Potential Titles: Act
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somethingdarkerChaos in the act of definition - Daisy Aldan "Stones: Avesbury"
Each act and thought decreed - Benjamin West Ball "Agimur Fatis"
Small but audacious acts of theft - Mary Jo Bang "Behind this Passion"
Trick the vaporous into acting like something concrete - Mary Jo Bang "The Earthquake She Slept Through"
Against the brilliance of the last act - Mary Jo Bang "In the Present and Probable Future"
Communicate through showing how an object acts on me - Mary Jo Bang "Long-Exposure Photograph of a Man"
Asking is an act of harmony - Mary Jo Bang "On the Subject of Conjuring"
Do you act more like the coin or the water? - Ari Banias "Fountain"
Formed by acts of other entities - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"
Spins in an act of revision - Russell Brakefield "The High and Lonesome Sound: I. Fiddle"
The sea, where waves act as snares - Paul Cameron Brown "Voyage"
Master both invisible and notoriously slow to act - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 3: A psalm of Isaak, whispered mid the Philistines, beneath the breath"
Resolved for a time on that ruinous act - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
That in the act of seizing shrinks - John Clare "What Is Life?"
A dream impossible to act - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blessed Are They that Have Not Seen!"
But God can act the Devil - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Cannot act without assuming - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Too well they act the prophet's fatal part - George Crabbe "The Library"
The dust of my acts - Benjamin De Casseres "The Rotted Ideal"
A presence of departed acts - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XLIII: Remorse"
The motive antecedent to the act - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Hours after the last act is dust - Timothy Donnelly "Habitable Nebula"
A scroll full writ with all life's acts - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Whose streams in words and acts appear - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Morning"
Remove myself from this balancing act - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Recurring acts of disappearances - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 9"
And our atmosphere acts like a prism - JD Fox "Coloring the Sun You Know"
Disgraced by acts of lawless violence - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Only acts of doubt are done - Robert Graves "Children of Darkness"
A daughter's most instinctive act - Linda Gregerson "Double Portrait with American Flags"
Language is a political act - Sandra Gustin "Cause of Death"
Acts as an antenna for the sun - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
The act of crying was a privilege - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"
and flight is an act of fleeing - Kara Jackson "fleeing"
Decisions are made and acted upon - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"
The act fingermarked upon the weave - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
The absolute act of art - Mina Loy "Brancusi's Golden Bird"
On perfection's ice the very act of thinking takes a spill - Harry Martinson "Aniara 45" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
How dragons order their lives, how they manage and act - Harry Martinson "Aniara 54: Chefone's Garden" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A post-tribulationist vaudeville act of God - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
Through every act and atom - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
As if acts had no consequence - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Choose"
Act as an alibi to existence - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "If this is my face, so be it"
Both acts betray silence - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"
An act of granite will - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [The self is a thousand localities]"
An act of deliberate volatility - Metta Same "Fish & Duck Skills"
Who acting soon a reckless part - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
Acted so and erred and wrought such destinies - Carmen Sylva "Night"
And act as if the world loved only me - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
Brier and bramble act the parts - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
Lingers through acts of forgetting - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"
Mother of mirrors, angel of the acts - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]"
Bent on acts of malice - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"
My wish that failed of act - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"
In thought and act, in soul and sense - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Small acts that are just and right - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
Little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"
Unremembered acts of kindness - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
In no act forsaking one another - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson
Action.
The active grace, the glory between us - Cyrus Cassells "The Bargain"
the premeditated activities you call life - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"
Conspiratorial unsuspicious activity - Douglas Kearney "The Irregular and/or Anti- and Ante- Regulative"
Actors in motley array - Joyce Kilmer "Villanelle of the Players"
Agents and actors incognito - Amy King "Baudelaire in Airports"
An unperfect actor on the stage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIII"
Actors and audience and lights all gone - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
Mannequins perennially enacting the nativity - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
A terrible enactment in the dark - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"
Our eyes enact their own seasons - Conrad Hilberry "Letter to the North"
The surviving remnant enacting revenge - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"
I reenact the duty of my father - F. Douglas Brown "Epistemology of Laundry"
Then I will end my reenactments of flying - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"
React.
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Each act and thought decreed - Benjamin West Ball "Agimur Fatis"
Small but audacious acts of theft - Mary Jo Bang "Behind this Passion"
Trick the vaporous into acting like something concrete - Mary Jo Bang "The Earthquake She Slept Through"
Against the brilliance of the last act - Mary Jo Bang "In the Present and Probable Future"
Communicate through showing how an object acts on me - Mary Jo Bang "Long-Exposure Photograph of a Man"
Asking is an act of harmony - Mary Jo Bang "On the Subject of Conjuring"
Do you act more like the coin or the water? - Ari Banias "Fountain"
Formed by acts of other entities - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Star Beings"
Spins in an act of revision - Russell Brakefield "The High and Lonesome Sound: I. Fiddle"
The sea, where waves act as snares - Paul Cameron Brown "Voyage"
Master both invisible and notoriously slow to act - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 3: A psalm of Isaak, whispered mid the Philistines, beneath the breath"
Resolved for a time on that ruinous act - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]
That in the act of seizing shrinks - John Clare "What Is Life?"
A dream impossible to act - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blessed Are They that Have Not Seen!"
But God can act the Devil - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Cannot act without assuming - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Too well they act the prophet's fatal part - George Crabbe "The Library"
The dust of my acts - Benjamin De Casseres "The Rotted Ideal"
A presence of departed acts - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XLIII: Remorse"
The motive antecedent to the act - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"
Hours after the last act is dust - Timothy Donnelly "Habitable Nebula"
A scroll full writ with all life's acts - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Whose streams in words and acts appear - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Morning"
Remove myself from this balancing act - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Recurring acts of disappearances - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 9"
And our atmosphere acts like a prism - JD Fox "Coloring the Sun You Know"
Disgraced by acts of lawless violence - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
Only acts of doubt are done - Robert Graves "Children of Darkness"
A daughter's most instinctive act - Linda Gregerson "Double Portrait with American Flags"
Language is a political act - Sandra Gustin "Cause of Death"
Acts as an antenna for the sun - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
The act of crying was a privilege - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"
and flight is an act of fleeing - Kara Jackson "fleeing"
Decisions are made and acted upon - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"
The act fingermarked upon the weave - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"
The absolute act of art - Mina Loy "Brancusi's Golden Bird"
On perfection's ice the very act of thinking takes a spill - Harry Martinson "Aniara 45" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
How dragons order their lives, how they manage and act - Harry Martinson "Aniara 54: Chefone's Garden" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A post-tribulationist vaudeville act of God - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
Through every act and atom - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
As if acts had no consequence - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To Choose"
Act as an alibi to existence - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "If this is my face, so be it"
Both acts betray silence - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "What remains of the camp when the name dies?"
An act of granite will - Diane Raptosh "American Amnesiac [The self is a thousand localities]"
An act of deliberate volatility - Metta Same "Fish & Duck Skills"
Who acting soon a reckless part - Margaret Sidney "Ballad of the Lost Hare"
Acted so and erred and wrought such destinies - Carmen Sylva "Night"
And act as if the world loved only me - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
Brier and bramble act the parts - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
Lingers through acts of forgetting - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"
Mother of mirrors, angel of the acts - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]"
Bent on acts of malice - Bree Wernicke "A Tour of the Blue Palace"
My wish that failed of act - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"
In thought and act, in soul and sense - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
Small acts that are just and right - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Things that Count"
Little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness - William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798"
Unremembered acts of kindness - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
In no act forsaking one another - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson
Action.
The active grace, the glory between us - Cyrus Cassells "The Bargain"
the premeditated activities you call life - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Puppeteer Poetica"
Conspiratorial unsuspicious activity - Douglas Kearney "The Irregular and/or Anti- and Ante- Regulative"
Actors in motley array - Joyce Kilmer "Villanelle of the Players"
Agents and actors incognito - Amy King "Baudelaire in Airports"
An unperfect actor on the stage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIII"
Actors and audience and lights all gone - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
Mannequins perennially enacting the nativity - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
A terrible enactment in the dark - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"
Our eyes enact their own seasons - Conrad Hilberry "Letter to the North"
The surviving remnant enacting revenge - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"
I reenact the duty of my father - F. Douglas Brown "Epistemology of Laundry"
Then I will end my reenactments of flying - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"
React.
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