Feb. 7th, 2010

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Briar )


Perched all upon a sweetbriar bush - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"


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Brass )


Beyond the heavy brass-bound door - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Kendall Evans and Mike Allen "Rattlebox III"


Your brains puddled in a brass-capped mason jar - Emma Trelles "Florida Poem"


Brazen.


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Bramble )


Shut my bramblewood door - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.2" transl. by Burton Watson


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Brother )


While linked in closest brotherhood, invincible - "Cor Unum, Via Una: God Bless Our Native Land!" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Children of some banish'd brotherhood - Irving Sidney Dix "Fairies of the Frost"

With the steel of brotherhood - Fenton Johnson "Children of the Sun"

With your patchwork flag of brotherhood - Vachel Lindsay "Sew the Flags Together"


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Breed/Bred )


Half breed son of Pisces and Aquarius - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"


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A shore strewn with protozoa bracken - Kevin Killian "Deep Red"

Beneath a bracken sheet - Joyce Kilmer "The Mad Fiddler"

The bracken all aflame - Theodore Maynard "At Yelverton"

The bracken of your invasive self - Carl Phillips "Civilization"

The bracken curtain for my head - Sir Walter Scott "Song from 'The Lady of the Lake'"

Let me resurrect beyond the bracken - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"

Bracken upon my memory - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"


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Cold gliding in the thorny brake - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited

Clamorous with many brakes and bells - Furnley Maurice "Little Boys"

Through field and brake of thorn - "The Poor Clerk (Ar C'Hloarek Paour)" (Translated by Tom Taylor)

Brake of time - Gregory Corso "Bomb"

Bad brakes and a need to stop - Emilia Phillips "I Tried to Write a Poem Called "Imposter Syndrome" and Failed"

Linnet in the wild-rose brake - Oscar Wilde "La Bella Donna della Mia Mente"


A line of brake lights blazing - Charles Rafferty "Daylight Moon"


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The careful brushstrokes of a fire - Julia Alvarez "Tom"

The birth of a brushstroke - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"

A close mess of buttered brushstrokes - Tyler Mills "House of Pere Lacroix"

Brushstrokes of a painting half-finished - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"

the brush strokes' elliptic fusion of calm and motion - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

Uses tears and exacting brush strokes - Yang Licai "All Human Beings Who Suffer" transl. by Joshua Edwards and Lynn Xu


Brush.

Stroke.


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Not all his dread artillery could breach - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Breach the blue of my bones - Gary Jackson "Multiple Man: Guest-staring me & you"

That tapers down to salt poured in the breach - June Jordan "Alla Tha's All Right, But"

A breach in the wall of darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

the humpback whale breaching the slate screen - David Maduli "alameda point"


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Bread )


Breading and olives and cherries - Joseph Lease "America [Try saying wren]"


Satisfied before bread-breaking - Mina Loy "The Dead"


For the miracle of breaking my hands into breadcrumbs - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

Feeding breadcrumbs to geese - John James "Sonata"


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Brutal )


Fraudulent windows in a Brutalist structure - Maureen N. McLane "They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century"


Brute )


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The jangle of silver bracelets - Diannely Antigua "We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers"

Death with a name on a bracelet - Mary Jo Bang "The Electric Eventual"

A bracelet adorning the land's pale wrist - Chris Dombrowski "Was it a sign? I think it probably was"

An island braceleted by seas - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

Necklace of days bracelets of hours - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

My bracelet made of jasper - Jim Moore "Diptych: My Bracelet"

The weight of a bracelet she can't afford - Danni Quintos "Letters to Imelda III"


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Break )


Broke )



Satisfied before bread-breaking - Mina Loy "The Dead"

Breakdown way more wicked than Noah's flood - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Spouting breakers were the only thing a-lee - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"

Breakless chain, and iron thrall - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

A doorknob statement, a breakneck goodbye - Randall Mann "The Fall of 1992, Gainesville, Florida"

Far beyond the breakpoint - Caroline Harper New "The Sargassum Fish"

Breakwaters of eternity - Ruben Dario "Poets! Towers of God!" (translation by Thomas Walsh and Salomon de la Selva)

Broken Heart.

Pity a broken-winged wanderer - Li Ho "At Ch'ang-ku, Reading: To Show My Man Pa" transl. by Burton Watson

This cloud-break that ravels the night - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"

Heartbreak.

Pity's long-broken urn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

The thyroid and the pancreas joined the outbreak - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

Respected the pause between lightning and skybreak - Mary Jo Bang "The Novel in Three Chapters"


Unbreakable )


Unbroken.


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Brick )


Whose brickwork base the cunning Romans laid - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Dragons in embossed brickwork marching - William Carlos Williams "March"


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Nothing can your sinews brace - James Ballantine "A Golfing Song"

The lilacs brace themselves for this sort of blue - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"

Grasp your bracing challenge - Cyrus Cassells "The World That the Shooter Left Us"

Brace before the rain - Katherine Edgren "The Gift of Warning"

Brace the arms that help the winches round - John Masefield "Spunyarn"

Brace for summer's aftermath - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"

The lilies braced their narrow shoulders - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 2: Madness in the Field"


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Brand )


Rebrand & rewrite their Dadaist daydreams - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"


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Broom )


Twirls a baton of broken broomstick - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Cachiporrista"


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Brief )


In those beautiful, too-brief moments - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"


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Brittle )


The color of brittle-mindedness - Jenny Boully "Not merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]"


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Bright )


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


What we need after so many bone-bright days - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"


The bright-heeled constellations - Walter de la Mare "Voices"


Bright-shielded Mars, who leads the host - E. Curtiss Hine, U.S.N. "A Vision" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]


Between her fingers crystal-bright - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires VIII" transl. by Alma Strettell


Gleaming fish that gasp in the death-bright dawn - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"


Firebright blessings of fallen leaves - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"


See you nova-bright and radiant - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"


Within those snake-bright grottoes - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"


Sun-bright splendors on the noonday rest - Mrs. E.J. Eames "Beautie" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]


The heavy torture of sorrows unbrightened - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"


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Brown )


A brownstone for hummingbirds - francine j. harris "Wetland"


Who quaff the nut-brown ale - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

Song of a nutbrown hen - Donika Kelly "Bower"


Grapes of purple-brown and gold - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"


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Will not need your bribes - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Bribing the quiet madness of evening - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Incurable Mystic Answers Western Ambitions"

Bribe a passage to the skies - William Cullen Bryant "The Ages"

He has bribed the thorns - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Warlord's Garden"

The bribery of coffee poured from flasks - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"

To bribe the weary pilgrim back - Rev. William B. Tappan "Stanzas" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Bribed you with architecture - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"


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Breath/Breathe )


Breathless.


Breathtaking presumption - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Breathtaking vistas of bodily hell - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"


Low-breathed music's echoed measure - Mrs. C.H.W. Esling "With Thee" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Low-breathed air and inwoven melody - J.B. Trend "During Music: Fantasy and Fugue"


Ripe and summer-breathing clover-flower - John Drinkwater "The Midlands"


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Branch (botanical and not) )


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


The walnut-branches hold me - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus


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Braid )


Beneath a trillion leaves cloud-braided - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Nature"


Aphrodite with unbraided hair - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"


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Bridge )


Bridge-builders of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

The drawbridge of the mind - James Baldwin "Conundrum (on my birthday) (for Rico)"

Footbridges love the past - Stephanie Burt "At the Providence Zoo"

Through a footbridge's fenced floor - Chris Dombrowski "I Canonize Dick Curran"

The old foot-bridge and the murmuring mill - Mrs. Amelia B. Welby "The Brother's Lament"

No footbridge or boat over Lethe - Charles Wright "Bees Are the Terrace Builders of the Stars"


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Broad )


Its waters will keep broadcasting - Iris Jamahl Dunkle "House Empty Speaks a Loud Truth, 2018"

The film exists as broadcast radio - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"


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Brush )



Time was a brushfire burning - Mary Jo Bang "The Still Knife Still Suspended"

Fevered blaze of backyard brush fires - Camille Louise Goering "Under and Down"


Brushstroke.


A nervous brushwork of grass - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten I"


Feral cats in the underbrush - Seth Abramson "The Woods in Concord"

Hiding in the underbrush with hopes - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"


Into a bat's wing-brush of air - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"


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Bruise )


Crawl, half-bone, half-bruise - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"


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Breakfast )


Mistress of the breakfast nook - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"


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Brow )


An ocean brow-beaten by a river - Khaled Mattawa "The Road from Biloxi"


Heaven's fire in dark-browed storms - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]


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When your braggarts of planets fade - Stephen Vincent Benet "Colloquy of the Statues"

Let the braggarts go sleep in the gutter - Henry S. Leigh "Anacreontic (for a Cavalier Tea-Party)"

Bragging of knowledge and vision - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

Mere lees is left this vault to brag of - Shakespeare "Macbeth"

Has left my braggart blood - Louis Untermeyer "A Birthday"


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Five thousand in sable and brocade - Ch'en Tao "Song of Lung-hsi" transl. by Burton Watson

Brocade and sonnet marathons - Billy Collins "Nostalgia"

Stone gargoyles leering and brocade drapes licked with fire - Rita Dove "Hades' Pitch"

In filmy gossamer and soft brocade - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "A Sea Spell"

A bolt of brocade and foliage - Janet Kauffman "Before it Took Hold"

Wantons go in bright brocades - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"


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