Potential Titles: Absent
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somethingdarkerThe weight of our absent selves - Maya Angelou "After"
To forsake this absent god tired in the pale grass - William Archila "Childhood"
A precious something for an absent ear - Charlotte F. Bates "Unsaid" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.31, Oct. 1873]
The absent body in your breath - Daniel Borzutzky "Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018"
Absent as what fire leaves behind - Jericho Brown "The Interrogation"
And so is absent my delight - Thomas Holley Chivers, M.D. "To Isa in Heaven" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
Into another absent night - Jim Daniels "The Family Price"
A flower absent from all bouquets - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
I shape your absent body against mine - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"
The absent, arbitrary wind - Stephen Dunn "A Small Part"
Though absent, save in likeness and in name - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
And justice absent from your session - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
To abate the misery of absentness - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"
Untroubled by the absent sun - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"
Gleamed with the warm light of an absent star - Philip Levine "Breath"
In the span of absent letters - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"
The bread of my routines, now absent of you - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"
The phantom of absent loved ones - George Marion McClellan "The Sun Went Down in Beauty"
Songs of the absent ones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Alien Rescue"
Through all its dark and absent hours - Joyce Sidman "Sleep Charm"
As absent as if we were asleep - Wallace Stevens "No Possum, No Sop, No Taters"
A map of absent curves and ever-present reminders - Izzy Wasserstein "Come Back Wrong" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]
The density of absent water - Jay Wright "Imule"
Bear witness to the absent fig leaves - Jay Wright "Kumu"
A graph of absent shadow - Art Zilleruelo "Someone's Property"
Words tumbling from absent-minded lips - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
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To forsake this absent god tired in the pale grass - William Archila "Childhood"
A precious something for an absent ear - Charlotte F. Bates "Unsaid" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XII, no.31, Oct. 1873]
The absent body in your breath - Daniel Borzutzky "Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018"
Absent as what fire leaves behind - Jericho Brown "The Interrogation"
And so is absent my delight - Thomas Holley Chivers, M.D. "To Isa in Heaven" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.3, Mar. 1842]
Into another absent night - Jim Daniels "The Family Price"
A flower absent from all bouquets - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
I shape your absent body against mine - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"
The absent, arbitrary wind - Stephen Dunn "A Small Part"
Though absent, save in likeness and in name - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
And justice absent from your session - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
To abate the misery of absentness - Thomas Hardy "On a Discovered Curl of Hair"
Untroubled by the absent sun - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"
Gleamed with the warm light of an absent star - Philip Levine "Breath"
In the span of absent letters - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"
The bread of my routines, now absent of you - J. Michael Martinez "Where Love Is Ground to Wheat"
The phantom of absent loved ones - George Marion McClellan "The Sun Went Down in Beauty"
Songs of the absent ones - Naomi Shihab Nye "Alien Rescue"
Through all its dark and absent hours - Joyce Sidman "Sleep Charm"
As absent as if we were asleep - Wallace Stevens "No Possum, No Sop, No Taters"
A map of absent curves and ever-present reminders - Izzy Wasserstein "Come Back Wrong" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]
The density of absent water - Jay Wright "Imule"
Bear witness to the absent fig leaves - Jay Wright "Kumu"
A graph of absent shadow - Art Zilleruelo "Someone's Property"
Words tumbling from absent-minded lips - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"
Navigation Links:
Go to A word index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
