Potential Titles: Clean

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Whose razors cut clean as thrill - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"

Not enough clean water left to wash it off - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

An inference clean against logical laws - Grant Allen "The First Idealist"

A rushing stream clean as a burning flame - Bruce Boston "The Last Alchemist"

Have wanted clean rain - Kay Boyle "Monody to the Sound of Zithers"

The tears of my clean soul - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Clean and thankful and mostly imaginary - Franny Choi "Quarantine"

Clean as soap, crisp as pepper - Dorsey Craft "Domestic Poem"

The deepest root yanked clean - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Crescendo"

In the clean white light of the market - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

Clean as pine root boiled in fire - Carolyn Forche "Alfansa"

The fields having been picked clean - Louise Gluck "All Hallows"

Which stares clean into God's face - Louis Golding "Ploughman at the Plough"

Clean with silence - Hazel Hall "The Circle"

Although I have forgotten clean, I know - William Ernest Henley "Of a Toyokuni Color Print"

Cling to hands bleached clean - Faylita Hicks "The Daughters of Samuel Little"

Nor fuel for the clean flame of joy - Langston Hughes "Ruby Brown"

The stone moon descends to brush his shoulders clean - John James "Other Adam"

Cut them clean with my bite - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

A rag that wipes the blade clean - Christopher Kondrich "Common Things"

Outweigh the day's clean lines and angles - Yoon Ha Lee "Equinox"

A nest of clean teeth - Ada Limon "World Versus Girl"

For one clean hour of struggle - John Masefield "The Khalif's Judgment"

With clean white tears of April rain - Theodore Maynard "Easter"

To clean this territory of tyrannies - Pablo Neruda "Tomorrow Throughout the Caribbean" transl. by Miguel Algarin

A pair of painstakingly clean hands - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

Pluck clean the vine - Bruce Nugent "Cavalier"

Clean cast from Perfection's brain - John Presland "Tapestry"

Hawk-skied, carrion-clean - Adrienne Rich "Camino Real"

Clean as a released blade - Lynn Riggs "Bird Cry"

Washed their faces clean of love - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Scrubbed clean of war - Patricia Smith "Giving Birth to Soldiers"

Clean lines pointing only forward - Tracy K. Smith "Sci-Fi"

Brave and water-clean - Anne Spencer "At the Carnival"

Cold and clean as her faint salt flowers - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Into the cleanliness of laughter - Dorothy Tse "Cloth Birds"

Clean winds on my brow - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"

Plash into the clean white sink - William Carlos Williams "Good Night"

Clean outrun the golden diapason of the sun - Humbert Wolfe "The First Airman"

Clean through the static of decades - Jenny Xie "Distance Sickness"

The clean cuts of an insult - Jenny Xie "Lunar New Year, 1988"

Sediment of the day wiped clean - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"

Wiped clean the instant you exited - Yee Heng Yeh "Lost and Found"


Woe to gilt on an unclean bed - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

A writhing knot of unclean vipers - Charles Baudelaire "The Benediction" transl. not credited

Unclean under a back-turned sun - Saeed Jones "Terrible Boy"


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