Potential Titles: Cleave/Cleft/Cloven

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Cleave the trunk of your reserve - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of lightning"

Topiary cleaved along a zigzag divide - Mary Jo Bang "You Could Say She Was Willful, but Compared to What?"

The blade that pares and cleaves me - Jade Cho "Three Months Since"

Cleave the sky with cheers - Annie Rothwell Christie "Welcome Home"

Fiercer than our cleaved breathing - Geffrey Davis "Prayer with Miscarriage/Grant Us the Ruined Grounds"

Cleaving the skies with an echoing cry - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

Cleave this killing doubt asunder - Max Eastman "A Hymn to God: In Time of Stress"

Who scrapes the skies and cleaves the patient air - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

Cleaves the interstellar gloom - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"

The chaos-cleaving mind - Louis Golding "Creed"

When feet cleave to boots - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"

I have cleaved to what I know - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

The mist which eagles cleave - John Keats "Hyperion"

To Dust no longer cleave - Anne Killigrew "An Ode"

Cleaving the cedar shadows - Archibald Lampman "April"

Cleaving the topmost cloud - Amy Levy "Medea"

Cleaving a path between blown walls of sleet - Amy Lowell "J--K Huysmans"

Cleaves the pathway of the storm - John MacFarlane "A Grave in Samoa"

As ever eagle cleaved his way - Joaquin Miller "Usland to the Boers"

Cleaves through the husk of things - John Oxenham "Don't Worry"

Cleaving shadows in their dance - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"

Cleave themselves to chasms - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

Cleaving the wind into fragments - Ocean Vuong "Prayer for the Newly Damned"

Vollied lightnings cleave the air - Henry Kirk White "Time"

Tallow ripple cleaving the bark - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"

Cleaving clouds that still divide us - "Work Away" [Harper's New Monthly v.3 no.14, July 1851]


Mighty child of the cleft brows of Zeus - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

The thin cleft of villainous pigments - Adrian Matejka "& Later,"

Glory shining through the cleft - John Oxenham "E.A., Nov. 6, 1900"

The cleft tree-trunk and the wintering ants - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Stolen secrets in the cleft reside - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 4"

Adown the clefts of under-space - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

Cleft in each century's shock - Alfred B. Street "The Devil's Pulpit: Tupper's Lake"

And pours balm on the cleft earth - Henry Vaughan "The Rainbow"

In some deep cleft of quietness remote - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"


The dungeon-clefts of Tartarus - Clark Ashton Smith "The Return of Hyperion"


Undress the garlic cloves - Susan Landgraf "What's Left"

Where the sun's dart clove her - Algernon Swinburne "Flower-Pieces: I. Love Lies Bleeding"


Fate and the furrow have cloven straight - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

The cloven cliff of Dawn - Coningsby Dawson "Daybreak"

With cloven logs to keep alight - Thomas Hardy "The Wood Fire"

With a dry face and a cloven heart - Fady Joudah "Dehiscence"

In a dizzying cloven wink - Isaac Rosenberg "Unicorn"

Clasped and clothed in the cloven clay - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"


Raw airs uncloven by speech - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"


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