Potential Titles: Speck/Speckle

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Black specks of surly rooks - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"

A speck of sand in the hourglass of truth - Andrea Gibson "Dear Tinder,"

A speck, like kindling for its own distant fire - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

Upon an island speck of time - James Weldon Johnson "Life"

A beautiful anxious speck of a star - Stephen Leggett "For a Little Wheel"

Two specks somersaulting right through the screen - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"

Without a speck of tarnish - Elizabeth Spires "Story of a Soul"

Count dust specks, mote by mote - A.E. Stallings "Fairy-tale Logic"

One speck where the river swallows the sky - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson

A few iridium specks of idea - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"

Spare specks of dust - Allan Wolf "Shooting Stars: Perseid Meteor Shower"


Ruffled and speckled by galloping wind - Richard Aldington "Round-Pond"

Speckled in splashes of sleep - Garrett Hongo 'On "Phantasmagorique #15," a Painting'

Like speckled snake that strays and shines - Charles Lamb "Lines Written in My Own Album"

Speckled snake that strays and shines - "Verses for an Album" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]


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