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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.
Beach.
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.
Dehydrate:
The dehydrations of mere permanence - Wyatt Prunty "Two Views"
Deluge.
Dock.
Douse:
A doused flame blacks the water - David Hornibrook "Insomnia"
The storm that douse the firebird - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"
douse this blackness in viscous castor oil - Neha Maqsood "Things I Do to Remember Home"
A hundred thousand other files doused in kerosene - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Dyke:
Beyond the dykes I heard wind flaking sapphire - Hart Crane "Repose of Rivers"
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:
Rainbowed by the force of fresh water - Jennifer Elise Foerster "American History"
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"
And mount the crystal air in spiral gyre - Wm. Albert Sutliffe "Fragment of a Poem" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.6, Dec. 1852]
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:
bitterly inundates the sunset's shatter - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "" transl. by Phương Anh
That cast their inundations o'er the darkening air - Ronald Ross "Hesperus" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
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"
Sped on the Great Meridian for jetty pearls - Sir Ronald Ross "Ariel and the Hippopotamus: Dedicated to the Rural Magnates"
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.
Mariner:
The mariner curses the warning bird - Barry Cornwall "The Stormy Petrel" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]
The outrages of mariners exceed devouring flame - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
All mariners on this sea of life - Albert Pike "Fragment" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.4, Apr. 1842]
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:
Untempted by the fashionable quays - W.H. Auden "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"
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]
In tangles of old alleys near the quays - H.P. Lovecraft "Fungi from Yuggoth" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.2, Oct. 1934]
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.
Sluice:
A new sluice of water and food and want - Jeremiah Moriarty "New Regime" [11 Aug. 2025]
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"
Submarine [not the vehicle]:
Trembles to the bursting throes of submarine volcanoes - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"
Submerge
Surf.
Tide
Undercurrent.
Undertow.
Underwater.
Waterline:
As hope sunk below the waterline - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"
Wave
Wet.
Wharf:
Out from the wharves and the wailing - Louise Imogen Guiney "Gloucester Harbor"
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.
Whitecap:
All breaking whitecap and red, beating heart - M. Bartley Seigel "I'm Told It's Foolish to Befriend a Water Lynx"
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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.
Beach.
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.
Dehydrate:
The dehydrations of mere permanence - Wyatt Prunty "Two Views"
Deluge.
Dock.
Douse:
A doused flame blacks the water - David Hornibrook "Insomnia"
The storm that douse the firebird - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"
douse this blackness in viscous castor oil - Neha Maqsood "Things I Do to Remember Home"
A hundred thousand other files doused in kerosene - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Dyke:
Beyond the dykes I heard wind flaking sapphire - Hart Crane "Repose of Rivers"
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:
Rainbowed by the force of fresh water - Jennifer Elise Foerster "American History"
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"
And mount the crystal air in spiral gyre - Wm. Albert Sutliffe "Fragment of a Poem" [Graham's Magazine v.XLI no.6, Dec. 1852]
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:
bitterly inundates the sunset's shatter - Huy Tưởng aka Đức Hiệp Nguyễn "" transl. by Phương Anh
That cast their inundations o'er the darkening air - Ronald Ross "Hesperus" [Georgian Poetry 1911-1912]
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"
Sped on the Great Meridian for jetty pearls - Sir Ronald Ross "Ariel and the Hippopotamus: Dedicated to the Rural Magnates"
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.
Mariner:
The mariner curses the warning bird - Barry Cornwall "The Stormy Petrel" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 17, July 7, 1832]
The outrages of mariners exceed devouring flame - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
All mariners on this sea of life - Albert Pike "Fragment" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.4, Apr. 1842]
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:
Untempted by the fashionable quays - W.H. Auden "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"
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]
In tangles of old alleys near the quays - H.P. Lovecraft "Fungi from Yuggoth" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.2, Oct. 1934]
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.
Sluice:
A new sluice of water and food and want - Jeremiah Moriarty "New Regime" [11 Aug. 2025]
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"
Submarine [not the vehicle]:
Trembles to the bursting throes of submarine volcanoes - Hanford Lennox Gordon "The Captain's Story"
Submerge
Surf.
Tide
Undercurrent.
Undertow.
Underwater.
Waterline:
As hope sunk below the waterline - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"
Wave
Wet.
Wharf:
Out from the wharves and the wailing - Louise Imogen Guiney "Gloucester Harbor"
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.
Whitecap:
All breaking whitecap and red, beating heart - M. Bartley Seigel "I'm Told It's Foolish to Befriend a Water Lynx"
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
