Potential Titles: Church

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In tabernacles & doleful churches - Cyrus Cassells "Ready! Aim! Fire!"

Seven fine churches and five old mills - Walter de la Mare "Off the Ground"

Every stone becomes a church - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Post-Apocalypse Postcard with Love Note"

In church or state so overflow with froth and hate - John Gay "Fable LX: The Degenerate Bees" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Our church the alleyed willow boughs - Thomas Hardy "Dream of the City Shopwoman"

Has only worshipped in the true church of TV - Cassandra Khaw "We Aren't Their Fairytales, Baby"

Sacraments of Clorox in the church of starch - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

Church of their bones' desire - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

In a church frozen by amethysts - Pablo Neruda "Minerals" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Summer in a church of gold - Pablo Neruda "Morning XXVII" transl. by Mark Eisner

A junkyard of church bells - Gregory Pardlo "Atlantic City Sunday Morning"

In the church of your mouth - Diane Raptosh "World Upside Down"

No churches to encircle God - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Swallows beneath the church eaves disturb them not - G.S. "Butterflies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 30 March 1878]

In naves of a deconsecrated church - Brandon Som "Resistors"


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