somethingdarker | Jan. 20th, 2010

Jan. 20th, 2010

( Asteroid )

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( Assault )

To foes an unassaulted fire - Francis Burrows "The Giant's Dirge"

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( Ashamed )

Shame.

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( Assemble )

With the willing submerged assembly of tree roots - Mouna Ammar "When I see the Suffering of My People"

An angel in assembly-line armor - Brandon Som "Resistors"

( Disassemble )

To reassemble ourselves from rubble - Stefania Gomez "At the New York City AIDS Memorial"

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( Astonish )

( Astonishment )

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( Ascend )

( Ascendant )

( Ascension )

( Ascent )

Their blueprint drawn for reascending - K. Iver "The Gotham Hotel"

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( Aside )

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( Assassin )

And assassinate the water - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "Getting to know violence"

Assassinates the art of nuclear mystics - Bruce Boston "A Life in the Day Of"

Testimony of mass assassination - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"

Like overwintered wasps plotting assassinations - Matthew Wimberley "The Celebrated Colors of the Local Sunsets"

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Wove a rich asbestic web - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

Addressing my hardening tongue to asbestos and silicon - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Gathered great heaps of fraying asbestos - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"

Like flame at an asbestos curtain - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Robes of asbestos do we wear - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"

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A giraffe beats a lion's ass every day - Jericho Brown "Aerial View"

Another howling coyote ass chorus of disapproval - Raquel Gutiérrez "Would It Kill Me to Be a Nicer Guy?"

filling with the red rain of his grab-assing hurricane - Ed Roberson "American Quartet"

You should have let him be an ass - John Gay "Fable LXIV: Owl, Swan, Cock, Spider, Ass, and Farmer" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Now wiser grown, I recognize each ass - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

As clearly as the ass explained to Balaam - "The Times" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

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The oppressor Dread plants his black flag on my assenting skull - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

The nodding assent of flowers - Terry Blackhawk "Medea--Garland of Fire"

The hills nod musical assent - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

And nods assent to each familiar line - Rennell Rodd "In a Church"

Wildflowers trace spring's tender assent - Wang An-Shih "Here at Bell Mountain" transl. by David Hinton

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The same translations as assigned - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

Each performed his part assigned - John Gay "Fable XLIII: Council of Horses" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

Who assigns and removes obstacles - Ava Leavell Haymon "God of Luck"

What dream has fate assigned to trouble you? - Horace "The Portent [Ode 20, Bk V]" transl. by Rudyard Kipling

Assigning each brief storm its allotted space - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

The title which those silver tones assigned - P. "Sonnet on My Little Boy's First Trying to Say 'Pa-pa' [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.443 June 26, 1852]

Assigned by the gingerbread witch to the cage - Natalie Shapero "Hansel or Gretel"

The mystic assignation the golden throat of light - Tiffany Higgins "Dance, Dance, While the Hive Collapses" [Poetry Jan. 2016]

Assignations, divorces conducted between rooftops - Dean Young "Lucifer"

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A door with its solid assertion - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"

Assertions going beyond the evidence - Conrad Hilberry "Paros in the Rain"

And creeping mists assert their sway - Ida Lee "Suffolk"

The heart's beat asserts control - Grace Paley "Night Morning"

Weak sparkling assertions - William Saphier "Etchings Not to Be Read Aloud: Lights in Fog"

Unavoidable assertion of a self she refused - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"

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( Ask )

Unasked.

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( Assail )

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The warm, assuring duty of prayer - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"

Assures me of a million memories - Herbert Woodward Martin "Appraisal"

Eyes of hope's fair assurance - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"

The reassurance of recall - Robert Frost "A Concept Self-Conceived"

Reassurance of starlings migrating - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"

Who sought them out to be reassured - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

Erupting with the self-assurance of the new - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

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( Aspen )

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( Assume )

Fighting against our assumption - Cherise Pollard "Nodes of Growth"

My history defying assumptions of gravity - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

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Some of these are ambiguous about what kind of 'ash' they're about. Might be the tree, might be the stuff left after a fire. More the latter than the former, but... Ambiguous.

( Ash )

To the ash-strewn summit of death - John Gould Fletcher "Court Lady Standing Under a Plum Tree"

Ash trees wilting by the creek - John James "Forget the Song"

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

Honoured by a few ash-trees - Edward Thomas "For These"

every dead-ash sun a crumbled cipher - Emily Gaskin "Anthropic Principle"

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Born under the Sign of the Asp - Joel Dias-Porter "Three Wrong Notes"

Which turns a sudden venomous asp - Edward Dowden "Among the Rocks"

Lither than the asp - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Leaving a poison deeper than the asp - Henry Morford "The Record of December" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Like asp with adder fight - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

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( Astral )

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( Astray )

Stray.

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Holy manna from an astronaut's boot - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

Astronauts from a childhood fantasy - Bruce Boston "Origami Rockets"

Of stranded, shivering astronauts - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"

In wastes that held no rescue for their astronauts - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A suburb of amateur astronauts - Adrian Matejka "Stardate 8809.22"

Striving to be a better astronaut - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"

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Cleave this killing doubt asunder - Max Eastman "A Hymn to God: In Time of Stress"

The bursting of catkins asunder - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Fallen Leaves"

Doubt in sleep all cast asunder - Jennie Earngey Hill "Dreaming"

Rocks that burst asunder - Langston Hughes "Love"

Have torn our hearts and hands asunder - Mayne Reid "To Guadalupe" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Valhalla's gates that roll asunder - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Sleigh-Ride"

Sunder.

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( Aspiration )

( Aspire )

A myriad-branching, cloud-aspiring tree - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

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( Aspect )

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The astronomer on the far side of the moon - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"

In the forgotten astronomies of disco - Adrian Matejka "Map to the Stars"

Were experts on stars before astronomy had a name - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"

Computations astronomical, algorithm and star-law - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

As an astronomer looks at the star-filled sky - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."

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( Asphalt )

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( Asleep )

Sleep.

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( Asphodel )

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And blight the asters on the hill - Danske Dandridge "Indian Summer"

Wild with asters' blue rays and white - Pamela Gross "The Hive"

The pale down-trodden aster lifts her head - Helen Hunt Jackson "November"

The blue aster learns to rise and run - Ruth Lechlitner "October Afternoon"

Watching the swallowtails feed on the aster - Elizabeth Seydel Morgan "Without a Philosophy"

Painting asters by the brook - Julia Carter Welch "Fall"

The aster-flower is failing - John Greenleaf Whittier "My Triumph"

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