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Box.

Chevron:
as the chevron burns in the distance - Sam Sax "Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges"

Circle.

Circular.

Cone.

Crescent.

Cross.

Cube.

Curl.

Cylinder:
Pent in dark chambers of cylindric brass - Erasmus Darwin "The Botanic Garden part 1: The Economy of Vegetation canto I"

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.

Scallop [shape]:
Rides updrafts with scalloped hands, interrogating air - Lance Larsen "For I Will Consider the Lone Crow at Angels Landing"

Semicircle:
A rhythmically surging semicircle - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"

Shape.

Sphere.

Spiral.

Square.

Tetrahedron:
Each strong molecule expands, a lattice of tetrahedrons - Brian Teare "Sitting River Meditation"

Torus:
A torus-image whose empty center we sought - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Triangle.

Tube.


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