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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-04-05 11:04 pm

Potential Titles: Dog

To alert me to approaching meteorites and mad dogs - Duane Ackerson " Proof of Existence"

A shadow that follows you like a dog - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Dogs from doomsday's third circle - Mary Jo Bang "The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans"

In the glow of dogs barking - Mary Jo Bang "Let's Say Yes: 5. Opened and Shut"

A tin man walking a dog - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"

A toy dog left on a rowboat adrift - Mary Jo Bang "Today You're the Still Photographer"

Off to where a dog wants to go - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Who Is God? So Asked Our Dog"

The dog tucked in her shawl - Elizabeth Bishop "The Moose"

The dog rising from its bed of dust - Julia Bouwsma "I Walk My Road at Dusk"

As of dogs that howl in concert - Lewis Carroll "Hiawatha's Photographing"

A mystic dog with paws of fire - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Noon"

Devoted as a dog made of tears - Leonard Cohen "When Desire Rests"

And other distant dogs respond - Frances Cornford "At Night"

To lose the dogs of grief - Jim Daniels "On Tears"

Chained dogs on every house corner - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"

Dogs are the true observers - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Only a dog's long lonely howl - John Freeman "Stone Trees"

Even the dogs eyed me askance - Han-Shan "[As long as I was living in the village]" transl. by Burton Watson

To leave dog's noses no evidence - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

Scattered by Hector's dogs - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Tar Baby"

Dogs in a public square - Daniel Johnson "In the Absence of Sparrows"

dogs who bark into the woods - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

The tail has only one dog - Christopher Kondrich "Previously Forgotten"

Underground dogs turning the tide - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "I'd Had a Lot of Rum, but Still..."

where the headless ghost dogs run - Joseph Lease "Falling"

With six clever dogs for a quorum - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."

A grisly demon dogs our steps - "Macedoine: By the Author of Other Things II: Song" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Five grey dogs attended his steps - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XI"

And the Dog bright at his heels - John Masefield "Esther"

The green-eyed dog upright on his throne - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"

Which cats and dogs can read - Marianne Moore "England"

More than your fabled dog's choices - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"

Only dogs know how to be happy - Pablo Neruda "A Dog Has Died" transl. by William O'Daly

No goodbyes for my dog - Pablo Neruda "A Dog Has Died" transl. by William O'Daly

The dog that backtracks in autumn - Pablo Neruda "The Earth" transl. by Richard Schaaf

Like a dog rolling around in the dew - Pablo Neruda "Love for this Book" transl. by Dennis Maloney and Clark M. Zlotchew

Bark like a beggar's dog - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Seagull" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Five dogs screaming at his flanks - Mary Oliver "Dogs"

The dance of the big-hearted dog - Alberto Rios "We Dogs of a Thursday Off"

Night calls its dogs - Reg Saner "Spring Song"

Stray dogs and chickens roam obsolete highways - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

The black dog of fanged grief - Teresa J. Scollon "The Garden"

The wary dog stands by - Duncan Campbell Scott "A Flock of Sheep"

Listen to hunting dogs in autumn - Frank Stanford "The Forgotten Madmen of Menilmontant"

Sun dogs at the heel of their ever-shifting north - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

To keep off the wild dogs snarling in the night - Keith Taylor "Our Castle and the Wild Dogs"

These dogs once hunted polar bears - Matthew Thorburn "How We Found Our Way"

A dog crunching bones for marrow - Joshua Weiner "Mongrel Death Blues"


Highlighted lessons and dog-eared parables - Camille T. Dungy "One to Watch, and One to Pray"

With its hard spine & dog-eared corners - Tracy K. Smith "Sci-Fi"


The dog-star of treason grows dim - "The Last Charge" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

The green night-baying of the dog-star - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"


Found them in death's dog-teeth - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"


Loose the storm-dogs from their bed - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Sofly sighs the gracious wind]"


Hears the wild dogs at the gate - Oscar Wilde "Theocritus"


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