Potential Titles: Cerulean

Each cerulean sister of the flood - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. I"

Michelangelo enameled in cerulean - Dan Chiasson "Bloom (II)"

Near the cerulean margin of our streams - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Piercing the cerulean vault of heaven - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"

Flying from former fires into cerulean skies - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

In the cerulean depths of slow oblivion - Iris Tree "[Oh! why will you not let me love you]"


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Potential Titles: Century

( Century )

The majestic blooming of the century plant - Bruce Boston "A Life in the Day Of"


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Potential Titles: Ceremony

Ceremonial hostess of suppressed rage - Grace Iwashita-Taylor "Default Taupou"

The sun descending the ceremonial ring - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Fox Paw and Coyote Blessing"


( Ceremony )

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Potential Titles: Celebrate

( Celebrate )

For nine days uncelebrated - May Chong "Kamcia"


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Potential Titles: Cement

( Cement )

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Potential Titles: Celestial

( Celestial )

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Potential Titles: Center/Central

( Center )

In your wings the central winds of heaven - Edward Dowden "Sunsets"

The Pandemonium Junction with the Central will combine - A Provisional Committee of Contributors "The Grand General Junction and Indefinite Extension Railway Rhapsody" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

The central fires of secret memory - Ivor Gurney "That County"

The central music of the Pleiades - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"


Centerpieces on another table - Aimee Le "The Best Lesson"


The sole reason center stage was invented - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"


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Potential Titles: Ceaseless/Unceasing

( Ceaseless )

The incessant rain of melody - Edward Dowden "From April to October: IV. The Skylark"

An incessant trembling bridge - Eileen Myles "Fifty-Three"

The restless sands' incessant fall - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"


( Unceasing )

Cease.


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Potential Titles: Certain

( Certain )

( Certainty )

Hers by old certitude of use - Lola Ridge "Chinese Print (To E.A.K.)"


Uncertain.


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Potential Titles: Cent

Couldn't shoot an arrow worth a cent - "Boy Billy and the Rabbit" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Have not a cent to bless - John Oxenham "Some--And Some"

Bright lyrics at a cent a yard - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"

The world now moves by rent and cent - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "The Last Postillion" transl. by Charles Leland

With not even a cent in my pockets - John Wieners "For Huncke"


A million-dollar god with a two-cent heaven - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"


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Potential Titles: Ceres

( Ceres )

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Potential Titles: Demise

A surgeon to my own demise - Mary Jo Bang "G Is Going"

Along the filigree of your demise - Cheryl Dumesnil "Colossal Failure of Human Design, We Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Your Death"

driving towards her black and white demise - Gwynne Garfinkle "Dear Tom Cassidy's Daughter"

The demise of debtors' prisons - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

The demise of the dodo - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"

feed on the fruits of my demise - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"

The fruits of my demise - Xan Forest Phillips "No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits"


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Potential Titles: Cease

( Cease )

A cease fire for even the wilder kingdom - Russell Brakefield "Pardon, Trout Farm"


Ceaseless/Unceasing.


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Potential Titles: Censure

Seems not my censure strangely wrong - Mark Akenside "Ode III. To A Friend, Unsuccessful in Love"

In equal joy among men's praise or censure - John Drinkwater "Lake Winter"

Censured by our eyes - Christopher Marlowe "Hero and Leander"

To censure all with scornful eyes - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Lavater's Warning" [Household Words ed. by Charles Dickens]

And blot their censure with self-blaming - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: II"


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Potential Titles: Cell

( Cell )

The signals sent on the cellular level - Mary Jo Bang "On the Nature of Hardwiring"


strung their frosted hex-cells starwise - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"


Hunt a storm-cell's shifting edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"


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Potential Titles: Ceiling

( Ceiling )

Horse-shoes on the ceiling-rafters hung - Alfred B. Street "The Smithy" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]


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Potential Titles: Cellar

( Cellar )

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Potential Titles: Obsolete

Old furnitures, obsolete machineries and funny gadgets - Mukut Borpujari "Stoic"

Final, ultimate survivor of an order obsolete - Harry Graham "The Last Horsed 'Bus"

The obsolete copper profile - Adrienne Rich "The Art of Translation"

Declare all passions obsolete - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Stray dogs and chickens roam obsolete highways - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"


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Potential Titles: Obtain

( Obtain )

Vague beloved unobtainable - Marianne Boruch "There Ought to Be a Law Against Henry"


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Potential Titles: Cemetery

Shuts the red cemeteries of hell with seven burning bars - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Ballad of Divine Compassion"

Sleeps in a cemetery of rusted cars - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]

That dies flying through a cemetery of colors - Yaxkin Melchy Ramos "The Boxwood Sketches" transl. by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

A tombstone in a cemetery of teeth - Jacques J. Rancourt "The Loons Prove that Even Before There Was a Word for Grief It Existed as Song"

Its celebration was a picnic in a cemetery - Margaret Ross "Saturday"

grayscale except for sumac at cemetery's edge - Brian Teare "Convince me you have a seed there"


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Potential Titles: Cedar

( Cedar )

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Potential Titles: Centaur

An hundred centaurs come - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

A sphinx has elicited Medusa to petrify a centaur - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"

Elicited Medusa to petrify a centaur - Diane Mehta "Walking to Athena"

Assailed by thickets and centaurs - Pablo Neruda "Chile's Voices" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The thunder of the Centaur's hooves - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"


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