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Buffeted by the waves of chance - Cora C. Bass "The Waves of Chance"

Whirlwinds buffet the horses - Li Ho "Song of the Sacred Strings" transl. by Burton Watson

That buffets back slow time - Alan Porter "Introduction to a Narrative Poem"

Whom the winds had buffeted - E.J. Pratt "Re-Born"

Buffeted with bouquets and blinded with confetti - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"


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Defying windy bureaucracies with their cadences - Mouna Ammar "Our Names"

What sad bureaucracy of luck - Leonard Cohen "O Wife Unmasked"

Bureaucracy and blood-borne grudge - Linda Gregerson "Cranes on the Seashore"

A tracery of dreams invented by bureaucracies - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"

By December's infallible bureaucracy - Matthew Zapruder "The Book of Oxygen"


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Crashing its micro-mastodon bulk through a carpet forest - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"

Caught the bulk of the vampire - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Says She's Not the Madwoman in the Attic"

Laughing at the bulk of the need - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"

Among the bulks of actual things - Padraic H. Pearse "The Fool"

Sober bulk and adamantine hold - Duncan Campbell Scott "Home Song"


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Buckling to blossoms now - Oliver Baez Bendorf "Dysphoria"

Loosen the buckles of my mind - Tamiko Beyer "February"

For I pass their buckles by - "The Country of Mayo, or the 'Lament of Thomas Flavell, or Lavell'" c.1660 transl. by George Fox

To buckle the winged sandals on - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Softly buckled round their toes - Furnley Maurice "Barter"

Buckle on the incline - Kay Ryan "Grazing Horses"

Buckle on my spirit's skate - "Thy Heart"


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Bullet )


This bullet-borne language - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"


A bullet hole in the pay phone - Mahogany L. Browne "On St. John's and Franklin Avenue"

Bullet holes in the soles of his feet - Martin Espada "How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way"

Each bullet hole suffused with moon - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"


Can't take a photo through the bulletproof glass - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Cachiporrista"


The bullet-riddled aftermath - Millie Ho "Beasts of New France"


A bullet-stream of oyster shells - Dana Levin "The Living Teaching"


A silver bullet against every demon you fashioned - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"


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Burning bush of a lost dream - Daisy Aldan "Under the Marble Arches"

My face a burning bush or wheel - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"

Like God out of his Burning Bush - Lola Ridge "Jude"


Where thornbushes sprout - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 1. E-Abzu, the Temple of Ea in Eridu" transl. by Sophus Helle

In every thorn-bush are thousands slain - Rumi "The Call of the Beloved" transl. by R.A. Nicholson


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Five thousand in sable and brocade - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson

Brocade and sonnet marathons - Billy Collins "Nostalgia"

In filmy gossamer and soft brocade - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "A Sea Spell"

A bolt of brocade and foliage - Janet Kauffman "Before it Took Hold"

Wantons go in bright brocades - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"


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When your braggarts of planets fade - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"

Let the braggarts go sleep in the gutter - Henry S. Leigh "Anacreontic (for a Cavalier Tea-Party)"

Bragging of knowledge and vision - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

Mere lees is left this vault to brag of - Shakespeare "Macbeth"

Has left my braggart blood - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"


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Brow )


An ocean brow-beaten by a river - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"


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