Potential Titles: Scatter

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Scatter his whole mind across a field - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"

Someone scattering seeds of light that will blossom into faces - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"

Melting music-mirth she scatters - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

A scattering of gold crocus-petals - Richard Aldington "Round-Pond"

Some scattered into quantum futures - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

A spilled jigsaw bits scattered everywhere - Mouna Ammar "Finding Me"

Applause in broken scattering sound - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Dock Drama"

Looking into a box of scattered catastrophes - Mary Jo Bang "Fragment of a Bride"

A tabletop scattered with ruins - Mary Jo Bang "Interrupted Briefly by a Borrowed Phrase, the Scene Proceeds"

And scattered in sweet wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

Rise towards the scattered stars - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"

Shattered forms scattered across the landscape - Bruce Boston "Beyond the Clouds of Paradise"

Scatter myself empty as a torn dress - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"

Backlit by a scattered clutch of charcoal - Russell Brakefield "Raccoon Sighting Before Intimacy"

Writes her scattered dream - Robert Bridges "Angel Spirits of Sleep"

And scatter glories round - Anne Bronte "Views of Life"

Those sad relics scattered round - Emily Bronte "Hope"

Spreading ruin and scattering ban - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Musical Instrument"

Mid snares and pitfalls scattered - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds

My scattered tears preserve and reunite - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. Second Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Scattering our night-born ills - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Scattering the self into thinking - Jennifer Chang "We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once"

Your seeds are scattered on distant summer shores - May Chong "Kamcia"

Scattering names on a dusty floor - Nandi Comer "The Check In"

Scatter fragrance after winter's gloom - E. Coungeau "If I Might Choose"

Giving back a scattered chapter - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"

Then scatter like sparks - Kurt Cyrus "Hotel Deep"

Rift on rift of rose and scattered light - H.D. "Fragment Thirty-six"

Communions with the scattered ghosts - Russell W. Davenport "Poems VI"

Recall in requiem the scattering of my tribe - Kwame Dawes "Requiem"

Scattering on all sides curses - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"

The primroses scattered by April - Walter de la Mare "The Truants"

Their unearthly scattered talk - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

Her sunrise scattering squads of shadows - Carl Dennis "Help from the Audience"

Broken and scattered among the seekers - Carl Dennis "Holy Brethren"

Our cadmium needles scatter - Chris Dombrowski "Larches"

The wind scatters my wilted petals - Charlie Espinosa "Sunflower Astronaut"

Scattered poetry blows in - Ralph Fletcher "Bad Weather"

Ivory floors scattered over with diamond-dust - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "A Castle in Spain"

That scattered glass fruit around your feet - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Music Man"

To watch their eclipse scatter - Rae Gouirand "Quince Suite"

Know us by our scattered wake - Linda Gregerson "A History Play"

Sandalwood venom in my scattered mouth - Wendy Guerra "Red" transl. by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder

Scatters magnificent alms to the beggar trees - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Now parting into scattered companies - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Crows"

Like good Saint Francis scatters crumbs of Hope - Oliver Herford "William Dean Howells"

Scattered down the unmarked trails - Conrad Hilberry "Open"

Widely scattered words remembered - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part 1: Childhood and Youth"

Scatter the battalions of the foe - "The Hosts of Faery" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Sunlight scattering sodium and barium in the atmosphere - August Huerta "Concerning President Carter and the UFO Sighting"

To scatter star-dust in their eyes - Langston Hughes "Graduation"

Scattered around in rainbow glory - "I: Cuicapeuhcayotl | Song at the Beginning" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Scattered upon the lone and dreary moors - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

Bind again these scattered leaves - Muhammad Iqbal "An Invocation"

Scattered black seeds of a future - Robinson Jeffers "The Treasure"

Scattered by Hector's dogs - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Tar Baby"

To scatter the sun's reflection - Saeed Jones "Pretending to Drown"

Red rose petals scattered everywhere - Zilka Joseph "Eliyahoo Hanabi"

A dry scatter and sound of snares - Janet Kauffman "Reparations"

Their Words to Scorn are scatter'd - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

The Guests Star-scatter'd on The Grass - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Scatter these murderous ghosts - Joyce Kilmer "Absinthe"

Sparkled scatter of mica and stone chips - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Their room furnished with scattered papers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

The oak trees are scattering valentines over the snow - Ted Kooser " In a Light Late-Winter Wind"

Tin cans scattered in the meadow - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

Scattered so far beyond reach - Danusha Lameris "Nothing Wants to Suffer"

And scatter dust upon my hair - Archibald Lampman "Peccavi, Domine"

Cast out by the hand that scatters food untowards - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

A scattering both of isolation and attachment - Joseph O. Legaspi "On an Island (New York City)"

All my bones scattered across the floor - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"

The perpetual scattering that unspools the world - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

Accuracy amidst the perpetual scattering - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

Embers scattering wide at a stronger gust - Amy Lowell "March Evening"

Scattering wreaths of stars - Amy Lowell "To John Keats"

Helped to find the scattered sheep - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Scattering night to left and right - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "egret"

Scattered on each hawthorn spray - Theodore Maynard "The Holy Spring"

With an internal scattering of light - Medbh McGuckian "Painting by Moonlight"

Till our Raven's plumes were scattered - George Meredith "Aneurin's Harp"

Posturing kisses gone astray for scattered sweets - Alice Meynell "The Fold"

The hour has already scattered - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

Broken splendor years have scattered wide - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Monday they scattered my salt - Kadia Molodowsky "Song of the Sabbath" transl. by Jean Valentine

Gathers us up and scatters us again - Harold Monro "Journey"

Silence is scattered like a broken glass - Harold Monro "Solitude"

All their scattered elements unite - Lewis Morris "The New Creed"

On the lawn a scatter of wrens - Rusty Morrison "please advise stop [the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father's arm stop]"

Grown from scattered fever-seed - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

My scattered parts of seemings, stories, splinters - Shweta Narayan "Triumph XV: Vetala"

Scatter transparent letters across the sky - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: VII" transl. by William O'Daly

Scattered its delirium to the winds - Pablo Neruda "Chilean Mockingbird" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The host of stars is scattered - Nineteen Pieces of Old Poetry (translated by Arthur Waley)

Scattered starlings from the black sun - Achy Obejas "Succession"

Small bones scattered in a field among burdocks - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together One: A Night in the Barn"

When scattered in all its countless definitions - Carl Phillips "Refrain"

Scatters her golden lustre far and wide - Philo "The Tribute"

Scattering joy on every hand - Josephine Pollard "The Send Off"

Scattered ruthless integrity - Khadijah Queen "Sestina for Persona"

Scattering the peace of old dust - Lola Ridge "Wind Rising in the Alleys"

Seed that the years have scattered - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

To mourn among my scattered roses - Christina Rossetti "An October Garden"

Scattered into flight the Vows of Lent - Helen Rowland "The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor"

Glass scattered like confetti - Erika L. Sanchez "Kindness"

With blessings scattered with throughout the waste - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Scattered our fears for the ocean to swallow - Teresa J. Scollon "New Year's Day, Winslow Beach, Maine"

A wind of scattered straws - Frederick George Scott "Samson"

Scattered the seeds of pestilence - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

Which scattered from above the sun - Shelley "The Recollections"

The noiseless gleam of scattered stars - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"

Crossing bones scattered in the red dirt ditch - Cathy Song "Waialua"

Scatters flowers from an ample garden - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Scatter on endless dust roads - Elizabeth Spires "Moment Vanishing"

The fleeting music scattered - George Sterling "To One Self-Slain"

Scattered husks of silence - Arthur Sze "The Glass Constellation"

Scattering salt on our blood - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

When soul and breath scatter - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Poem in the Form of a Coffin-Puller's Song, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

Scatter the wealth in my hand - Tarafa "Mu'allaqat [Canst thou make me immortal]" transl. by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Thru the scattering tumult - Sara Teasdale "New Year's Dawn-- Broadway"

Scattered this to shore - Edwin Torres "The Vase of the Universe"

Smoke scatters summer air - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Puff"

Seething through paths of scattering flame - Emile Verhaeren "La Multiple Splendeur: The Glory of the Heavens" transl. by Alma Strettell

Scatter wild their seeds - Charles William Wallace "The Haunted House"

Scattered to our separate lives - John Moncure Wettarau "On Looking at a Mediocre Painting"

Scatter the ancient mist of gloom - "The Whale's Last Moments: A Lamp-Light Musing"

Scatter my petals so that I will never grow again - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"

Never a breeze scatters the thistledown - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"

Like the dewdrops, let us scatter - Myra Viola Wilds "Dewdrops"

Dawns that scatter like startled birds - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"

Scattered like knowledge - Nancy Wood "The Old Ways"

The wind scatters tears upon dust - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"

Scatters tears upon dust - Elinor Wylie "Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"

Scattering the words of my song - "XXI: Huexotzincayotl | A Song of the Huexotzincos" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton


Your body in chalky backscatter - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"


For scattershot revelations or shortcuts - Janet Kauffman "Eco-Dementia"

This scattershot of crow and jay - Hailey Leithauser "Dolor"


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