Potential Titles: Around

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A mortgage statement wrapped around an artichoke - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

Some ants drag around spirits the size of houses - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"

The moon's answers slip around behind it - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Moon Mirror"

Wear your earrings around my wrist - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"

Cream spun around into butter - Elizabeth Alexander "Butter"

While real ghosts walk around me - Elizabeth Alexander "Haircut"

The tether-thread coiled around her wrist - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

That touched the ancient folds around his eyes - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

Around this valley lies a golden wall - Leslie J. Anderson "In the Valley of Midas"

Creeping around the huge oak with its blossoms of gold - S.D. Anderson "A May Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

With its hand closing around my throat - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"

A golden spindle with the flax of Egypt bound around it - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XIX: Nightingales" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Cuckoos mourn around the house - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXXVII: Mother at the Tomb of Her Son" transl. by J.W. Wiles

Around our wrists one long, red string - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"

Put my arms around a tall oak - Zeina Azzam "Hugging the Tree"

Curling around the perimeter of my reflection - Latif Askia Ba "Douglass Pool"

Lizards snaked around the calendar - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

Candle-smoke curls around my sight - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

A lemon rim around a rectangle - Mary Jo Bang "Goodbye Is Another Word for Not"

The snake wrapped around a rusted tree - Mary Jo Bang "W Is for Whatever"

As darkness coils around our rugged path - Cora C. Bass "Sea and Cliff"

Light spilling around your edges - J. M. Bédard "Hatch"

The invisible spiral around a crane - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Consciousness Self-Learns"

Around three times like a tornado - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"

Heart furling tight around new hurts - Lisa M. Bradley "The Skin Walker's Wife"

Around them the lily and pomegranate wreath - Mrs. Juliet H.L. Campbell "The Prophet's Rebuke" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Flowers around our banquet flung - Giosue Carducci "At the Table of a Friend" transl. by Frank Sewall

Their foes crashed crow loud around - May Chong "Kamcia"

Silver rings around both wrists - Samantha H. Chung "Time Traveler's Haibun: 2024"

Around us an atmosphere all gold - Arthur Hugh Clough "Χρυσέα κλῄς ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ."

With a polished eye around their neck - Nicole Connolly "Dream Job"

Thirty times around the apple orchard - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Magpies dart around the castle's banners - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Ashes fall around me like pieces of the moon - P. Scott Cunningham "Florida Snow"

When Evening spreads her shades around - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

Silt around our ankles - Tyree Daye "Gin River"

A lifetime of stories around them - Tyree Daye "untitled town poem: Confession"

Narcissus orbiting around his own fracture point - Jace Deangelo "Wide-Shining Craters"

A shield around the pain - Helen Dimos "For One Dead"

The architecture that the mind designs around it - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

This cardboard city collapses around us - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

Shape themselves around that one bright seizure - Rita Dove "Prose in a Small Space"

Around a goblet of great waters - Edward Dowden "Atalanta"

The whirlwind billows around her - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

Coil gloom around wicked hearts - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle

Collapsing the sky around us - Louise Erdrich "The Flood"

Around no heart do richer feelings cluster - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

A medallion hung around his neck - Martin Espada "Breve Pausa"

Around the iron circumstances of the world - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

With the laughing crowd around me - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

And twine around the year's fermenting wine - Annie Finch "A Mabon Crown"

Hung around with pikes and guns and bows - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"

And mournful stillness reigned around - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"

Around the boundary of my feet - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"

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

Rogue electrons twining around those almond nuclei - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."

Around a stump that crackled with flame - Robert Frazier "Wereman"

Around the pinnacles of mind - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

So the world continues around two corners - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: I"

The end was always just around the bend - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"

Must always come around by Dreamland way - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"

Winds are leashed around thy wings - Louis Golding "To the Swift"

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

Around the soft seeds of their flesh - Leah Naomi Green "Week Thirty-Four: Atomic"

Constructed themselves around you - Kimberly Grey "Invention"

A fiery scorpion coiled wildly around - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

Let pythons wrap themselves around you - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

To the circling around place of time - Joy Harjo "Bless this Land"

Around the couch of night - Frances E.W. Harper "The Pure in Heart Shall See God"

A drop or two of honey around the top - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"

Around the naked shoulders of the sun - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "The Helping Hand"

Around the trunks of trees long dead - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "April Will Come"

Glory is a golden snake around Life's tree - F.W. Harvey "The Golden Snake"

Around a sunken circle of laughter - Clemonce Heard "The United States of Montessori"

All your spells around them cast - Felicia Hemans "Invocation"

Around campfires below the mind - Brenda Hillman "Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways"

Tracing gray skin around the unsayable - Brenda Hillman "The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice"

Neon spikes around everyone - Brenda Hillman "Sediments of Santa Monica"

While darkness vibrated around him - Edward Hirsch "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp"

The borrowed city around me - Jane Hirshfield "I wanted to be surprised."

With golden dyes are glowing all around - "The Hunt Is Up"

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

Diamonds around the webs of spiders - Carly Inghram "This Woman's Work"

Because life carried on around you - Sarah Jackson "The Time Bureau Came to Careers Day"

As Lethe coils around a dream - Charles Edwin Jakeway "An Unfinished Prophecy"

Haloes of ash around her sleeping eyes - John James "Erosion"

With an ermine robe around her - Emily Pauline Johnson "Lady Icicle"

The same sun wheels around again - Devin Johnston "Fixed Interval"

If I burned the world around me - Ashley M. Jones "Summer Vacation in the Subjunctive"

People throng around the dahlias - Patricia Spears Jones "Autumn, New York, 1999"

All those false steps around the fire - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Rebuild myself around them - Leah Kindler "Why I Write Poetry"

Every zero wraps around like an echo - Christopher Kondrich "Degree of Nothing"

See eels wandering around downtown - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"

Stepping with hospitable sorrow around the bodies - Youna Kwak "After"

coiled around perfect circles and golden rectangles - Jessica Langer "Chaos"

Fierce cruel rifts spread around - Emily Lawless "From the Burren X: A Garden"

With grief like a bandage around our heads - Ruth Lechlitner "Quiz Program"

Around the handle of your gentle kettle - Joseph O. Legaspi "Raspberries"

When the storm of misfortune around them did press - E. Anna Lewis "The Orphan's Hymn"

Swerving around that unsteady silhouette - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"

Compelled to fall around you forever - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

Roots tangled around stillborn engines - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Rough and dry around the edges - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"

A frenzied static around our bodies - Alessandra Lynch "Funeral: For Us His Gold"

Around beleaguered walls rang - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Falling around you as flecks, as grains, as glitter - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "goldfinch"

Around it broke the crimson gale - Douglas Malloch "The Chickamauga Oak"

How I am cold around your burning - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

Fear sprinkling poison around you - Maya Marshall "Anatomy of a Fish Hook"

Around my dreamy spirit weaves - George Martin "In the Woods of St. Leon"

Silence around you like a shawl - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Snapped into drummed orbits around the Sun - Adrian Matejka "Mail-Order Planets"

Around the dark estate of public knowledge - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

Garlic string around my neck - Tony Medina "I've Got the Covid Blues"

Which Memory flings around the past - "Memory" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Rusting around stopped notes - M.S. Merwin "Returning Season"

Around the tossing park and down the softened street- Alice Meynell "West Wind in Winter"

Slips red thread around its spool - Janice Mirikitani "For a Daughter Who Leaves"

All around, roses glow in nebula tints - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

On roads that wind around the foothills - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"

Like a dog rolling around in the dew - Pablo Neruda "Love for this Book" transl. by Dennis Maloney and Clark M. Zlotchew

Flew around the mountains of sorrow - Pablo Neruda "Time that Wasn't Lost" transl. by William O'Daly

And swathed around in dreams - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

In circles around this reversal - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"

Tie knots around the heads of weeds - Naomi Shihab Nye "Feather"

I am the pledge of emptiness that turned around - Mary Oliver "I am the one"

The winds walk around it - Gregory Orr "The City of Poetry"

Around the dainty tip of Whitman's pen - Frances S. Osgood "Lines to an Idea that Wouldn't 'Come'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.5, May 1849]

And veers around a metaphor - Ron Padgett "It's Quite Something"

Around and around that quickly setting sun - Lily Painter "Funk (#49 song)"

Yearning to ring around a ventriloquist's echo - Soham Patel "Ultra Orator Spell"

A crowd around my hiding place - Andre F. Peltier "Six Feet Under"

Spirals around my losses - Kiki Petrosino "The Question"

Each minor Planet which around him twines - Philo "The Tribute"

Bitter bamboo growing all around my house - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

Dust around the season's tombs - E.J. Pratt "A Fragment from a Story"

Tie a red flannel string around your waist - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Red String"

Around her own stacks of dynamite - Sina Queyras "Years"

White petals pooled around her ankles - Paige Quinones "Venice Beach"

The pearly choker of innocence around my throat - Adrienne Rich "Grating"

The vast black solitude around - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Boy" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Holding paper bags around a barrel fire - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"

In other worlds expect another joy - Charles George Douglas Roberts "A Nocturne of Consecration"

Weave silent dances around him - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

wrap memories around our fingertips - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"

Who wears a glory of Orions twined around her brow - Friedrich Schiller "The Artists" transl. not credited

Glowing all around with red roses - Fritz Schnack "One Morning" transl. by William Saphier

Murderous snares around his path - Frederick George Scott "Dion"

Petals unfurled, shedding glory all around - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

A bully pushing lettuce around - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"

Mute thoughts on the mute walls around - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Carried the blues around - Evie Shockley "color bleeding"

Around the world I'll beg my bread - "Shule Aroon" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Around my deep unchanging heart - Joyce Sidman "Lake's Promise"

northward fire twists around the shrublands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"

Ivy twined around the oars - Frank Stanford "The Cape"

And an indigo snake around my neck - Frank Stanford "The Cape"

Wraps our yearning souls around - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"

Other blazing objects out around its crown - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"

Construct a scene around an illusion - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"

Around my door and courtyard - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.1" transl. by Burton Watson

Just flitting around the eye's corner - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

Sphere all your lights around - Tennyson "In Memoriam"

As fog around denial - Edwin Torres "Air Is Sham for Light"

Frostbite around the corner - Kristen Tracy "Waiting for Crocuses"

Coiled around my brittle turquoise view - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

Ribs perfectly arranged around the emptiness - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Colossal right hand curled around a mystery - Devin S. Turk "Statue of David with Top Surgery Scars"

All around the current intervened its sound - Mark Van Doren "Communication"

Around the shore of silence - Henry van Dyke "The After-Echo"

Sky around your shoulders - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"

Around the many Council fires - James E. Waters [Wild Pigeon] "King Philip (Pometacom)"

no ceremony around the absence - Chaun Webster "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"

Around corners and over horizons - Kirk Wilson "Gifts"

Seven times around the world - Allan Wolf "Going the Distance"

Fissures around points of contact - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

Turn around and become ash bone - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"

His voice heard around the corner - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"

Wanting falls around me - Jenny Xie "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season"

Your family around you nervous as finches - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

The pain orbits around Jupiter - Moon Bo Young "Life Centered Around" transl. by Hedgie Choi


A walk-around dance of rain and dew - Russell Brakefield "Rag"

A wraparound window overlooking the universe - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"


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