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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-11-05 05:50 pm

Wick/Candlewick

Burn to a wick and keep moving - Elizabeth Alexander "Blues"

And Leathe's wick tide takes that, too - CM Burroughs "I am Warm, I Know Nothing"

Damp with the wicking of latent ache - Meg Day "Another Night at Sea Level"

Penitent coil of wick - Chris Dombrowski "Vespers Beginning as Sheep Tallow in the Hands of a Priest"

On one leg of wick - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Candle Flame"

Before the wick rejects the flame - Jessica Guzman "Predictions of the Material"

Pottery saucers with wicks and butter - Ava Leavell Haymon "Festival of Lights"

Nibbling on a darkening wick - Paul Tran "Hypothesis"

Those yielding wicks of false metaphors - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"



Boys with candlewick lips to be lit - Marianne Chan "With"

As stars burn down like candle-wicks - Louis Golding "The Moon-Clock"

Snuffed out candlewick shadow - Yona Harvey "But for now the music swings from her lacquered radio"

Said I love you to an ending candlewick - Purbasha Roy "Everyone Dies" [Strange Horizons 31 March 2025]


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