Potential Titles: Town
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somethingdarkerLurched between two smokestack towns - Hala Alyan "Turnpike // Ghost"
A town full of busy bobolinks - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "A Little Goldenhead"
Raised in a whistle-stop town - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Highway between ghost-towns - Rae Armantrout "Wannabe"
A hundred little towns of stone - Hilaire Belloc "Dedicatory Ode"
Piled up small stones to make a town - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Past the toy town of the postgraduates - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
Radio town singing dead frequencies - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"
The bully of the bootleg town - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Tragedy of Pete"
Rushed masterless, by tower and town and wood - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
The rose is out of town - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXVIII: Autumn"
Forever stuck between two sweetly rotten towns - Boris Dralyuk "Babel at the Kibitz"
In the garden of Shut-eye Town - Eugene Field "The Sugarplum Tree"
Fossil of the drowned town's scroll - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 1"
An oath of towns that set the wild at naught - Robert Frost "The Line-Gang"
Out beyond the sleeping town - Rose Fyleman "This Island"
And half the town was breaking - Jesse Hammond "Confidence and Credit" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
outlawed and driven out of town - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"
Drift as phantoms by the songless town - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
Gold of woeful fields and towns - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
The town square is filled with ghosts - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
Through the dark paths of this lost town - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"
That town of wood recently carved - Pablo Neruda "Where the Rain Is Born: The First Journey" transl. by Alastair Reid
The town where history sleeps - Grace Nichols "Lewes Night Out"
Those who inhabited my distant town - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"
Linking one town to its memory of mortar - Naomi Shihab Nye "Lunch in Nablus City Park"
The town's parallel tracks - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Walking Back Up Depot Street"
Going into town after Set - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
The small town where my memory still lives - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"
but the town isn't completely dead - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"
moonlight perched above the town - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"
Dancing with a measured step from wrecked and shattered towns - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"
That I gnaw the bones of the town - Helen Hay Whitney "The Wanderer"
Up on a midtown metropolis edifice - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
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A town full of busy bobolinks - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "A Little Goldenhead"
Raised in a whistle-stop town - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Highway between ghost-towns - Rae Armantrout "Wannabe"
A hundred little towns of stone - Hilaire Belloc "Dedicatory Ode"
Piled up small stones to make a town - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
Past the toy town of the postgraduates - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
Radio town singing dead frequencies - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"
The bully of the bootleg town - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Tragedy of Pete"
Rushed masterless, by tower and town and wood - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
The rose is out of town - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XXVIII: Autumn"
Forever stuck between two sweetly rotten towns - Boris Dralyuk "Babel at the Kibitz"
In the garden of Shut-eye Town - Eugene Field "The Sugarplum Tree"
Fossil of the drowned town's scroll - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 1"
An oath of towns that set the wild at naught - Robert Frost "The Line-Gang"
Out beyond the sleeping town - Rose Fyleman "This Island"
And half the town was breaking - Jesse Hammond "Confidence and Credit" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
outlawed and driven out of town - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"
Drift as phantoms by the songless town - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"
Gold of woeful fields and towns - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"
The town square is filled with ghosts - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
Through the dark paths of this lost town - Christopher Morgan "The Lantern Runner"
That town of wood recently carved - Pablo Neruda "Where the Rain Is Born: The First Journey" transl. by Alastair Reid
The town where history sleeps - Grace Nichols "Lewes Night Out"
Those who inhabited my distant town - Myrna Nieves "My Dead Relatives"
Linking one town to its memory of mortar - Naomi Shihab Nye "Lunch in Nablus City Park"
The town's parallel tracks - Minnie Bruce Pratt "Walking Back Up Depot Street"
Going into town after Set - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
The small town where my memory still lives - Alberto Rios "November 2: Dia de los muertos"
but the town isn't completely dead - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"
moonlight perched above the town - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"
Dancing with a measured step from wrecked and shattered towns - Edward Wyndham Tennant "Home Thoughts in Laventie"
That I gnaw the bones of the town - Helen Hay Whitney "The Wanderer"
Up on a midtown metropolis edifice - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Navigation Links:
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Go to category indices.
