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Water.

Potential Titles: Geographic/Landscape Features [category].



Aquifer:
Art's uncharted aquifers - Adrienne Rich "Rusted Legacy"

Atlantic.

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"

Gulf.

Harbor/Harbour.

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"

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.

Strait:
Through the Strait of Violent Returns - Marianne Chan "Counterargument that Goes All the Way Around"

That strait where ruin oft the crashing bark attends - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

But after passing o'er unnumbered straits of ocean - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

In those straits of the unfathomed main - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

'Midst ocean's straits tempestuous, dire Charybdis - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Came to him in straits and travail sore - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

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

Whose wellsprings fail or flow defiled - William Watson "A Child's Hair"


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