Potential Titles: Cut

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A jar cut in the substance of a star - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

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

A buried light cutting its path through ink - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"

He cut the soul out of the shark - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Second Bait"

Replaced by a dark fin cutting out to sea - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Second Bait"

Cut the sky with glittering swords - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Stoked with fresh cut rosemary and glinting thyme - Meena Alexander "Darling Coffee"

A shining figure cut from a summer sky - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

And cutting the golden thread - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Creation"

The cut and stripped images of reason - Elizabeth Bartlett "Mental Hoeing"

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

Sharp enough to cut bone & soul - Joshua Bennett "Invocation"

Cut by the shadow song of theft - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Anchors cut by the wind - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Traces scars cut deep into the dreamwood - Russell Brakefield "Mackinaw Island"

To cut the knot of narrative - Russell Brakefield "Myth"

Where the forgetting cuts a road - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"

Human constellations cut into the ceiling - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Operating Room"

Cuts through the hand that wields it - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Everyone scared of being cut down - May Chong "Kamcia"

With a garland of freshly cut tears - Leonard Cohen "Take this Waltz"

The cutting wind is a cruel foe - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge "The Witch"

Cut short her foeman's breath - "Columcille's Farewell to Aran of the Saints" transl. by Douglas Hyde

Out of old Moons was busy cutting Stars - Rev. William Crowe "Written When Buonaparte Was Altering the Governments of Germany"

Stopped clocks and voices cut short - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"

Cut from an awkward block of ship-wood - H.D. "Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4"

The night has cut each from each - H.D. "Night"

A pair of shears cutting countrysides into shapes - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"

Cutting vines that blossom in the dark - Diana Marie Delgado "The Kind of Light I Give Off Isn't Going to Last"

Cuts roses with a hatchet - Diana Marie Delgado "Twelve Trees"

A riverbank cut deep enough to bury us - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Cut in the heart of the galaxy - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Cutting a deep trail of grief - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"

A world where swords can still cut - J. Everett Feinberg "Renaissance"

Cutting its pathway slow and red and deep - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Cuts through the bioluminescent memories - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

Cut from the hides of Apollo's oxen - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

cut like a solvent through any of my moods - Robert Frazier "A Crash Course in Lemon Physics"

Cutting me with its million rays - Deborah Garrison "Birth Day Pun"

Cut out the yellow heart of heaven - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"

And joy, like a shining sword cutting the dark - Mona Gould "Immortality, 1943"

Cut down a tree on top of a hellmouth - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"

And cut my pattern from a wind - Katherine Hale "I Who Cut Patterns"

Into the cutting edge of the sky - Joy Harjo "She Remembers the Future"

The flame like a blade cutting me - Terrance Hayes "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin"

Cut open my pilgrim heart - Edward Hirsch "Oscar Ginsburg"

A study of cut mark and fracture - Joan Houlihan "H. Antecessor"

Cutting the darkness and kissing the moon - Langston Hughes "Moonlight Night: Carmel"

Cuts through corrugated banality - fahima ife "anamnesis, amanuensis"

Cuts our collective fugue state - fahima ife "anamnesis, amanuensis"

cut away from the bone of debt - Fred L. Joiner "Austerity"

Whose scalpel cut a lightning bolt - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Filaments, gauze cut and stitched - Janet Kauffman "A Body Walking in Clothes"

An odd cut of intense color - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Let you cut your teeth on my heart - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"

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

Asking for cuts from your first-born heart - Cassandra Khaw "We Aren't Their Fairytales, Baby"

Cutting through the breastbone of the world - Christopher Kondrich "Common Things"

Blue cut from the sepia cloth - Christopher Kondrich "[I Speak into the Color Blue Cut]"

Cut like steel each tiny leaf - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

And nobody but me will cut this grass - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"

A poem may cut that heart to lace - Sandra Lim "Certainty"

Cannot be filled but only altered or cut away - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"

Delirium is a trinket cut in half - Tan Lin "Sent & scented wtih 10 emoticons"

Cut myself upon the thought of you - Amy Lowell "Granadilla"

A screeching thread, sharp and cutting - Amy Lowell "Stravinsky's Three Pieces, 'Grotesques,' for String Quartets: First Movement"

Cut with the edge of despair - Arch Alfred McKillen "Apocalypse"

The night cut by the moon - Erika Meitner "What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence"

Cut myself to its contours - Claire Millikin "Peacock Coat"

Transverse physics of the cut - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"

cut a vein and stain the pried petals - Elis Montgomery "Inheritance"

Cut from the same shadowed stone - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Cut my destiny in two - Daniel Nadler [untitled]

Cuts her own self from the clay - Angel Nafis "King of Kreations"

Cut the engine and hoist the sails - Mark Nepo "Stopped Again by the Sea"

Cut by the countless assassins - Pablo Neruda "Brother Bartolome de Las Casas" transl. by Jack Schmitt

More cutting than winter's voice - Pablo Neruda "Solar Ode to the Army of the People" translated by Richard Schaaf

Cutting every gold thing I find - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"

Cluttered days so sharp they cut - Naomi Shihab Nye "Coming Soon"

Upon which these future ghosts will cut astonished rivers - Christina Olivares "Portrait"

Cut crystal against rainbow walls - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"

Like constellations cut loose - Linda Pastan "Fireflies"

The way the present cuts into history - Carl Phillips "Back Soon; Driving--"

What cruel absurdity your cut - Sina Queyras "I Am No Lady, Lazarus"

Wand cut from the willow tree - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Three Child-Songs II: Willow Wand"

Then cut yourself out - Matt Rasmussen "Ekphrastifilia"

This dreadnought wreck cut loose - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Flowers to cut the heart - Rihaku "Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)

The cut glass vases standing slender - Carl Sandburg "Child of the Romans"

Cutting a path of promise - Margaret E. Sangster "Preface"

Has the cut of a naked knife - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

Shall never cut from memory - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIII"

Unripe morning cut open too soon - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"

Cut out by survival's swift knife - Brenda Shaughnessy "Our Family on the Run"

Cuts the strained knot of destiny - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Flaked a flint to a cutting edge - Langdon Smith "Evolution"

And they cut the naked hand - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"

Where our sharp, sworded lightning cut sudden - Alfred B. Street "Averill's Raid" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Split moon cuts the fearless gloom - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

Spring scallions cut in night rain - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson

A razor cuts across a frame of film - A. Van Jordan "Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)"

Their ceremony of first cuts - R.A. Villanueva "Annus Mirabilis"

A blade that sharpens by cutting - Ocean Vuong "Headfirst"

The beaver cut his timber with patient teeth - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

Cutting my life with sleep - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"

Cut a branch and bury it - Katie Willingham "Internal Reasons and the Obscurity of Blame"

To cut across the reflex of a star that fled - William Wordsworth "Skating"

Cut out by water into oblivion - Charles Wright "No Entry"

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

Coaxing them from cuttings - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Cuts the Day-Glo sun to pieces - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"


Clear-cut and certain they rise - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"


Don't miss the cut-off out of here - Janet Kauffman "The Hand of the Sassafras"


Quest of the cut-throat sons of Cain - John Masefield "Lyrics from 'The Buccaneer'"

Of all the cutthroat combat sports - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Clinic and Oracle"


Where the deep-cut leaves of the liverwort grow - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]


The glasscut-moon healing into midday sky - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"


Bad haircuts and sloppy tailors - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"


Lace-cut flame green filament - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"


Replaced by lasercut urns and polished stones - Sandra J. Lindow "Tombstone Tapestries"


From the slim-cut decanters of death - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"


The mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"

Scaling the mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"


A book with half the pages still uncut - Mona Gould "This Was My Brother (For Lt.-Col. Howard McTavish, killed in action at Dieppe)"

fresh as an uncut sheet cake - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."


A wrecking ball swung an uppercut - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"


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