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somethingdarkerPotential Titles: Art/Craft [category].
Potential Titles: Words, Punctuation, Grammar [category].
Acoustic:
Where every footstep created mocking acoustics - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"
Honing the acoustics, heralding the instant shifts - Mary Jo Bang "The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity"
Archetype:
Between neurosis and unconscious, between archetype and Self - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Armature:
This armature of shipwreck splinters - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Awl:
Use wax, and thread, and awl - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]
Backdrop.
Backstage:
Backstage ducks preening in the wings - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"
Bobbin:
The bobbins keep threading a mazy dance - "Abroad"
Brush.
Camera.
Canvas.
Cardboard.
Center Stage:
The sole reason center stage was invented - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"
Ceramic:
A tote bag full of ceramic souvenirs - Helene Achanzar "The only poem I can write"
Ceramic tributes to the moon - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"
Found my body in ceramic pieces - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Could break their ceramic silence - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Chalk.
Charcoal.
Chisel.
Clay.
Potential Titles: Cloth/Fabric [category].
Crayon:
My fingers grow past crayon outlines - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
Dye.
Potential Titles: Fabric/Fiber - Ways to Work with Them [category].
Gem.
Gouache:
The sky will be a gouache of scratches - Andrea Werblin "Barrio with Sketchy Detail"
Graph Paper:
Working with a slide rule protractor and graph paper - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
Highlighter:
The world before highlighter's applied - Carol Moldaw "Meditation on the Veranda"
Ink.
Inkstone:
Righteousness in inkstone underfoot - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"
Jewel.
Kiln:
Salvage logs now kilned and carved - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"
In predestination's kiln - John Updike "Marine Hotel, North Berwick, Scotland, May 1998"
Knapping:
A patient art, knapped from a core of flint - A.E. Stallings "Arrowhead Hunting"
Lacquer.
Lasercut:
Replaced by lasercut urns and polished stones - Sandra J. Lindow "Tombstone Tapestries"
Lathe:
Turned on a lathe of light - Conrad Hilberry "Egg"
As the planed length time feeds to the mind's lathe - Nick Laird "The Vehicles and the Tenor"
Potter's lathe of unmaking - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Red Delicious"
The world turned on in the lathe of time - Langdon Smith "Evolution"
Loom.
Lumber:
With all the lumber of six thousand years - Robert Blair "The Grave"
The lumberjack's alphabet covers loss and leisure - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Magic Marker:
A magic marker Venus de Milo - B. K. Fischer "Week 30 (Maternity Bathing Suit)"
Manuscript:
Medieval manuscripts where everyone important grows a halo - Jenny Browne "Late Fermata"
Heaved lava over carved stone and manuscript - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"
Illuminates the manuscript of the heart - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"
Potential Titles: Metals [category].
Mortar.
Potential Titles: Musical Instruments [category].
Potential Titles: Musical Tools and Terms [category].
Needle.
Paint.
Paint Thinner:
Suggest the uses of paint thinner - James Marcus Schuyler "April"
Palette:
Using the palette we invent - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"
Spilling a palette of wine - Lou Barrett "Double Portrait with Wineglass"
Palette of honeyed ochre - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Paper.
Parchment.
Pasteboard:
Pasteboard riddles and commedia deadpan - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
Pastel.
Pen.
Pencil.
Pixel.
Plaster.
Porcelain.
Prop.
Rehearse.
Potential Titles: Rocks - Pretty Ones [category].
Sandpaper.
Sewing Machine:
Stooped over sewing machines in denim dust - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
Shear.
Shuttle.
Slide Rule:
Working with a slide rule protractor and graph paper - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
Spindle.
Spinning Wheel:
Lines like spokes to a spinning wheel - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Flax in search of a spinning wheel - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"
Queen of the loom and spinning wheel - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"
Spirit Gum:
Patched him together with spirit gum and spare parts - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
Spray Paint:
Spray paint odes for boarded up storefronts - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
Stencil:
Stencilled on the petals of a bluebell - Helene Johnson "Trees at Night"
Built of stencils and explosive devices - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Stitch.
Stucco:
This eerie glow of stucco sky - Meg Day "Big Sky Domestic"
A white stucco ceiling with its million spider-cracks - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Stylus:
Wrote on my heart with stylus of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
Terracotta:
Terracotta for a lifelong love - Gerri Leen "Final Resting Place"
Thimble.
Thread.
Tile.
Trope:
A single dream trope for doubling - Mary Jo Bang "I Was Dreaming"
The habitual tropes of exclusion - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal: The Dark Times"
Tropes purloining, graces coining - "London Lyrics: The Auctioneer's Ode to Mercury" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Severing thus the truth from trope - Coventry Patmore "The Angel in the House: Prologue"
Trowel:
One hand on the mason's trowel - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Type.
Vanishing Point.
Vellum:
Sulfur match struck on vellum - Rasha Abdulhadi "Eleven Red Returns"
As vellum's dried hide insists - Mary Hickman "Eva Hesse"
An origami frog in a vellum crown - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"
Veneer:
Veneered in sudden wealth - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "I never knew of such a place]"
Watercolor:
Sweatless as watercolour under glass - Thom Gunn "Autumn Chapter in a Novel"
Weft.
Whip-Stitch:
Whip-stitched into the lining of that question - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Wire.
Woof.
Yarn.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
Potential Titles: Words, Punctuation, Grammar [category].
Acoustic:
Where every footstep created mocking acoustics - Mouna Ammar "Azulelos of my Grandmother's Hallway"
Honing the acoustics, heralding the instant shifts - Mary Jo Bang "The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity"
Archetype:
Between neurosis and unconscious, between archetype and Self - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Armature:
This armature of shipwreck splinters - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Awl:
Use wax, and thread, and awl - James Johnson [From the chapter header verses in Sugar and Spice on Project Gutenberg]
Backdrop.
Backstage:
Backstage ducks preening in the wings - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"
Bobbin:
The bobbins keep threading a mazy dance - "Abroad"
Brush.
Camera.
Canvas.
Cardboard.
Center Stage:
The sole reason center stage was invented - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"
Ceramic:
A tote bag full of ceramic souvenirs - Helene Achanzar "The only poem I can write"
Ceramic tributes to the moon - Ira Goga "The Kitchen, Indexed"
Found my body in ceramic pieces - jessica Care moore "She Was"
Could break their ceramic silence - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Chalk.
Charcoal.
Chisel.
Clay.
Potential Titles: Cloth/Fabric [category].
Crayon:
My fingers grow past crayon outlines - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"
Dye.
Potential Titles: Fabric/Fiber - Ways to Work with Them [category].
Gem.
Gouache:
The sky will be a gouache of scratches - Andrea Werblin "Barrio with Sketchy Detail"
Graph Paper:
Working with a slide rule protractor and graph paper - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
Highlighter:
The world before highlighter's applied - Carol Moldaw "Meditation on the Veranda"
Ink.
Inkstone:
Righteousness in inkstone underfoot - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"
Jewel.
Kiln:
Salvage logs now kilned and carved - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"
In predestination's kiln - John Updike "Marine Hotel, North Berwick, Scotland, May 1998"
Knapping:
A patient art, knapped from a core of flint - A.E. Stallings "Arrowhead Hunting"
Lacquer.
Lasercut:
Replaced by lasercut urns and polished stones - Sandra J. Lindow "Tombstone Tapestries"
Lathe:
Turned on a lathe of light - Conrad Hilberry "Egg"
As the planed length time feeds to the mind's lathe - Nick Laird "The Vehicles and the Tenor"
Potter's lathe of unmaking - Jerome Ellison Murphy "Red Delicious"
The world turned on in the lathe of time - Langdon Smith "Evolution"
Loom.
Lumber:
With all the lumber of six thousand years - Robert Blair "The Grave"
The lumberjack's alphabet covers loss and leisure - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Magic Marker:
A magic marker Venus de Milo - B. K. Fischer "Week 30 (Maternity Bathing Suit)"
Manuscript:
Medieval manuscripts where everyone important grows a halo - Jenny Browne "Late Fermata"
Heaved lava over carved stone and manuscript - R.B. Lemberg "Ranra's Unbalancing"
Illuminates the manuscript of the heart - Campbell McGrath "The Everglades"
Potential Titles: Metals [category].
Mortar.
Potential Titles: Musical Instruments [category].
Potential Titles: Musical Tools and Terms [category].
Needle.
Paint.
Paint Thinner:
Suggest the uses of paint thinner - James Marcus Schuyler "April"
Palette:
Using the palette we invent - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"
Spilling a palette of wine - Lou Barrett "Double Portrait with Wineglass"
Palette of honeyed ochre - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Paper.
Parchment.
Pasteboard:
Pasteboard riddles and commedia deadpan - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"
Pastel.
Pen.
Pencil.
Pixel.
Plaster.
Porcelain.
Prop.
Rehearse.
Potential Titles: Rocks - Pretty Ones [category].
Sandpaper.
Sewing Machine:
Stooped over sewing machines in denim dust - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
Shear.
Shuttle.
Slide Rule:
Working with a slide rule protractor and graph paper - Nicholas Christopher "1943"
Spindle.
Spinning Wheel:
Lines like spokes to a spinning wheel - Marilyn McCabe "Web"
Flax in search of a spinning wheel - Shveta Thakrar "Shadowskin"
Queen of the loom and spinning wheel - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"
Spirit Gum:
Patched him together with spirit gum and spare parts - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
Spray Paint:
Spray paint odes for boarded up storefronts - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
Stencil:
Stencilled on the petals of a bluebell - Helene Johnson "Trees at Night"
Built of stencils and explosive devices - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"
Stitch.
Stucco:
This eerie glow of stucco sky - Meg Day "Big Sky Domestic"
A white stucco ceiling with its million spider-cracks - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Stylus:
Wrote on my heart with stylus of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"
Terracotta:
Terracotta for a lifelong love - Gerri Leen "Final Resting Place"
Thimble.
Thread.
Tile.
Trope:
A single dream trope for doubling - Mary Jo Bang "I Was Dreaming"
The habitual tropes of exclusion - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal: The Dark Times"
Tropes purloining, graces coining - "London Lyrics: The Auctioneer's Ode to Mercury" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
Severing thus the truth from trope - Coventry Patmore "The Angel in the House: Prologue"
Trowel:
One hand on the mason's trowel - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Type.
Vanishing Point.
Vellum:
Sulfur match struck on vellum - Rasha Abdulhadi "Eleven Red Returns"
As vellum's dried hide insists - Mary Hickman "Eva Hesse"
An origami frog in a vellum crown - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"
Veneer:
Veneered in sudden wealth - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "I never knew of such a place]"
Watercolor:
Sweatless as watercolour under glass - Thom Gunn "Autumn Chapter in a Novel"
Weft.
Whip-Stitch:
Whip-stitched into the lining of that question - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Wire.
Woof.
Yarn.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
