Potential Titles: Acre

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The seeds immediately sprout acres of jays - Duane Ackerson "Bird Seed"

Acres of germless chrome - Kaveh Akbar "What Seems Like Joy"

Ten acres and a sky-reflecting pond - Julia Alvarez "Locust"

For their fenceless acres shed - Benjamin West Ball "The Forgotten"

Bidding each acre wake - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"

Sprouting on acres of aching centuries - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

His acre brought forth roots last year - Gordon Bottomley "The Ploughman"

Every acre I cross a pearl in my mouth - Julia Bouwsma "Lottie Marks Dreams Escape"

Create a square bubble on ten acres - Ana Castillo "Pande...monium"

Planted nine acres of orchids - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

My acre of a rock - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life XXVII"

The river danced for acres - Jaye Elizabeth Elijah "fire danger high today"

Harvested much from my acres of life - Edgar A. Guest "Looking Back"

Nuggets of gold are her acres - Emily Pauline Johnson "Brandon"

Another acre gone to hell - Saeed Jones "Meridian"

An acre of semisweet tenor notes - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Under the billion-acre sky - J. Patrick Lewis "the child"

Acre upon acre of tiny suns turned skyward - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "daisy"

Bones of long since buried acres - John Masefield "Biography"

By pattern, by acre, by foresight, by habit - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"

Whole acres in their eyes - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Tent"

Through God's acre of memory - Dorothy Parker "Ballade at Thirty-Five"

A few paternal acres bound - Alexander Pope "Ode on Solitude"

This surrendered acre - Adrienne Rich "Terza Rima"

this acre of hand tilled hibiscus - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"

Over the whale's acre, would wander wide - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Roaming the forty acres of my closet - Frank Stanford "The Visitors of Night"

The last thin acre of stalks that stood - Mark Van Doren "Immortal"

Acres of cloud bound - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"


Children in their thousand-acre forests - August Huerta "The Woods"


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