Potential Titles: War/Combat/Military Adjacent [category]

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Ambuscade:
Storm the ghosts in ambuscade - Jean Ingelow "Scholar and Carpenter"

An ambuscade of lights - Francis Thompson "New Year's Chimes"

Ambush.

Armada:
That proud armadas' trampled shards - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"

Nobody needs your damn armada - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Armada of the sky - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"

Beyond the wrecked armadas - Humbert Wolfe "England"

Armaments:
Accumulating stars and armaments - Pablo Neruda "Do Not Ask Me" transl. by Miguel Algarin

Arsenal.

Banner.

Barracks:
The black hole in the barracks - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"

Barrage:
The creeping barrage of occupation - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

Rippling through the barrage of bubbles - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"

Barricade:
Barricading places I won't go - Katherine Edgren "How to Form a Perfect Callus"

sleep amidst a barricade of trees - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

A barricade the color of fury - Pablo Neruda "Song for the Mothers of Slain Militiamen" translated by Richard Schaaf

Barricades of words and wire - Naomi Shihab Nye "Morning Song"

Bastion.

Battlement.

Bulwark.

Camouflage.

Casualties:
Tally the casualties of war - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"

Cavalcade:
That radiant cavalcade - Anna Hempstead Branch “While Loveliness Goes By”

Cavalier:
La Mancha's cavalier reposes - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Chariot.

Citadel.

Convoy:
A convoy of suspended shadows - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Dreadnought:
The foeman's dreadnoughts ride - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"

Old maid or dreadnought - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"

This dreadnought wreck cut loose - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Fort:
Dawn moon passing ruined forts - Ssu-k'ung Shu "The Rebellion Over, I See Off a Friend Who Is Returning North" transl. by Burton Watson

Bright forts against Oblivion - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Fortress.

Galley:
Galleys miss appointments with the tides - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Those shining galleys of the stars - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Galleys waiting for the gale - George Santayana "A Hermit of Carmel"

Gilded galley-slaves of Mammon - Robert W. Service "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"

Garrison:
Strange garrisons of emerald-mailed chameleons - Harold Acton "When Frigates from Long Voyages ..."

Militant:
Into this milieu of militant affection - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"

Oriflamme/Oriflame:
Golden oriflames and tents of pearl - Eleanor Downing "The Pilgrim"

Bearing Lucifer's oriflamme - Louis J. McQuilland "Ballade of Fight"

The rose shall be my oriflamme - John Oxenham "The Word that Was Left Unsaid"

Rampart.

Revolutionary.

Ricochet:
A ricochet from a sea surge - Charles Wright "Outscape"

Shellshock:
Shellshocked at needing anyone - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"

Stockade:
The stockade and the bastioned gate - Laura Da' "The Honest Tongue"

Strategy:
A pure cruel strategy - Daisy Aldan "Frozen Frames of a Last Meeting"

Silence itself is strategy - Mary Jo Bang "Gretel"

A strategy for ignoring history - Louise Gluck "Parable for the King"

My strong strategy for the future dystopia - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"


Van.


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