somethingdarker | Mar. 2nd, 2010

Mar. 2nd, 2010

( Canyon )

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( Canopy )

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( Canvas )

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( Captain )

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( Card )

Flaws stacked like baseball cards - Andrea Gibson "Boomerang Valentine"

My body for a calling-card - Stephen Vincent Benet "P. P. C.--Madam Life"

No calling cards await - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

Cardboard.

Reduced to the greeting card section of CVS - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

With the economy of an index card - Mary Jo Bang "One Could Say the Train Is Resting"

Postcard.

And the small death of the wild card - Frank Stanford "Embark"

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( Carrion )

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( Cascade )

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( Cataract )

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Pain capacious as the sea - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love II: Bequest"

Stretching the world far beyond its modest capacity - Chibueze Crouch-Anyarogbu "host"

A capacity for love without forgiveness - Terrance Hayes "Snow for Wallace Stevens"

Thorned whispers well below a human's capacity to hear - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

My lungs at maximum capacity of sadness - upfromsumdirt [aka Ron Davis] "The Hero with the African Face"

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( Cathedral )

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Live and roam free as the Carp - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"

The power to forge and be prolific as Carp - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"

Carp smeared with a smack of sriracha - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"

An alphabet only the carp can read - Conrad Hilberry "The Facts"

They carp at every gust that stirs them - Victor Hugo "Letter II.vi." transl. by E.H. and A.M. Blackmore

packed tightly in a carped of underground despair - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"

A carp piercing through the dragon's gate - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

Though the blue jays carp and whistle - Mary Oliver "Black Oaks"

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Prepare cattle & rapid fire - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

The slow, dark cattle call of cause and effect - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"

I have herded the stars like cattle - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Red herds of sullen cattle drifting - John Masefield "The River"

And their cattle seemed to understand - Wa Wa Chaw "The Trial of the Mission Indian"

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( Cacophony )

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( Cake )

Plum-cake, instead of bread - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"

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( Camel )

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while freedom captivates us most - Elizabeth Bartlett "art"

Captivated by a tidal pool - Laura Foley "Lost and Found"

Alone can captivate my mind - Anonymous "Loyalty Confined"

( Captive )

Soft captivity of circling arms - Edward Dowden "Helena"

At his private film of captivity - Margo Tamez "Father replays the funeral in Dream #28"

The wretch in captivity borne - Te-con-ees-kee "[Though far from Georgia in exile I roam]"

Silent in their captors' train - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"

a new day preordained by my captors - Tanque R. Jones "Morning Time"

Captor and lure and queen - Louis J. McQuilland "The House of the Strange Woman"

Icarus, careful not to wake his captors - Jonathan Teklit "Black Mythology"

( Capture )

Half-captured happiness had left a scar - Frank Davis Ashburn "Sonnet [Poor Lucy never laughed much after that]"

A fugitive uncapturable fire - Clark Ashton Smith "Laus Mortis"

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( Can (noun) )

Pushing a grocery cart of empty beer cans - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"

Trying to crush beer cans against the moon - John McCarthy "Ghost Friends, Sangamon County"

Double agents in the cannery - Jaswinder Bolina "Stump Speech"

From herbs grown in coffee cans - Ana Castillo "These Times"

An angel on every garbage can - John Ciardi "Abundance"

A familiar sweater in a garbage can - Laura Kasischke "Recall the Carousel"

Tin Can.

Whatever power wields the watering can - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"

Contrived the storm with watering cans - Linda Gregerson "Dido in Darkness"

The rain has shelved its watering can - Kettly Mars "Between midnight and eternity" transl. by Nathan H. Dize

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( Carry )

Carryout and unwrapped gifts - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Another Epitaph for Nino"

Deft carriers of mysterious things - Cora C. Bass "Ours Is the Choice"

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( Carpet )

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( Candy )

Know where candy bars come from - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"

Suck cotton candy nebulae through his teeth - Mike Allen "Deluge"

The sky sells cotton candy - Ralph James Savarese "The Bearing Edge"

A mountain of sugar-candy - Arno Holz "Phantasus" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

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( Caravan )

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( Cart )

A long line of aerial cartwheels - Catherine Barnett "The Specious Present"

Cartwheels and hallellujahs - Dante Micheaux "Striking the Tents"

Enough to make the cartwheels crack - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

Their meteor go-cart running on a firecracker - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

A pushcart heaped beyond possibility - John Ciardi "Abundance"

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( Cancel )

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( Case )

Encased in a local thunderstorm - Billy Collins "Mappamundi"

Encased in a gauntlet of steel - Emily Pauline Johnson "Guard of the Eastern Gate"

On the panes with frost encased - "Winter" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

Carrying briefcases full of bats - Frank Stanford "Politicians"

Allowing lowercase sand to spill from me - Christopher Kondrich "Ruin Valley"

Staircase.

Suitcase.

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( Camera )

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( Castle )

The four dimensions fold into a sandcastle - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"

Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

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( Cauldron )

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( Carnival )

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( Catalogue )

So many dull, uncataloged moons - Jackson Holbert "Unfinished Letter to Jakob"

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( Call )

My body for a calling-card - Stephen Vincent Benet "P. P. C.--Madam Life"

No calling cards await - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

All callsign and codename - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

Into the violence of our callsign - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

Hide from the magic of my flute-call - Sarojini Naidu "The Snake-Charmer"

Owl-calls over its empty track - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

An arrangement of uncalled-for words - Janet Kauffman "Uncalled-For"

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( Candle )

Tomorrows brighter than candle-blown - P. H. Low "Ode"

Candlelight.

Candelabra lit with flowers - Helen Parry Eden "The Ascent"

Beneath the many-branching candelabrum - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"

Dry candelabras of bristling stature - Pablo Neruda "Climates" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A candelabra for the spiders' silvery halo - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

The aura of each candle-flame - L.P. Hartley "Candlemas"

As candle-flames that near the socket - Clark Ashton Smith "Medusa"

When candle-flames burn blue - G.B. Stuart "Haunted"

Shadows past the candle-gleam - Ruth Guthrie Harding "Song"

Candle-smoke curls around my sight - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

Inside it whispers candlesmoke - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"

Her moon-candle burns till dawn - Frederick George Scott "In the Woods"

Wick/Candlewick.

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( Catch )

Uncatches some remote lock - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

( Caught )

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( Cain )

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( Cadence )

Silence fretted by cadent rain - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"

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( Calendar )

Long past the edge of anything calendrical - Julia Bloch "Valley Oak"

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( Caress )

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( Casual )

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Outside the possibility of human causation - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"

( Cause )

The slow, dark cattle call of cause and effect - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"

The invisible hides cause-and-effect - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

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( Cat )

No one took a cat nap in the shadows - Andre F. Peltier "Christ at the Comedy Store"

Kitten.

Wildcat.

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( Careful )

Care.

Careless.

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( Camp )

Campfire.

Worth whole encampments in fool's dust and deed - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

Encamped on Night's waste plain - William Watson "Night on Curbar Edge, Derbyshire"

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( Careless )

Care.

Careful.

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( Cap )

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

Like a tent about the ice-capped stars - Lola Ridge "After Storm"

Ice caps don't choose to melt - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"

Till the snow-caps catch the chorus - Robert Reid "A Song of Canada"

Uncap the pen again tomorrow - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"

Checking that the camera's uncapped - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"

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( Caution )

Ravenous with a cautious hunger - Douglas S. Jones "Sexy in the Food Chain"

Drank the galaxy that spun small and cautious - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Blue Cup"

Turn every head into a cautious metronome - Roger Reeves "Brazil"

The thin plume of cautious smoke - Tracy K. Smith "Soulwork"

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( Cactus )

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( Caesar )

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( Calculate )

Made our calculations pay - Jack LaZebnik "The Day the Tree Fell Down"

Invention, force or calculation - D.S. Marriott "Letter on Alladat"

swallowed in the calculations of white sheets - Ed Roberson "(...As for the Swallows, All They Were Doing)"

Other fond, erroneous calculation of splendid schemes - A.D.T. Whitney "Bowls"

From the blood of incalculable planets - Nikita Gill "Your Heart Is Not a Hospital"

Under clouds of miscalculation - Ada Limon "The Barer the Bones"

To recalculate our infinite extinction - Paisley Rekdal "Philip Larkin's Koan"

Each uncalculated vacancy diagrammed - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"

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Friendship, which love's loud emotions becalms - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]

Lie becalmed in sight of strand - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"

( Calm )

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( Care )

The care-escaping deer descend - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.III--Noonday"

Carefree laughter echoing in the dark - Chad Frame "A Union Victory"

Wandering by the carefree stream - Fenton Johnson "The Miracle"

Ashamed beside the carefree fish - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson

Careful.

Careless.

Heavy sweetness proves its own caretaker - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

And careworn brows forget - Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "Songs for the People"

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While Moonshine takes the Cash - J.L. Duff "The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam"

Cash in the sky's dark pocket - Carol Ann Duffy "Death and the Moon"

Cash is the measure of the heart - S.G. Goodrich "Farewell to a Fashionable Acquaintance"

Arrive without certificate or cash - Bill Holm "Wedding Poem For Schele and Phil"

Cash in for forever love - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

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( Car )

The clearing yard loaded with empty freight cars - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

Leave the tram-car's jarring jangle - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

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Blinded by fierce calcium rays - Oliver Herford "The Hydra"

The calcium's sleeping feet - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Small calcium words uttered in sequence - Naomi Shihab Nye "Different Ways to Pray"

Old caves of calcium icicles - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"

an origami placed before a calcified wind - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

Dread calcifying into prophecy - Desiree C. Bailey "Woman in Dub"

our bones of calcified light - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"

Calcified gravity, built up and broken down - Cecilia Llompart "Do Not Speak of the Dead"

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( Cane )

Bull standing in the canebrake - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle

In the wet rice-swamps and canebreaks tall - Grace Greenwood "A Charade [In the wet rice-swamps]"

On the other side of sugarcane - fahima ife "porous aftermath"

Rose water, sugar cane, and summer melons - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"

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( Carve )

Their carver with heart of stone - Walter de la Mare "Sunk Lyonesse"

Half-carved by your hands - Daisy Aldan "Your Letter"

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( Cardboard )

Board.

Card.

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( Cave )

golden butterfly against the cave-dark - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"

( Cavern )

( Cavernous )

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( Camouflage )

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( Carnation )

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( Cannon )

The cannonade of the pent and darkened lake - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Poised on a cannon ball's flight - "The Angels of War" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

With cannon-balls for Compromises - "Victory's Band" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Football players firing glory-cannons downfield - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

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The dark and candid gaze of night - Maxwell Bodenheim "Rattlesnake Mountain Fable II"

Candid sunlight - Billy Collins "A History of Weather"

Covert in April, candid in May - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature II: May-Flower"

Candid unguent of utter unhappiness - Barbara Hamby "Ode to American English"

Will scarcely trust my candid heart - The Honorable Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "I Do Not Love Thee"

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( Cast )

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

To make a girl a castaway bird - Frank Gallimore "Parasitoid"

We dream of the castaway wind - Sun Yung Shin "A History of Domestication"

In seas of castaways - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 18" transl. by Katherine Silver

Poured like cast iron into our spines - Merdan Ehet'Eli "Common Night" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

Onions sizzling in a cast iron skillet - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"

A cast-iron smile of joy - Robert W. Service "Grin"

A foundation of black cast iron - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #1: Heavy Lyricism" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

A downcast silent regret - Frank J. Medina "Loneliness"

The soul's emblem meets my downcast eyes - G.S. "Butterflies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 30 March 1878]

A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"

Redeem all other god-cast stones - Chris Dombrowski "Lunar Calendar"

Will wander, outcasts, from the great world's gate - Henry Morford "The Children in the Wood" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Overcast.

The several questions endlessly recast - Scott Cairns "Idiot Psalms 3: A psalm of Isaak, whispered mid the Philistines, beneath the breath"

Upcast an iridescent eye serene - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

With warbling throat and eye upcast - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]

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( Calamity )

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( Cargo )

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( Capable )

Knowledge that I seemed incapable of retaining - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"

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The rocking horse dreams of riding the carousel - Duane Ackerson "Various Horses"

We are a stopped carousel - Samiya Bashir "At Harlem Hospital across the street from the Schomburg the only thing to eat is a Big Mac"

Why children might fear a carousel - Rita Dove "Horse and Tree"

As the carousel twirled its crown of lights - Keith Leonard "Museum"

In a carousel of staring light - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"

Scrawled out in blood and carousel - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"

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( Cackle )

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Caprice and a cocktail shaker - Mary Jo Bang "Time Speeds, Said Louise, When a Fever Rises"

More fallible than mere caprice - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Some hard capricious star - Djuna Barnes "From Fifth Avenue Up"

Capricious largesse of the miser soil - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"

Vexes that wilful and capricious eye - William Cory "Amavi"

Clockwork heart capricious - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter"

Refuse the capricious gift of Fate - E. Nesbit "Via Amoris"

With the capricious chime of interwoven notes - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"

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( Cage )

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( Calculus )

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The cabinet of fossilized delights - Mary Jo Bang "The Dog Bark"

The cabinet of genuine particulars - Mary Jo Bang "The Role of Elegy"

Best gems of Nature's cabinet - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

Crumbling pain on the cabinets that never closed - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

And had a cabinet behind his eyes - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

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Traced in each callus on his hands - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

Coffee cupped between calloused hands - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"

Feet callused from paspalum and rye - John McCarthy "Silence Rising, Dust Rising"

Tearing the calluses of bark from our wounds - Joy Priest "The Black Outside"

Test the calluses I've grown - Kris Ringman "Oak Skin"

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( Campfire )

Camp.

Fire.

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Can also catalyze our decay - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"

A catalyst for pathfinding and strength - Brandon D. Johnson "Standing by a Shelf"

Either chemistry or literature, a catalyst or a metaphor - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

Blameless catalyst of our defeat - Ann K. Schwader "Ossuary"

Commence catalyst and evensong - Asiya Wadud "Shorn, treaded red"

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A book for the candle light - Angelina Weld Grimké "For the Candlelight"

In the candle light on the shore of dreams - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

Mourned by candlelight - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "How Fortunate the Boy"

By North Star or candlelight - Gregory Pardlo "Copyright"

Sing of stars and candlelight - Miriam Clark Potter "Lady Mother"

Commanding candlelight and quicksand - Nicole Sealey "and"

Had neither fire nor candle-light - Katharine Tynan "A Song of Christmas"

Candle-light and fire-light mingle - Henry van Dyke "The First Bird o' Spring"

Candle.

Light.

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Cardamom flavored with a cup-reading at the end - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"

The use they've made of cardamom - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"

The bite of a softened cardamom pod - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"

wrench cardamom from between my teeth - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"

Sprigs of lemongrass, a pod of cardamom - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"

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( Calligraphy )

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Caw and fuss among what brittle branches left - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

Hoarse caws and dark wings - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

To hear the returning Rooks' caw of despair - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Blackbird and the Rooks"

Attracting crows to sit on the sill and caw - Zilka Joseph "Green Kaanji and Destiny"

Birds cawing over the broken earth - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"

The crow that caws at the core of the sea - Saheed Sunday "Fluorescence"

The raucous crows' raw caws - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

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( Carbon )

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The lurking canker of despair - Mrs. Lois B. Adams "Hath Not Thy Rose a Canker"

Canker'd by the worm of pride - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

The worm, the canker, and the grief - Lord Byron "On this Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year"

To hide the cankering venom - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Broken chains, lying cankered with old blood-drops - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Canker blooms have full as deep a dye - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LIV"

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