Potential Titles: Coin

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To spend the coin of our lives - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Coins between a dying miser's fingers - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Maple Leaves"

Saffron, gold coins, a slight burning - Threa Almontaser "Heritage Emissary"

A coin, a debt owed to love - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

A coin box that defines my existence - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

The coins that are paid for human breath - William Francis Barnard "The Hangman"

Bloody coins from hands cut through - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

With Charon's coin in palm - Edward Burrough Brownlow "Orpheus"

The tribute of a nobler coin - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

The fallen coin of honour - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Match you every coin you flip - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"

Loose coins in my memory's backseat - John Olivares Espinoza "These Hands, These Roots"

Gold coins on cobblestone - Lupita Eyde-Tucker "Without Reparations"

A coin of moonlight - Carolyn Forche "On Earth"

Close my eyes with coins - Carolyn Forche "Plain Song"

They demand coins or laws - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: II"

Brought coin and bustle - "The Golfiad"

Old couch that cries in coins - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Casa"

His quick coin of breath - Leah Naomi Green "To the Cardinal, Attacking His Reflection in the Window"

Gold coins raining down on her - Mary Hickman "Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait"

Cowrie shells, tea leaves, coins - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"

My face among the wounded coins - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Please insert your spare coins - Katy Lederer "That Everything's Inevitable"

A coin always landing tails - R.B. Lemberg "Iron Burns Out"

Rimming the dark with golden coins - Percy MacKaye "Fight: The Tale of a Gunner at Plattsburgh"

Who mints his soul to laughter's coin - Don Marquis "The Tavern of Despair"

Counted coins in a cup - Heather McHugh "A Physics"

Sad and vagrant little coins - Howard Nemerov "Pockets"

Burned like a coin between my hands - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems X" translated by W.S. Merwin

The coins tremble in our bloodstained hands - Mari Ness "Sisters"

The hot coins of my mother's silver - Grace Nichols "Masquerade"

Jingling its pocket of thin coins - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Palestinians Have Given Up Parties"

Rattle the coins in my chest - Xan Forest Phillips "Hull"

A mint of new-coined treasure - Francis Quarles "The World's Fallacies"

Golden coins from out the blue - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Rustic Courting XXII: Primrose Flowers"

Some days you knelt on coins - Erika L. Sanchez "Six Months after Contemplating Suicide"

That will quarrel for a coin - Frederick George Scott "Dion"

Before I lie down in bed with my coins and shroud - Alexandra Seidel "Seven Truths and the In-Between"

Charged with bloody coin - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

For a double handful of dirty coins - Cislyn Smith "Hot"

One hour worth a thousand gold coins - Su Tung-p'o "Spring Night" transl. by Burton Watson

The coin in your throat for passage - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Angelica Root"

Count coins you do not have - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Horned Woman Ancestor"

Glint like coins in their talons - Avni Vyas "After Bob Across the Street Fires His Gun at a Tree to Scare Off a Raccoon While My Son and I Walk, Rachel Shows Me Night Heron Chicks"

To increase the coin buried inside yourself - Joshua Weiner "The Not-Yet Child"

Coins from another life - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"


In the dull coinage of leaden tears - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet III"

The coinage of bright pearls and rubies - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Bar of Science"


a shiny silver moon-coin to play - Evie Shockley "black love"


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