Potential Titles: Instead

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Facing forward instead of backwards - Duane Ackerson "A Ghost Story"

Who first would pay in rhymes instead - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Shades instead of stars - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Instead of downward voice - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Fell sideways instead of down - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"

Plum-cake, instead of bread - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"

and instead I woke you with Wagner - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

Lavender instead of roses - Jennifer Elise Foerster "The Painter"

Then tears came fast instead of words - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Turn stubborn instead of turning back - Nikki Grimes "Lessons"

Traveling down instead of across - Mary Hickman "Helen"

Must wear a wing instead of an arm - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Instead of cheap bay-leaves - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"

If thorns instead of roses suit - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"

Instead of being locked up in gold - Mary Oliver "This World"

Instead of wheat they grind their memories - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Necessarily, the camp is the border"

Millions of fruits grafted instead of born - Noel Quiñones "Orange"

instead hook into the valley of my lips - jo reyes-boitel "fish bones"

Tread false ways instead - Alice Wellington Rollins "With a Crystal Lion"

Instead of having to be beautiful tomorrow - Benjamin Rosenbaum "A Gardener Betrayed by Roses"

Coursing blood instead of light - R.S. Saha "Kin"

We are gathering clouds instead - Joyce Sidman "Illness: A Conversation"

Instead of something sharper - Danez Smith "say it with your whole black mouth"

Instead praise meadow and ruin - Maggie Smith "Perennials"

To fight corrupt systems instead of the neighbors - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

Horseradish on your bread instead of butter - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

A night filled with pinpricks instead of stars - Rin Willis "After the Wolf"

Race instead against the almost rain - Kevin Young "For the Confederate Dead"

Turn instead to the unmade choices - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"


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