Potential Titles: Tense

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My legs are tense from tabulating the miles - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"

Always in the present tense - Etel Adnan "Night"

The hushed air tense as a cry - Eloise Briton "The Acrobat"

I occupy the present tense - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

The opposite of the present tense - Franny Choi "Time-Sensitive"

the smiting sky tense with blending - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VI)"

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

The easy glide of our past tense - Matt Donovan "Green Means Literally a Thousand Things or More"

In the familiar lost-future tense - Tess Gallagher "Souvenir"

Entangled by myth's past tense - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers "Blues: Odysseus"

Unkept by the present tense - Hanae Jonas "Pastoral"

A tangle of tenses and parallel thoughts - Lawrence Joseph "So Where Are We?"

In their tense and tangled maze - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes I: The Awaited Leader"

Extortion and the imperfect tense - Ted Mathys "Fool's Gold"

Speak of myself in past tense - Colleen J. McElroy "Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You"

Past these indefinitely tensed lines - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Hanging"

Applause for the present tense - Eileen Myles "Choke"

Wistful fated future tense - Hoa Nguyen "Ask About Language as if it Forgets"

The past tense of sing is not singed - Hoa Nguyen "Diep Before Completion"

Time in the superfluity of tenses - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "There it is: the camp that is yet to be born"

Grown tense with creation's desire - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "White Butterflies: Schwartz Wald"

One leg tense with the burden of earth - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"

Respond only to the absolute present tense - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Mystical moods and triangular tenses - A.C. Swinburne "Nephelidia"

The tense dark air - Sara Teasdale "From the North"

Wandering in another tense - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

Tense blue-grey twigs - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"

Tense air enjoying the dusty fight - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

An attention to unacceptable tenses - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

Into the oils of a new tense - Jenny Xie "Abstract with Red Square"

And you, all future tense - Jenny Xie "Alternative Endings"

Absorbing the echoing of tenses - Jenny Xie "Present Continuous"

That inoculates against the past tense - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"


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