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Potential Titles: Geographic/Landscape Features [category].
Aquifer:
Art's uncharted aquifers - Adrienne Rich "Rusted Legacy"
Atlantic.
Bay.
Brook.
Canal.
Cascade.
Cataract.
Creek.
Estuary:
this estuary guarded by gurgling sea lions - David Maduli "alameda point"
Gravetree estuaries against the winds of Paradise - Charles Wright "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted..."
Ford.
Fjord:
Deep fjords through the heart - Nava EtShalom "Iteration"
From the fiords of the sunless winter - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Freshet:
Jangled freshets to a dewless land - Michael Field "From the Highway"
Salmon race up into the freshet - Robinson Jeffers "Salmon-Fishing"
How these freshets scour our valleys - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Geyser:
A dark gas geyser - Steve Denehan "The Crevasse"
Glad geysers, nymphs of the sun - Harriet Monroe "In the Yellowstone"
Divining the heart of the geyser - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney
A bright geyser of metal-petaled sound - May Swenson "A Bird's Life"
Remember the geyser of your moonlit blood - Izzy Wasserstein "Come Back Wrong" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]
Gulf.
Harbor/Harbour.
Headwaters:
Headwaters plummeting three thousand feet in flight - Li Po "Gazing at the Thatch-Hut Mountain Waterfall" transl. by David Hinton
High Seas:
A buccaneer on the high seas of journalism - Walter J. Kingsley "Lo, the Press Agent" [The Broadway Anthology]
Lagoon.
Lake.
Moat:
Yield her moat of pear - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love IX: Possession"
Moated by mirage - Heid E. Erdich "Just Off the Highway"
Of castle moats and pixie clans - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
Made his breast the bulwark and blood the moat - Alan Seeger "Champagne, 1914-15"
As one within a moated tower - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"
Ocean.
Pond.
Pool.
Puddle.
Rill.
Riptide:
Riptide pulling me under - Camisha L. Jones "Tinnitus"
River.
Rivulet.
Runnel:
Water from a thousand runnels - William Carlos Williams "Spring Storm"
Sea.
Seven Seas:
Drown my hopeless passion in the Seven Seas of wine - Justin H. McCarthy "A Night-Piece"
Sucked the Seven Oceans from their cup of golden sand - Justin H. McCarthy "Vine-Visions"
Strait.
Stream.
Tarn:
In some deepest tarn astray - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: X. Song of a Very Small Devil"
A lurid tarn that glassed the brow of night - John B. Tabb "The Vision of the Tarn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Sept. 1878]
Through the tarn a lonely cheer - William Wordsworth "Fidelity"
Tidepool:
Then the tidepool of my power fills - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"
Tributary.
Water Hole:
Drops each ghost into a water hole - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"
Thirst at the watering hole - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Waterfall.
Watershed:
Through the wild watershed of history - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych i. Drawing You In"
Wellspring:
The pupil dilated to the wellspring of her soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Well-springs of joy in a desolate heart - E. Clementine Stedham "Stanzas [The flush of young Hope]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.1, July 1841]
Whose wellsprings fail or flow defiled - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
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Potential Titles: Geographic/Landscape Features [category].
Aquifer:
Art's uncharted aquifers - Adrienne Rich "Rusted Legacy"
Atlantic.
Bay.
Brook.
Canal.
Cascade.
Cataract.
Creek.
Estuary:
this estuary guarded by gurgling sea lions - David Maduli "alameda point"
Gravetree estuaries against the winds of Paradise - Charles Wright "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted..."
Ford.
Fjord:
Deep fjords through the heart - Nava EtShalom "Iteration"
From the fiords of the sunless winter - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"
Freshet:
Jangled freshets to a dewless land - Michael Field "From the Highway"
Salmon race up into the freshet - Robinson Jeffers "Salmon-Fishing"
How these freshets scour our valleys - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"
Geyser:
A dark gas geyser - Steve Denehan "The Crevasse"
Glad geysers, nymphs of the sun - Harriet Monroe "In the Yellowstone"
Divining the heart of the geyser - Marin Sorescu "Fountains in the sea" transl. by Seamus Heaney
A bright geyser of metal-petaled sound - May Swenson "A Bird's Life"
Remember the geyser of your moonlit blood - Izzy Wasserstein "Come Back Wrong" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]
Gulf.
Harbor/Harbour.
Headwaters:
Headwaters plummeting three thousand feet in flight - Li Po "Gazing at the Thatch-Hut Mountain Waterfall" transl. by David Hinton
High Seas:
A buccaneer on the high seas of journalism - Walter J. Kingsley "Lo, the Press Agent" [The Broadway Anthology]
Lagoon.
Lake.
Moat:
Yield her moat of pear - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love IX: Possession"
Moated by mirage - Heid E. Erdich "Just Off the Highway"
Of castle moats and pixie clans - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"
Made his breast the bulwark and blood the moat - Alan Seeger "Champagne, 1914-15"
As one within a moated tower - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"
Ocean.
Pond.
Pool.
Puddle.
Rill.
Riptide:
Riptide pulling me under - Camisha L. Jones "Tinnitus"
River.
Rivulet.
Runnel:
Water from a thousand runnels - William Carlos Williams "Spring Storm"
Sea.
Seven Seas:
Drown my hopeless passion in the Seven Seas of wine - Justin H. McCarthy "A Night-Piece"
Sucked the Seven Oceans from their cup of golden sand - Justin H. McCarthy "Vine-Visions"
Strait.
Stream.
Tarn:
In some deepest tarn astray - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: X. Song of a Very Small Devil"
A lurid tarn that glassed the brow of night - John B. Tabb "The Vision of the Tarn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.22, Sept. 1878]
Through the tarn a lonely cheer - William Wordsworth "Fidelity"
Tidepool:
Then the tidepool of my power fills - Devin Miller "Whale Mothers, Witch Mothers"
Tributary.
Water Hole:
Drops each ghost into a water hole - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"
Thirst at the watering hole - Megan Fernandes "On the One Hand"
Waterfall.
Watershed:
Through the wild watershed of history - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych i. Drawing You In"
Wellspring:
The pupil dilated to the wellspring of her soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Well-springs of joy in a desolate heart - E. Clementine Stedham "Stanzas [The flush of young Hope]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.1, July 1841]
Whose wellsprings fail or flow defiled - William Watson "A Child's Hair"
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