Potential Titles: Scratch

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Seek scratches over the moon's face - Etel Adnan "Night"

His kingdom of hen-scratched earth - Simon Armitage "Miniatures"

Flies scratch cursive in the air - William Brewer "We Burn the Bull"

Their worn shoes scratch against the paths of stone - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

The scratching of a mouse may echo down my mind - Edward L. Davison "In This Dark House"

A pattern scratched upon a pretty stone - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

Branches scratch against my sleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"

Scratch against my sleep - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Other Side"

Leaves a scratch upon the soul - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"

Scratches the film of memory into the unbearable static - Carlie Hoffman "Driving Through Maspeth, NY, After Teaching an Introduction to Creative Writing Class"

Scratching in the dead fire's ashes - Langston Hughes "The South"

Already scratched your name on a bullet - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

The record scratched and stopping - Ada Limon "Joint Custody"

Getting dealt a thousand scratches by a million splinters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"

From the scratched solitude - Pablo Neruda "The Human Condition" transl. by Alastair Reid

A scorpion scratches about under a rubbish heap - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

Idle doodles and arbitrary scratches - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Write"

Scratch a lover, and find a foe - Dorothy Parker "Ballade of a Great Weariness"

Where the sun goes down without a scratch - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Archibald's Example"

a fingernail scratching the scars of yesterday's ruins - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"

Light scratches into all the surfaces - Bruce Smith "Ferment"

The scratch marks on my spirit - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"

Scratches at the tight knots of my chords - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"


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