Potential Titles: Jar

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A jar cut in the substance of a star - Lascelles Abercrombie "Marriage Song"

The whistle of species place in a jar - Zaina Alsous "Ibis"

The breathless life of a jar - Mary Jo Bang "Chicago"

The jar in which I keep the day - Mary Jo Bang "The Circus Watcher"

Water bubbling in a magic jar - Maurice Baring "A June Night in Russia"

The ocean saved in a jar - Catherine Barnett "Living Room Altar"

A recurring nightmare about being trapped in a Mason jar - Bruce Boston "Signs You Could Be a Clone"

Jars of mead and stores of rye - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book IV. The Woman in the Forest"

Quaint jars with rose-leaf memories - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

Put a whisper into a jar - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"

Who drives with dust and jar - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

As bees suffocate in a jar - Martin Espada "How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"

And such sweet jams meticulously jarred - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Pickled in a jar of ink - Angel Garcia "Vestiges"

The tactless truth of the picture jarred - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"

Nails suspended in a jar of honey - Sara Eliza Johnson "Combustion"

Jelly jars tinted with homemade whiskey - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"

When earthquakes jar their battlements - John Keats "Hyperion"

And mummified for eons in a jar of brine - Ted Kooser "The Celery Heart"

With some jars in harmony - George Meredith "Society"

Jarred against Nature's chime - John Milton "At a Solemn Music"

Collect marbles inside of mason jars - Anis Mojgani "4 stars"

That jarred wider as the circle ran - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Jam jars to can this summer sky - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

So the edges of your honey jars rattle - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"

Honey jars rattle laughter against our teeth - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"

The same jar of strawberries and mint - Kiki Petrosino "Afterlife"

Jokes that jingle and jar - "A Poet's Valentine" (parody of Swinburne's "The Creation of Man")

I keep death in a jar - Paige Quinones "Wing Covert"

Until the gold ran rich and thick into jars - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"

April fills its jar with bloom - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Cold water and the jar that pours - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks

Your silence is a sealed jar of water - Erika L. Sanchez "The Loop"

The echoes of our earthly jars - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"

Her forest of planted avocado jars - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"

Prove no more than fireflies in a jar - Ann K. Schwader "A Voyage(r) Too Far"

Save pomegranate seeds in glass jars - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Green glass jars to keep the demons in - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"

The years poured back from one cracked jar into a perfect basin - Cynthia So "The Unicorn's Question"

A stump with a jar of lightning - Frank Stanford "The Lacuna"

A jar of coffee and a wheelbarrow - Frank Stanford "Sunday Flowers"

Songs and drums jar the hills- Su Tung-p'o "Rhyming with Tzu-yu's 'Treading the Green'" transl. by Burton Watson

Your brains puddled in a brass-capped mason jar - Emma Trelles "Florida Poem"

Hidden behind the airtight jars - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"

Bell jar over our ills and endless infirmities - Charles Wright "April Evening"


And hushed of jarring elements - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

Leave the tram-car's jarring jangle - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

The jarring chords of life - William Hodgson Ellis "To R.R.W."

That only jarring sounds had heard - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"

All the jarring notes of life - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"

A jarring shard of reality to be spat out - Michelle Wirth "Campus"


With the pungence of sealed spice-jars - Amy Lowell "A Lady"


By rage of seas unjarred - Charles George Douglas Roberts "An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy"


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