Potential Titles: Stick (botanical)

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For usages of 'Stick' as a verb and/or as something glue adjacent see: Sticky/Stick (verb).


Berries tangling with cinnamon sticks - Zeina Azzam "Nine Spice Mix"

Who pick up sticks and stones - Nina Bagley "Gathering"

Strikes the stones with his oaken stick - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

Stick their heads out for an instant - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

By briar, branch and broken stick - Anthony Euwer "Snoots"

Melt the glass and leave the sticks - Robert Frost "To the Thawing Wind"

A gnarled stick clutched in my hand - Georgia Heard "Room of Ordinary Things"

A great drum beaten with swift sticks - Langston Hughes "Sport"

A stick in my hand and a drop in my eye - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Amalgams of pilfered string and whittled sticks - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"

Nothing there but green grass and sticks - Janet Kauffman "My Father Tells Me"

From nets of sticks and strings - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"

A weed stalk is the devil's walking stick - Gary Copeland Lilley "Unmarked Grave"

Asking some stick, like Aaron's, to bud - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

Stand stripped to stick and thorn - Dorothea Mackellar "Flower and Thorn"

Boutique sticks stones dead flowers - Claire Meuschke "zero in on"

sticks and stains and leaves its undefeatable marks - Isaac Miranda "Daphne"

a snail with a shell of sticks - Valzhyna Mort "In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks"

a camel with a hump of sticks - Valzhyna Mort "In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks"

A walking stick of silk - Maggie Nelson "For Lily on Her 25th Birthday"

Slow-withering stick and stone - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

Sixteen clumps of sticks woven high into the oaks - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"

The sand's broken sticks - Derek Walcott "Marina Tsvetaeva"


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Mistake your hands for matchsticks - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"


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