Potential Titles: Lit

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Alight/Alit.


In the night lit by white phosphorus - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"

Be lit by immersion in water - Daisy Aldan "The Little Mermaid"

Lit up to brilliance by the burnished moon - Grant Balfour "Where Union Dwelt"

The low lit ceiling of night - Mary Jo Bang "Visiting"

Before the candles are lit - Kyce Bello "Far Country"

Lit with secrets - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Evergreen"

A gift through curves lit only by aurorae - Richard Ford Burley "Birds in Flight"

Till our appetites are lit into star spangled flames - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"

Such lit vacancy as interstate motels announce - Scott Cairns "A Lot"

Lit my candle to make a song for you - Skipwith Cannell "The Coming of Night"

Boys with candlewick lips to be lit - Marianne Chan "With"

For every candle lit in my name - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"

An isle with utter clearness lit - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

Lit with charge and wonder - Tiana Clark "Particle Fever"

Lit with brutal imagination - Cornelius Eady "Who Am I?"

Candelabra lit with flowers - Helen Parry Eden "The Ascent"

Who lit the Maenad hills with song - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

Lit her body with lamps of fire - John Freeman "The Body"

Lit deep within the dark - Zona Gale "The Secret Way"

The dunes were lit like ancient silk - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"

Lit those candles daily and prayed - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"

Like a fire lit by a survivor - Louise Gluck "A Work of Fiction"

Lit with the sunrise of forever - Joy Harjo "Seven Generations"

Lemons lit in the kitchen bowl - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"

Every chanting sprite that lit the sky - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"

All the oxygen lit the room - Cynthia Hogue "The Daughter"

Never lit upon common earth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Lit up with splendor at sunset and sunrise - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

Passionflowers lit my father's garden - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"

The dim lit avenues of the mind - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "The Wall"

Shine into the brilliance of an overly lit sky - Jacqueline Johnson "Oracle"

Quenched the fires lit by their breath - James Weldon Johnson "Fifty Years"

Fire from a match you never lit - Ilya Kaminsky "Alfonso Stands Answerable"

Sailed a soul like a lit arrow to inhabit me - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

A lit candle saved for when the power goes out - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"

Lit by the searchlights of the Pit - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Lit the air around those neoclassic nights - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

Porches lit like vacant stairwells - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

Not a star lit any side of heaven - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Beyond Utterance"

lit by translucent jade and celadon lamps - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"

Born and lit and broken - Dana Levin "Dream Nest"

An angel lit by a red-light district - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

Shore lit by a fugitive sun - Maureen N. McLane "Passage I"

Souls mad for truth have lit from peak to peak - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"

Against eternal midnight lit - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Still Life as Rocket: 42"

A candle lit from the great unending fire - Mark Nepo "The Clearing"

The forests lit by fireflies - Pablo Neruda "The Human Condition" transl. by Alastair Reid

Lit with torches of black snow - Pablo Neruda "Leviathan" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Lit the torch of hollyhock - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

From his right hand a fire that lit the world - Alfred Noyes "An English Interlude: Erasmus Darwin"

Lit only by the memories of stars - Lola Ridge "The Garden"

Her lit eyes kindling the mob - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Lit with lemon, thin slice of moon - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"

Strange stars that lit the heights - George William Russell "Krishna"

He lit a fire with icicles - Kay Ryan "He Lit a Fire with Icicles"

How the sun stays lit during an eclipse - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"

Whose face is lit with the flames of cities - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"

Keep the faces of our enemies well lit - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"

Alien ciphers shown and lit - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

Forbidden lantern lit on the inside - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

Lit his garden with a lamp of gold - George Sterling "Charles Warren Stoddard"

Fiberglass caverns lit by crystal clouds - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

As a candle lit at noon - Sara Teasdale "'I Am Not Yours'"

Lit you from within - David Trinidad "Ode to Dusty Springfield"

The gray of a glass of water in a dimly lit room - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

Lit with this wonder of the moon and star - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"

Lit with one slow-burning flame - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


Backlit by a scattered clutch of charcoal - Russell Brakefield "Raccoon Sighting Before Intimacy"

Matte black backlit with raw opal - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

In an irridescent orange back-lit with coffee - James F. Yockey "What If"

Blood-lit veins on leaves left quivering - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

Bright-lit destiny of the chosen - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Gifted with the frequent fate of dusk-lit hope - William Moore "Expectancy"

The fire-lit pewter glowing - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"

In those glory-lit visions - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"

Into hot battles' hell-lit fires - Edward Smyth Jones "Flag of the Free"

Iron-lit indifference - Michael McGriff "Men Keep on Dying"

Moonlit/Moonlight.

Morning-lit house of his dreams - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"

Like a star new-lit - Louise Imogen Guiney "Cyclamen"

In the wake of the rain-lit sun - Derek Walcott "Stream"

and all their flames relit - Elizabeth Bartlett "pilgrimage"

Relit once more her brilliant stars - "Freedom's Stars" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.2, Feb. 1862]

Scatheless through the sin-lit dark - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"

Starlit/Starlight.

Sunlit/Sunlight.

That has run so many torch-lit races - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"

When a well-lit bamboo lattice expands - Mary Jo Bang "The Doll Song"


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