Potential Titles: Heel

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With our heels digging into the good mud - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"

Light of heart and light of heel - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"

Defiant 'neath the Iron Heel - Ralph Chaplin "I.W.W. Prison Song"

That have heels of sleet - Elizabeth Coatsworth "On a Night of Snow"

Dragging progress at their heels - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"

Clash and clash of hoof and heel - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

The cruel wind is at our heels - George Cronyn "Clouds"

With planted heel upon the lion's head - Delta "Lines Written in the Isle of Bute" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXVIII, v.LIV, Dec. 1843]

The hammer-hard heels of noon - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Serpent's Crown"

Turns on the heels of sunset - Joy Harjo "Original Memory"

The heretic has come at last to heel - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"

In flight from the Avenger at his heel - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

As a skate's heel sweeps smooth - Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Windhover"

On our heels a fresh perfection - John Keats "Hyperion"

Hell-hounds on her heels - D.H. Lawrence "Purple Anemones"

With clouds in heeling squadron - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

To tame wit's feathered heels - James Russell Lowell "The Brakes"

Taste the spurn of parting Fortune's heel - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

The devil has me by the heel - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

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

With nine black hounds at heel - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

A fire's in my heels - John Masefield "A Wanderer's Song"

The heel that crushed the serpent's head - Theodore Maynard "The Universal Mother"

Because the water was under your heels - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

The heels of the clouds - Mary Oliver "Rain, Tree, Thunder and Lightning"

With a hornpipe in its heels - Herbert Randall "Off"

Scenting the heels of war - Theodore Roberts "The Spears of Kan-Mar"

Under the heel of tyrants - Frederick George Scott "Dion"

Unzipped myself from lip to heel - Alafia Nicole Sessions "Fable with Cyst, Celestial Being & Sacrifice"

Whose heels have notched and hammered time - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

With his heel on the neck of Hate - Arthur Stringer "What Shall I Care?"

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

To throw us neck and heels again in trouble - "The Times" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

Close to the dancing heels of the day - Iris Tree "[Oh canst thou not hear in my heart all its whispering fears]"

Time smiles at us, and rests his heels - Mark Van Doren "Three Friends"

Rocking on my heels in the unbearable heat - Andrea Werblin "Barrio with Sketchy Detail"


The bright-heeled constellations - Walter de la Mare "Voices"


Skipping high-heeled flames courtesied before my eyes - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"


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