Potential Titles: Stare

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Wakes to the moon's glassy stare - Duane Ackerson "The Vampire's Reflection"

Stares out from the space between atoms - Mike Allen "Pulse"

Staring at the thunder - James Baldwin "Song (for Skip)"

Staring straight at the thinking reeds - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"

Staring at the open-mouthed stars - Mary Jo Bang "We Took Our Places"

Puzzle for days on one particular stare - Stephen Vincent Benet "Portrait of Young Love"

Stare into the rush of stars - Edmund Blunden "The Watermill"

His ecstasy of staring, counterfeit eyes - Maxwell Bodenheim "North Clark Street, Chicago"

Stared at a hungrier death - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"

And stare long into the TV's ether - Oliver de la Paz "Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions"

Staring into aquamarine and amethyst - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"

Horror's aching stare - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"

A white moon stares Time's thinning fabric through - John Freeman "Shadows"

The patchwork of time staring back - Nikita Gill "Dark Days"

Which stares clean into God's face - Louis Golding "Ploughman at the Plough"

Veiled against too strong a stare - Thomas Hardy "An Ancient to Ancients"

The truth with its eyes staring back at me - Joy Harjo "Running"

Vigilance under the staring moon - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Three Poems of Christmas Eve: Last Night"

Staring at the thin rocky soil of me - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

Staring into the spaces between spaces - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Stares caught in plexiglass - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "jersey fems in the philly zoo"

Who dared stare straight at the camera - Allison Joseph "Soul Train"

And stared a hundred million miles - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

Who stared up into the same punctured sky - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

Stare hard enough at the fabric of night - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

Wish the staring sunlight gone - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"

Staring into those million million suns - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

The stars emerged to stare at their reflections - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"

As an eagle staring down on the Sun - D.H. Lawrence "St John"

To stand and stare at nothingness - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

The stare of clear, cognizant stars - Hailey Leithauser "Boys of L.A."

Sit in the stillness and stare at Fate - Amy Levy "In a Minor Key"

Staring into the abyss the world was unfolding - Olga Maslova "The Hunt for the Murderous Monkey Has Ended"

Staring at the door of the crawfish's burrow - Edgar Lee Masters "Theodore the Poet"

Stare in the mirror of his face - Jamaal May "The Whetting of Teeth"

Only night's smooth stare - Naomi Shihab Nye "Fireflies"

Trapped in the net of a stare - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"

Staring into the glass well of my hands - Gregory Orr "Gathering the Bones Together Three"

Stares straight into the camera's eye - Danni Quintos "Rosa de Rosario, 1929"

Stares at me through cobwebbed eyes - Nen G. Ramirez "Love poem with a dying cat"

When stars stare at sleeping steer - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

Staring at the god he could never rival - Paisley Rekdal "Marsyas"

Staring as through a choked glass - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

The sun gets angry when you stare - Lola Ridge "Jude"

Haunted mirrors stare down from all sides - Ann K. Schwader "Aurelia Aurita"

To stare fire in the eye - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

In a carousel of staring light - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"

And stare at us from darkened corners - Sarah Titus "The Angels Sip Manhattans Wearing the Faces of Our Dead"

spent my days staring into the eye of the Baltic - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"

Under the concerted stare of stars - Adolf Wolff "Byron"

The stars will lean down and stare from their faceless spaces - Charles Wright "Nothing Is Written"


Trying to outstare the distance - Carl Phillips "Archery"


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