Potential Titles: Dirt

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To tell the dirt it belongs to you - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

In dirt damp with blood and tears - Iman Alzaghari "We Inherited Trees | ورثنا أشجا"

Dirty handprints on my skirt - Diannely Antigua "Blessing the Baby"

A soul crawling out of the black dirt - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

The dirt of dust and stars - Atticus "Magic in Stars"

Five paper airplanes poking at turned dirt - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"

The barren beige of dirt reduced to dust - Mary Jo Bang "It Says, I Did So"

Hoard dirt in my ears - Billy-Ray Belcourt "NDN Homopoetics"

So that the dirt will not page through it - Josh Bell "The War Against Birthdays"

Down in a mud of blood and dirt and wine - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

Lying hymn-barren on the dirt - Chase Berggrun "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"

For the dirty thirst of this land - Richard Blanco "Como Tu/Like You/Like Me"

Have earned the sympathy of dirt - Max Bodenheim "Intimate Scene"

Give me back my dirty claws and blood-warm horns - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Spiked with all the dirty talk a snail could want - Nickole Brown "Self-Portrait as Land Snail"

The dirt disguising itself as glitter - Lu Christófaro "I See You Too"

Snow banks dirty with sand - John Ciardi "Abundance"

Distinct from dirt and bone - Ama Codjoe "Primordial Mirror"

A golem from a palmful of dirt - Susan Comninos "Bequeathal"

Pry dirt from the roots of an ancient oak - Dorsey Craft "The Wife's Lament: A Retelling"

Learned the value of dirt - Kwame Dawes "Dirt"

Dirt from Jim Morrison's grave for a voice - Denise Dumars "The Golem"

Across dirt roads and muddy ditch paths - Danielle Emerson "shíma yazhí ahéheeʼ / thank you, auntie"

A beard of wind and dirt - John Olivares Espinoza "Economics at Gemco"

Writing your answer in dirt and sweat - Anthony Euwer "Builders of Highways"

Down dirty streets in stench and smoke - Robert Graves "Oh, and Oh!"

Surrounded by dirt birds - Bob Hicok "No Stones"

Rose over dirt for the prism of progress - Brenda Hillman "1951"

The sundial's been carved in the dirt - Carlie Hoffman "Point of View Where Orpheus Makes a Pit Stop at a Fortune Teller in St Germain"

On a scale between dirt and sky - fahima ife "consider the dial"

Already the daffodils bury their heads in the dirt - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Just a dirty shade of yellow - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "DeBarge"

Fingers weave in the dirt - Douglas S. Jones "Sexy in the Food Chain"

In a teacup's worth of dirt - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Miles and miles of footprints in the dirt - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

Dragged through dirt and honey and pine - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 3"

A hard, dirty army of hooves - Ted Kooser "Horse"

That narrows us all into a shovel of dirt - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

The dirt of shadows - Federico Garcia Lorca (trans. By Sarah Arvio) "[To find a kiss of yours]"

Dirt's ammunition against discipline - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"

Marble halls and dirty stairs - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

Mortared together with dirt roads - John McCarthy "Just Outside Owasso"

Their hurt seeps down into the dirt - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

Water, earth all kinds of dust & dirt - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

i am one with the upturned dirt - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"

A regular murder of dirt - Maggie Nelson "Losing Heart"

Growling apples and dirt - Maggie Nelson "Shiner"

The dirt that packs the plant is the beginning - Mark Nepo "Under the Temple"

Surviving on a plate of dirty leftovers - Pablo Neruda "The Celestial Poets [Canto General]" transl. by Martin Espada

How dirt has always befriended me - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

And the mystery hidden in dirt - Mary Oliver "Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith"

Under layers of leaves and soft dirt - Gregory Orr "Black Moon"

Wrangling life from the dirt - Kiki Petrosino "Witch Wife"

Broken hearts and dirty windows - John Prine "Souvenirs"

Dirty from the detritus of dailiness - Alberto Rios "The Secrets in the Mirror"

tracking dirt all over the page - Evie Shockley "the fare-well letters [excerpt]"

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

They know us as the drums in their dirt sky - Danez Smith "Two Deer in a Southside Cemetery"

Where perennials wake in competent dirt - Maggie Smith "Perennials"

Crossing bones scattered in the red dirt ditch - Cathy Song "Waialua"

soles imbued with the prophecy of dirt - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

Will never hear their whispers leak through the dirt - Seth Wade "Did You Hear About the Neighbors?"

Skirt hems dirtied with a dying sun's dust - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"

The dust of ten thousand dirt years - William Carlos Williams "March"

The dirt path opening again in a dream - Wendy Xu "Writing Home"


Across this dirtless moment - Quenton Baker "[we are]"


Even the road-dirt and moths can't resist - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"


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