Potential Titles: Dig/Dug

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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"

A deluge and then a digging out - Kim Addonizio "Darkening Then Brightening"

Dig this cigarette as my last - Ralph Angel "Sampling"

Deft subterranean digs - Howard Futhey Brinton "The 'I Told You So Club'"

Many drills that dig into our crust - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

To dig all the way to hell - Jim Daniels "Elegy for the Nasty Neighbor"

Unburied till an earthquake digs his grave - William H. Davies "The Captive Lion"

Dig windows in the hills - Carolyn Forche "Taproot"

To dig the homely artichoke - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"

Dug holes twice their depth - Theodora Goss "My Garden"

But without digging into dark - Janet Kauffman "The Hand of the Sassafras"

Never enough to fill the hole your doubt dug - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Freedom to dig the common earth - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"

Dig my yearning into doom - Naomi Long Madgett "If Not in Summer"

Digging his own grave with every breath - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"

In transparent loops of dug air - Kiki Petrosino "Monticello House Tour"

She dreamed in the cradle I dug - Kiki Petrosino "Prospera"

An axe to dig through the prison - Rumi "Die Now" transl. by A.J. Arberry

Dug from law its deep foundations - Friedrich Schiller "The Invincible Armada" transl. not credited

Dig holes into the water to find the fish - Marge Simon "Plaster Messiahs"

A deadly silent digging in - Tracy K. Smith "Mothership"

Preconceptions dug in stone and atmosphere - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]

Dug from still quarries of grey-black air - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"


The wind will be the gravedigger - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


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