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let's say i have consumed more loss - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]

the words of lovers testing new hypothesis - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]

what buffers the non-equilibrium state - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]

i cultivated a land of flowers on my skin - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]

loss, grievances & memories, coiled around its roots - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]

when will our bodies learn to weed distress? - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]

always a way to keep those parasites competing against us - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]

memories morphed into grievances - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]

shortage of breath, with great accumulation of suffering - Ismail Yusuf Olumoh "Hypercapnia" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]


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From my own back in scarlet shreds - Wilfred Owen "A Terre"

All the arts of hurting - Wilfred Owen "A Terre"

Where hopes lay strewn - Wilfred Owen "Apologia pro Poemate"

Blue with all the malice - Wilfred Owen "Arms and the Boy"

After the drums of time - Wilfred Owen "The End"

In the merciless iced east winds - Wilfred Owen "Exposure"

In ranks on shivering ranks of gray - Wilfred Owen "Exposure"

The clays of a cold star - Wilfred Owen "Futility"

Chance's strange arithmetic - Wilfred Owen "Insensibility"

From larger day to huger night - Wilfred Owen "Insensibility"

The eternal reciprocity of tears - Wilfred Owen "Insensibility"

The march of this retreating world - Wilfred Owen "Strange Meeting"

Who bled where no wounds were - Wilfred Owen "Strange Meeting"

Night crushed out the day - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"

Return upon the world - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"

But no ghost woke - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"

The indefinite unshapen dawn - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"

Even a heaven with doors so chained - Wilfred Owen "The Unreturning"


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Sky all broken glass - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"

Backpacks of holy language - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"

Duffel bags of ancestors - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"

A hall of screaming cracked mirrors - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"

Built to penetrate heaven - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Alphabetical Flash"

Transform the mirror of his soul - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Are You My Cousin"

The beloved is a window - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "August Morning, Upper Broadway"

With malicious abundant joy - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "August Morning, Upper Broadway"

But as a paradise might be - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "August Morning, Upper Broadway"

Another bus for the battlefield - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "The Battlefield: A Lyric"

Would go on admiring crows - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "The Common Crow Fibonacci"

Our human fists against heaven - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "The Glory of Cities"

Mourned by candlelight - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "How Fortunate the Boy"

The sugar of cruelty - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Making a Meal of Them"

Out of your garden of insults - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Q&A: Insurance"

Snow falling on the ocean - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Q&A: Insurance"

Speeding toward the grim unknown - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Q&A: Insurance"

In your jacket of anger - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Q&A: Red Red Rose"

For weepers for weapons for widows - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Q&A: Red Red Rose"

Dictionaries of amnesia - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Temblor"

Words of the unhealed wounds - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Underground"

The language of hope - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Underground"


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Seek ocean on the loveliest river - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Aspiration"

With untamed fire their broad eyes glowing - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"

Seeming freedom stained by fears - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"

Coward shrinking from the brave - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Captured Wild Horse"

In tears to vent its misery - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Caradori Singing"

Of the hearts hidden wells - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Caradori Singing"

For her worshipper the wind - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Dahlia, the Rose, and the Heliotrope"

And though the nightingale had just begun - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Dahlia, the Rose, and the Heliotrope"

Exhausted of its rage - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"

And heart of slower beat - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"

To receive the idea of strength - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"

Shake hands with disappointment - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"

Fold my weary wings in peace - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Description of a Portion of the Journey to Trenton Falls"

Which angel hopes foresaw - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Freedom and Truth"

Yielding no root - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "A Greeting"

Gentleness finds its dignity - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "A Greeting"

Offered their sceptres to his hand - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Hymn Written for a Sunday School"

Could revere the simplest flower - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Hymn Written for a Sunday School"

A mass of black, unseemly stone - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Imperfect Thoughts"

The hopeful, holy, terrible, and fair - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Influence of the Outward"

The triumphs of thy song - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Influence of the Outward"

Could efface from memory's tablet - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"

From joining ocean's war - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"

Touched by an April mood - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"

With summer's thickest garlands crowned - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"

For thought's most sacred cells - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"

Clothed the water's strife - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"

The harbingers of thy approach - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"

The rock which is their cradle - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"

Nor asks the wild bird's requiem - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"

By her own soul possessed - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"

From voiceless noise - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines"

One grief to both impart - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

By vapors of the dreamy earth - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

Where a heart thy claim denies - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

Which justly makes the highest claim - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

No leaves upon this muddy stream appear - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

These last loving words in vain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines to Edith on Her Birthday"

Upon the timid flickerings of our hope - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Lines Written in Boston on a Beautiful Autumnal Day"

My heart hath sealed its fountains - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"

To the things of Time - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"

Profaned and swollen by bitter waters - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"

Call to the seas and mountains - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"

One serpent thought that fled not - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "My Seal-Ring"

Destinies of various name - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"

Peace is the soul's desire - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"

By vain wishes bar my claim - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The One in All"

The pencil moved prophetic - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Prophecy and Fulfilment" [sic]

The wreath woven by the river - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Prophecy and Fulfilment" [sic]

One of fate's best arrows - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Prophecy and Fulfilment" [sic]

Gentlest of the wise - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Richter"

Dissolve in purifying tears - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Richter"

Through this wide mind - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Richter"

Dream of dull despair - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Sadness"

Which sever hearts from their hopes - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Sadness"

Without thy ceaseless motion - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Sistrum"

And charm the heart from pain - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Song Written for a May Day Festival"

If they should not disclose - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Song Written for a May Day Festival"

Though untended, we may bloom - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Song Written for a May Day Festival"

To which no blight is known - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Song Written for a May Day Festival"

Of worship more complete - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Sub Rosa, Crux"

Faithful to this present trust - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Sub Rosa, Crux"

Uplift the eyelids of the starry skies - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "The Thankful and the Thankless"

Above the throne of thought - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Thoughts"

Which binds the whole to heaven - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Thoughts"

Gained sweetness from thy voice - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."

Life's fainting pilgrims - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."

Seems nearer and more bright - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To E. C."

By a mighty master's sway - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To Miss R. B."

His harmony to emulate - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To Miss R. B."

On our hard-bound soil - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To Miss R. B."

Once by your music thrilled - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To Miss R. B."

In memory a talisman - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To Miss R. B."

As the wanderer pursues his way - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Tranquil as the vestal sky - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Cheering the patient rocks - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Turned my steps to the retreating hills - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

The haughty, chiding flood - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

The autumn sweetness of thine eye - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Sad glories on the cold wave burn - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

The grasp of alien hands - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Grudge not the green leaves - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

To console me for farewell - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

In fresher green forgetting them - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

The meaning of each temporal blame - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

That sable mantle of the sky - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Have paid chance tribute - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Verses"

Ending only in the realms of light - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Verses"


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Seeing the double misery - Ladan Osman "Boat Journey"

Our thoughts converge - Ladan Osman "Boat Journey"

Will appear at an absurd angle - Ladan Osman "The scalps of the women with the best prophecies are dry this season"

A line from privacy to throat - Ladan Osman "The scalps of the women with the best prophecies are dry this season"

Determined in part by water - Ladan Osman "The scalps of the women with the best prophecies are dry this season"

And fixed for me an axis - Ladan Osman "Sun to Void"


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Far into the country of Sorrow - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"

May pass for a tender word spoken - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"

To each distance of past desolation - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"

Cover the place of each sorrow - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"

Poured the whole sorrow of years - Arthur O'Shaughnessy "The Fountain of Tears"

In frozen cadences - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "A Neglected Harp"

Silence that enchains - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "A Neglected Harp"

The stricken air still aches - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "A Neglected Harp"

A heap of fragrant ashes - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "A Precious Urn"

Carven filigree of Thought - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"

Devious ways tangled with blooming - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"

That mirror of things infinite - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Seraphitus"

Laughs the long eternity away - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Three Flowers of Modern Greece II. The Fair Maid and the Sun"

Standeth as a goddess stands - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Three Flowers of Modern Greece II. The Fair Maid and the Sun"

A most strange and melancholy note - Arthur W.E. O'Shaughnessy "Three Flowers of a Modern Greece III. The Cypress"


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An ancient bitter nod - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Determined to freeze - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Throttled on fences - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Stolen from her memory - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

A moment clenched tightly - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Whisper for rain - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

And tied themselves to stars - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Memory was his lost trail - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

Look into his exile eyes - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

A whirlpool of exiles drowning him - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"

And substance for every comfort - Simon J. Ortiz "From Sand Creek"


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Accumulation of griefs - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

Faster than the mind absorbs - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

Except within my secret ears - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

The orchestration of meaning - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

Happening in a time we can't touch - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

Made of days and days - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

The cool blue pockets of time - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

So narrow and light and possible - Meghan O'Rourke "Self-Portrait as Myself"

An arctic sorrow - Meghan O'Rourke "Unforced Error"

When I die let me live - Meghan O'Rourke "Unforced Error"


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The blossoms from Juliet's breast - James Oppenheim "A Handful of Dust"

So rich with the bewildering past - James Oppenheim "A Handful of Dust"

Honey from the lips of David - James Oppenheim "A Handful of Dust"

A captain of the moving waters - James Oppenheim "Hebrews"

Down to the cleansing sea - James Oppenheim "Self"

Like wine to my spirit - James Oppenheim "Self"

Bathed my eyes with infinity - James Oppenheim "Self"

Golden snares on the tide - James Oppenheim "Self"

And dust to dust expunge it - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

Over the waters of our own darkness - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

Limbed with the lightning - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

The hidden nymph in her soul - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

The soul's bleak weather - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

To the world of my spirit - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

Ride on the darkening flood - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

From the depths of the heavens - James Oppenheim "We Dead"

Like a noose of golden shadow - James Oppenheim "We Dead"


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Full breath of joy and absence - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Full Breath of Joy and Absence"

The lonely sound of ice - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Hearing My Name"

This echo of a stranger - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Hearing My Name"

Heard me in the captive water - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Hearing My Name"

How the sun can break itself - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Lament"

Stronger for having drowned - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "The Room Weeps"

Wants to astonish the water - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Sign?"

A tiny bowl, empty but for hope - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "Skippers"

In each heartbeat of the moon - Anne-Marie Oomen and Linda Nemec Foster "What I Almost Say"


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Would rather drink the wind - Mary Oliver "The Arrowhead"

Down from the heaven of leaves - Mary Oliver "At Black River"

The white and silky trumpet of nothing - Mary Oliver "At the Shore"

As if for the narrow path - Mary Oliver "Beans"

How the distances light up - Mary Oliver "Bear"

Though the blue jays carp and whistle - Mary Oliver "Black Oaks"

Without the push of wind - Mary Oliver "Black Oaks"

Let go of the wrists of idleness - Mary Oliver "Black Oaks"

The quick wrist of early summer - Mary Oliver "Black Snake This Time"

An empty skin for the mice to nibble - Mary Oliver "Black Snake This Time"

On the hundred hoops of its belly - Mary Oliver "Black Snake This Time"

Took nothing with it except faith - Mary Oliver "Black Swallowtail"

In the house of hearing - Mary Oliver "Bone"

Through its dark-knit glare - Mary Oliver "Bone"

Sift it down into fractions - Mary Oliver "Bone"

Play at the edges of knowing - Mary Oliver "Bone"

Like a million flowers on fire - Mary Oliver "The Buddha’s Last Instruction"

To learn the importance of stillness - Mary Oliver "Coming to God: First Days"

Song being born of quest - Mary Oliver "Daisies"

Suddenly assaulted with answers - Mary Oliver "Daisies"

Pale and narrow and hidden in the roots - Mary Oliver "Daisies"

The body of the night opens - Mary Oliver "The Deer"

Given only so many mornings - Mary Oliver "The Deer"

Like a red thirst - Mary Oliver "The Deer"

Hear the trees in their easy hours - Mary Oliver "Do the Trees Speak?"

The dark deer went running - Mary Oliver "Dogs"

Five dogs screaming at his flanks - Mary Oliver "Dogs"

Isn't just butter and good luck - Mary Oliver "Evening Star"

Through the raging flowers of the snow - Mary Oliver "Evening Star"

With dreams inside my eyes - Mary Oliver "Every Dog's Story"

Wasps sang at the windows - Mary Oliver "Flare"

A demon of frustrated dreams - Mary Oliver "Flare"

The iron thing they carried - Mary Oliver "Flare"

Open the dark fields of your mind - Mary Oliver "Flare"

Like the diligent leaves - Mary Oliver "Flare"

A black ant traveling briskly - Mary Oliver "Forty Years"

Saw the red fox asleep - Mary Oliver "Fox"

The music of dust and gravel - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

Whose name was Earth - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

Went down like a thousand roses - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

The little hurricane of the hummingbird - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

Count the roses, wrinkled and salt - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

Their heaviness and their endless number - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

Eternity is not later - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

The salt of the stars - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

The crown of the wind - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

The beds of the clouds - Mary Oliver "From the Book of Time"

Be still, my soul, and steadfast - Mary Oliver "The Gift"

Deeply and without patience - Mary Oliver "The Gift"

The little murmurs of the broken blossoms - Mary Oliver "Goldenrod, Late Fall"

Ride the beautiful long spine of grammar - Mary Oliver "Gratitude"

In the rainfall of light - Mary Oliver "Gravel"

Rise in gauze and halos - Mary Oliver "Gravel"

The long black branches of other lives - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"

Over the dark acorn of your heart - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"

Sailing out of his house of straw - Mary Oliver "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches"

The cranes crying out in the high clouds - Mary Oliver "Her Grave"

With his backbone of diamonds - Mary Oliver "Her Grave"

More ornaments of death - Mary Oliver “The Hermit Crab”

Close to the skim of honey - Mary Oliver "How Everything Adores Being Alive"

I am the pledge of emptiness that turned around - Mary Oliver "I am the one"

The cat with feathers under its tongue - Mary Oliver "I am the one"

Kissing me with its golden mouth - Mary Oliver "I don't want to live a small life"

The wind-winged clouds following - Mary Oliver "I don't want to live a small life"

In this world of hope and risk - Mary Oliver "I don't want to live a small life"

Asking to see God's identity papers - Mary Oliver "I Wake Close to Morning"

Keeping watch until we rise - Mary Oliver "I will try"

Like the clothes of our spirits - Mary Oliver “Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen”

My delicious dark happiness - Mary Oliver “Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen”

At what unknowable cost - Mary Oliver “Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen”

Nothing but what sits in the mind - Mary Oliver "If the philosopher is right"

That nothing exists fierce or soft - Mary Oliver "If the philosopher is right"

A voice in the weeds - Mary Oliver "'Just a minute,' said a voice ..."

Beauty can both shout and whisper - Mary Oliver "Leaves and Blossoms Along the Way"

In the wedge of the wind - Mary Oliver “Lilies”

From the deepest spurs of their being - Mary Oliver “Lilies Break Open Over the Dark Water”

Darkness enters the face of the lily - Mary Oliver "The Lily"

Even when there is no wind - Mary Oliver "The Lily"

With the patience of vegetables and saints - Mary Oliver "The Lily"

Married now to gravity - Mary Oliver "Lingering in Happiness"

From the offices of fear - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"

And dragonflies if they happen - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"

Across the marshlands of my heart - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"

In the gallery of important things - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"

Look under the sun's brass - Mary Oliver "Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith"

And the mystery hidden in dirt - Mary Oliver "Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith"

When the fly hesitates - Mary Oliver "Look Again"

Delicate uplifts of dust-colored skin - Mary Oliver "Look Again"

The plunge back into the shadows - Mary Oliver "Looking for Snakes"

Your own vanishing song - Mary Oliver "The Loon on Oak-Head Pond"

Adored every blossom - Mary Oliver "Luke"

Only so many precious hours - Mary Oliver "Luna"

And a reputation for death - Mary Oliver "Maker of All Things, Even Healings"

A message so absolute - Mary Oliver "Maker of All Things, Even Healings"

The quick white summer rain - Mary Oliver "Maples"

And the shine isn't just pennies - Mary Oliver "Maples"

After the multitude was fed - Mary Oliver "Maybe"

In the terrible debris of progress - Mary Oliver "Meadowlark Sings and I Greet Him in Return"

Learning to be astonished - Mary Oliver "Messenger"

A needle in a haystack of light - Mary Oliver "Mindful"

Prayers that are made out of glass - Mary Oliver "Mindful"

A new nothing in the universe - Mary Oliver "Moccasin Flowers"

Enter the fire of the world - Mary Oliver "Moccasin Flowers"

Into the floor of darkness - Mary Oliver "Moccasin Flowers"

Nothing more pathetic than caution - Mary Oliver "Moments"

The ocean empties its pockets - Mary Oliver "Morning Walk"

The long, tangled ornateness of seaweed - Mary Oliver "Morning Walk"

From the dry bowl of the very far past - Mary Oliver "Mornings at Blackwater"

The harbor of your longing - Mary Oliver "Mornings at Blackwater"

Tossed the white moon upward - Mary Oliver "Nature"

In the sudden fire of its mouth - Mary Oliver "Night and the River"

Whose other name is rain - Mary Oliver "Not This, Not That"

Swirling back from darkness - Mary Oliver "The Notebook"

The last roses of the sunset - Mary Oliver "The Notebook"

In the baskets of the wind - Mary Oliver "November"

Followed our long shadows back - Mary Oliver "November"

To the gates of April - Mary Oliver "November"

Shut tight, without dreams - Mary Oliver "Now comes the long blue cold"

In the tree of my heart - Mary Oliver "Now comes the long blue cold"

In the heart inexplicable - Mary Oliver "Now comes the long blue cold"

Through the hinterlands of justice - Mary Oliver "The Oak Tree at the Entrance to Blackwater Pond"

The angels of our imagination - Mary Oliver "Of Goodness"

With their gifts of replenishment - Mary Oliver "Of Goodness"

His throat full of song - Mary Oliver "Of Goodness"

Now carry my revelation with you - Mary Oliver "Of Love"

Or the sun which was the first - Mary Oliver "Of Love"

The bundles of harsh, beneficent rain - Mary Oliver "One"

All winds blow cold at last - Mary Oliver "The Orchard"

In the great, black packet of time - Mary Oliver "The Orchard"

To both sides of the knife - Mary Oliver "The Osprey"

Death too is a carpenter - Mary Oliver "Pilot Snake"

Flashes like a star and is gone - Mary Oliver "Pilot Snake"

Your hands passing over the world - Mary Oliver "Pipefish"

Each of us wears a shadow - Mary Oliver "The Pond"

Dressed in snowflakes - Mary Oliver "Praise"

By dark, godforsaken inches - Mary Oliver "Rain, Tree, Thunder and Lightning"

The wheels of the wind - Mary Oliver "Rain, Tree, Thunder and Lightning"

The heels of the clouds - Mary Oliver "Rain, Tree, Thunder and Lightning"

So hungry and so many - Mary Oliver "Red Bird"

Because the heart narrows - Mary Oliver "Red Bird"

Of the inexplicable beauty of heaven - Mary Oliver "Red Bird Explains Himself"

I will adore salt - Mary Oliver "Rhapsody"

Dress myself in desolation - Mary Oliver "Rhapsody"

Sigh as the tide rises - Mary Oliver "Riprap"

And again a thousand opportunities - Mary Oliver "Riprap"

Which part of the dream is me - Mary Oliver "Riprap"

Accomplished somewhere among strangers - Mary Oliver "A River Far Away and Long Ago"

Their factories of sweetness - Mary Oliver "Roses, Late Summer"

Their labor no adversity to the spirit - Mary Oliver "Self-Portrait"

Wisdom in the agitated motions of the mind - Mary Oliver "Seven White Butterflies"

Seven dancer floating even as worms - Mary Oliver "Seven White Butterflies"

Deliver themselves unto the universe - Mary Oliver "Seven White Butterflies"

The collation of all the hours we have known - Mary Oliver "Shelley"

As circular as hope - Mary Oliver "Snake"

Built of loneliness and its consequences - Mary Oliver "The Snow Cricket"

The theater of their perfect faces - Mary Oliver "The Snow Cricket"

In the black, polished water - Mary Oliver "Some Herons"

For the white blossoms, and the secrecy - Mary Oliver "Someday"

In such shining obedience - Mary Oliver "Someday"

And the ants are delighted - Mary Oliver "Someday"

Out of the uncombed morning - Mary Oliver "Something"

What to call this sharpest desire - Mary Oliver "Something"

The egg case of an ocean shell - Mary Oliver "Something"

One more sweet-as-honey answer - Mary Oliver "Something"

The sweet, electric drowse of creation - Mary Oliver "Sometimes"

The deep bells of thunder - Mary Oliver "Sometimes"

Fell down the side of the maple tree - Mary Oliver "Spring"

Against the silence of the trees - Mary Oliver "Spring"

Friends with the hard white stars - Mary Oliver "Stars"

The wind roused up in the oak trees - Mary Oliver "Stars"

A hundred thousand pure contraltos - Mary Oliver "Stars"

Even as the stars have twirled - Mary Oliver "Stars"

One hot sentence after another - Mary Oliver "Stars"

Not a single twinge of the heart - Mary Oliver "Storage"

More room in your heart for love - Mary Oliver "Storage"

Safe in their rafts of sleep - Mary Oliver "Straight Talk from Fox"

Your one wild and precious life - Mary Oliver "The Summer Day"

Graced as it is with the ordinary - Mary Oliver "Summer Morning"

An unforgettable fury of light - Mary Oliver "Sunrise"

In the familiar fabric of dawn - Mary Oliver "Sunrise"

One of the ways to enter fire - Mary Oliver "Sunrise"

In the press of blazing electricity - Mary Oliver "That Sweet Flute John Clare"

Where the stars are dressed in light - Mary Oliver "That Tall Distance"

The passionate hands of the sun - Mary Oliver "That Tall Distance"

Like the first fair water - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"

Has no final measure - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"

Just long enough for us to be astonished - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"

A part of the untouchable clouds - Mary Oliver "There you were, and it was like spring"

Know nothing about the sky - Mary Oliver "This Morning"

Into the impossible trees - Mary Oliver "This Morning I Watched the Deer"

The dark pinprick well of sweetness - Mary Oliver "This World"

Instead of being locked up in gold - Mary Oliver "This World"

The crisp flight and the buzzing bliss - Mary Oliver "Three Songs: 3"

Standing in their beloved water - Mary Oliver "Walking to Indian River"

Two fleas under the wing of a gull - Mary Oliver "West Wind 1"

Ten loops of honeysuckle - Mary Oliver "West Wind 1"

Not worth a bent penny - Mary Oliver "West Wind 2"

If light had a mouth and a tongue - Mary Oliver "West Wind 3"

If the sky had a throat - Mary Oliver "West Wind 3"

Quick as thistles - Mary Oliver "West Wind 3"

Burning down like a wild needle - Mary Oliver "West Wind 4"

Puddled in lamplight at your midnight desk - Mary Oliver "West Wind 6"

The burning mouth of the wind - Mary Oliver "West Wind 6"

Under the gray waves' spinning threshold - Mary Oliver "West Wind 8"

The brambles in their places - Mary Oliver "West Wind 9"

From under a thumb of bark - Mary Oliver "West Wind 10"

Like a hundred bolts of lace - Mary Oliver "West Wind 13"

The black fingerprint of the rain - Mary Oliver "What Is It"

The patience of trees in the wind - Mary Oliver "What is the greatest gift"

With its sweet clamor of passion - Mary Oliver "What is the greatest gift"

Married to amazement - Mary Oliver "When Death Comes"

The heart has a dungeon - Mary Oliver "Where are you?"

Burns like a pillar of gold - Mary Oliver "Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?"

To the white feet of the trees - Mary Oliver "Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?"

Some shining coil of wind - Mary Oliver "Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?"

No proof of the soul - Mary Oliver "Whistling Swans"

The wind-bird with its white eyes - Mary Oliver "White-eyes"

Hold us in the great hands of light - Mary Oliver "Why I Wake Early"

The clear pebbles of the rain - Mary Oliver "Wild Geese"

No one owns the hearts of birds - Mary Oliver "Winter and the Nuthatch"

A conscience that never blinks - Mary Oliver "With the Blackest of Inks"

The difference between water and stone - Mary Oliver "Work"

Lilies turning from the wind - Mary Oliver "Work"

In the universe of leaves - Mary Oliver "Work"

Except in the splurge of roses - Mary Oliver "Work"

Fold grief like a blanket - Mary Oliver "Work"

Also a deliberate music - Mary Oliver "Work"

In the orderly house of reasons and proof - Mary Oliver "The World I Live In"

Only if there are angels in your head - Mary Oliver "The World I Live In"

Instantly beautiful to the bees - Mary Oliver "Writing Poems"


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I followed here the heart I built for you - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

Bruise renewed again and again - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

Raining on the accordion chest of the sea - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

Children made vapor, families ground to grist - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

Followed here my own forgetting of the fireflies - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

Prayers in belligerent grasses - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

That stone you strike for water - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

Look, how your flowers light the world - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"

Beyond touch of sunrise - Cynthia Dewi Oka “Portrait of My Father as a Pianist”

His own eternal night - Cynthia Dewi Oka “Portrait of My Father as a Pianist”

The dream of feathered departure - Cynthia Dewi Oka “Portrait of My Father as a Pianist”

Born of spruce and fading light - Cynthia Dewi Oka “Portrait of My Father as a Pianist”

An all-consuming body - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"

Like an army of moths - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"

Under the heavens of the machines - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"

On the jacket of the night - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"

That the night walks freely - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"

Among the ranks of the sun - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"


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That anyway world - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"

Get nowhere in time - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"

Each ancient and suspiciously free - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"

Somewhere between hours - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May'

Not lasting but repeatable - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"

In intuition of every day to come - Geoffrey G. O'Brien "May"


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In the arms of the harvest - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"

Dearer than Helen's beauty - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"

The sighing zephyrs of sandy Argos - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"

Found the amaranthine meadows - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"

Tidings of ancient summer - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"

Of spring in the flaming ground - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"

In the heart of her rushing forest - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"

The rain in the dreaming hollows - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"

Soft-sandalled in misty ways - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"

Whose beauty is my sorrow - Edward J. O'Brien "Of Moira Up the Glen"

Travel on the long bright dream - Edward J. O'Brien "Of Moira Up the Glen"

To a chalice of tears and of laughter - Edward J. O'Brien "Of Moira Up the Glen"

Flesh unto flowers, and flame unto wind - Edward J. O'Brien "Song"

Shall waken thee weeping - Edward J. O'Brien "Song"


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Breaks with the agony of surprise - Joyce Carol Oates “The Dark”

The warm dark of dreams - Joyce Carol Oates “The Dark”

All the paraphernalia of our names - Joyce Carol Oates “Five Confessions: I. A Nap Without Sleep”

Once felt is always - Joyce Carol Oates “Five Confessions: III. Pain”

The gauge of our love’s guilt - Joyce Carol Oates “Five Confessions: V. Doctor’s Wife”

Snapped by envious fingers - Joyce Carol Oates “Lines for Those to Whom Tragedy Is Denied”


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The invisible hammerclaw of time - Miller Oberman "Commas"

The democratic nature of the shroud - Miller Oberman "Taharah"

Whose highest kindness was to say nothing - Miller Oberman "Taharah"

At the mercy of a stranger's eyes - Miller Oberman "Taharah"

Since from the prophet's hand it fell - Cornelius O'Brien "St Cecilia"

blue will-o-wisps cross my skin - Catherine O'Ciarmacain "Steelwife"

further from me and closer to power - Catherine O'Ciarmacain "Steelwife"

When time is no longer foe - Charles P. O'Connor "Maura Du of Ballyshannon"

Any penny of applauding hands - Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C. "The Dead Musicians"

The boundless meadows of the air - Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C. "The Dead Musicians"

This side of the heavens' spheres - Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C. "The Dead Musicians"

Homesick for harpings of eternity - Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C. "The Dead Musicians"

And fleeter than the falling star - John Francis O'Donnell "A Spinning Song"

Breath of the bee-swarmed murmuring lime - John Francis O'Donnell [per The Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry site] "Sunset" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 4th series, no.716, 15 Sept. 1877]

Thick with honeysuckle and dust - Jennifer O'Grady "Moths"

That leaves the river for the light - John Myers O'Hara "Ablution"

Their panes of glass innocent - Diana O'Hehir "Riding the San Francisco Train"

Four floors of guilt - Diana O'Hehir "Riding the San Francisco Train"

Bliss hovering above the void - Precious Okoyomon "The animal that is most vulnerable is usually the most cruel / It is impossible to separate it from what it remembers"

Singing with a hard fist - Precious Okoyomon "The animal that is most vulnerable is usually the most cruel / It is impossible to separate it from what it remembers"

Starved myself of everything - Natasha Oladokun "Black Credit"

Growing slight on tomorrow's meat - Natasha Oladokun "Black Credit"

Until we kiss good night - Lin Oliver "Hush"

On earth's time-bounded shore - Oliver Optic "Lizzie"

I judge the world from the margins of diaries - Cait Weiss Orcutt "Single Kings of the Valley"

Citrus grows in the grove beneath my bed - Cait Weiss Orcutt "Single Kings of the Valley"

As wasps find poison - John Boyle O'Reilly "Name of Mary"

The red rose is a falcon - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"

And the white rose is a dove - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"

Has a kiss of desire on the lips - John Boyle O'Reilly "The White Rose"

To speak is to dream - Maria Antonia Ortega

Bloom on my lips - Maria Antonia Ortega

The path of those who walk alone - Maria Antonia Ortega "Lima"

Such fabled winds of change - Brenda Marie Osbey "On Contemplating the Breasts of Pauline Lumumba"

The weight of those hands - Brenda Marie Osbey "On Contemplating the Breasts of Pauline Lumumba"

Seasonable for mourning-time - Brenda Marie Osbey "On Contemplating the Breasts of Pauline Lumumba"

The chambers of the distant west - James F. Otis "Stanzas"

Gem on the dark brow of night - James F. Otis "To the New Moon"

Steals the light of Love's secret - James F. Otis "To the New Moon"

Inch on inch of gentle heart - Ou-yang Hsiu "[At the post house lodge]" transl. by Burton Watson

That shines the space of an hour - Ou-yang Hsiu "Calligraphy Practice" transl. by Burton Watson

Setting up an idol all of earth - Robert Owen "A Prayer" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Than death itself more bitter - Robert Owen "A Prayer" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

capable of being two places at once - Ugonna-Ora Owoh "Syndrome"

a caste of lies is built as cells - Ugonna-Ora Owoh "Syndrome"

Becomes the texture of the wind - Sodïq Oyèkànmí "Stream of Dreams Where My Mouth Asks Not Be Blood-Light"


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Had we as many mouths as Hydra - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"

An animated hiss and whistling wail - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"

Full of hydras and crocodiles - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"

Poisoned blood in a long constellation - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"

and a forest beyond the sand - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

study the explosion clouds of bombs - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

dust carried by solar wind - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

in the wake of over 900 explosions - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

crystal shards of terrigen mist - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

two entwined snakes and a lyre - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

Must carry a dream from the sparrow - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

a sequence of boundaries for crossing over - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

write a family tree in chalk - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

the trail begins to split unmarked - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

leading Eurydice back to the underworld - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

form a connection of liquid silver - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

release your metal breath into the air - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

a house of exploded debris - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

a connective world with multiple paths - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

a reduction of mineral cinnabar - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

safe in an inoculation of light - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

return your breath as liquid silver - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

Or is empathy outside of grammar - Jena Osman "To the Reader"

Your own personalized orange revolution - Jena Osman "To the Reader"


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these unrepeatable needles of rock - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

geology's answer to flakes of snow - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

a matter of a single uttered word - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

with dust and ribs required - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

essential for the colors of the stone - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

then temper it to golden-rose - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

A lamina of coral and carnelian - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

the peripheral inkling of a meteor - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

the nuthatch, a glutton for its seeds - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

close by each golden tent a golden torch - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

ecstatic ovations from thick stands of golden birch - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

here, assembling legends of Coyote - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

the frost they ought to praise - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

in a matter of mere eons - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

an exhaustive primer of floral specimens - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

Even God needs two versions of Creation - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

consumed by each imaginary flaw - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

Just let me stand here with an open eye - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

against the shoreline's erratic discipline - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

the egret so completely still - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

paper from the inner bark of sandalwood - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

every other element implicit - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

the brush strokes' elliptic fusion of calm and motion - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

cradling its surreptitious wings - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

Would bankroll such a quiet grace - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"

Each tree a forest, each rock a mountain - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"

His master gardener dispensed perfection - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"

Expanse itself his garden - Jacqueline Osherow "XIII. Return to Suzhou: Master of the Nets"


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His music of earth's caretaking - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"

Forest trails blazed with ribbon - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"

Part of the pleasure is to be unfettered - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"

An eden with no God or Eve in it - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"

The way his labors are singing nature - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"

Her work of words no less at home than his work of creation - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"

The jousting favor of one who is in thrall to no one - Sharon Olds "Boxer Aria"

Solid as well water - Sharon Olds "Earliest Memory"

Measure the force of the blow - Sharon Olds "Not Once"

Able to be struck by the earth - Sharon Olds "Not Once"

the alphabet was not just theirs - Sharon Olds "Ode of Girls' Things"

struck you with wonder - Sharon Olds "Song to Gabriel Hirsch"

in the grip of a fierce brightness - Sharon Olds "Song to Gabriel Hirsch"

your hand on the shoulder of the wild - Sharon Olds "Song to Gabriel Hirsch"

The moon and sun going down together - Sharon Olds "Suddenly"

Not telling a lie for anyone - Sharon Olds "Suddenly"

Hard ground and hard sky - Sharon Olds "Take the I Out"

A forest of felled iron - Sharon Olds "Take the I Out"

At the narrow window of a song - Sharon Olds "The Task of Naming Me"

A rich and enduring night - Sharon Olds "The Task of Naming Me"

Carried her rage unknown - Sharon Olds "Visiting My Mother’s College"

Our voices race to the towers - Sharon Olds "Voices"

Dreaming a map of the globe - Sharon Olds "Voices"

Unfolded into the hard truths - Sharon Olds "Voices"

Past the mirrors and night windows - Sharon Olds "Wonder as Wander"

A luna moth in a chambered cage - Sharon Olds "Wonder as Wander"


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