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For weather related water words, see: Potential Titles: Weather [category].

Water.


Aquarium:
Through the windows of an ancient aquarium - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"

to explain climate change to an aquarium turtle - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins

Green aquarium of phantom fish - Aldous Huxley "The Reef"

Aqueduct:
Constructed an aqueduct of dreams - Arthur Sze "First Snow"

Bank.

Bay.

Breaker.

Cape.

Coast.

Coastline.

Cofferdam:
The ghostly cofferdam of my own mind - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

Coral.

Cove:
From the marl of the earth in a sacred cove - Edward Hirsch "A Greek Island"

Current.

Dam.

Damp.

Dank.

Deluge.

Dock.

Douse:
The storm that douse the firebird - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"

A hundred thousand other files doused in kerosene - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Dyke:
Bursts the dykes of oppression - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Like a deluge on the dykes - Thomas Babington Macaulay "The Battle of Naseby"

Eddy.

Erode/Erosion.

Evaporate.

Flood.

Foam.

Ford.

Freshwater:
crocodile at the edge of a freshwater marsh - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"

Froth.

Glacial.

Glacier.

Gyre:
Swirling gyres of unpredictability - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

gyre with dead fire alarm tears - Aristilde Kirby "Daria Ukiyo-e"

Harbor/Harbour.

Humid.

Hydroelectric:
hydroelectric plants to fry your eggs in the microwave - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins

Ice.

Inlet:
Moving toward the inlets of the fingers - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"

Inundate:
Thickened with inundating dark - Francis Thompson "Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897"

Irrigate:
irrigated by steady streams of cars - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

Jetty:
Abandoned old jetties just under the water - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"

Jettied on the peacock tide - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Unknown City"

Bruised from battered jetty and sea-wall - Leonora Speyer "This City Wind"

Levee:
demands we graffiti on the levee wall - C.T. Salazar "River"

Low-Tide:
At low tide to surface smooth as driftwood - Jenny Browne "Late Fermata"

Early mist breaking on low tide - John Moncure Wettarau "Morning, Maine Honolulu"

Ghostwriting the low-tide mark - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Maelstrom.

Main.

Meltwater:
Meltwater frozen for millennia - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"

Moist.

Petrichor:
leaves petrichor as aftertaste - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"

Pier:
In slanting piers of light - Arthur Colton "Faustine"

racing childhood to the pier's edge - David Maduli "alameda point"

Dream-dark piers of speech - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"

Beneath the shadows of these piers - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

Port.

Portage:
Sweating on the portage trail - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Quay:
Creep up the tidal river to the quay - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]

Reef.

Reservoir:
Returned to the reservoir of the mind - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

Through vast chthonic reservoirs - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

A small reservoir of furious music - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

Ripple.

Riverbank.

Sediment.

Shore.

Shower.

Silt.

Sodden:
Among the sodden seethe of leaves - Stanley Kunitz "The Testing-Tree"

The ghost that's in his bones dreams in the sodden clay - W.J. Turner "Death"

Spindrift.

Spume:
Who was born of sea spume - Barbara Jane Reyes "Again, She Tells the First Story"

Submerge

Surf.

Tide

Undercurrent.

Undertow.

Underwater.

Waterline:
As hope sunk below the waterline - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"

Wave

Wet.

Wharf:
The weed from Lethe wharf - James Russell Lowell "To C. F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe"

On the wharves of sleep - Edwin Markham "The Wharf of Dreams"

Where lethe laps the wharf of sleeping streams - Iris Tree "[Winding down the streets in wearied gaiety]"

Upon the wharves of sorrow- W.B. Yeats "They went forth to the Battle, but they always fell"

Whirlpool.


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