Potential Titles: Rattle

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Hidden among the rattling old bones - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"

The watchman's rattle beats the time - Maurice Baring "A June Night in Russia"

Heaving gasps that rattle your hinges - J. M. Bédard "Hatch"

And rattles down the pebbly shore - Thomas Lovell Beddoes "To Sea"

Would trash the whole shift with the rattle of pocket change - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"

As they circled and rattled near the monster - Vivienne Camille "The Monster in the Shape of a Star"

That rattled up the pebbled strand - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

With the stars strung for a rattle - Countee Cullen "Saturday's Child"

A coral that rattled when shook - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 14"

A rattle of hoof and of steel - Arthur M. Forrester "Black Loris"

From each rattling string - Ieuan Glan Geirionydd "The Strand of Rhuddlan" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

The rattle of your aching heart - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Cage"

The phoenix's wings make the windows rattle - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"

Whose blue light rattles sky - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

A thing made all of rattling bone - Richard Le Gallienne "The Rainbow"

Mournful, rattling bones and chains - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Helping to rattle the oars - Lu Yu "Blue Rapids" transl. by Burton Watson

Our shrouds new rattled down - John Masefield "A Night at Dago Tom's"

Rattling cutlery with our absence - Jamaal May "Love Poem Moving Back and Forth Across Glass"

The sound of the train rattling over the bridge - Joseph Millar "One Day"

All the rattle of useless memory - Rusty Morrison "please advise stop [the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father's arm stop]"

The earth rattling beneath them - Naomi Shihab Nye "Footfall"

So the edges of your honey jars rattle - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"

Honey jars rattle laughter against our teeth - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"

Rattle the coins in my chest - Xan Forest Phillips "Hull"

All bones but yours will rattle - Planche "The Sea-Serpent"

The rattle of dice and spoons - D.A. Powell "Useless Landscape"

All the ghosts rattling my ribs - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"

Drums rattling like curses - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Rattling the branches of other lives - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"

Winter rattling at the door of June - Muriel Stuart "The Thief of Beauty"

Carries of the rattle of woodpeckers - Keith Taylor "The Gardener Remembers"

Pearls on silver salver rattling - Count Tolstoi "The Scolding" transl. by John Pollen

Storms that rattle the bones of the forest - Iris Tree "[Tranquility stirred by a sudden spasm]"

Dark shrieks and groans and the lonely death rattle - "Waiting for News!" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Rattling the foam's chain - Derek Walcott "Oceano Nox"

That rattles the skirts of paradise - Charles Wright "Fortune Cookie"

Baboon rattling the bedroom door - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Cardboard crammed between wind-rattled panes - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"


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