Potential Titles: Shapes [category]
Aug. 19th, 2012 08:35 pmBox.
Circle.
Circular.
Cone.
Crescent.
Cross.
Cube:
Each cubed hollow the math of absence and distance - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"
how parts of our small universe dissolve like sugar cubes in water - Karla Cordero "Everything Needs Fixing"
Ice cubes projecting memory - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"
Curl.
Cylinder:
Fix the thing upon a spinning cylinder - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
Vortex streets of cylindrical sound - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen i"
Inscribed on the infinite wax cylinder of the world - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"
Diamond.
Disc/Disk.
Dodecahedron:
Against the sky behind the dodecahedron - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
Ellipse.
Funnel.
Globe.
Helix:
The helix of departure unfurling - Julia Bouwsma "Interview with the Dead"
Make a helix of my hands - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"
Motion in a Helix's curve - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
The backroad switchbacks of his double helix - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist with Three Moons"
Hemisphere.
Hexagon:
Hexagons find their way toward curved forms - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
How he hides in the hexagons of bees - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
Hoop.
Oblate:
Of oblate blooms & blessed liquids - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Perfumes"
Oblong:
the square virtues and the oblong sins - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"
Octagon:
The glassy, concrete octagon suspended from the cliffs - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
Orb.
Oval/Ovate.
Parabola:
Parabola and experience - CM Burroughs "Body as a Juncture of Almost"
Back on a strange parabola - D.H. Lawrence "Man and Bat"
The moon a parabola to our party - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
Between planets and parabolas - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"
Parallelogram:
Measure by parallelogram construction - "Song of the Screw"
Pentacle:
Pentacles to guard the ground - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
Dragging pentacles in the dust - Wendy Rathbone "Grief"
Pentagon:
Herein lies the hard pentagonal truth - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"
Your star bulging into a pentagon - Denise Duhamel "Delta Flight 656"
Pyramid.
Rectangle.
Semicircle:
A rhythmically surging semicircle - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"
Shape.
Sphere.
Spiral.
Square.
Torus:
A torus-image whose empty center we sought - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Triangle.
Tube:
twists and rises into the tube of light - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
His tubes of soft quicksilver - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"
Prayers in tissue radiant tubes - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
Scuttle into sand-tubes and hide amongst the spinifex - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
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Circle.
Circular.
Cone.
Crescent.
Cross.
Cube:
Each cubed hollow the math of absence and distance - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"
how parts of our small universe dissolve like sugar cubes in water - Karla Cordero "Everything Needs Fixing"
Ice cubes projecting memory - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"
Curl.
Cylinder:
Fix the thing upon a spinning cylinder - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
Vortex streets of cylindrical sound - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen i"
Inscribed on the infinite wax cylinder of the world - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"
Diamond.
Disc/Disk.
Dodecahedron:
Against the sky behind the dodecahedron - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
Ellipse.
Funnel.
Globe.
Helix:
The helix of departure unfurling - Julia Bouwsma "Interview with the Dead"
Make a helix of my hands - Kristina Martino "All I Can Have are Field Recordings of the Field"
Motion in a Helix's curve - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"
The backroad switchbacks of his double helix - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist with Three Moons"
Hemisphere.
Hexagon:
Hexagons find their way toward curved forms - Daisy Aldan "The Sky Is Moving Farther Back, Opaque"
How he hides in the hexagons of bees - Susan Stewart "Let me tell you about my marvelous god"
Hoop.
Oblate:
Of oblate blooms & blessed liquids - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Perfumes"
Oblong:
the square virtues and the oblong sins - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"
Octagon:
The glassy, concrete octagon suspended from the cliffs - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
Orb.
Oval/Ovate.
Parabola:
Parabola and experience - CM Burroughs "Body as a Juncture of Almost"
Back on a strange parabola - D.H. Lawrence "Man and Bat"
The moon a parabola to our party - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
Between planets and parabolas - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"
Parallelogram:
Measure by parallelogram construction - "Song of the Screw"
Pentacle:
Pentacles to guard the ground - E.H.W. Meyerstein "The Incantation"
Dragging pentacles in the dust - Wendy Rathbone "Grief"
Pentagon:
Herein lies the hard pentagonal truth - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"
Your star bulging into a pentagon - Denise Duhamel "Delta Flight 656"
Pyramid.
Rectangle.
Semicircle:
A rhythmically surging semicircle - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"
Shape.
Sphere.
Spiral.
Square.
Torus:
A torus-image whose empty center we sought - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Triangle.
Tube:
twists and rises into the tube of light - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"
His tubes of soft quicksilver - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"
Prayers in tissue radiant tubes - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong"
Scuttle into sand-tubes and hide amongst the spinifex - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
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