Potential Titles: Proper

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A leviathan with no proper name - Joshua Bennett "In Defense of Henry Box Brown"

Orchestrating every movement of a proper family - Chen Chen "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party"

In my proper semblance stand - Arthur Hugh Clough "The Shadow"

A proper settlement of seats - "From the Instructions of King Cormac" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Offer sacrifices proper to the season - Dana Gioia "Shopping"

Each in his proper gloom - Lionel Johnson "Visions"

The proper way to eat a fig - D.H. Lawrence "Figs"

Properly transformed into Friday - Pablo Neruda "The Long Day Called Thursday" transl. by Alastair Reid

A proper balance of water, air and poetry - Lorine Niedecker "Nursery Rhyme"

To hurtle headlong down each slick & proper lane - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"


To race propriety and prudence out of breath - Edward Carpenter "The Great Peepshow"


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