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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-03-09 06:29 pm

Potential Titles: Curl

The white mist curling and hesitating - Richard Aldington "The Poplar"

Curled in an inverse question mark of concentration - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

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

Curled up like scared cats in the reeds - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

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

Curl up on the floor of the sun - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Nights curled sulfurous on my side - Erin Belieu "Pity the Doctor, Not the Disease"

Stretched and curled like a meandering river - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 2: How not to drown in desire"

The curled husks of yesterday's warmth - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, because you tell me to, I begin again"

To-day is written in curling smoke - Louise Morey Bowman "The Mountain that Watched"

Like a serpent curled in sleep - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Incarnation of a curling swan - Cyrus Cassells "How Many Lives Have We Lived in Paris?"

Orchids curling outward beyond grief - Tina Chang "Color"

Fallen leaves that curled and shrank - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"

Sleep in hidden corners curled - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

And fame like a young curled leaf - Olive Tilford Dargan "Old Fairingdown"

Which curls the lip, which lights the eye - Lucretia Maria Davidson "The Smile of Innocence"

Curled ribbons of fried light - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Their hearts curled and purring - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"

Possessed by temper's curl and stream - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 5"

Curling over the edge of the world - Ben Hecht "My Island"

Words and the curl of numbers - Conrad Hilberry "A Thin Song for a Girl"

Curled round a bough of the cinnamon tall - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"

Sleep beneath leaves curling like ribbons - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"

Broken with curled flower buds - Archibald Lampman "April"

Citrus curling up the light - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

Curling lips which Earth has kissed - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Crocus Bed"

Budded beech with dry leaves curled - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"

Who sleeps in the curl of a crescent moon - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"

The vanished curls and tendrils of this universe - Claire Millikin "Floyd Burroughs' Cigarettes"

Seared with curls of fire - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems XVII" translated by W.S. Merwin

Curl up in the top branches and sleep - Gregory Orr "A Life"

Curled deep in her rookery - Kiki Petrosino "The Child Was in the Woods"

A flash of glory curled among - Alexander Posey "Tulledega"

Where she curled in shadow - Mary Jo Salter "The Upper Story"

Broken love-knots, quaintly curled - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Edged Tools"

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

Curled its soft lure into bone - Vanessa Angelica Villareal "Corpse Flower"

Night with its black paws curled - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"

Rainbows curled on buried storms - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

As it slips from a curl of birch skin - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

Curled wave and shattering thunder-fit - Elinor Wylie "Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin into English"

The curling paper serpent sheds his printed skin - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Shield and mirror to the fair snake-curled Pain - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"


The sky uncurling to the light - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

The salt-chased seas uncurled - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"


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