Potential Titles: Sear

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Heritage of war seared in her tired heart - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"

Seared me white with burning scars - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Breaking Point"

Through the sear of smoky coal and burnt hair - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"

That burns my lips and sears my heart - Ruth Muskrat Bronson "Sonnets from the Cherokee"

Molten syllables as searing lassos - Tiana Clark "How to Find the Center of a Circle"

Seared by the breath of hope - Aziz Isa Elkun "Blocked Emotions" transl. by author

Seared with slavery's mortal scars - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oriflamme"

The harsh beard of winter seared - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"

Latched in the sear of a hurricane - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"

Let Joy sear every inch - Faylita Hicks "Black Escapism"

Spark and sear of holy cellophane - Allison Hutchcraft "Though from Here I Can't Smell the Smoke"

Searing language into brains ill-equipped to use it - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Between the searing water and the whirling wind - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

Searing the face of Time - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Seared all my burning brain - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Seared with curls of fire - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems XVII" translated by W.S. Merwin

Umbrellas against the searing glory - Grace Nichols "In the Fleeting Now"

Our airless desert seared by stars - Ann K. Schwader "Why We Left"

Through the hour that scars and sears - Virna Sheard "Carry On!"

Life sears a path down the throat - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"

Through the searing pain of the divine influx - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"

Sear'd and o'erworn with tyranny of time - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: IV"


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