Potential Titles: Speck

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

Specs [sic] in a starry whirlwind of desire - Christopher Buckley "Desire"

Chaste prostitution of the shameful speck of dust - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

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"

This speck of life in Time's great wilderness - "Memorials [Who that surveys this span of earth we press]" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

Watched until hope was a speck and gone - Susan Mitchell "Wolf Moon"

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"


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