Potential Titles: Shoot/Shot
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Shooting Star.
A feather on an arrow shot through a neck - Kaveh Akbar "What Seems Like Joy"
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"
A dart of singing steel shot through still air - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Hatred" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The sun shot brilliance of a polished knife - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"
Couldn't shoot an arrow worth a cent - "Boy Billy and the Rabbit" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Shooting holes thru theories of his untimely death - Paul Cameron Brown "1920's Flicker"
Shot trembling to the blue - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Shot all his shining fingers through the Dark - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Dance to the tune of shot and shell - W.E. Christian "Hands Across the Sea"
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"
Shooting splendour through the dark - Robert Graves "The Coronation Murder in Four Parts"
Shoots forth no flame so silent - William Habington, born 1605, died 1654 "The Firmament" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 3, April 14, 1832]
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"
To ring a bull's-eye when he shoots at me - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Pumped a saline shot of sadness - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "magenta"
Can be dreamed up and shot down - Mia King "Abracadabra"
Burns like a shot of vodka - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"
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"
Shot flames where the jaws of darkness gape - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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"
Nightmare shot with waking pangs - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Powder and shot make men swallow their bile - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
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"
As one tries to shoot into the sky - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
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"
Outshot the level rays of flooding sunlight - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
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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Shooting Star.
A feather on an arrow shot through a neck - Kaveh Akbar "What Seems Like Joy"
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"
A dart of singing steel shot through still air - Gwendolyn B. Bennett "Hatred" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The sun shot brilliance of a polished knife - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"
Couldn't shoot an arrow worth a cent - "Boy Billy and the Rabbit" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Shooting holes thru theories of his untimely death - Paul Cameron Brown "1920's Flicker"
Shot trembling to the blue - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"
Shot all his shining fingers through the Dark - Edward Carpenter "Aphrodite"
Dance to the tune of shot and shell - W.E. Christian "Hands Across the Sea"
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"
Shooting splendour through the dark - Robert Graves "The Coronation Murder in Four Parts"
Shoots forth no flame so silent - William Habington, born 1605, died 1654 "The Firmament" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 3, April 14, 1832]
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"
To ring a bull's-eye when he shoots at me - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Pumped a saline shot of sadness - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "magenta"
Can be dreamed up and shot down - Mia King "Abracadabra"
Burns like a shot of vodka - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"
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"
Shot flames where the jaws of darkness gape - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
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"
Nightmare shot with waking pangs - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"
Powder and shot make men swallow their bile - "The Proclamation" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIX, v.LV, Jan. 1844]
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"
As one tries to shoot into the sky - Constance Fenimore Woolson "Commonplace" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]
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"
Outshot the level rays of flooding sunlight - Delta "A Reminiscence of Boyhood" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLX, v.LVIII, Oct. 1845]
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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