Potential Titles: Lash

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Spiraled with lashes of laurel - Mary Jo Bang "Belle Vue"

Lashed by an onslaught of echoes - Mary Jo Bang "Part of a Larger Picture"

Lashingly deep the acid stung - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Etcher"

Lashed to labour by devil Debt - Helen Gray Cone "Poverty Row"

Lashings charmed and malice reconciled - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"

His mouth the lash of whips - Countee Cullen "To a Brown Girl (for Roberta)"

A lash of breath - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"

False tears that tangle in your lashes - Mona Gould "Rain"

Heaven's swift sparkling fire lash - James Roane Gregory "Storm Lights"

Some lash made of history - Nikki Grimes "Through the Eyes of Artists"

Mad waters lashed to foam - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Hills of Doon"

And lash the wet-flanked wind - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

Your body lashed to the mast - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Mermaid"

And the scorpion lash of conscience - H.P. McKnight "An Initial Acrostic"

Caves lashed by the tails of somber lizards - Pablo Neruda "The Blind Statue" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Lashed my blood with her tail of fire - Pablo Neruda "The Fickle One" transl. by Donald D. Walsh

Silence of whiplashed weather - Pablo Neruda "What Spain Was Like" translated by John Felstiner

Lashing out in anger and sorrow - Andre F. Peltier "All Good Things"

The lashing, silver whips of the rain - Lynn Riggs "Rhythm of Rain"

Still lashed and bit the tide - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Ferryman" transl. by Alma Strettell

And with chains the rivers lashed - Huldah Lucile Winsted "The Deluge"

Wreathed with lashing tails - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Unlash your evening eyes of pious grey - James Stephens "The Cherry Tree"


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