Potential Titles: Short

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Short fires and stubble on a monsoon coast - Meena Alexander "Central Park, Carousel"

Tall order but short notice - Julia Alvarez "Grand Baby"

The short, crooked thumb of long experience - Elizabeth Bartlett "On a Rock of Atlantis"

Short as a breath half taken - Julie Byrne "The Singing of the Bread"

Cut short her foeman's breath - "Columcille's Farewell to Aran of the Saints" transl. by Douglas Hyde

Stopped clocks and voices cut short - Shutta Crum "Everything is Far"

Your tense, short space of blazing sun - H.D. "From the Masque"

Shorter than a snake's delay - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXV: The Mushroom"

The shrill short crying of the sea-lark - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

The clouds of hawthorn keep so short a state - John Drinkwater "Birthright"

In my short memory - Safia Elhillio "how to say"

Climbed a hill as light fell short - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

Through one short space of fretfulness - James Weldon Johnson "Life"

Twirling in the lee of the short hand - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Dragging the links of my shortening chain - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"

The fox's short sharp bark - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Above the short brown grass asleep - Claude McKay "Winter in the Country"

The city burns to the short - Laurel Nakanishi "Sleepless Pantoum"

Wore her hair short like a scream - Alberto Rios "Refugio's Hair"

By the short road that mystery makes long - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

Not less though shorter lived - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [The wind tears up the sun]"

Plies the hooked staff and the shortened scythe - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

A short obligato of curses - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"

Grain still too short to be crushed - Su Tung-p'o "Rhyming with Tzu-yu's 'Treading the Green'" transl. by Burton Watson

For a short swift eternity - Edward Thomas "Celandine"

To shorten the shadow - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

Seven yards short of immortality - Charles Wright "Road Warriors"


Emotional shorthand and jade cockroaches - Marianne Moore "England"


On leases of short-number'd hours - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXIV"


A short-term loan of agate - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"


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