Potential Titles: Mercury/Mercurial

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Flashing shooting stars into the mercurial mass - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Something for the mercurial stomach - Mary Jo Bang "Ghost and Grays"

That mercurial measure of contact - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Harmony (I)"

Lurks mercurial in the blood - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "As in ... Afro-Pessimism?"

Lead to mercurial doomsdays - Mina Loy "Lunar Baedeker"


Filled with mercury memory - Elmaz Abinader "Lines of Demarcation"

Armed with wings of Mercury - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

With the mercury at zero - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "A More Ancient Mariner"

Pour into him its scorching mercury - Tina Chang "Fury"

Crust a plate of vibrant mercury - Hart Crane "Recitative"

Fated to watch Mercury and Venus engulfed - Kyle Dargan "Dear Echo" [Poetry Feb. 2016]

As the planet Mercury would allow - Major Jackson "Language of the Moon"

Mercury sonorous behind the glass - Farid Matuk "Mimesis"

When Mercury waved the potent wand - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Holds out a ball of mercury - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"

Their veins are rivers of mercury - Nicky Russell "Machinist Hands"

just a plashless drop of mercury - Evie Shockley "women's voting rights at one hundred (but who's counting?)"

Mercury monogrammed with fever - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

A negative developed in mercury - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"


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