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The tether-thread coiled around her wrist - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Where the sea-snakes coil and twine - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

Thoughts like hydras lurked and coiled - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"

A swallow coiled with gold leaves - Taneum Bambrick "Lovers' Mural"

As darkness coils around our rugged path - Cora C. Bass "Sea and Cliff"

A charm of river stones and coiled hair - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, I wake wishing my body"

All the cunning coil of trade - Witter Bynner "The New World V"

As a serpent coils into a flower - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

Crakens and coils of mystery - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

Serpent grief that coiled and threw - Annie Charlotte Dalton "Marie Bashkirtseff Said"

Where the coiled sea-serpents dwell - Danske Dandridge "Lost at Sea"

Coiling tighter with each brief orbit - Chris Dombrowski "May"

Penitent coil of wick - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

Deeper than coiled waters laid - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"

Coiling his solitary strength along - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

Coil gloom around wicked hearts - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 4. E-Melemhush, the Temple of Nuska in Nippur" transl. by Sophus Helle

Raw, gold coiling whirled against air - Carol Frost "The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh"

A fiery scorpion coiled wildly around - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

As Lethe coils around a dream - Charles Edwin Jakeway "An Unfinished Prophecy"

That coils and encircles my heart - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"

A break of a cloud's coiling shadow - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Promise"

Forked tongue trailing the coil - Janine Joseph "Oh, I'm Dying, I'm Dying"

coiled around perfect circles and golden rectangles - Jessica Langer "Chaos"

Huddles in grey heaps coiling and holding back - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"

And a serpent was coiled about its stem - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Thirty seconds of coil and surge - Dana Levin "Watching the Sea Go"

While my hair coils into dust - Paulin Lim "Last Wish of Tithonus"

Who drove the coiling dragons like doves before her - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"

Struggling in the coils of noon - Federico Garcia Lorca "Gacela of the Terrible Presence" (translated by Michael Smith)

Into those coiling depths - Jeannette Marks "Sea Gulls"

As coils a serpent round the escaping deer - Lewis Morris "Clytaemnestra in Paris"

A coiling glitter of willowy streams - Alfred Noyes "Darwin IV: The Protagonists"

a serpent coiling up getting thicker - Jose Olivarez "you the business folk"

Some shining coil of wind - Mary Oliver "Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?"

Pain coiled in the drywall - Kiki Petrosino "Farm Book"

Coiling into thickets of sharp weeds - Kiki Petrosino "In Louisa"

One in the vast coil of silence - Lola Ridge "Circuit"

Coiled as in the primal chrysalis - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

A coiling and dark place - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"

Her stories coiled in warp and wool - Jake Skeets "Let There Be Coal"

No sturdy coils nor clanking chains - Clarence Victor Stahl "Ambition"

Give me no coil of daemon flowers - Muriel Stuart "The Cloudberry"

Replicant echoes in red earth and Tesla coils - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

A wisp of straw once coiled about their shoots - Henry David Thoreau "Sic Vita"

Coiled around my brittle turquoise view - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"


The density of an uncoiled afternoon - Rasha Abdulhadi "who is owed springtime--"

Softly from their parting buds uncoil - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Uncoil reptilian in the night - Rebecca Dunham "To Walk on Air"


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