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Potential Titles: Read

Read your letter a hundred times - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"

Reading the secret of drought on the palms - Aisha al-Saifi "Like Any Messiah Taken Unaware by Death" transl. by Robin Moger

Having watched the old movies and read the old books - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"

yesterday I read the sky - Jarid Arraes "Movement"

Read the riddle of the smiling stars - Maurice Baring "Elegy on the Death of Juliet's Owl"

Read the future by the past - Cora C. Bass "The Sum of Life"

Read storm warnings in retrospect - Terry Blackhawk "Wild Bird Rescue in Key West"

Read my footprints like my past - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"

The poor old books that nobody reads - Abbie Farwell Brown "Poor Old Books" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

To read us backward - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Read you the writing of his soul - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

And read my spirit's dower - W. Wilfred Campbell "Peniel"

Read poems by snow-light - Hilda Conkling "Poems"

Read his pledge of dawn - Susan Coolidge "After-Glow"

Read aright the day's Apocalypse - Benjamin Copeland "Let in the Light"

Read in the fortune of your fray - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

A pocketbook full of bone readers - Tyree Daye "There's a Whole Lot of Love round Here"

Nor read in Sibyl's book - Edward Dowden "Watershed"

No choice but to read the city walls - Tongo Eisen-Martin "I Do Not Know the Spelling of Money"

With readings and sonar echoes of our own - Henry Farnan "How to Make Contact with a Lost Star System"

reading a bible of conditional statements - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"

Must read some dark or words to-night - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Read the living text of skin - Dana Gioia "After a Line of Neruda"

Have read the secrets of the night - Ellen Glasgow "The Hunter"

Read the air for ghost-tongues - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Closed is the book we used to read - Eliza Paul Gurney "In a Season of Bereavement"

Whose book of life reads blood and gold - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LV"

In truth the riddle's ill to read - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

An alphabet only the carp can read - Conrad Hilberry "The Facts"

Reading the mysterious script of you - Edward Hirsch "Robert Desnos"

Seeking to read the mystic spell - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

Which reads with swift, occult divining - G.C.J. "En Passant" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.35-v.I, 30 Aug. 1884]

Light my love's eyes to read my soul - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "God-Made"

Reading Proust backwards - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"

Until they read in Folly's eyes - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"

Reads the fate-foretelling lines - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

Readings of the crown and sword - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

And read a reflex upon earth - George Meredith "Hymn to Colour"

Reading by lightning - W.S. Merwin "Just This"

Which cats and dogs can read - Marianne Moore "England"

Would read the book of chance - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Read the slow text of grasses - Naomi Shihab Nye "In That Time"

A final chapter no one reads - Frank O'Hara "Meditations in an Emergency"

To read as a glyph of hope - Angela Penaredondo "to hold these contradictions in kinship"

To read for signs of imminence - Maya C. Popa "One Way or Another"

Each twinkle reads the horoscope - Sam C. Reid, Jr. "Summer's Night"

Spider webs she read as signs - Ira Sadoff "My Mother's Funeral"

Reads the dictionary for its perspective on culture - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"

Reading circular augurs of light - Tobias Seamon "Halos"

Read the message writ across Earth's face - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VI. To Autumn"

Read, written and erased - Jaime Siles "God in the Library"

Read the secret of the Seven - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"

Read my fortune on a leaf of shining holly - H.K.W. "The Leaf Prophetic" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.681, 13 Jan. 1877]

Reads the palm of the sand - Derek Walcott "Salsa"

As a laser reads his tone - Joshua Weiner "Art Pepper"

To read the soul beneath - John Hall Wheelock "A Leave-Taking II"

The wondrous oracle in both ways read - A.D.T. Whitney "Banbury Cross"

Read the clouds as prophecies - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Read the compass on their faces - Yolanda Wisher "west of philly"

Reading time in the eyes of alley cats - Emanuel Xavier "Americano"

Darkly reverent years of reading - Lynn Xu "Earth Light: I"


Cardamom flavored with a cup-reading at the end - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"


Only a mind reading God could unfold - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"


So that the next reader will know - Tony Hoagland "Field Guide"

Wanting a transfusion of the reader's life blood - Diane Seuss "Toad"


Reread Aristotle by waning light - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"

Rereading the many translations of water - Matthew Thorburn "Loneliness in Jersey City"


A scroll within the tomb Unread forever - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Those unreadable receipts at the bottom of a purse - Janet Kauffman "Zooplankton and More"

Gilding the edges of unread books - Danusha Lameris "Dust"


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