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Arcade:
Down the ample arcade of the night - Zona Gale "Umbra"
The flowering myrtle blows through tall arcades - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
A twisted arcade of assassins - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Between the echo of penny candy, arcade fire - M. Bartley Seigel "Ours Are These Old Stamp Mills"
Backyard.
Banana Republic:
Distilled from a banana republic in fire - William Archila "Spirits"
Battlefield.
Border.
Borderland.
Boundary.
Cairn:
Leaping light by cliff and cairn - William Gardiner "Bonnie Dryfe" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no. 107-v.III, 16 Jan. 1886]
Stone by stone I pile the cairn of my intention - Adrienne Rich "A Mark of Resistance"
A small cairn and tobacco from a broken cigarette - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
Camp.
Capital.
Cemetery.
Checkpoint.
City.
Civilization.
Climate Change:
to explain climate change to an aquarium turtle - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
When the zebra finches felt the first pinch of climate change - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"
Colony.
Confederation:
A confederacy of mightiest Powers - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"
Country.
Courtyard.
Cyberspace:
Caught in bristling cyberspace - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Demesne:
And keep lost aeons to their own demesnes - H.P. Lovecraft "Fungi from Yuggoth" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
District:
A one-man rave in the body's industrial district - Kyle Dargan "Points of Contact"
The mitigated laws of kingdom, district, & tribe - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
An angel lit by a red-light district - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Domain.
Downtown:
See eels wandering around downtown - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"
Electrical Pole:
Electrical poles held up by a neighbor's twine - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Embassy.
Empire.
Encampment:
Worth whole encampments in fool's dust and deed - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"
Enclave:
Tiger paces the cardboard enclave - Kunjana Parashar "In the Zoo" [Strange Horizons 17 February 2025]
an enclave for cosmic waves - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
Estate.
Fairway:
Chasing this small white ball up and down the fairway - Stacey Lynn Brown "Polaroid: Links"
Farm.
Farmstead:
Silos and farmsteads, fruit stands and hogs - Kurt Brown "Road Trip"
Farmyard:
In fable and folklore from farmyard to seashore - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"
Federacy:
Where pasteboard federacies of Powers - Robert Graves "Whipperginny"
Fief:
And held the insect world in fief - Harold Acton "The Investiture of a Spinster Hob-Goblin"
Goldmine:
Holds a goldmine in the sky - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Graveyard.
Harbor/Harbour.
Hunting Ground:
High heaped above the hunting grounds - "The Red Man's Plea: Almost Literally the Reply of 'Red Iron to Governor Ramsey" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Kingdom.
Landmark.
Mall.
Metropolis/Metropolitan.
Midtown:
Up on a midtown metropolis edifice - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Milieu:
Into this milieu of militant affection - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"
Mine.
Minefield:
Footsteps are paradoxical in a minefield - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
We wander the rust-dark aisles minefield on minefield - Lalini Shanela Ranaraja "Tricona" [Strange Horizons 14 March 2022]
Nation.
No-Man's-Land:
But now, I live in No-Man's-Land - Mike Allen "Space War"
Queen of the fleets of No-Man's-Land - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"
Oil Well:
Generals and gods, fascists and oil wells - John Trudell "Voices Catching Up/Lompoc Song"
Outland.
Outpost.
Park.
Parking Lot.
Pitfall:
Spacetime pitfalls don't restrict themselves to mass - Jenise Aminoff "Love's Not Time's Fool" [Strange Horizons 29 Sept. 2025]
Fretted with pitfalls and snares - Beverly Moore "Vacation" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Full of pitfalls opened wide and yawning void - Kostes Palamas "The Sinner" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
That pleasures are pitfalls prepared to deceive - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Playground:
We were summoned from the play-ground - D.M. Matheson "Keep the Gardens Growing"
A playground for your dreams - Shara McCallum "Penelope"
The playground of youth and of ghostly tradition - Morris Tyler "Under the Arch I Passed"
Plaza:
The infinite plaza of priestly eyes - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Port.
Portside:
Steadfast winds dark about portside - Paul Cameron Brown "Night Fishing at Antibes"
Potter's Field:
This pyramid contains more corpses than the potter's field - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Precinct.
Promised Land.
Province.
Quarry.
Ranch:
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs - W.H. Auden "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"
Real Estate:
Real estate agents may notice a gap in the night - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"
Republic.
Satrapy:
The starry satrapies of the Universe - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
Settlement:
Alien flags about the invisible settlements - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
A proper settlement of seats - "From the Instructions of King Cormac" transl. by Kuno Meyer
To exhume the names beneath your settlements - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha "Dialogic"
Sewer:
Bursting sewers ooze up from below - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Soccer Field:
Surrounds the soccer field of what if - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"
Subdivision:
Your subdivisions and high rises - John Yau "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the Oval Garden"
Suburb.
Territory.
Town.
Urban.
Village.
Whistle-Stop:
Raised in a whistle-stop town - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Zoo:
To hide the zoo of my petty vices - Mary Jo Bang "Hanging the Curtain"
Shall be sheriff of my tender zoo - CAConrad "Sharking of the Birdcage"
pop zoologists wagering your crown - J. Bailey Hutchinson "Megaloceros"
Navigation Links:
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Arcade:
Down the ample arcade of the night - Zona Gale "Umbra"
The flowering myrtle blows through tall arcades - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
A twisted arcade of assassins - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Between the echo of penny candy, arcade fire - M. Bartley Seigel "Ours Are These Old Stamp Mills"
Backyard.
Banana Republic:
Distilled from a banana republic in fire - William Archila "Spirits"
Battlefield.
Border.
Borderland.
Boundary.
Cairn:
Leaping light by cliff and cairn - William Gardiner "Bonnie Dryfe" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no. 107-v.III, 16 Jan. 1886]
Stone by stone I pile the cairn of my intention - Adrienne Rich "A Mark of Resistance"
A small cairn and tobacco from a broken cigarette - Keith Taylor "Conditions"
Camp.
Capital.
Cemetery.
Checkpoint.
City.
Civilization.
Climate Change:
to explain climate change to an aquarium turtle - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
When the zebra finches felt the first pinch of climate change - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"
Colony.
Confederation:
A confederacy of mightiest Powers - Edward Dowden "Millet's 'The Sower'"
Country.
Courtyard.
Cyberspace:
Caught in bristling cyberspace - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Demesne:
And keep lost aeons to their own demesnes - H.P. Lovecraft "Fungi from Yuggoth" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]
District:
A one-man rave in the body's industrial district - Kyle Dargan "Points of Contact"
The mitigated laws of kingdom, district, & tribe - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"
An angel lit by a red-light district - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Domain.
Downtown:
See eels wandering around downtown - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"
Electrical Pole:
Electrical poles held up by a neighbor's twine - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"
Embassy.
Empire.
Encampment:
Worth whole encampments in fool's dust and deed - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"
Enclave:
Tiger paces the cardboard enclave - Kunjana Parashar "In the Zoo" [Strange Horizons 17 February 2025]
an enclave for cosmic waves - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"
Estate.
Fairway:
Chasing this small white ball up and down the fairway - Stacey Lynn Brown "Polaroid: Links"
Farm.
Farmstead:
Silos and farmsteads, fruit stands and hogs - Kurt Brown "Road Trip"
Farmyard:
In fable and folklore from farmyard to seashore - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"
Federacy:
Where pasteboard federacies of Powers - Robert Graves "Whipperginny"
Fief:
And held the insect world in fief - Harold Acton "The Investiture of a Spinster Hob-Goblin"
Goldmine:
Holds a goldmine in the sky - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"
Graveyard.
Harbor/Harbour.
Hunting Ground:
High heaped above the hunting grounds - "The Red Man's Plea: Almost Literally the Reply of 'Red Iron to Governor Ramsey" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]
Kingdom.
Landmark.
Mall.
Metropolis/Metropolitan.
Midtown:
Up on a midtown metropolis edifice - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Milieu:
Into this milieu of militant affection - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"
Mine.
Minefield:
Footsteps are paradoxical in a minefield - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
We wander the rust-dark aisles minefield on minefield - Lalini Shanela Ranaraja "Tricona" [Strange Horizons 14 March 2022]
Nation.
No-Man's-Land:
But now, I live in No-Man's-Land - Mike Allen "Space War"
Queen of the fleets of No-Man's-Land - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"
Oil Well:
Generals and gods, fascists and oil wells - John Trudell "Voices Catching Up/Lompoc Song"
Outland.
Outpost.
Park.
Parking Lot.
Pitfall:
Spacetime pitfalls don't restrict themselves to mass - Jenise Aminoff "Love's Not Time's Fool" [Strange Horizons 29 Sept. 2025]
Fretted with pitfalls and snares - Beverly Moore "Vacation" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Full of pitfalls opened wide and yawning void - Kostes Palamas "The Sinner" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
That pleasures are pitfalls prepared to deceive - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]
Playground:
We were summoned from the play-ground - D.M. Matheson "Keep the Gardens Growing"
A playground for your dreams - Shara McCallum "Penelope"
The playground of youth and of ghostly tradition - Morris Tyler "Under the Arch I Passed"
Plaza:
The infinite plaza of priestly eyes - Pablo Neruda "The Bull" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Port.
Portside:
Steadfast winds dark about portside - Paul Cameron Brown "Night Fishing at Antibes"
Potter's Field:
This pyramid contains more corpses than the potter's field - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
Precinct.
Promised Land.
Province.
Quarry.
Ranch:
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs - W.H. Auden "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"
Real Estate:
Real estate agents may notice a gap in the night - Duane Ackerson "Taking Back the Moon"
Republic.
Satrapy:
The starry satrapies of the Universe - Benjamin West Ball "The Seraphs' Holiday"
Settlement:
Alien flags about the invisible settlements - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
A proper settlement of seats - "From the Instructions of King Cormac" transl. by Kuno Meyer
To exhume the names beneath your settlements - Lena Khalaf Tuffaha "Dialogic"
Sewer:
Bursting sewers ooze up from below - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Soccer Field:
Surrounds the soccer field of what if - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"
Subdivision:
Your subdivisions and high rises - John Yau "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the Oval Garden"
Suburb.
Territory.
Town.
Urban.
Village.
Whistle-Stop:
Raised in a whistle-stop town - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Zoo:
To hide the zoo of my petty vices - Mary Jo Bang "Hanging the Curtain"
Shall be sheriff of my tender zoo - CAConrad "Sharking of the Birdcage"
pop zoologists wagering your crown - J. Bailey Hutchinson "Megaloceros"
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
