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somethingdarkerArbor:
then in the arbor of sudden light - Lee Ballentine "The Whole Atom"
Recall the river arbor at twilight - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson
Arbors close the ends of dreaming paths - Amy Lowell "Behind a Wall"
Archipelago.
Barrier Island:
Toward the last green barrier island - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
Barrier island that shields us from a dark horizon - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
Beach.
Bog.
Border.
Borderland.
Potential Titles: Buildings [category].
Butte:
Each butte and bitter lake - Donika Kelly "Santa Rosa"
Canyon.
Cape.
Cave/Cavern.
Chasm.
Cliff.
Continent.
Coppice:
Underneath the coppice and heath - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"
Copse:
Lose themselves mid groves and copses - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Its body a copse of sumac - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"
Country.
Crag.
Crater.
Crevasse/Crevice.
Dale:
From woods and dales in undiscovered realms - Harry Martinson "Aniara 6" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A dale of hawthorn dreams - Muriel Stuart "The Seed Shop"
Dell.
Desert.
Ditch.
Dune.
Dustbowl:
No dustbowl wind can lift this history of loss - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
Farm.
Fen.
Field.
Fissure.
Floodplain:
Blown in from sweet-fruited floodplains - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"
Foothill:
On roads that wind around the foothills - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
Over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"
Forest.
Garden.
Glacier.
Glade.
Glen.
Gorge.
Grotto.
Grove.
Gulch:
Deep in the gulches and hollows - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"
Gulf.
Gully:
Gullies of snow summer hasn't touched yet - Robert Hass "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
Habitat.
Hardpan:
Two shovels for hardpan and splintering - Janet Kauffman "The Whirlwind Times"
Heath.
Hill.
Hillock:
On your little grey-black hillock - William Carlos Williams "Trees"
Hinterland:
Through the hinterlands of justice - Mary Oliver "The Oak Tree at the Entrance to Blackwater Pond"
Island.
Isle.
Isthmus:
Black as the black craters in an isthmus - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
Jungle.
Knoll:
The flowers that deck the verdant knoll - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]
The little knoll where we mark its winter twin - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
Land.
Landslide:
To set in memory the landslide you just dreamed - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Landslides and earthquakes from the depths - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"
Lawn.
Marl:
From the marl of the earth in a sacred cove - Edward Hirsch "A Greek Island"
Marsh.
Meadow.
Mesa:
The white tailed kite will arc across the mesa - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Mire.
Moor.
Moraine:
glacial moraine of gravel & clay - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
Mountain.
Multiverse:
The multiverse and its many merciless permutations - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"
Oasis.
Outcropping:
In verdant outcrops of the imagination - Paul Cameron Brown "Sabbat"
Reach for the next outcropping of rock - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"
Park.
Pasture.
Peak.
Peninsula:
Your icy peninsula of glamour - Denise Duhamel "Delta Flight 656"
Out here at the end of a lonely peninsula - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
Permafrost:
Manifested as sinkholes under permafrost - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"
Plain.
Plateau:
plateaus on my memory - Elizabeth Bartlett "guadalajara"
The plateau piles everything you love back into dust - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"
Polar.
Prairie.
Precipice
Quicksand.
Rainforest:
Growing a rainforest between my ribs - Angel Leal "Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father"
Ravine.
Reef.
Ridge.
Riverbank.
Potential Titles: Rocks [category].
Savannah:
In the distants Savannahs a talisman grows - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
Clouds and savannahs and horizons - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"
Rambling on the steaming savannas - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"
Greet the great wide savannahs - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"
Scarp:
From forest edge to city scarp - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"
Shoal.
Shrubland:
northward fire twists around the shrublands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"
Sinkhole:
Sink hole from which hell's laughter issues - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Manifested as sinkholes under permafrost - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"
Sink holes consume fields of gold - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
Slough:
The sloughs and sluices of my mind - Lorine Niedecker "Paean to Place"
Spinney:
When the foxes from the spinneys bark - John Drinkwater "The Midlands"
Stalactite:
Hung with pendent stalactites like frozen vines - Amy Lowell "A Fairy Tale"
Something spectral possesses the stalactites - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
Steppe:
Upheavals in the steppes of Kazakhstan - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Twelve times amid their Steppes of ice - B. Simmons "Mahmood the Ghazavide" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLIX, v.LVIII, Sept. 1845]
Preparing for the further steppes of feeling - John Moncure Wettarau "Alexis"
Swamp.
Sward:
a very black thing at the edge of a sward - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
On the bright sward in lowly homage kneeling - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Sylvan:
in sylvan steampunk surroundings - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"
Terrain.
Territory.
Topography:
Gaze deeply into your heart's topographies - Mouna Ammar "Permission"
The chromatic topography of our shared mind - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"
Patrol the outer ring of hell's topography - Jacques J. Rancourt "Mt. Diablo"
Tor:
Piled on the lofty peaks of rugged Tors - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
The tors in their unyielding line - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"
Tract.
Tundra:
Lecturing on tundra - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"
Tundras with paths lined with wet spikes - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"
Turf.
Upland.
Vale.
Valley.
Vinyard.
Wasteland.
Potential Titles: Water - Bodies of [category].
Watershed:
Through the wild watershed of history - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych i. Drawing You In"
Wetland:
A silky frenzy steeps the wetlands - Philip Schultz "Welcome to the Springs"
Wilderness.
Wildwood.
Woodland.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
then in the arbor of sudden light - Lee Ballentine "The Whole Atom"
Recall the river arbor at twilight - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson
Arbors close the ends of dreaming paths - Amy Lowell "Behind a Wall"
Archipelago.
Barrier Island:
Toward the last green barrier island - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
Barrier island that shields us from a dark horizon - Keith Taylor "Mapping the River"
Beach.
Bog.
Border.
Borderland.
Potential Titles: Buildings [category].
Butte:
Each butte and bitter lake - Donika Kelly "Santa Rosa"
Canyon.
Cape.
Cave/Cavern.
Chasm.
Cliff.
Continent.
Coppice:
Underneath the coppice and heath - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"
Copse:
Lose themselves mid groves and copses - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"
Its body a copse of sumac - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"
Country.
Crag.
Crater.
Crevasse/Crevice.
Dale:
From woods and dales in undiscovered realms - Harry Martinson "Aniara 6" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A dale of hawthorn dreams - Muriel Stuart "The Seed Shop"
Dell.
Desert.
Ditch.
Dune.
Dustbowl:
No dustbowl wind can lift this history of loss - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"
Farm.
Fen.
Field.
Fissure.
Floodplain:
Blown in from sweet-fruited floodplains - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"
Foothill:
On roads that wind around the foothills - William Moore "It Was Not Fate"
Over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"
Forest.
Garden.
Glacier.
Glade.
Glen.
Gorge.
Grotto.
Grove.
Gulch:
Deep in the gulches and hollows - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"
Gulf.
Gully:
Gullies of snow summer hasn't touched yet - Robert Hass "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"
Habitat.
Hardpan:
Two shovels for hardpan and splintering - Janet Kauffman "The Whirlwind Times"
Heath.
Hill.
Hillock:
On your little grey-black hillock - William Carlos Williams "Trees"
Hinterland:
Through the hinterlands of justice - Mary Oliver "The Oak Tree at the Entrance to Blackwater Pond"
Island.
Isle.
Isthmus:
Black as the black craters in an isthmus - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"
Jungle.
Knoll:
The flowers that deck the verdant knoll - Robert W. Cryan "Picciola" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.139-v.III, 28 Aug. 1886]
The little knoll where we mark its winter twin - Lucy Griffith "Attention"
Land.
Landslide:
To set in memory the landslide you just dreamed - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Landslides and earthquakes from the depths - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"
Lawn.
Marl:
From the marl of the earth in a sacred cove - Edward Hirsch "A Greek Island"
Marsh.
Meadow.
Mesa:
The white tailed kite will arc across the mesa - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"
Mire.
Moor.
Moraine:
glacial moraine of gravel & clay - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
Mountain.
Multiverse:
The multiverse and its many merciless permutations - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"
Oasis.
Outcropping:
In verdant outcrops of the imagination - Paul Cameron Brown "Sabbat"
Reach for the next outcropping of rock - Philip Levine "Making Light of It"
Park.
Pasture.
Peak.
Peninsula:
Your icy peninsula of glamour - Denise Duhamel "Delta Flight 656"
Out here at the end of a lonely peninsula - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"
Permafrost:
Manifested as sinkholes under permafrost - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"
Plain.
Plateau:
plateaus on my memory - Elizabeth Bartlett "guadalajara"
The plateau piles everything you love back into dust - Oliver de la Paz "You Must Lift Your Son's Languid Body"
Polar.
Prairie.
Precipice
Quicksand.
Rainforest:
Growing a rainforest between my ribs - Angel Leal "Wildlife and Rainforests Inside My Father"
Ravine.
Reef.
Ridge.
Riverbank.
Potential Titles: Rocks [category].
Savannah:
In the distants Savannahs a talisman grows - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
Clouds and savannahs and horizons - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"
Rambling on the steaming savannas - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"
Greet the great wide savannahs - Diane Raptosh "American Zebra: Praise Song for the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument"
Scarp:
From forest edge to city scarp - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "raven"
Shoal.
Shrubland:
northward fire twists around the shrublands - Jake Skeets "Anthropocene: A Dictionary"
Sinkhole:
Sink hole from which hell's laughter issues - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Manifested as sinkholes under permafrost - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"
Sink holes consume fields of gold - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
Slough:
The sloughs and sluices of my mind - Lorine Niedecker "Paean to Place"
Spinney:
When the foxes from the spinneys bark - John Drinkwater "The Midlands"
Stalactite:
Hung with pendent stalactites like frozen vines - Amy Lowell "A Fairy Tale"
Something spectral possesses the stalactites - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
Steppe:
Upheavals in the steppes of Kazakhstan - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Twelve times amid their Steppes of ice - B. Simmons "Mahmood the Ghazavide" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLIX, v.LVIII, Sept. 1845]
Preparing for the further steppes of feeling - John Moncure Wettarau "Alexis"
Swamp.
Sward:
a very black thing at the edge of a sward - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]
On the bright sward in lowly homage kneeling - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Sylvan:
in sylvan steampunk surroundings - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"
Terrain.
Territory.
Topography:
Gaze deeply into your heart's topographies - Mouna Ammar "Permission"
The chromatic topography of our shared mind - Cody-Rose Clevidence "This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay"
Patrol the outer ring of hell's topography - Jacques J. Rancourt "Mt. Diablo"
Tor:
Piled on the lofty peaks of rugged Tors - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
The tors in their unyielding line - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"
Tract.
Tundra:
Lecturing on tundra - Elizabeth Bradfield "Pursuit"
Tundras with paths lined with wet spikes - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"
Turf.
Upland.
Vale.
Valley.
Vinyard.
Wasteland.
Potential Titles: Water - Bodies of [category].
Watershed:
Through the wild watershed of history - Terry Blackhawk "Diptych i. Drawing You In"
Wetland:
A silky frenzy steeps the wetlands - Philip Schultz "Welcome to the Springs"
Wilderness.
Wildwood.
Woodland.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
