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Shapes [category]. (The line between Shapes and general Geometry is entirely arbitrary. I recommend checking the other if one doesn't include the word you're looking for.)
Align.
Angle.
Apex:
Hinges of small capture in its apex of watch - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
Arc.
Area:
Pealing out the surface areas - Aditi Machado "nation"
Flooding all areas with their evil flow - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Asymptote:
Choice that's asymptotic to a goal - Marilyn Hacker "On Marriage"
Axis.
Bisect:
Bisected by a horizon line of yellow light - Michael Collier "Goat on a Pile of Scrap Lumber"
Bisected now by bleaker griefs - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life LV: Childish Griefs"
Your absence is a bisected city - Stefania Gomez "At the New York City AIDS Memorial"
Center/Central.
Circumference.
Concave:
The sceptre of the concave hold - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
A concave wall down-ribbed with shine - Thom Gunn "From the Wave"
Their sense of concave horizon - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"
Concentric:
See our love in the concentric ripples - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
Concentres all the rays of all the ages past - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
All the light of life concentred in the focus of the towns - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
A finite number of concentric rings - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
Congruent:
In a season of odd, dusky congruences - Edward Hirsch "Fall"
Afraid of no incongruities - Amy Lowell "The Congressional Library" [excerpt]
Contour.
Convex:
The awful convex dark - Edward Doyle "Chime, Dark Bell"
From the velvet convex of that fluted note - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Curve/Curvature.
Cusp.
Degree.
Diagonal:
Draws a diagonal across my floor - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
A diagonal dismemberment of silk - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"
Diameter:
Of the diameter which severs us - Joel Dias-Porter "Three Wrong Notes"
The diameter of your invisible ink tattoo - Joel Dias-Porter "Three Wrong Notes"
Dimension.
Elongate:
Cast an elongated shadow - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
Elongates and is dispersed across the universe - Jan Cronos "She Remains"
Encircle.
Equidistant:
Equidistant between the open doors - Charles Rafferty "Two Pianos"
Geometric/Geometry.
Grid:
Layered with energetic grids and pathways - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Chaco and Olivia"
The only true measure of the grid - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
Draws a fine grid over the past - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"
A grid of interconnected variables - Mg Roberts "Cylanders II"
Height.
Horizontal.
Hypotenuse:
Aspire to become the hypotenuse - Conrad Hilberry "Wise Man"
A hypotenuse of intention - Adrian Matejka "Basketball feat. Galileo & EPMD"
Intersect.
Length.
Line.
Linear.
Loop.
Moebius:
Placed that notion on the Mobeius strip - Mary Jo Bang "Don't"
Hello in a moebius monologue - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
Moebius corridors where imagination failed - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
The blinded measuring snake a Moebius strip - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Nexus:
Rooting in a nexus of needles - Mary Jo Bang "A Portrait of Love"
Snags on my nexus of doubts - Kiki Petrosino "N/Ought"
A nexus of language & feeling - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
The nexus of error that is my thought - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]
Node:
A node of intersections in our galaxy - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Jaguar"
Mapping the nodes of universal birth and death - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"
Oblique:
In the rearview oblique glimpses - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"
Parallel.
Perimeter.
Perpendicular:
Discover the wonder of perpendicularity - Donika Kelly "Sonnet in which only one bird appears"
A variation of the perpendicular - Marianne Moore "In the Days of Prismatic Color"
The monument's honed granite perpendiculars - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"
Plane.
Point.
Proportion.
Protractor:
Working with a slide rule protractor and graph paper - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
Radial:
In her language of radial burn - Kiki Petrosino "Maria"
Radius:
Increasing your orbital radius - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"
Somewhere in the radius of us - Adrian Matejka "17 Kinds of Hungry"
Right Angle.
Rotate.
Round.
Segment:
To accommodate departure in segments - Mary Jo Bang "An Individual Equinox Suitable for Framing"
Gathered in a tempest of segments - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Side.
Slant.
Slope.
Span.
Straight.
Surface.
Symmetry.
Tangent:
Filled with tangents and distractions - Louise Gluck "An Endless Story"
On this spiral of tangential stories - Joy Harjo "Death Is a Woman"
Beyond the tangent calm - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
Trajectory.
Trigonometry:
Storms of white trigonometries - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
An old trigonometry still true - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Vector.
Vertex:
I catch on the vertices - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
Eaves hold in perfect vertices - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Vertical.
Vortex.
Wide.
Navigation Links:
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Shapes [category]. (The line between Shapes and general Geometry is entirely arbitrary. I recommend checking the other if one doesn't include the word you're looking for.)
Align.
Angle.
Apex:
Hinges of small capture in its apex of watch - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
Arc.
Area:
Pealing out the surface areas - Aditi Machado "nation"
Flooding all areas with their evil flow - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Asymptote:
Choice that's asymptotic to a goal - Marilyn Hacker "On Marriage"
Axis.
Bisect:
Bisected by a horizon line of yellow light - Michael Collier "Goat on a Pile of Scrap Lumber"
Bisected now by bleaker griefs - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life LV: Childish Griefs"
Your absence is a bisected city - Stefania Gomez "At the New York City AIDS Memorial"
Center/Central.
Circumference.
Concave:
The sceptre of the concave hold - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]
A concave wall down-ribbed with shine - Thom Gunn "From the Wave"
Their sense of concave horizon - Joy Harjo "Blue Elliptic"
Concentric:
See our love in the concentric ripples - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"
Concentres all the rays of all the ages past - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]
All the light of life concentred in the focus of the towns - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
A finite number of concentric rings - Wendy Xu "Praxis"
Congruent:
In a season of odd, dusky congruences - Edward Hirsch "Fall"
Afraid of no incongruities - Amy Lowell "The Congressional Library" [excerpt]
Contour.
Convex:
The awful convex dark - Edward Doyle "Chime, Dark Bell"
From the velvet convex of that fluted note - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]
Curve/Curvature.
Cusp.
Degree.
Diagonal:
Draws a diagonal across my floor - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"
A diagonal dismemberment of silk - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"
Diameter:
Of the diameter which severs us - Joel Dias-Porter "Three Wrong Notes"
The diameter of your invisible ink tattoo - Joel Dias-Porter "Three Wrong Notes"
Dimension.
Elongate:
Cast an elongated shadow - Shanna Compton "The Driest Place on Earth"
Elongates and is dispersed across the universe - Jan Cronos "She Remains"
Encircle.
Equidistant:
Equidistant between the open doors - Charles Rafferty "Two Pianos"
Geometric/Geometry.
Grid:
Layered with energetic grids and pathways - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Chaco and Olivia"
The only true measure of the grid - Monica de la Torre "Pause the Document"
Draws a fine grid over the past - Kiki Petrosino "The Cottage"
A grid of interconnected variables - Mg Roberts "Cylanders II"
Height.
Horizontal.
Hypotenuse:
Aspire to become the hypotenuse - Conrad Hilberry "Wise Man"
A hypotenuse of intention - Adrian Matejka "Basketball feat. Galileo & EPMD"
Intersect.
Length.
Line.
Linear.
Loop.
Moebius:
Placed that notion on the Mobeius strip - Mary Jo Bang "Don't"
Hello in a moebius monologue - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"
Moebius corridors where imagination failed - Ann K. Schwader "Towers of Light"
The blinded measuring snake a Moebius strip - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Nexus:
Rooting in a nexus of needles - Mary Jo Bang "A Portrait of Love"
Snags on my nexus of doubts - Kiki Petrosino "N/Ought"
A nexus of language & feeling - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
The nexus of error that is my thought - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]
Node:
A node of intersections in our galaxy - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Jaguar"
Mapping the nodes of universal birth and death - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"
Oblique:
In the rearview oblique glimpses - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"
Parallel.
Perimeter.
Perpendicular:
Discover the wonder of perpendicularity - Donika Kelly "Sonnet in which only one bird appears"
A variation of the perpendicular - Marianne Moore "In the Days of Prismatic Color"
The monument's honed granite perpendiculars - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"
Plane.
Point.
Proportion.
Protractor:
Working with a slide rule protractor and graph paper - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
Radial:
In her language of radial burn - Kiki Petrosino "Maria"
Radius:
Increasing your orbital radius - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"
Somewhere in the radius of us - Adrian Matejka "17 Kinds of Hungry"
Right Angle.
Rotate.
Round.
Segment:
To accommodate departure in segments - Mary Jo Bang "An Individual Equinox Suitable for Framing"
Gathered in a tempest of segments - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Side.
Slant.
Slope.
Span.
Straight.
Surface.
Symmetry.
Tangent:
Filled with tangents and distractions - Louise Gluck "An Endless Story"
On this spiral of tangential stories - Joy Harjo "Death Is a Woman"
Beyond the tangent calm - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
Trajectory.
Trigonometry:
Storms of white trigonometries - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"
An old trigonometry still true - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Vector.
Vertex:
I catch on the vertices - Igor Gulin "Kontur" transl. by Your Language My Ear
Eaves hold in perfect vertices - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Vertical.
Vortex.
Wide.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
