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Water.
Aquarium:
Through the windows of an ancient aquarium - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"
Green aquarium of phantom fish - Aldous Huxley "The Reef"
Aqueduct:
Constructed an aqueduct of dreams - Arthur Sze "First Snow"
Bank.
Bay.
Breaker:
Spouting breakers were the only thing a-lee - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"
Coast.
Coastline.
Cofferdam:
The ghostly cofferdam of my own mind - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Coral.
Current.
Dam.
Damp.
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.
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:
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"
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"
Reef.
Reservoir:
Returned to the reservoir of the mind - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
A small reservoir of furious music - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
Ripple.
Riverbank.
Sediment.
Shore.
Shower.
Silt.
Sodden:
The ghost that's in his bones dreams in the sodden clay - W.J. Turner "Death"
Spindrift.
Submerge
Surf.
Tide
Undercurrent:
An undercurrent that also reveals me - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"
An undercurrent of hidden language - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"
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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Water.
Aquarium:
Through the windows of an ancient aquarium - Martin Espada "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"
Green aquarium of phantom fish - Aldous Huxley "The Reef"
Aqueduct:
Constructed an aqueduct of dreams - Arthur Sze "First Snow"
Bank.
Bay.
Breaker:
Spouting breakers were the only thing a-lee - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"
Coast.
Coastline.
Cofferdam:
The ghostly cofferdam of my own mind - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Coral.
Current.
Dam.
Damp.
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.
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:
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"
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"
Reef.
Reservoir:
Returned to the reservoir of the mind - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
A small reservoir of furious music - Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
Ripple.
Riverbank.
Sediment.
Shore.
Shower.
Silt.
Sodden:
The ghost that's in his bones dreams in the sodden clay - W.J. Turner "Death"
Spindrift.
Submerge
Surf.
Tide
Undercurrent:
An undercurrent that also reveals me - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"
An undercurrent of hidden language - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"
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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