Potential Titles: Unusual/Usual

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The local museum of unusual and exotic explosives - Christopher Morgan "Promised Detonations" [Strange Horizons 22 Sept. 2025]

Being smitten with an unusual wisdom - Ezra Pound "The Study in Aesthetics"


Replacing the usual mermaids or sea serpent - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

Rejects its usual pomp in going - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "Evening"

The usual orange stampede - francine j. harris "feeder"

Before we return to the usual business of our days - Juan Felipe Herrera "@ the Crossroads--A Sudden American Poem"

With none of the usual obstacles - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Undisturbed in spite of the usual odds - Janet Kauffman "Wanting Ice"

Softened to the usual shades of rain, night, sleep - Philip Levine "Winter Words"

Dropping beneath the usual swing of things - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

The usual flames rising up from the cracks of everything we know - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"

The usual wrecked cathedral of the mind - Carl Phillips "Everything All of It"

The border resumed its usual place - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"

Of the usual and the expedient - Anne Spencer "At the Carnival"

Random firings usually miss the mark - John Trudell "What Happens/Sarcee Song"

Putting off the night's usual end - Phillip B. Williams "And Now Upon My Head the Crown"

The usual calm disaster of getting out of bed - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

The usual ration of air - Josephine Yu "The Failed Revolutionaries Apologize to Their Foreign Sponsors"


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