Potential Titles: Inside

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To hide inside prayers that hum - Elmaz Abinader "The Last Lesson We Learn"

No sound but inside our hands - Samuel Ace "I hear a dog who is always in my death"

Afraid to shake loose any stars still lodged inside - Duana Ackerson "The Observatory"

That struggles to be born inside the mirror - Duane Ackerson "The Vampire's Reflection"

Not even an atom, much less Adam, could find itself inside - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"

To make a clock of my insides - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."

Chew the baby stars inside like sunflower seeds - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Eaten from the inside and about to fall - Mike Allen "The Journey fo Kailash"

His pain inside immaculate lines - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Too much hung inside the scales - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Endless variations inside diamonds and squares - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Come inside my blue cocoon - Zaina Alsous "Being-Nothingness"

Inside the TV's square corners - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Heard bees buzzing inside their skulls - William Archila "The decade the country became known throughout the world"

Trapped inside its memory - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel of the setting sun"

On the inside of me - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "An angel speaks"

my soul is the oasis inside his eyes - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

Inside an ocean that never spills - Julie Babcock "Being Right"

An electric rabbit hidden inside - Mary Jo Bang "News of the Day"

Inside of a cardboard horse - Mary Jo Bang "Outnumbered at O"

A steel maze inside - Mary Jo Bang "Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror"

Forever inside the revolving universe - Mary Jo Bang "Sometimes I Come To and Wonder"

Lock the box with the key inside - Mary Jo Bang "The Storm We Call Progress"

The stairs inside the tripling device - Mary Jo Bang "The Transformation Anxiety Dream"

Inside its vault of carbon snow - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Cave"

Always starts inside a single heart - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Ghost of Anne Frank"

The quiver inside each atom - Ellen Bass "Not Dead Yet"

Scours you from the inside - J. M. Bédard "Hatch"

A hand knocks inside my heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lunch at a City Club"

Stood inside a shattered room - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Dream of Samarkand"

Seeds with a whole galaxy inside - Tamiko Beyer "February"

My fear inside like a piece of yeast - Julia Bloch "Valley Oak"

May fit inside a thimble - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"

I have landscapes inside me - Ana Bozicevic "Paris Pride Parade"

Making shadows inside you - Shannon Bramer "You Speak Violets"

The secrets that live inside us - Sue Budin "Totality"

I had nowhere to go but inside - Nicole Callihan "dwelling"

Leap inside the morning light - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "Homecoming Cistern Alien Vessel"

Stars and moons still move inside our arteries - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"

To take a walk inside yourself - Paul Carroll "Song [To be able to walk along and see]"

Hit my eyes from the inside - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

One inside the other as torqued ellipses - Anne Carson "Thunderstorm Stack"

Claws and teeth inside my head - Ana Castillo "Cat's Mad Lick"

Find your way home inside the infinite - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"

Bring lost birds inside the house - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"

Soft orange inside my steel - Ching-In Chen "Breath for Metal"

With tenderness falling inside - Tiana Clark "800 Days: Libation"

my fear trapped me inside - Lucille Clifton "telling our stories"

to have a light escape from inside you - Karla Cordero "As a Kid I Was Told 'Don't Step on a Crack or You'll Break Your Momma's Back'"

a flood of sweet confections waiting inside - Karla Cordero "Everything Needs Fixing"

All inside gone out - Robert Creeley "My New Mexico"

Inside the locked rooms of night - Cynthia Cruz "Deathscape Lullaby"

Folded neatly inside my mask - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"

Inside the pool of exposed wires - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Cheerios"

A vault inside an unmarked catacomb - Diane DeCillis "Room Full of Children Staring at Me"

As if acid were thrown from the inside - Toi Derricotte "Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing"

Jericho is on the inside of the things the world likes - Blanche Taylor Dickinson "The Walls of Jericho"

His eye inside you - Sharon Dolin "Evening Storm"

A rabbit-hole opens inside you - Timothy Donnelly "The Driver of the Car Is Unconscious"

Touching those lost spaces inside his name - Camille T. Dungy "soldier's girl"

Like the afterhours inside a library - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"

Fixed the sacred crown inside your sacred court - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle

The silence inside - Noah Falck "Fatigue Performance"

The silence inside the photograph - Noah Falck "Fatigue Performance"

Bearing a dark star inside me - Susan Fawcett "Black Water Diving"

Tangles of rain molding our homes from the inside - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

I know the night lives inside you - Rebecca Foust "Abeyance"

Hid the sun and moon inside a mountain - Carol Frost "Song of the City at Night"

A host of wild creatures live inside you - Nikita Gill "The Forest"

Beautiful birds nest inside your mind - Nikita Gill "The Forest"

Making homes inside broken hearts - Nikita Gill "Homes"

Drowning inside your own bones - Nikita Gill "A Secret from Me to You"

No joy inside tears - brian g. gilmore "living for the city (for stevie wonder)"

Like the inside of a secret - Carmen Gimenez "Redaction"

Long-forgotten fingerprints on the inside of my eyelids - Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake "Someday I'll Love--"

Inside the scent of tangerines - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"

Blue as the inside of flames - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

To crawl deep inside the silence - Peter Grandbois "When your son abandons the lawnmower for the second time in as many days"

So much time piled up inside - Kimberly Grey "Conjugating"

Inside mercy but outside glory - Margherita Guidacci "All Saints' Day" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

The wound inside me - Gulnisa Imin Gulkhan "First Night: At Six O'clock" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

The window inside of a confessional booth - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"

Inside the raw cortex of songs - Joy Harjo "Autobiography"

Inside a labyrinth of flame - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"

Inside a ceremony of boulders - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"

Inside writhing sirens - francine j. harris "(i belong to that voice. it owns what i breathe.)"

Enough cold locked inside you - francine j. harris "rub against it, where"

Inside the event of an emergency - Stephanie Heit "Treatment Room"

The season hauls the wind inside - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"

Our electrons speed inside oblivion - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"

Our story sails along inside oblivion - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"

Suffocating inside time - Edward Hirsch "Giacomo Leopardi"

Sits long inside his last sorrow - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

Surprise you inside your ears - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

Unfold itself inside your eyes - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

Outside reclaiming inside - Andrew Hudgins "Blur"

A poem inside my solitude - fahima ife "consider the dial"

A woodwind inside the empire of still people - fahima ife "means of evasion"

Lost inside the hole of naught - fahima ife "a night in which my spirit cowers"

{the rage inside the specter} - fahima ife "of being nameless"

Inside the shade of a squash flower - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"

You know not what's Inside them till they're Broke - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

The book of poems inside me - Nazifa Islam "Stability Is a Feeling"

With the bones inside us silently howling - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

place the world inside the light and look - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"

inside its own electric equilibrium - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"

moving world inside the light - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Light of the World"

I will still burn inside, impossible to extinguish - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"

Tell me the ones inside me are safe - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"

Some latent echo inside you - Jenny Johnson "Little Apophat"

Platinum but hollow inside - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"

Because I live inside his grave - June Jordan "The Bombing of Baghdad"

Inside the tomb of all my trust - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"

Inside the nostrils of searchlights - Ilya Kaminsky "Soldiers Aim at Us"

A garden inside my own ribs aflourish - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

From inside their locked, glass places - Laura Kasischke "Ubi Sunt"

Somebody counts the merry-go-rounds inside - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"

Still inside locomotion and flagellation - Janet Kauffman "Oh, Corporeal"

The red bird inside my chest - Donika Kelly "Red Bird"

Made gathers of light inside itself - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

That dies inside the sparks - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"

Warm inside the white dusk of morning - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"

Would hold a swarm of words inside his belly - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Snow falling inside two minds - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

Hiding inside the black granite - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"

Lost his right arm inside the stone - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"

Crouches down inside her longing - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

Belongs to a girl still burning inside my head - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"

As I walk inside the zero - Christopher Kondrich "Degree of Nothing"

A room inside an icy moonlet - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

One of us outside, one inside - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Be soft with the light inside you - Alfred K. LaMotte "Gentle"

To pray inside the mouth of a tiger - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"

Buildings that take root inside the land - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

Spin inside your paper house - Dana Levin "The Point of the Needle"

The only green thing that returns inside the beak - Robin Coste Lewis "The Ark: Self-Portrait as Aphrodite Using Her Dress for a Sail, ii"

Inside my rectangle mind - M.L. Liebler "I Am the Brown Earth Buried"

Every one of us with a bear inside - Ada Limon "Territory"

Take a dip inside your gene pool - Susan L. Lin "Rap(tors) EP"

Inside a Drawer to which I hold the Key - Mary Wallace Bundy Little "The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband"

Prisms strobe inside your eyes - Angela Liu "Dark Patterns"

Inside of a pillar of aerosol blue - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"

Being spoken from the earth's inside - Audre Lorde "Coal"

Left fingerprints on the inside of my heart - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

The sun inside me burst - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria de Lourdes Song of Plenty"

Turning away inside the apostrophe - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

Watched a pigeon disappear inside a hawk - Ruth Madievsky "Ficus"

Fog inside the bones - Ruth Madievsky "Fog"

Trillions of atoms spinning inside her body - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"

Inside the theater of her brooding, restless heart - Sally Wen Mao "Willow, Stop Weeping"

An inside-outside alertness - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"

A degree in a circle inside a void - Khaled Mattawa "Season of Migration to the North/Northwest"

The thought inside my head blossoms into a hyacinth - Airea D. Matthews "His Eye on The Sparrow"

Protect every laugh inside - Jamaal May "FBI Questioning During the 2009 Presidential Inauguration"

Inside each hour that moved - Shara McCallum "Gravid Gravitas"

Where a century fits comfortably inside 10 am - John McCarthy "Gravestone"

Inside a whirlwind of frustrating storms - John McCarthy "How to Disappear"

All gold and true inside my head - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Inside your simmering year - Joyelle McSweeney "Simon the Good"

His eyes with the day inside - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Safe inside our carapaces - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

Inside the carapace of dress - Claire Millikin "The Unpopular Dress"

With roots of neon to spear inside - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"

Collect marbles inside of mason jars - Anis Mojgani "4 stars"

You dance inside the snow - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"

To create an echoing hollow inside every word - Rusty Morrison "To measure internal activity while it turns all I know to rubble"

Desire with the storm inside - Miguel Murphy "Demon and the Dove"

He turns inside their names - Carol Muske-Dukes "After Skate"

The multiplication of rectangles inside the kernel of amethyst - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XXVIII" transl. by James Nolan

To walk inside of your shattered heart - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

With bleaker thoughts inside - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

A curse inside nautilus - Hoa Nguyen "Oxbow Lake"

Puts a stone inside your heart - Naomi Shihab Nye "Breaking the Fast"

Live inside his old words - Naomi Shihab Nye "Ellipse"

A fire inside your mouth - Naomi Shihab Nye "How Palestinians Keep Warm"

Could live inside this rose - Naomi Shihab Nye "Last August Hours Before the Year 2000"

Ripe corn whispered inside its perfect sheaves - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

Music lives inside my legs - Naomi Shihab Nye "One Boy Told Me"

Inside the steady gaze of stones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Those Whom We Do Not Know"

Hide inside a pocket of days - Naomi Shihab Nye "Thoughts That Came in Floating"

With dreams inside my eyes - Mary Oliver "Every Dog's Story"

Emptiness lives inside a radio - Lesyk Panasiuk "A Wartime Dream" transl. by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

At the edge of that meadow inside me - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"

Breaking of the storm inside me - Carl Phillips "Sky Coming Forward"

One sleeping self inside a woken self - Sasha Pimentel "Lament of Submerged Persons"

A solitude inside his music - Robert Pinsky "Keyboard"

The little children of the wind had crept inside - Miriam Clark Potter "The Children of the Wind"

Outside time, inside unknown epochs - Khadijah Queen "Monologue for Personae"

The voices inside my body - Sina Queyras "Fever 103"

Revealing which insects live inside - Paige Quinones "Epithalamium"

The jealousy knifed inside the mortal talent - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"

Inside your destructible heart - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

When the stars have gone inside - Lola Ridge "Betty"

A song that dares us to look inside - Sahar Romani "Sign"

A place inside the current - Kay Ryan "Breather"

To work inside hearts - Kay Ryan "Why it Is Hard to Start"

An umbrella opens inside me - Erika L. Sanchez "Self-Portrait"

How one builds a house from the inside - Janice Lobo Sapigao "HomeGoods"

The dead are breathing inside me - Maxine Scates "Look"

Deep inside cold January - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #49"

Inside this labyrinth of hot light - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Four"

Learning to hide inside art's ecstatic parentheses - Philip Schultz "Welcome to the Springs"

Holding hunger inside them for a weapon - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

The sounds empty makes inside a vacant house - Nicole Sealey "unfurnished"

Holding all my breath inside - Prageeta Sharma "The Imperishable and Perishable Family"

A tarnished lamp with a genie inside - Tom Sleigh "Three Wishes"

The shallow sea inside the soap dish - Tom Sleigh "Three Wishes"

Forbidden lantern lit on the inside - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

Have scribbled myself inside it - Maggie Smith "Written Deer"

Glistening inside raindrops or teardrops - Tracy K. Smith "Everybody's Autobiography"

Inside the fall-out shelter's quarantine - Richard Solomon "Possession IV: Shoe"

Chasms form inside me and fog - Marin Sorescu "Poisons" transl. by Michael Hamburger

A crock of gold inside a hollow tree - James Stephens "Behind the Hill"

For no sleek eel inside an oily skin - James Stephens "The Gang"

Bumblebees buzzing inside a lotus - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 16: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The unsettling space inside became embedded in your core - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]

I'm a car with a bomb inside - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

Stationed inside the nightmare - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

Multitudes that dwell inside - Edward Thomas "The Dark Forest"

The body crouching inside its burden - Russell Thorburn "Sunday Jazz"

Inside the walls of the dream - Susan Tichy "Public Speech"

The gate is inside of me - TC Tolbert "Nine Haiku"

Ancient maps scored inside the lace of their bones - Emma Trelles "The Function of a Wing"

Nested inside each thimbled throat - Ocean Vuong "Seventh Circle of Earth"

Drag my feet in the mud inside my head - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"

The mud inside my head - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"

The dream crumbles inside its glass case - Rosemarie Waldrop "Evening Sun"

crawled inside a grandfather paradox - M. Darusha Wehm "The Chrononaut"

As we are inside nowhere - Joshua Weiner "In the Event"

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

Inside it whispers candlesmoke - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"

Where insides and outsides align - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Humanity"

Inside a season of thrift - Jenny Xie "Metamorphosis"

The mind resides both inside and out - Jenny Xie "Rootless"

Inside me a need to tell the truth - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "Amto remembers Hussein, Aljibbayn 1983"

Hiding inside yourselves - Jordan Zandi "Solarium"

Walking up inside the lilies - Cynthia Zarin "Flowers"

The scorpion inside a cage of flame - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History IV: At Home"

Muscles braided inside - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Trunk"


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