Potential Titles: Beak
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somethingdarkerWithin the beak of a relentless vulture - Benjamin West Ball "Cymindis"
Snapping their beaks against the fairyglass - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"
Purpled the beaks of our ravens - Thomas Campbell "Song of the Greeks"
Claws to cling and beak to kill - Roger Casement "Hamilcar Barca"
The lightning showed a yellow beak - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXXVII: A Thunder-storm"
The pheasant's beak full of nightshade - Chris Dombrowski "Hunting All Day beneath the Long Night Moon"
Clinging to clouds by their beaks - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"
Flame in their beaks for breath - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"
Eagle's beak and vulture's wing - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Phone the finch with the crowded beak - Brenda Hillman "Girl Sleuth"
Vultures have crimsoned their beaks in thy heart - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The only green thing that returns inside the beak - Robin Coste Lewis "The Ark: Self-Portrait as Aphrodite Using Her Dress for a Sail, ii"
With beaks of vultures eating at his side - John Masefield "Animula"
A bird with stones in its beak - Shara McCallum "The News"
The eagle's bent beak at the throat - Joaquin Miller "At the Calend's Close"
Hungry falcons whet their beaks - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
With beak and talon rend the prey - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Beaks and bills snap at our eyes - Shantell Powell "Nuliajuk and the Birds" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]
Brandishing verbs like twigs in your beak - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
Till the screaming vulture whets his beak - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Ploughing of the Sword"
He types poems with his beak - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Woodpecker"
That is a star she's got in her beak - "Wildlife Encounter"
Plums lie open to the blackbird's beak - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
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Snapping their beaks against the fairyglass - Ashley Bao "Secrets from a Telepath"
Purpled the beaks of our ravens - Thomas Campbell "Song of the Greeks"
Claws to cling and beak to kill - Roger Casement "Hamilcar Barca"
The lightning showed a yellow beak - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XXXVII: A Thunder-storm"
The pheasant's beak full of nightshade - Chris Dombrowski "Hunting All Day beneath the Long Night Moon"
Clinging to clouds by their beaks - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"
Flame in their beaks for breath - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"
Eagle's beak and vulture's wing - Havilah "The Prophecy of the Twelve Tribes" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXL, v.LV, Feb. 1844]
Phone the finch with the crowded beak - Brenda Hillman "Girl Sleuth"
Vultures have crimsoned their beaks in thy heart - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
The only green thing that returns inside the beak - Robin Coste Lewis "The Ark: Self-Portrait as Aphrodite Using Her Dress for a Sail, ii"
With beaks of vultures eating at his side - John Masefield "Animula"
A bird with stones in its beak - Shara McCallum "The News"
The eagle's bent beak at the throat - Joaquin Miller "At the Calend's Close"
Hungry falcons whet their beaks - Pao Chao "Rhyme-Prose on the Desolate City" transl. by Burton Watson
With beak and talon rend the prey - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Beaks and bills snap at our eyes - Shantell Powell "Nuliajuk and the Birds" [Strange Horizons 3 March 2025]
Brandishing verbs like twigs in your beak - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"
Till the screaming vulture whets his beak - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "The Ploughing of the Sword"
He types poems with his beak - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Woodpecker"
That is a star she's got in her beak - "Wildlife Encounter"
Plums lie open to the blackbird's beak - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"
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