Potential Titles: Shoot/Shot

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Burn green shoots with withered scorn - Russell W. Davenport "Five Sonnets I"

Hunted to its primal shoot - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Whose nest is like a watered shoot - Christina Rossetti "A Birthday"

tender shoots and root vegetables - Laura Theis "Some Pointers on Dating a Were-Hare"

A wisp of straw once coiled about their shoots - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"

Bright shoots of everlastingness - Henry Vaughan "The Retreat"


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Whose raiment was silver shot through with golden folds - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Those who seek a tiny shot of God - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"

In shooting skies and freckled stars - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

And sharper shot the rain - William Edmondstoune Aytoun "The Heart of Bruce"

Shoot the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Hippopotamus"

The sun shot brilliance of a polished knife - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"

Shot trembling to the blue - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Shot all his shining fingers through the Dark - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"

The avalanche, unheard, shoots downward - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

Shot the dark with frosty crashings - Max Eastman "X Rays"

The sun shoots in golden veins - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"

Shot his golden beams askance - "Flora: a Vision"

Shackled against the shooting wall - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XI"

hard white bones shot with pitchblende - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

As strontium red and shot silver explode - Ian Goh "Firework"

Finding he'd but shot the wind - Hannah Flagg Gould "The Young Sportsman"

The Wild Huntsman that shoots the hares - Dr. Heinrich Hoffman "The Story of the Wild Huntsman"

Shot fierce light against the stars - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Pumped a saline shot of sadness - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "magenta"

Can be dreamed up and shot down - Mia King "Abracadabra"

This time, we're going to let kudzu have a shot - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"

Our heirlooms of shot nerves - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Frightened birds shot cruelly down - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

And wake the world with battle shot - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"

Shooting skyward in lonely pinnacles - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Eerie lightning shot from frostbitten fingers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Shoot your laugh of rainbow foam - Carl Sandburg "Fins"

A shot of whiskey without embellishment - Diane Seuss "Poetry"

Shot through with beauty and with tears - Eunice Tietjens "To S"

Shoot from their orbits in a maddening light - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Arrows to shoot the stars - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"

Not by a long shot sober - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"


Their bloodshot octaves of consequence - Terrance Hayes "The Blue Terrance"

Look through history's bloodshot eyes - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

A blood-shot eye in the black mask of night - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"


On which the stars could pierce like elfshot - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"


An alluring rhythm of gunshots - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"

Splintery shovels and midnight gunshots - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

Out of the gunshot of the devil - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"


For scattershot revelations or shortcuts - Janet Kauffman "Eco-Dementia"

This scattershot of crow and jay - Hailey Leithauser "Dolor"


Electric fences and silos and shotguns - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"

kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"


Every shot-through winter scene - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"


Looking through the sunshot deep - Dorothea Mackellar "Bathing Rhyme"


Hostage to the hazy upshot - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"


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