Potential Titles: Vehicles [category]
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Airplane:
Five paper airplanes poking at turned dirt - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"
My thoughts catch rides with passing airplanes - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "My First Love"
Aeroplanes and paper darts - Furnley Maurice "The Shadow Show"
last sky will empty itself of airplanes - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
Airship:
The sky is waiting for an airship - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"
Watch the smooth airships of Zen - Tony Hoagland "Upward"
Ambulance:
Holding only the echoes of ambulance screams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Argosy:
Where shifting winds were driving his argosies - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"
Some outward voyaging argosy - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"
Argosies of earth their treasures bear - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"
Ark.
Armada.
Automobile:
Driving a cardboard automobile - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Far Rockaway of the Heart, 2"
Backhoe:
Of backhoes awakening each morning - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"
Balloon.
Barge.
Barque/Bark (boat):
The bark by the gale is driven - G.R. Carter "The Homeward Voyage" [The Mirror of Literature v.20 issue 562, 18 Aug. 1832]
Misled, misguided barques - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway IV: Vagrants"
Loud round my storm-beaten bark - S. Anna Lewis "The Unmasked"
The star to every wandering bark - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"
Battle-Cruiser:
Ghosts of sleeping battle-cruisers - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
Battleship:
Rimmed round by steel-built battleships - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"
Bicycle:
Precarious choreography of bicycles - Safia Elhillo "Amsterdam"
Riding a bicycle towards the ceiling - John Yau "Music from Childhood"
Boat.
Bomber:
Where the grey bombers loose their metal thunder - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Bulldozer:
Past bulldozers and trucks pouring tarmac - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
Bus.
Cab: See Taxi/Taxicab.
Caboose:
Like cabooses ready to decouple - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"
Glide next to a forgotten caboose - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"
Canoe:
To canoe over Niagara Falls and live - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"
Finds in our canoe no room - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Across the crease of smooth canoes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
Car.
Caravan.
Caravel:
I would understand the caravel of my childhood - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Carousel.
Carriage:
Kites and owls screech at the carriage yoke - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
No carriage goes that does not follow the rut - Wang Seng-Ta "To Match the Prince of Lang-yeh's Poem in the Old Style" transl. by Burton Watson
Cart.
Chariot.
Coach:
Just departed in the sun's bright coach - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Convoy:
A convoy of suspended shadows - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Corsair:
Every lover is a corsair seeking glory - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
Dirigible:
Gilded aerialists in their giant dirigibles - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
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"
Eighteen Wheeler:
The first one to an eighteen-wheeler accident - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: III"
Exit ramps lined with eighteen wheelers - Richard Jones "Rest"
Ferris wheel:
A Ferris Wheel in winter - Lou Barrett "Coney Island Afternoon"
Ferris wheel with tickets for sale - Stephanie Heit "Solar Eclipse"
Went down to the ferris wheel - Brenda Hillman "Sediments of Santa Monica"
Ferry.
Flatbed [Truck]:
A fast-driving diesel flatbed of felled trees - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Fleet.
Freight Train:
Of freight trains lacking finesse - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
And stars a freight train passing - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [This beauty that I see]"
Into the crease the freight train hits - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"
Frigate:
Deep in the bilges of frigates - David Tomas Martinez "The Mechanics of Men"
High carrion frigates - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"
Galleon:
A galleon on the caustic waters - William Brewer "Resolution"
Cloud-galleons with their sails of rose and snow - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"
Every galleon of the air - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"
Galley.
Go-Cart:
Their meteor go-cart running on a firecracker - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Gondola:
The boat-yard of the last gondola maker - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
My soul is a sleeping gondola - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"
Hearse:
Trailed a white hearse - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXII"
Hearses carrying the corpse of profit - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"
From our hearse of changing dust - Joshua Henry Jones "The Universe"
Helicopter:
When the helicopters shred the sky - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
The covert jackaling of helicopters and jets - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Ice Cream Truck:
The ice cream truck's jingle warped and blaring - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
Jet.
Locomotive:
What fills a tunnel after a locomotive passes - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"
Locomotives and other forgettings - Sandy Florian "House"
With its alphabetical locomotives - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
Locomotive running off the rails - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"
Merry-Go-Round:
Somebody counts the merry-go-rounds inside - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"
On our spherical, miracle merry-go-round - Allan Wolf "The Sun Did Not Go Down Today"
Navy:
Where the gallant navy rides the deep - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Reckoning up their navies - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Pinnace:
Love's pinnace overfraught - John Donne "Air and Angels"
The pinnace needs a swifter sail - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"
Plague Ship:
Bring this plague ship to port - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Pushcart:
A pushcart heaped beyond possibility - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Raft.
Rail/Railroad.
Rocket.
Roller Coaster:
This forest of drowned roller coasters - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"
Rowboat:
A toy dog left on a rowboat adrift - Mary Jo Bang "Today You're the Still Photographer"
Ship.
Skiff:
a skiff of snow in the new week - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"
Snowplow:
Snowplow pushes time across the prairie - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
Snowplows etch lines in the whiteness - Sue Budin "After the Blizzard"
Squadron.
Submarine:
Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Subway.
Taxi/Taxicab.
Tractor:
Beyond the knives of a tractor - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"
A tractor skirting a green triangle - Mary Jo Bang "Children Were Erasing Their Faces"
slung from tractor factories - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"
A rusty tractor sits fallow in the field - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
Train.
Tram:
Leave the tram-car's jarring jangle - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Trawler:
Fishnets trawling stars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7
Skirted the rocks and wrecked trawlers - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"
Truck:
The avenue with its cavalcade of trucks - Rosa Alcala "You Rode a Loop"
The ice cream truck's jingle warped and blaring - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
Left a truck full of shivers - Xan Forest Phillips "War on Drugs"
Truckloads of gravel between us - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Van.
Vehicle:
All the vehicles for imbibing - Brandon D. Johnson "Standing by a Shelf"
My body is just a vehicle to move me - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #39"
A cumbersome dream vehicle - Elizabeth Spires "The Snowy Day"
Vessel.
Warship:
His throne's the war-ship's lofty deck - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
The sun's great warship - A.E. Stallings "On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia"
Wheelbarrow:
When William Carlos' red wheelbarrow transforms - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [William Carlos Williams]
The wheelbarrow wept to the willows - Furnley Maurice "The Concert in the Garden"
A jar of coffee and a wheelbarrow - Frank Stanford "Sunday Flowers"
Zeppelin:
Thunderheads like doomed zeppelins - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"
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Airplane:
Five paper airplanes poking at turned dirt - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"
My thoughts catch rides with passing airplanes - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "My First Love"
Aeroplanes and paper darts - Furnley Maurice "The Shadow Show"
last sky will empty itself of airplanes - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
Airship:
The sky is waiting for an airship - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"
Watch the smooth airships of Zen - Tony Hoagland "Upward"
Ambulance:
Holding only the echoes of ambulance screams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Argosy:
Where shifting winds were driving his argosies - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"
Some outward voyaging argosy - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"
Argosies of earth their treasures bear - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"
Ark.
Armada.
Automobile:
Driving a cardboard automobile - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Far Rockaway of the Heart, 2"
Backhoe:
Of backhoes awakening each morning - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"
Balloon.
Barge.
Barque/Bark (boat):
The bark by the gale is driven - G.R. Carter "The Homeward Voyage" [The Mirror of Literature v.20 issue 562, 18 Aug. 1832]
Misled, misguided barques - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway IV: Vagrants"
Loud round my storm-beaten bark - S. Anna Lewis "The Unmasked"
The star to every wandering bark - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXVI"
Battle-Cruiser:
Ghosts of sleeping battle-cruisers - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
Battleship:
Rimmed round by steel-built battleships - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"
Bicycle:
Precarious choreography of bicycles - Safia Elhillo "Amsterdam"
Riding a bicycle towards the ceiling - John Yau "Music from Childhood"
Boat.
Bomber:
Where the grey bombers loose their metal thunder - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Bulldozer:
Past bulldozers and trucks pouring tarmac - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
Bus.
Cab: See Taxi/Taxicab.
Caboose:
Like cabooses ready to decouple - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"
Glide next to a forgotten caboose - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"
Canoe:
To canoe over Niagara Falls and live - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"
Finds in our canoe no room - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Across the crease of smooth canoes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
Car.
Caravan.
Caravel:
I would understand the caravel of my childhood - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Carousel.
Carriage:
Kites and owls screech at the carriage yoke - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
No carriage goes that does not follow the rut - Wang Seng-Ta "To Match the Prince of Lang-yeh's Poem in the Old Style" transl. by Burton Watson
Cart.
Chariot.
Coach:
Just departed in the sun's bright coach - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Convoy:
A convoy of suspended shadows - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Corsair:
Every lover is a corsair seeking glory - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
Dirigible:
Gilded aerialists in their giant dirigibles - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
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"
Eighteen Wheeler:
The first one to an eighteen-wheeler accident - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: III"
Exit ramps lined with eighteen wheelers - Richard Jones "Rest"
Ferris wheel:
A Ferris Wheel in winter - Lou Barrett "Coney Island Afternoon"
Ferris wheel with tickets for sale - Stephanie Heit "Solar Eclipse"
Went down to the ferris wheel - Brenda Hillman "Sediments of Santa Monica"
Ferry.
Flatbed [Truck]:
A fast-driving diesel flatbed of felled trees - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Fleet.
Freight Train:
Of freight trains lacking finesse - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
And stars a freight train passing - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [This beauty that I see]"
Into the crease the freight train hits - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"
Frigate:
Deep in the bilges of frigates - David Tomas Martinez "The Mechanics of Men"
High carrion frigates - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"
Galleon:
A galleon on the caustic waters - William Brewer "Resolution"
Cloud-galleons with their sails of rose and snow - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"
Every galleon of the air - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"
Galley.
Go-Cart:
Their meteor go-cart running on a firecracker - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Gondola:
The boat-yard of the last gondola maker - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
My soul is a sleeping gondola - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"
Hearse:
Trailed a white hearse - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXII"
Hearses carrying the corpse of profit - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"
From our hearse of changing dust - Joshua Henry Jones "The Universe"
Helicopter:
When the helicopters shred the sky - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
The covert jackaling of helicopters and jets - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Ice Cream Truck:
The ice cream truck's jingle warped and blaring - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
Jet.
Locomotive:
What fills a tunnel after a locomotive passes - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"
Locomotives and other forgettings - Sandy Florian "House"
With its alphabetical locomotives - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
Locomotive running off the rails - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"
Merry-Go-Round:
Somebody counts the merry-go-rounds inside - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"
On our spherical, miracle merry-go-round - Allan Wolf "The Sun Did Not Go Down Today"
Navy:
Where the gallant navy rides the deep - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Reckoning up their navies - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Pinnace:
Love's pinnace overfraught - John Donne "Air and Angels"
The pinnace needs a swifter sail - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"
Plague Ship:
Bring this plague ship to port - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Pushcart:
A pushcart heaped beyond possibility - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Raft.
Rail/Railroad.
Rocket.
Roller Coaster:
This forest of drowned roller coasters - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"
Rowboat:
A toy dog left on a rowboat adrift - Mary Jo Bang "Today You're the Still Photographer"
Ship.
Skiff:
a skiff of snow in the new week - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"
Snowplow:
Snowplow pushes time across the prairie - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
Snowplows etch lines in the whiteness - Sue Budin "After the Blizzard"
Squadron.
Submarine:
Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Subway.
Taxi/Taxicab.
Tractor:
Beyond the knives of a tractor - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"
A tractor skirting a green triangle - Mary Jo Bang "Children Were Erasing Their Faces"
slung from tractor factories - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"
A rusty tractor sits fallow in the field - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
Train.
Tram:
Leave the tram-car's jarring jangle - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Trawler:
Fishnets trawling stars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7
Skirted the rocks and wrecked trawlers - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"
Truck:
The avenue with its cavalcade of trucks - Rosa Alcala "You Rode a Loop"
The ice cream truck's jingle warped and blaring - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
Left a truck full of shivers - Xan Forest Phillips "War on Drugs"
Truckloads of gravel between us - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"
Van.
Vehicle:
All the vehicles for imbibing - Brandon D. Johnson "Standing by a Shelf"
My body is just a vehicle to move me - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #39"
A cumbersome dream vehicle - Elizabeth Spires "The Snowy Day"
Vessel.
Warship:
His throne's the war-ship's lofty deck - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
The sun's great warship - A.E. Stallings "On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia"
Wheelbarrow:
When William Carlos' red wheelbarrow transforms - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [William Carlos Williams]
The wheelbarrow wept to the willows - Furnley Maurice "The Concert in the Garden"
A jar of coffee and a wheelbarrow - Frank Stanford "Sunday Flowers"
Zeppelin:
Thunderheads like doomed zeppelins - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
