Potential Titles: Lean
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somethingdarkerWith one lean, pacing hound, for company - Djuna Barnes "I'd Have You Think of Me"
To lean away from what I intend - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"
Leans into the eye of a joke - Lou Barrett "Red Lunch Basket"
And lean Menelaus is smiling sleet - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Night will lean upon them - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
Planted safe against this stark, lean year - Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping"
While burning herbivores strolled across a lean horizon - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"
We lean towards letters that do not bend - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Leaning on the muffled harp of thought - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Scant with lean ears of harvest - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Thinking you lean too far - Hilda Conkling "Snow-Capped Mountain"
Four lean hounds crouched low - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
The oaks lean into the wind - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
The bergamot's red blossom leans the stilly stream across - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
As the moon leans in close to laugh at me - Kaily Dorfman "The Wolf"
Lean into their bones - Heid E. Erdich "Long Pig"
Leaning against the shadow of dead cells - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
Hundreds of shoulders leaned against their strength - Mona Gould "You Wrote"
Leans to the sun's gaze glorying - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"
Leaning on the breeze - Ishion Hutchinson "Aubade"
If you lean down to smell a painted trillium - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"
And the trees lean away - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Other Women's Children"
As Hope upon her anchor leans - John Keats "Hyperion"
As one's body leaned on a promise - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
On their sand basements lean and crack - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"
Lean with the weight of land - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
On the leaning birth beside the mill - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
Leans out from the Ivory Door - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
Leaning into hollows of silence - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"
Lean into arms that aren't there - Kamilah Aisha Moon "A Golden Shovel"
Leaning on what came before - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"
Jesus leaned on the cornerstone - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"
Trees lean out to save the drowning - Alexander Posey "My Fancy"
When the black irises lean at dawn - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Flitted between larches in the lean twilights - Lola Ridge "Adelaide Crapsey"
That leaned so gaunt against the sky - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Where the lily leans o'er an amber stream - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"
And the Heart of the Sky leaned down to me - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Saxifrage"
Leaning into hunger and hard luck - Kay Ryan "Waste"
Each thought leaning on its horn - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
A lean crow sits noisily impatient for the rain - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The Last Storm"
The lean wolf laps my flow - Alfred B. Street "The Ausable"
Which on such golden memories can lean - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"
Lean across the precipice of time - Iris Tree "Moods III"
On the wrinkled stream the willows lean - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Upon this alien shore I lean - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"
The maples leaned to screen her - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
A leaning pyramid of sunlight - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"
Smoke from a few lean chimneys - William Carlos Williams "The Storm"
The stars will lean down and stare from their faceless spaces - Charles Wright "Nothing Is Written"
On those lean black-and-white years - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Lean into the lightning shaft of pain - Marguerite Young "Song's Preface"
A lean to in a starved storm - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
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To lean away from what I intend - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"
Leans into the eye of a joke - Lou Barrett "Red Lunch Basket"
And lean Menelaus is smiling sleet - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Night will lean upon them - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"
Planted safe against this stark, lean year - Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping"
While burning herbivores strolled across a lean horizon - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"
We lean towards letters that do not bend - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Leaning on the muffled harp of thought - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Scant with lean ears of harvest - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"
Thinking you lean too far - Hilda Conkling "Snow-Capped Mountain"
Four lean hounds crouched low - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"
The oaks lean into the wind - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
The bergamot's red blossom leans the stilly stream across - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
As the moon leans in close to laugh at me - Kaily Dorfman "The Wolf"
Lean into their bones - Heid E. Erdich "Long Pig"
Leaning against the shadow of dead cells - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
Hundreds of shoulders leaned against their strength - Mona Gould "You Wrote"
Leans to the sun's gaze glorying - Julian Grenfell "Into Battle"
Leaning on the breeze - Ishion Hutchinson "Aubade"
If you lean down to smell a painted trillium - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"
And the trees lean away - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Other Women's Children"
As Hope upon her anchor leans - John Keats "Hyperion"
As one's body leaned on a promise - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"
On their sand basements lean and crack - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"
Lean with the weight of land - Thomas Lynch "Learning Gravity"
On the leaning birth beside the mill - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"
Leans out from the Ivory Door - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"
Leaning into hollows of silence - N. Scott Momaday "Linguist"
Lean into arms that aren't there - Kamilah Aisha Moon "A Golden Shovel"
Leaning on what came before - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"
Jesus leaned on the cornerstone - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"
Trees lean out to save the drowning - Alexander Posey "My Fancy"
When the black irises lean at dawn - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Flitted between larches in the lean twilights - Lola Ridge "Adelaide Crapsey"
That leaned so gaunt against the sky - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 1: The Magdalene"
Where the lily leans o'er an amber stream - James Whitcombe Riley "Dreamer, Say"
And the Heart of the Sky leaned down to me - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "Saxifrage"
Leaning into hunger and hard luck - Kay Ryan "Waste"
Each thought leaning on its horn - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
A lean crow sits noisily impatient for the rain - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The Last Storm"
The lean wolf laps my flow - Alfred B. Street "The Ausable"
Which on such golden memories can lean - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"
Lean across the precipice of time - Iris Tree "Moods III"
On the wrinkled stream the willows lean - Mary Webb "The Water-Ousel"
Upon this alien shore I lean - Helen Hay Whitney "In the Mist"
The maples leaned to screen her - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
A leaning pyramid of sunlight - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"
Smoke from a few lean chimneys - William Carlos Williams "The Storm"
The stars will lean down and stare from their faceless spaces - Charles Wright "Nothing Is Written"
On those lean black-and-white years - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"
Lean into the lightning shaft of pain - Marguerite Young "Song's Preface"
A lean to in a starved storm - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
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