somethingdarker | Jan. 15th, 2010

Jan. 15th, 2010

( Ancestor )

( Ancestral )

The netted routes of ancestry and trade - Seamus Heaney "Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces"

An ancestry of wood and wire - Conrad Hilberry "Mousetrap"

Its old singing ancestry - Grace Paley "Night Morning"

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( Annihilate )

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( Anoint )

The light of unanointed blaze - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life VII: The White Heat"

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( Antique )

( Antiquity )

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( Anarchy )

Sketch an anarchist's map to the future - Chen Chen "The School of the Unschoolable"

Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Not an anarchist except in stars - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

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( Anvil )

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( Announce )

A cold news in stark announcement - Alberto Rios "December Morning in the Desert"

Whatever unannounced whiteout blizzard hits our blood - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"

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( Anguish )

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Knocking off the mosses from its antlers - Joseph Fasano "Elegy for a Year"

The antlers of three trillion trees - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen f"

With branching antlers of the chase - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Leaving but an antler's glance - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"

Antlers frozen with grief - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"

In a field of broken antlers - Erika L. Sanchez "Love Story"

Pin this antlered heartbeat back to earth - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"

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( Anticipate )

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Its own venom and many false antidotes - Jim Daniels "Boxing Toward the Promised Land"

Without virus or vaccine poison or antidote - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"

One the only antidote for the other - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VII"

A rare antidote for deadly poison - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"

Offer the antidote for neglect - Shara McCallum "Ghazal"

The battle of the antidote - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"

There is no antidote for its venom - Tennessee Reed "Fantasy"

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( Anchor )

Found some anchorage amid our days - Shutta Crum "Navigation"

A moving anchorage of prayer - Samuel McCoy "The Off-Shore Wind"

Anchorless upon the ocean - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "The Changing Light"

A salt-worn dream-anchor - Terrance Hayes "Anchor Head"

A crested virtue of his inanchored soul - Lynn Riggs "The Golden Cockerel"

And bid them rest safe-anchored - E. Nesbit "The Island"

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( Ancient )

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( Answer )

Unanswered/Unanswering.

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Fair sister of anemone and octopus - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Flowers of the dogwood blow over the pale anemones - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Where wormholes close and open like anemone - Kendall Evans "Oracle"

Sea-anemone:
A sea anemone appearing to sing - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"

Poured intent upon a sea-anemone - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Dimly-glowing bells of sleeping sea-anemones - Edward Shanks "The Rock Pool"

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Had no need of my words anymore - Annie Finch "Edge, Atlantic, July"

The restaurant no one goes to anymore - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"

Not to pretend anymore that the terrible calm was Paradise - Danusha Laméris "Eve, After"

Seldom whispers to the wind anymore - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"

And the narwhals wouldn't talk to her anymore - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

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( Angle )

Angling with a baited hook - Nicholas Breton "The Happy Countryman"

Followed the angler's winding path - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower"

Right Angle.

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Inhabit anonymity - Katherine Edgren "I'm a Flea"

From the waters of anonymity - Robert Pinsky "Antiques"

( Anonymous )

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( Anger/Angry )

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( Ant )

The march of the ant-hill crowds below - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Walkers"

Not noticing the ant, only the anthill - Pablo Neruda "The People" transl. by Alastair Reid

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Anodyne of balm and fir and myrtle-trees - H.D. "Projector"

Now decline any anodyne - Arthur Davison Ficke "Lines for Two Futurists"

The mercy of dull anodyne - Arthur Davison Ficke "Ten Grotesques: VII. In a Bar Room"

Some undiminished Anodyne to burn - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Darkest anodyne against our pain - Ann K. Schwader "Darkest Anodyne"

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Ankleted with yawning fire - Harold Acton "After"

Silt around our ankles - Tyree Daye "Gin River"

Thought has shaken his ankles free - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"

Ginger and bitter roots growing at her ankles - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"

At the oak's black ankle - Kiki Petrosino "Nursery"

White petals pooled around her ankles - Paige Quinones "Venice Beach"

Ankled and waisted with bells - Adrienne Rich "Veteran's Day"

Light that jingles like anklet chains - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"

Ash-trees standing ankle-deep in brier - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"

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( Anthem )

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( Anything )

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( Another )

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( Anxiety )

( Anxious )

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The years don't forgive anyone - Julia Alvarez "In Spanish"

Knowing me never made anyone a needle - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

And what will we tell anyone who asks - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

Shellshocked at needing anyone - Marilyn Hacker "Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more]"

Just a stone to anyone asking for bread - D.H. Lawrence "The American Eagle"

Not telling a lie for anyone - Sharon Olds "Suddenly"

But offered nothing to anyone - A. Van Jordan "A Moment Alone"

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( Anywhere )

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( Animal )

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( Angel )

Archangel.

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And quench the animating fire - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

In animated orange code - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

An animated hiss and whistling wail - Jena Osman "Dissent and the Hydra"

Which life again shall animate and warm - Charles Constantine Pise "Summer Evening"

The immortal gladness of inanimate things - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"

To reanimate the long-inert pendulum - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

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