Feb. 4th, 2010

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Birch )


Made of birthstone & birchbark - John McCarthy "I Wanted to Save Her but the Trailer Park Was a Chasm"


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Disappearing into knotgrass and bindweed - Mary Jo Bang "Elegy"

The bindweed blankets the fields - "The Book of Odes: No.124 The Kudzu Spreads Till It Darkens the Brier" transl. by Burton Watson

And pink bindweed dimly, steadily flower - Michael Field "The Depths of the Grass"

The hollow of the bindweed's maze - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

The winsome insinuations of bindweed - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"


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Big )


The memory of echoes of the big bang - M.C. Childs "Snow Man"

A light at the end of the big bang tunnel - Diane DeCillis "Thinking about What Matters"

The electro-static hum of the big bang - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"


The dance of the big-hearted dog - Alberto Rios "We Dogs of a Thursday Off"


A Big-Top tent turned fallout zone - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"


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Bioluminescence spells out in abstract typography - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

Cuts through the bioluminescent memories - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

The pathway bioluminscent and swirling - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

The bioluminscent waters of his youth - Sally Wen Mao "Nucleation"

A jaunty angle sinking in the bioluminescent green - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"

A jaunty angle sinking in the bioluminescent green - Krishnakumar Sankaran "This Poem Is a Dead Zone"


The luminescent mantle of the kerosene lamp - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"


Luminous.


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Bird )


Constructing cyberpunk nests from anti-bird spikes - Erika Meitner "Manifesto of Fragility / Terraform"


Made mirrors of the pond and birdbath - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"


Squeeze the air from her birdbone body - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda V"


In a bird-cage of lightning - Elizabeth Bishop "It Is Marvellous..."


Birdhouse hanging from a make-believe branch - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Imagination"


Birdsong.


His signature, a perfect birdswoop of wings - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"


A bird-wing desire - Dao Strom "Instrument"


The storm that douse the firebird - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"


A carrion flock of homing-birds - John Masefield "A Creed"


Sea-birds that cry discords - H.D. "The Wind Sleepers"

The stasis of a seabird's dive - Paige Quinones "Elegy Ending on the Ocean Floor"

Hear seabirds cackle like ghosts - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton


Snowbirds spread their crystallized wings - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"


Sunbirds exalting the break of dawn - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"


Sweet chant of the wild-birds' morning hymn - Louisa May Alcott "Lily-Bell and Thistledown"


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What makes all autobiographies worthless - Emily Berry "Freud's Beautiful Things"

Control or mistake or autobiography - Hannah Ensor "Agnes, a sleep"

No autobiography left to compose of glance - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"


To be someone else's biographer - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"

Like fragments of an unclaimed biography - Louise Gluck "Cornwall"

Conscious of the biographical - Mary Hickman "Everything Is Autobiography and Everything Is a Portrait"

A preponderance of biographers - Sina Queyras "The Couriers"


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Bittersweet )


A syrup, sweet-bitter with smoke - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"


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Birth )


Shiny with its afterbirth of light - Gregory Orr "Eden and After: To See"


Birthday.


Birthmarks on curved ivory tusks - Cynthia Manick "A Taste of Blue"


Birthplace )


Birthright.


Made of birthstone & birchbark - John McCarthy "I Wanted to Save Her but the Trailer Park Was a Chasm"


Born.

Reborn.

Unborn.


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Bitter/Bitterness )


Sitting there so bitter-bright - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"


Bordering on cool but tinged with bitter-green - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"


The sad tear may embitter the wine - R. Penn Smith "A Health to My Brother"


A syrup, sweet-bitter with smoke - Jessica P. Wick "Sap and Superstition"


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Lightbulbs on a birthday cake - Calef Brown "Birthday Light"

Lighting the darkest of birthday mornings - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"

On one of so many birthdays - Eileen Myles "Fifty-Three"

After the birthday crowds thin out - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"

A birthday present wrapped in argument - Matthew Zapruder "The Lark"


Birth.


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Bid )


Bade.

Try to outbid the rustling of the hard drive - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"

Unbidden.


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After exterminating wolves and bison - CAConrad "Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return"

Bison lurking on her midnight trails - Emily Pauline Johnson "Calgary"

How grasses affect bison - Jessy Randall "Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963)"

Ruthless as an angry bison - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

In the haunts of bison - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "Arrow-Heads"


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Bind )


All your sighs and tears unbind - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Written Upon Love's Frontier-Post"


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Bite )


Backbite of bicker and rant - Mary Jo Bang "Packing the Heart"


Frostbitten false fire - Andrew Feld "Best and Only"

Frostbite around the corner - Kristen Tracy "Waiting for Crocuses"


Except for a frozen half-bitten fruit - Monica de la Torre "Divagar"


Beneath a sun-bitten sky - Terry Blackhawk "A Peaceable Kingdom"


Starved and wind-bitten oak - Stephen Vincent Benet "Grand Larceny"

Wind-bitten beech with badger barrows - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"


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Binary )


Because the non-binary is defined by the binary - Nada Almosa "Queer Arab Dictionary"


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