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( Besiege )


( Siege )


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The buzzards hadn't even been unwrapped - Jaswinder Bolina "Sunday, Sunday"

There are always buzzards in the sky - Salomon de la Selva "Tropical Town"

Where the brown buzzard flies - Emma Lazarus "The South"

A buzzard outside my window - Ada Limon "Paseo del Bosque"

Buzzards covered with ashes - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh

long before the buzzard comes - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

The hard crooked flying of buzzards - Lynn Riggs "The Arid Land"


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A tarnished button, a scrap of blue - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

Early in the era of the pause button - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"

Buttoned it with stars - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Evening"

Over the hooks & buttons of sun - Kiki Petrosino "Estival"

Salvaged buttons off vanished dresses - James Marcus Schuyler "A Poem [Tags of songs]"

Silting their famished spoor of boots and buttons - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

A button pushed in the rapture of instinctual homing - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"


Nightshade tucked neatly in his buttonhole - Shutta Crum "Things Done Wrong"


Your sadness unbuttons my heart - Fady Joudah "The Holy Embraces the Holy"

It hurts to unbutton his name from your skin - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"

Can't unbutton promises - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"


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( Burn Out )


Burn.


Out.


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( Butterfly )


Butterfly-winged sphinxes guarded their eggs - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"


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( Burst )


We've chased cloudbursts ever since - Tanaya Winder "For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It's the Quickest Way Through"


A dynamo of swirled memory, of fire-bursts - Ian Goh "Firework"


With outbursts of unreasoning rage - H.P. McKnight "Prelude"


A minor star-burst of cranes - Sheila Black "Radium Dream"

A starburst compass pointing in all the directions - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"


Five teeth tell the sunburst story - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"


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( Build/Built )


( Builded )


( Builder )


( Building )


A half-built garden of theft - Erika Meitner "Ghost Eden"


Low-built nests where robins sing - Annie Fellows Johnston "At Early Candle-Lighting"


Rimmed round by steel-built battleships - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"


Rebuild.


Unbuilt all walls of thought - Laurence Binyon "The Road Menders"


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( Burn )


Through the afterburn on my retinas - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"


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


Burn Out/Burnt Out.


Diamond-glittering mine of ever-burning stars - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)


That cheerful string of heartburn - Aimee Le "Poem Written by Aimee's Imaginary Roommate, Charles"


A hollowed-out candle left burning - Julia Bouwsma "Feeble-Minded"


Lit with one slow-burning flame - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


the mutterings of sunburned hearts - May Chong "Bunian Laundry"

Above your splendid sunburnt throat - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Idlers"


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( Business )


Towering bellows of babbling businessmen - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"


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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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