Potential Titles: Axe

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See the chalice turn into an ax - Julia Alvarez "Addison's Vision"

Rational thought with an axe beating on the forest door - Mary Jo Bang "And As In Alice"

Through the cosmos and the axe in the back - Mary Jo Bang "Magic Makes Everything Right"

The axe wrapped in tree roots - Mary Jo Bang "What Is a Mouth?"

Throw down the pruning axe - Cora C. Bass "Spare the Trees"

Any pickaxe disguised as love - Sandra Beasley "Say the Word"

Drop the axe and leave the timber - Arna Bontemps "Close Your Eyes!"

The dull blade of history's axe - Rohan Chhetri "Acedia Sestina"

To the axe of your love - Leonard Cohen "A Woman's Decision"

His ax shone keen and grey - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

An axe shrill singing - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature IX: April"

Untouched by the axe, and unscathed by the plow - William Hodgson Ellis "The Wanderer's Song"

Ice no axe or book will break - Seamus Heaney "Audenesque"

But here is the axe coming down - Janet Kauffman "Oh, Corporeal"

The ring of their victorious axes - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Their little axes hack and tease - Donna Masini "Anxieties"

Who with ax and serpent came - Pablo Neruda "Bombardment/Curse" translated by Richard Schaaf

Time with his axe has marked our wood - E. Nesbit "To One Who Pleaded for Candour in Love"

By the axe of an angry god - Alfred Noyes "The Grand Canyon"

Paid in full to axe and flame - John Oxenham "Free Men of God"

An axe to dig through the prison - Rumi "Die Now" transl. by A.J. Arberry

The welcome shape of the axe - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

For the axe was made for slaughter - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

The merciless axe of time - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 214: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Mind intent to wield the early axe - Henry David Thoreau "Smoke in Winter"

The ice axe of memory - Emily van Kley "You Aren't Sure & I May Not"

A saint shadowed by the axe - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"

The dull axe Time is wielding - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"


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