Thinner than stars in the flush of dawn - Han Yu "The Girl of Mt. Hua" transl. by Burton Watson

In the fog of thin hope - Joy Harjo "Running"

The thin blasphemous gravity of wicked men - F.W. Harvey "That I May Be Given Fellowship of Angels and a Happy Heart"

A thin moon of my own dismay - Robert Hass "The Apple Trees at Olema"

Smoke thinned to song - Terrance Hayes "The Golden Shovel"

Wind in a thin body of dust - Conrad Hilberry "The Moon Seen as a Slice of Pineapple"

A thin dirge for your nation - Conrad Hilberry "Waning Moon"

On the thin mirage of ocean - Robert Hillyer "Fog"

Staring at the thin rocky soil of me - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

The light a thin space to crawl into - John James "Materia"

The dawn drawn out and hammered thin - Devin Johnston "Fixed Interval"

Thin threads of breath beginning to fray - Douglas S. Jones "A Tuesday Night"

Thinned by crows and frost - A.M. Juster "Sundowning"

A long thin flow of hope - A.M. Juster "Triptych: Dream, Convenience Store, Bar"

Which such Thin Food can feed - Anne Killigrew "The Discontent"

An airy thinness gleaming despite the distance - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

A thin gray absence waiting there - Ted Kooser "Ink Black"

Spreads soft and silvery thin - Archibald Lampman "Among the Timothy"

The thin mist of grey gnats - Archibald Lampman "April"

Thin with the many stars - Archibald Lampman "The Frogs"

through everything a thin breeze blows - Jessica Langer "Chaos"

The thin fabric of our skin - Michael Lauchlan "Snow"

Thin veils of mist between their branches - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"

A high thin note trilling the frozen air - Philip Levine "Another Song"

Echo of insects where the lamplight thins - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson

Shadowed in thin mist - Li Yu "[Blossoms bright, the moon dark]" transl. by Burton Watson

Body thinning in a baptism - Nabila Lovelace "By Inch-Meal a Disease"

In the thin sky - Amy Lowell "Wind and Silver"

Luck thin as paper - Lu Yu "The Merchant's Joy" transl. by Burton Watson

Thin veils, woven of thought - Rose Macaulay "Trinity Sunday"

The thin cleft of villainous pigments - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"

The thin, white ashes of the hearth - Theodore Maynard "Spring, 1916"

But when the terror thins - Claude McKay "One Year After"

The grip and gasp of elements too thin - Michael Mesic "Three Hymns to Hypnos I. Storm at Sea"

The jessamine music on the thin night air - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

How hammers strike the thinnest wires - Tyler Mills "'Mike' Test"

Find solace in thin air - Kamilah Aisha Moon "A Golden Shovel"

Echoes struck from thin glass - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"

a gymnast on a thin thread of the horizon - Valzhyna Mort "Belarusian I"

Even words grow thin - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Grow thin as the tracks of gulls - Pablo Neruda "So that You Will Hear Me" transl. by W.S. Merwin

Swarming like thin crows - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

The taste of thin gold shielding cold brass - Mari Ness "Snowmelt"

The horse of the prickly thin storm - Amy Newman "Sylvia Plath Is in Paris with a Balloon on a Long String"

Darkness being watered thin - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Halloween, 14"

Jingling its pocket of thin coins - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Palestinians Have Given Up Parties"

After the birthday crowds thin out - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"

Thin as rain - Dorothy Parker "Somebody's song"

Lovers' oaths are thin as rain - Dorothy Parker "Somebody's Song"

A thin war of metal - Ezra Pound "A Song of the Degrees"

Beat its blood through thin chambers - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"

A fey thin singing in his blood - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"

Piping in silvery thin sweet staccato - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

The thin dun soil of my soul - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"

Lit with lemon, thin slice of moon - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"

Beer as thin as tissue paper - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

No relief from the unbearable thin light - David Salisbury "On Mars"

Sun-widowed and veiled with thin air - Frederick George Scott "Thor"

Stones of worth they thinly placed - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LII"

The thin wind of loneliness may howl - Joyce Sidman "Blessing from the Stars"

Too thin to hold tomorrow back - Patricia Smith "Voodoo II: Money"

The thin plume of cautious smoke - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

So thin the clouds went through it - Gerald Stern "Mimi"

This slenderest thread of one thin pulse - Arthur Stringer "The Life on the Table"

Wear thin with vast summer - Mary Szybist "Taiment"

Buried behind a thin layer of clouds - Keith Taylor "After the Holidays"

Our world's a thin wash of muted tones - Keith Taylor "Sea and Ran: Lake Michigan"

Her overcoat continuing to thin - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"

To the thin wire of horizon - Matthew Thorburn "A Speck in the Air"

The wind's thousand thin fingers - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Correction"

Thin flute music petaling the silence - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"

Thin spectres sucked forth by the moon - W.J. Turner "Death"

Where the thin silver soul of the stars silently dances - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

Thin fading dreams by day - Walter J. Turner "Romance"

A thin, metallic echo of human song - W.J. Turner "Soldier in a Small Camp"

The last thin acre of stalks that stood - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

Blood thin as a widow's tears - Ocean Vuong "Thanksgiving 2006"

Her thin, uncontradictable truth - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

Thinning to a final simplicity - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

Watched from widow's walks worn thin - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"

Blow the thin streams aslant - William Carlos Williams "The Dark Day"

Thin, cruelly swift, victorious Harlequin - Humbert Wolfe "The Dancers"

Thin blades you sharpen in the gloaming - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"

A thin sun warms nothing - Valerie Worth "Sparrows and Pigeons"

Wears that sky like a thin gold mask - Elinor Wylie "Sunset on the Spire"

That sky like a thin gold mask - Elinor Wylie "Sunset on the Spire"

Thinner than any keyhole - Jenny Xie "Margins"

When midges' wings make a thin music - Francis Brett Young "On a Subaltern Killed in Action"

Thin wings of fever singing - Francis Brett Young "104 Fahrenheit"


My soul a thin-slotted door - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"

The kite a thin-stemmed flower - Seamus Heaney "A Kite for Aibhin"

A tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"


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