Potential Titles: Rot
Jun. 6th, 2011 03:50 pmThough jealousy keep live the rotten core - Natalie Clifford Barney "Habit"
The rotten ladders of old hierarchies - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"
To the rotted prayers of eyes - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
a rotting wolf in a field of clover - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
Foxes drunk on rotten brambles - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
Set the wild air humming for rot - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
And thorns take long to rot - E.C. Dickinson "A Child's Voice"
Forever stuck between two sweetly rotten towns - Boris Dralyuk "Babel at the Kibitz"
Fruit had no recourse but rot - Camille T. Dungy "Arthritis is one thing, the hurting another"
With the devil's rotting apples - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VIII"
Rotting pillars where the woodbines twine - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
A heap of rotten leaves blown to the shores of folly - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
When this day is rotten in the grave of yesterdays - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Auf Wiedersehen" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
what is present when the flesh rots away? - Jzl Jmz "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"
All their sour history turned to rot - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"
Break apart a rotting ladder - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"
And quick with rot - J. Patrick Lewis "The Voice of the Voiceless"
In the shadow of the rotting bridge - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Soul" transl. by Bernard Miall
All of the tinsel we imagined has gone rotten - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"
The remains of a white dwarf will always rot - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
A point more steep in rot - Carl Phillips "Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm"
rotting in the wrong hemisphere - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"
All that rots or rusts - Adrienne Rich "She"
the present, a gold rotting in our palms - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
That rots the stone of fundamental spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Rotting stumps of mulberry and bamboo - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson
Pestilence and rot within thy bowers - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"
Mingling with the sand a rotting mass of stone - Rudolph Valentino "The Sphinx (To B.H.)"
The road toward rotting - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
Beautifully and completely rotten - William Carlos Williams "Perfection"
Programmed for rot and ruin - Charles Wright "Fortune Cookie"
Beginning a new life as rot - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
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The rotten ladders of old hierarchies - Cal Bedient "Expulsion"
To the rotted prayers of eyes - Maxwell Bodenheim "South State Street: Chicago"
a rotting wolf in a field of clover - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
Foxes drunk on rotten brambles - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
Set the wild air humming for rot - Geffrey Davis "Not to Be Confused with 'Poem'"
And thorns take long to rot - E.C. Dickinson "A Child's Voice"
Forever stuck between two sweetly rotten towns - Boris Dralyuk "Babel at the Kibitz"
Fruit had no recourse but rot - Camille T. Dungy "Arthritis is one thing, the hurting another"
With the devil's rotting apples - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VIII"
Rotting pillars where the woodbines twine - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]
A heap of rotten leaves blown to the shores of folly - "The Gold-Finder" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIX, v.LXXI, May 1852]
When this day is rotten in the grave of yesterdays - Donald Jeffrey Hayes "Auf Wiedersehen" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
what is present when the flesh rots away? - Jzl Jmz "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"
All their sour history turned to rot - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"
Break apart a rotting ladder - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"
And quick with rot - J. Patrick Lewis "The Voice of the Voiceless"
In the shadow of the rotting bridge - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Soul" transl. by Bernard Miall
All of the tinsel we imagined has gone rotten - Brandon O'Brien "To Whomsoever Remains"
The remains of a white dwarf will always rot - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"
A point more steep in rot - Carl Phillips "Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm"
rotting in the wrong hemisphere - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"
All that rots or rusts - Adrienne Rich "She"
the present, a gold rotting in our palms - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Wormhole"
That rots the stone of fundamental spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Nero"
Rotting stumps of mulberry and bamboo - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson
Pestilence and rot within thy bowers - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "The Dead Nation"
Mingling with the sand a rotting mass of stone - Rudolph Valentino "The Sphinx (To B.H.)"
The road toward rotting - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"
Beautifully and completely rotten - William Carlos Williams "Perfection"
Programmed for rot and ruin - Charles Wright "Fortune Cookie"
Beginning a new life as rot - Dean Young "Spring Reign"
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