Potential Titles: Hole

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Hear the holes when we sing - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

Lived this long with a heart full of holes - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"

Some tore holes in space and leapt through - Mike Allen "Metarebellion"

Speaking a language of holes - Raymond Antrobus "Dear Hearing World"

Wearing away a hole in my heart - Abduweli Ayup "Mihray" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

With holes that look like the eyes of owls - Nina Bagley "Gathering"

The smell of holes burning pockets - Samiya Bashir "You're really faithful to your abusers, aren't you?"

Beneath a hole full of stars - Tommye Blount "The Black Umbrella"

And down in one hole they did dwell - G. Boare "What Became of Them?"

Floating in a hole in the air - William Brewer "To the Addict Who Mugged Me"

A bullet hole in the pay phone - Mahogany L. Browne "On St. John's and Franklin Avenue"

A time hole where a woman could fit - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"

The hole from which my logic seeps - Imani Davis "Kink"

The hole in the pocket after the money rolls out - Cornelius Eady "Diabolic"

A hole at the top of the sky - Heid E. Erdich "TV News: Detox Closed"

Bullet holes in the soles of his feet - Martin Espada "How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"

The indelible holes in poems - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"

A hole in time's glove - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 1"

Dug holes twice their depth - Theodora Goss "My Garden"

Left through a hole in his chest - Yona Harvey "Boy in the Forest Between Living and Leaving"

Holed and cribbed with light - Joan Houllihan "RAG SMELL. FIRE"

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

Let silence drill its hole - Daniel Johnson "Inheritance"

Their footprints burn holes in the sand - Saeed Jones "Daedalus, After Icarus"

Dropped through holes in the sidewalk - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

Her shout a hole torn in the sky - Ilya Kaminsky "As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy's Face with a Newspaper"

Never enough to fill the hole your doubt dug - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Crocheting holes in the land - Jennifer L. Knox "Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa"

Each bullet hole suffused with moon - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

The moon ghosting a hole through a rainbow - Dana Levin "Ghosts That Need Reminding"

Where the orb spider continues to spin a hole - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Bleeds from a hole in his still uncertain future - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Making a hole in the afternoon - Joseph Millar "Venetian Siesta"

Why punch holes in our little hopes - Joan Murray "Chrysalis"

Filling them with holes and birds - Pablo Neruda "I Explain a Few Things [Residence on Earth]" transl. by Galway Kinnell

Carrying water in containers filled with holes - Mari Ness "Sisters"

Ragged holes through which a black wind blows - Gregory Orr "These Words"

Through a hole in his hat - Ron Padgett "Shanghai Cutout"

Gold and silver freckles burning five-pointed holes into the bone - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"

Swallow a hole where sleep glints - Sina Queyras "I Am No Lady, Lazarus"

Has torn a hole in the weather - Charles Rafferty "Golf Course Moon"

Leaves a hole in the possible - Kay Ryan "The Material"

Lock and step and key in hole - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"

Dig holes into the water to find the fish - Marge Simon "Plaster Messiahs"

A hole there where elements can enter - Jacqueline Suskin "How to Fall in Love with Yourself"

We who listen to holes - TC Tolbert "Dear Melissa [who has never been holy]"

No holes or twists of darkness visible - Edwin Torres "Hydra"

Like souls flying into the hole no one can see - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"


Keyhole.


Bury justice in loopholes - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Samaria Rice, Tamir's Mother"

Crooked growth means it can be a loophole - Margaret Rhee "Crooked"

And a loophole can be a means to freedom - Margaret Rhee "Crooked"


Forcing itself through the pinhole of grief - Teresa J. Scollon "Words, Poems"


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


Manifested as sinkholes under permafrost - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"

Sink holes consume fields of gold - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"


Wormhole.


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