Mar. 7th, 2010

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Corrupt )


incorruptible Nothing under the ample sun - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"

A lamp above the incorruptible table - Maria Luisa Spaziani transl. by Lynne Lawner


Stars descend to encounter the uncorrupted glaciers - Daisy Aldan "Glaciers"

Land of the uncorrupted heart - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]


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Connect )


Connection )


a connective world with multiple paths - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"


By the nature of connectivity - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"


An interconnected power shift - Yona Harvey "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love"

A grid of interconnected variables - Mg Roberts "Cylanders II"


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Country )


Shade the countryside with outstretched wings - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

A pair of shears cutting countrysides into shapes - Diane DeCillis "Seeing Like Cezanne"

Over a streaming patchwork countryside - Elizabeth Spires "Nightgown"


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Interrupted by minor collisions - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"

Deliver a collision of breaths - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"

Hear the song of their collision - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Required a fantastic collision of moons - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Hypothetical Moons"

A clockwork of collision and dust - Sonya Taaffe "The Gambler"


Our breath has yet to collide - Aygul Alim (Tamche) "We Have Not Met" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

What happens when meteors collide? - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Curiousity"

Collide at the edge of sight - Heid E. Erdich "Translation"

The subatomics of creation, colliding in darkness - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"

I collide with your mind - Maureen N. McLane "Mesh"

When each particle and anti-particle collided - James F. Yockey "What If"


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Moon-paint on a colorless house - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"

Before we can be colorless and new - Wendy Chen "Rites"

A dram of colourless alcohol - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"

Cold as the heart of a colorless rose - Katherine Hale "Christmas Eve"

Cold and colorless as glass - Robinson Jeffers "The First Grass"

Unasked for and colorless - Susan Rich "Shadowbox"


Color/Colour.


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Companion )


A saint companionless - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Words of Rosalind's Scroll"


Into the free companionship of air - Stephen Vincent Benet "Nos Immortales"

With wine of sweet companionship - Eloise Briton "The Two Flames"


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Bitter contested farthings - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"

Who will contest the ownership of fire? - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Contest the onward march of the wheat - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

A handshake that becomes a squeezing contest - Alberto Rios "The Border: A Double Sonnet"

the longitude is a contested border - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"

Contest the majesty of water - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"


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Conscious )


In the first twilight of self-conscious Time - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Your self-conscious secret fruits - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"


Couldn't be held responsible for his subconscious - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"

But the subconscious knows best - Deborah Hauser "Never Admit Your Mistakes"


Unconscious.


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Conspiracy )


Conspiratorial unsuspicious activity - Douglas Kearney "The Irregular and/or Anti- and Ante- Regulative"


Conspire )


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A convincing conspiracy of one - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"

Whose eyes are already convinced - Maxwell Bodenheim "Fantasy"

Could not convince me of our separate dreaming - Russell Brakefield "Shutter, Lag"

As convincing as our souls - Stephen Dunn "A Concise History of the Future"

Convince the night to do our bidding - Willie Lee Kinard III "Aubade: Nocturne"

Convincing by speed alone - Kay Ryan "More of the Same"

The moonlight does not convince sunrise - Nicole Sealey "imagine sisyphus happy"


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Its deep and communal roots - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"


Commune )


No more communicants of the green sap - Lola Ridge "Mo-ti"


Communion )


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Concrete )


Sketch a Jackson Pollock splatter of concrete poetry - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"


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Coffee )


two tragic martyrs on coffee break - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

Star-crossed diamonds on the coffee cup - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

An accumulation of coffee pots - Lauren Russell "Exposition"


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Condemn )


condemnatory fingers thinned of pity - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"


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In the condors' bloody talons - Pablo Neruda "America" transl. by Jack Schmitt

On this dial the condor's shadow cruises - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

The drill that strikes like a condor - Pablo Neruda "I Wish the Woodcutter Would Wake Up [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly

The black ways of the condor - Pablo Neruda "Superstitions" transl. by Alastair Reid

The condor be a floating witness - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver

The wind and the condor - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 4" transl. by Katherine Silver


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Our lamps we consecrate - Susan Coolidge "A Year"

Vows that consecrate his sword - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Awful honour's consecrated shrine - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"

Unto the Lares consecrate - Mary E. Hewitt "The Hearth of Home"

And muse upon the consecrated spot - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

Consecrate to hope - Amy Lowell "Fatigue"

In truth or fable consecrates - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"


Mine by natal consecration - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"


In naves of a deconsecrated church - Brandon Som "Resistors"


Unconsecrated ground cannot hold them - Jay Hulme "Seeking Trans Ancestors in Provincial Graveyards"


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Come )


Came )


To live in the come-and-go of things - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie II"

The motown long plays for the comeback of Osiris - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

Like home-coming swallows that seek the old eaves - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "In an Album"


Oncoming.


Outcome.


Temptation overcomes the star - Sade LaNay "Entry 003 from I love you and I'm not dead"

The endless work of overcoming - Kay Ryan "Why it Is Hard to Start"


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Conquer )


Conqueror )


Conquest )


Flowers on the conquistador's tongue - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"


For one time-conquering soul - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"


Unconquered/Unconquerable.


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Concern )


Unconcerned with the inconvenience of his presence - Niki Herd "Bird"

Every one of the unconcerned streetlamps - Adrian Matejka "Mural with HUD Housing & School Bus (1980)"

Still unconcerned with truth - Wallace Stevens "Sonnet [Lo, even as I passed beside the booth]"

Through their million-footed dirge of unconcern - Arthur Stringer "At Charing-Cross"


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Complete )


Living is the plot to sing completion - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

Bringing the the comfort of completion - Sue Budin "I Dream About Weaving"

Took millennia to reach completion - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"


Incomplete.


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Cold )


The scarlet rhapsodies and beryl-cold sonatas - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"

Bone-cold root of nowhere - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Cold-blooded, faint-hearted changeling - Mrs Margaret M. Inglis "Bruce's Address"

Their bones are coldsleep coral now - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

And still the winds are hungry-cold - Lloyd Roberts "One Morning when the Rain-Birds Call"

Naught save the harsh sea and ice-cold wave - "The Seafarer" transl. from 'the early Anglo-Saxon' by Ezra Pound

Then Heart grew kettle-cold - Richard Hughes "Cottager is given the Bird (1921)"

Lost in the slate-cold sky - Theodore Maynard "The Stirrup Cup"


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Like a cobra sure of the sun - Brionne Janae "Child's Pose"

I was a cobra's tongue - Saeed Jones "Thallium"

The cobras are partial to grass - Barry Pain "Martin Luther at Potsdam"

The gem in a cobra's hood - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 12: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

A cobra drawn in charcoal - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 18: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

What can a wordless cobra do - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 131: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Hooded cobra bound by hollow spells of sound - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"


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Construct )


Was, likewise, a construction of our minds - Leslie J. Anderson "I Understand Video Games Aren't Real"

The construction of our living inferno - Chia-Lun Chang "Vote Your Way to Hell"

For construction workers and dreamers - Jordan Jace "I Want"

Measure by parallelogram construction - "Song of the Screw"


Deconstruction found the moving circle - Brenda Hillman "The Eighties"


Who will reconstruct the etymon of hunger - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan

The tabernacle reconstructed - Richard Siken "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out"


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Some combination of symbol and movement - Christopher Kondrich "Previously Forgotten"

A secret combination of frowns - J. Patrick Lewis "the child"

Our combination of intimacy and isolation - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"

Testing endless combinations - Mary Szybist "In the Beginning God Said Light"


Combine )


Taught recombinant DNA to recombine - Duane Ackerson "What If"

The recombination of your elements into new patterns - David Salisbury "On Mars"


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Compare )


Without comparisons, mirrors, ambition - Stephen Dunn "A Short History of Long Ago"

Chatter their comparisons to the wind - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"

None venturing to risk comparison - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"


With our incomparable sense of loss - Leonard Cohen "Queen Victoria and Me"


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When he was her complex equation - Catherine Bowman "Provisional"

Within the rib complex of some dissolved creature - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"

Complex finger clusters flashing - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

A complex invitation to become the future - Linette Lao "Becoming"


His five-fold complex-nature - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Shell"


A stand-in for complexities - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "You Are Here"

Couldn't unravel the complexities - Connstynce Nduta Chege "To Get 2(54) You"

The complexity of wild paths and webs woven - Margaret Noodin "Gidiskinaadaa Mitigwaakiing/Woodland Liberty"

devastating years of industrious complexities - Angela Peñaredondo "harvest"


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If I can concentrate I might turn sharp - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

In a concentrate of time - Andrew Feld "Dedication"

Concentrate on every play - Lee Bennett Hopkins "Endgame"

Myriads of atoms like concentrated suns - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"


Curled in an inverse question mark of concentration - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

Absorbed by your own concentration - Jane Hirshfield "My Skeleton"

A sweetness of concentration - Grace Paley "Anti-Love Poem"


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Confirmed in each detail - Rae Armantrout "On Your Way"

Only that to confirm the eternal at your back - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"

Treble circumstance must confirm the verdict - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"

The first confirmed wild hybrid - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Since Time can but confirm - Ivor Gurney "Fire in the Dusk"

Confirmed in their beliefs - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"

Confirmed the morning glory's crown - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"


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Continual )


A justification for the planet's continuance - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"

The natural and sweet continuance of days - Alice Wellington Rollins "Many Things Thou Hast Given Me, Dear Heart"

Continuance along infinite lines - David Salisbury "On Mars"


Continue )


Continuous )


A smooth continuity of singing fractions - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

An addict to continuity - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"


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Wade in contradiction - George Abraham "Essay on Submission"

Emerge from the valley of contradictions - Kwame Dawes "Shook Foil"

Haggling with contradiction - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"

A smoke of contradictions - Edwin Torres "Terra Quad"

Her thin, uncontradictable truth - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

Yet of contradictions made - Walt Whitman "Still Though the One I Sing"


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Control )


freeing the minions from their mindcontrol helmets - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"


The stone of self-control - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Big Bang as Seen on a Chrysanthemum Stone"


an instruction manual on how to collar the uncontrollable - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"

The demon of uncontrol - Marguerite Mooers Marshall "Ghosts"

Roams uncontrolled and free - "P--The Pelican" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]


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Convulsive shudder of dissolving worlds - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Some new Convulsion tear - Andrew Marvell "The Definition of Love"

Fruits of some convulsive hour - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Beyond"

Years convulsed with pang and throe - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell

The convulsions of human error - Derek Walcott "A Propertius Quartet III"


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Common )


Commonplace.


Gloved your arms with Common-Sense - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"


Uncommon.


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Cool )


Cool-rooted flowers fragrant-eyed - John Keats "Psyche"


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Confess )


Confession )


The window inside of a confessional booth - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"


Each had a secret unconfessed - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "Songs of Two"

Living blue unconfessed - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"

Knows the wounds that quiver unconfessed - George William Russell "The Place of Rest"


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Consume )


An all-consuming body - Cynthia Dewi Oka "Redacted from a Know-Your-Rights Training Agenda"

Into this all-consuming lack - Sasha Pimentel "Lament of Submerged Persons"


Smouldering lilies unconsumed - John Davidson "London"


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A last abundance correcting our poverties - John Ciardi "Abundance"

Heavy with proverb and correction - Leonard Cohen "Queen Victoria and Me"

The correct color for desolate - Stephen Dunn "The Obsession"

Its cunning corrective to up and down - Linda Gregerson "Over Easy"

So unimpeachably correct in morals and in dress - Henry S. Leigh "Over the Water"

Past the corrective of the afterworld - Sandra Lim "Certainty"

Correct but inappropriate - Grace Paley "Sisters"

An agony past all correction - A.E. Stallings "Dead Language Lesson"


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Cousin to simple persistence - Mary Jo Bang "If Wishes Were Horses"

Waiting for the cries of cousins - Lou Barrett "Red Lunch Basket"

Cousins to the knife - Sherwin Bitsui "from 'Dissolve'"

Cousins with the blue earth - Tyree Daye "'tween my gone people & me"

My cousin & the clustered stars - Denice Frohman "Shooting in the Dark"

Oregano's first cousin - Pablo Neruda "Midday XXXIV" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Third cousin to the gold-fish - Adolf Wolff "The Babe"


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Corner )


In its box of sky lavender and cornerless - E. E. Cummings "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls"

Away from the cornerless dark - K. Iver "The Gotham Hotel"


Jesus leaned on the cornerstone - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

The cornerstone in Truth is laid - Henry van Dyke "For the Friends at Hurstmont"


Counterfeiting you on street-corners - Maxwell Bodenheim "Gifts"


Their three-cornered, fearful symmetry - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Shape Shift"


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The sacred contagion of pity, of giving, of loss - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"

Contagion of sanity broken - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"

Contagions of dust - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"

The managed contagion of ignorance - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

The winds that blow contagion - Ann K. Schwader "In the Burned Places"


Every last word is contagious - Jericho Brown "Heartland"

But darkness is contagious - Linda Pastan "The moon"

Plague's contagious murderous breath - Friedrich Schiller "The Plague"

Most of what I know is contagious - Joyce Sutphen "The Temptation to Invent"


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Condition )


In the air-conditioned underworld - Aimee Le "Movies I"


reading a bible of conditional statements - Mckendy Fils-Aimé "on superstitions"


Unconditional surrender to the future - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"


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Content )


In the thin places of contentment - Anthony Butts "Lessons in Nostalgia"


Discontent.


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Comfort )


Bearing with you a comfortless twinge of regret - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

Walked in a comfortless quiet - Donald Hall "Conclusion at Union Lake"

In return for a shadowed and comfortless past - William H.C. Hosmer "Erin Waking" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Does not leave us comfortless - Jane Kenyon "Let Evening Come"


Meet discomfort on the way - Sue Budin "Following the Thread"


Every kind of uncomfortable - Aimee Le "Analogies, or, Twinkie Is to Egg As"

I can't be content here in my uncomfortable present - Jason Schneiderman "House with a Hot Tub and Pool"


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Console/Consolation )


The inconsolable crying of an evil wind - Clark Ashton Smith "Psalm"


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Compromise )


Found in them uncompromising foemen - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

The uncompromising reaches of the earth - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"


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Copper )


A haughty old copper-bound albatross - John Masefield "Sea-Change"


Copper-fastened and well found - John Breslin "The Cruise of the Catalpa"


In the copperplate script of its shadows - Ted Kooser "Moon Shadows"


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His compound of cologne & corrosion - William Archila "Spirits"

Bars accumulating like compound interest - Gabrielle Civil "Three of Cups"

Compounds of ripe silence - Camonghne Felix "Lost Poem 4: RX"

Ampersands of storage compounds - Brenda Hillman "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mother's Garden"

Compounds a strangely mingled cup - John Oxenham "Cup of Mixture"

Compounded of light and air - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

Too much rent for compound sweet - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXV"


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A sudden comprehending - Witter Bynner "The Robin"

Silence of doubt, silence of comprehension - Arthur Davison Ficke "Cafe Sketches"

To comprehend the speech of brick and beam - R.B. Lemberg "Three Principles of Strong Building"

Trained our ears to wake and comprehend - Saretta Morgan "Consequences upon Arrival"

Unable to wholly comprehend - Marilyn Nelson "To Miss Jackson"

Comprehending not their fate - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"


An incomprehensible volume of rain - Timothy Donnelly "The Cloud Corporation"


With our uncomprehended toys - Russell W. Davenport "Poem"

Streams of uncomprehending sadness pour - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"

A strain uncomprehended by the sense - T.A. Swan "The Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]


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Feet bare and untouched against coarse stone - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

The coarse sleeve of sympathy - Naomi Shihab Nye "Working on his Sermon"

Too coarse for Nature's fingers - George Santayana "Premonition"

Weave the fine and coarsest web - Robert Southwell "Times Go by Turns"

Such coarse, arid words - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 132: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley


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As forty brazen cohorts broke the foe - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lucullus Dines"

Saw their shimmering cohorts pass - Rose Fyleman "The Hayfield"

Vast cohorts and constellations of living stars - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Against the distant cohorts of the constellations - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Grant us shadows and their cohorts - Charles Wright "Lullaby"


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And busy comedy of the citizen bees - Arthur Colton "The Roman Way"

An addict of the human comedy - Edward Hirsch "Heinrich Heine"

The rain begins its sober comedy - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"

The comedy of life rehearse - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Because comedy wasn't feeding him - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"


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The first far bells commence - Djuna Barnes "Pastoral"

To commence the comfortable exchange of difference - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

Let's commence the vigil of kisses - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

When flitting bats commenced to wheel - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"

Drop before you can half commence - "Nobody" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Before the mad clicking on an iPod commenced to spin - Dimitri Reyes "Speakers"

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


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As of dogs that howl in concert - Lewis Carroll "Hiawatha's Photographing"

A concert of Creation on the wind - M.A. Hoare "To Wordsworth" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.423, 7 Feb. 1852]

In concerts of harmonious joy - William Somerville "The Chase"

Cryptic concert in their wake - May Swenson "Three Jet Planes"

Under the concerted stare of stars - Adolf Wolff "Byron"


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Consult the oracle of escalated suffering - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"

Consult the disdainful horoscope - Ariel Francisco "Insomniami"

Now consults a dandelion as an Oracle of Greece - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Dandelion-Oracle"

We shall in all things consult our ease - "Monroe to Farragut" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Consult Coleridge on the Imagination - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"


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Applause of cordial honour - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

A cordial old and rare - Sidney Lanier "The Stirrup-Cup"

Lime cordial, molten peridot - Richard Scott "Peridot"

Take her cordial for your cares - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "May Morning"

With cordial welcome for all who pass by - Nancy Byrd Turner "Apple-Tree Inn" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]


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Coffin )


Dreamt a grove grown for coffinwood - Chase Berggrun "Fagus sylvatica 'Pendula'"


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Corrode )


His compound of cologne & corrosion - William Archila "Spirits"


Corrosive )


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Consequence )


To lift this frail, inconsequent flower - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"


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Every shelf complicity among the ruins - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Complicity among the ruins - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

All bitter-sweet complicity - Rae Armantrout "Dark Matter"

The complicity of the scholars and the feminists - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"

In cold complicity the stars comply - Linda Pastan "Ash"


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Conjure )


The gray wizard's conjuring-book - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"


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Coat )


Drinks the liquid coating destined for one - Duane and Cathy Ackerson "Mirror Man"

Dull coatings of a time now ambered - Travis Chi Wing Lau "Funeral for Unreturned Ashes"

Coating this clay with green of peace - Iolo Aneurin Williams "From a Flemish Graveyard"


Coatless and a shirt of briar - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"


A black overcoat for the soul - Robert Bly "How Mirabai Did Not Care"

Her overcoat continuing to thin - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"


His ghost wears our raincoats - Marianne Chan "Cebu City"


But today was a turncoat - Mary Jo Bang "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be"


Shining bright as Lucifer's waistcoat - Joshua Bennett "First Date"


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Conversation )


Being too conversant with asphodel meadows - Jay Wright "Somewhere between here and Belen"


Converse )


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Cover )


Another irrecoverable day - Kay Ryan "Say Uncle"


Uncover.


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Coveting little pieces of light - Stephen Dunn "A Concise History of the Future"

That covets every flame - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

The winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me - Edgar Allan Poe "Annabel Lee"

Covet the seeds of the honey locust - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"

All the covetous notes - Sina Queyras "Years"

Your covetous pulse for chaos - Nicole Sealey "even the gods"

Coveting the drenched red peonies - Iris Tree "Moods III"


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Cobweb )


At moth and gnat and cobweb-time - Thomas Hardy "The Rift"


Web.


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Code )


All callsign and codename - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

Decoding the meaning of your recurring dream - Cynthia Hogue "Spells for Dread"

Life as information encoded in letters - Keith Taylor "Summer Teaching"

Tapping out my Morse-code alphabet - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "woodpecker"


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With glittering coronets of stars - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

And your heart is my golden coronet - Emily Pauline Johnson "Lady Lorgnette"

Points of opal in the crescent coronet - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Trail to Lillooet"

In the night's pale coronet - Richard Chenevix Trench "The Descent of the Rhone"

Shall form a coronet for the regal year - "The Year" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]


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Convicts programmed for an unwelcome war - Mike Allen "Ascending"

All knowledge convict to the body - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"


High triumphs of convictions wrought - Arthur Hugh Clough "Blessed Are They that Have Not Seen!"

The conviction of innumerable directions - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"

For firm conviction of a mouse - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love VI"

The logic of conviction - Zoe Hitzig "I Looked on My Right Hand and Beheld"

Against the voice of his conviction - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Obligations of conviction - Edwin Torres "The Necessariest"


And fifty thousand unconvicted crimes - Stephen Vincent Benet "Epitaph to be Spoken"


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Corn )


What's slung between azure and cornfield - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

Red shall the cornfields ripen - Lionel Johnson "Enthusiasts"

A cornfield carries into the distance - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"


Kingfishers ghosting in cornstalks - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"


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Cord )


Cord-reins of sunbeams wrought - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]


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A conflagration of dragonflies - Carolina Ebeld "There Is a Devil Inside Me"

The conflagrations of the sunset - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

An infinity of conflagrations - Lawrence Joseph "Here in a State of Tectonic Tension"

Warning of an immediate conflagration - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

The maple's autumn conflagration - Laura Ann Reed "Fortitude"

This far-spread conflagration of the fields of snow - Amos Wilder "Winter Night"


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This elastic air convey - Ralph Waldo Emerson "May-Day"

A prayer electronically conveyed - Eric Gamalinda "Zero Gravity"

Memories of open wind convey - Lionel Johnson "In Falmouth Harbour"

That dust to dust conveyed - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"

To the bowers of bliss conveyed - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"


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Cormorants on pitched roofs - Mary Jo Bang "In the Present and Probable Future"

The cormorant wheeled in circles round - William Cullen Bryant "Rizpah"

Till cormorants returned my eyes - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

The cormorant upon the foam - Pablo Neruda "Not Only the Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Pelicans and cormorants stumbling up the bay - Adrienne Rich "A Long Conversation"


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In the rustling music from cottonwood trees - Shutta Crum "Lavender Doe"

In the cottonwoods' grasp of sky - Chris Dombrowski "Heron Rookery Aubade"

The mast of a moored cottonwood - Chris Dombrowski "They Tied the Madmen to Trees Beside the River and All the Shrinks Went Out of Business"

Fly figure-eights over the cottonwoods - Michael Dumanis "Nebraska"

The password of the leaves upon the cottonwood - Alexander Posey "To Wahilla Enhotulle"

Surrounded by tall stands of elm and cottonwood - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"

Wind in the cottonwoods wakes me - Jay Wright "The Healing Improvisation of Hair"


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Courtesy )


Discourtesy of death - W.B. Yeats "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"


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Coin )


In the dull coinage of leaden tears - Eleanor Farjeon "Sonnet III"

The coinage of bright pearls and rubies - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Bar of Science"


a shiny silver moon-coin to play - Evie Shockley "black love"


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Melting into condensed rain - Zaina Alsous "Dead as a Dodo"

Let amorphous restlessness condense - Rae Armantrout "Help"

After the facts are condensed - Mary Jo Bang "The Electric Eventual"

His green shadow condenses - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

But zero gravity condenses nothing - Gretchen Tessmer "A Jar of Condensed Milk"


Sealed jars sweating clear gems of condensation - Kiki Petrosini "Terrorem"

So slow it's more like gravitational condensation - Rosemarie Waldrop "Doing"


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Consider )


Considerate friends on life's pilgrimage - Lermontof "Prayer [Praying now earnestly, Mother of God, come I]" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]


The leniency of consideration - Dara Barrois/Dixon "The Pressure of the Moment"

Feeding on theoretical considerations - Frank O'Hara "On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art"


As inconsiderate as it is just - Rosebud Ben-Oni "So They Say-- They Finally Nailed-- the Proton's Size-- & Hope-- Dies--"


Unconsidered in verse or in song - Clemens Starck "A Brief Lecture on Door Closers"


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To cook down to syrup with chicory leaves and clover - Catherine Bowman "Pears"

Death is the cook of nature - Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle "Nature's Cook"

Installing the devil as cook - George Blackstone Field "The Rodman's Dream"

The cooking pot sentineled by unscoured stone - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

Coming home to cook white stones - Wei Ying-wu "Sent to the Taoist Holy Man of Ch'uan-chiao" transl. by Burton Watson


Make a cookbook where poison tastes good - Stephanie Heit "Mad Flora and Fauna Catalog: Kudzu"


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Count )


Countless.


Uncountable thousands of divisions in the stream of time - Mike Allen "Pulse"


Uncounted )


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Constellation )


gathered the letters with constellated rebellions - Jarid Arraes "Movement"

Where community can constellate - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"

Both hearth and constellated trail of flicker - Joshua Weiner "Psalm"


Beneath a field of stars unconstellated - Jaswinder Bolina "Panjandrum"


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Constant )


The conceit of this inconstant stay - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XV"


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Straw sandals dancing lightly on the cobbles - Betsy Aoki "A crowd of yakubyō gami (pestilence yōkai)"

Along this cobbled road of us - Atticus "Love Her Wild"

Leather cobbled by thread and nails - Mary Jo Bang "The What Within"

A fantasy cobbled out of desire - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"

A hand of stone winnowed cobbles - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney


A cobbler in the house of the Gods - Matthew Olzmann "Olympus"

Cobblers of the song - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"


Gold coins on cobblestone - Lupita Eyde-Tucker "Without Reparations"

Like cobblestones on the knees - Pablo Neruda "October Fullness" transl. by Alastair Reid

Chased the sun down cobblestone mazes - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"


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Down dark converging paths between the pines - Robert Frost "The Bonfire"

All the prisms of the air converged - N. Scott Momaday "Dichos"

Our thoughts converge - Ladan Osman "Boat Journey"

Calculating functions that converge almost everywhere - Jessy Randall "Nina Karlovna Bari (1901-1961)"

Before the shadows converge - Charles Simic "Matches"

When our roads converged - Gary Soto "The Road Not Taken... in Peru"

If all time converges - Arthur Sze "Water Calligraphy"


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Color/Colour )


An amber-colored amethyst inhabits it - Marianne Moore "A Jelly-Fish"

Blood-colored rust rubbed into my hands - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"


A colorful exterior of a painful past - KaNikki Jakarta "A Wading"

Touching the colorful cacophony of sounds - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"


Colorless.


Climbed from the shallows to don your dragon-colors - Joyce Sidman "Fly, Dragonfly!"

Delicate uplifts of dust-colored skin - Mary Oliver "Look Again"

Changed into the five-coloured clouds - Li T'ai-Po "The Pleasures within the Palace" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Through the jasper-colored sphere - Charles Sangster "The Illumined Goal"

Rose-coloured dreams adorning - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Dreams"

A rust-colored rosary worn from prayer - Danni Quintos "Breast Pain"

Garlands of sulfur-colored seaweed - Pablo Neruda "Man" transl. by Jack Schmitt

That flares like the ten-colored turquoise - Ts'ao Chih "The Forsaken Wife" transl. by Burton Watson


the house disguised as a technicolor sunset - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

Technicolor and twilight-made - Taylor Johnson "W 177th & Broadway"


My voice of leaves and varicolored bark - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"


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Courage )


Courageous )


Except a broken and discouraged note - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"


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Coffers heaped with tears - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XI: Compensation"

In our birdcage coffers - Matthea Harvey "Robber Sentenced to Reflection"

Her coffers filled with their countless worth - Edward Smyth Jones "A Song of Thanks"

The copious coffer of thieves - Pablo Neruda "Alvarado" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The silence of these mountain coffers - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

As in a coffer burned to dust - Pablo Neruda "Tupac Amaru (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt


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Coal )


What wine of coal-damp He will pour - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"


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Coil )


The density of an uncoiled afternoon - Rasha Abdulhadi "who is owed springtime--"

Softly from their parting buds uncoil - George S. Burleigh "Sunshine and Rain" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Uncoil reptilian in the night - Rebecca Dunham "To Walk on Air"


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Conduct )


Safe-conduct and a proud retreat - Helen Parry Eden "A Parley with Grief"


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Confine )


Shedding confinements of skin and shadow - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

The expert in solitary confinement - Pablo Neruda "Men II" transl. by William O'Daly

The confinement of plain sight - Gregory Pardlo "Copyright"


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Court )


The honey of courtly hypocrisy - Julia de Burgos "To Julia de Burgos" transl. by Grace Schulman

Courtliness and operatic mystery - Adrienne Rich "Four Short Poems 1"


A curious courtship in your brain - Max Bodenheim "Poem"


Courtyard.


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Commit )


Visceral commitment to rearrange space - Andrea Abi-Karam "DEAR GABRIELLE"

Held together with such commitments - Douglas S. Jones "A Tuesday Night"

A commitment we all make - jessica Care moore "She Was"

A seed's commitment to its place on the ground - Teresa J. Scollon "Mid-Life, I'm Lost"


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Colonialism, Disney, riots & inoculations - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"


To dissolve the colony's Sun - Zaina Alsous "Bird Prelude"

the body as a colony of disclosures - Wale Ayinla "To Disappear into a Song Wide Enough to Drown"

The first colony of bluebirds - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"

Before a colony of clouds - Nathalie Handal "Santo Domingo"

Seeking lucid speech in colonies of darkness - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"


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The swaying commerce of violence - Russell Brakefield "Mackinaw Island"

Anonymous mounds of commerce and industry - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

First sacrifice to the residues of commerce - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Commerce with the sun and skies - Emily Lawless "From a Western Shoreway II: A Bog-Filled Valley"

Of sugared art and poisoned commerce - Percy MacKaye "To William Watson in England"

death's a similar kind of commerce - Sam Sax "Bury"


In the dark instant between commercials - Danni Quintos "Pond's White Beauty"


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stabbing the breath with a wild commotion - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

A commotion in the air and in the blood - John Ciardi "Abundance"

Sounds of loud and fierce commotion - Henry Kendall "Australian War Song"

The steep sky's commotion - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ode to the West Wind"

The commotion of stars and clouds - May Sinclair "The Dark Night (XVIII)"

Defend from faction's wild commotion - "The Union Marseillaise" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]


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An Achilles of computation - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"


End past compass or compute - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"


Entering the computer through the keyboard - Duane Ackerson "Infinite Zero"

The strangling garden of computerized reeds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen F"

Dusted her computer with sacred moth wings - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

clearing the computers of all the citizen information - Cislyn Smith "Borrower"


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Narrative designed to confer existence - Frank Bidart "Queer"

River and tide confer - Bliss Carman "Golden Rowan"

And kept thenceforth the crown conferred - Oliver Herford "How the Lion Became King"

Dark trees, gravely conferring - Florence Ripley Mastin "Discovery"

The russet hickories confer - Theodore Roberts "The Chase"


Walk in mournful conference together - James MacPherson "Fragments of Ancient Poetry: XI"

What a torturer wears to a press conference - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"


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Winds are not confiding - Sarah Jeannette Lathbury Brigham "Little Neighbors"

Confiding in our threads of life unspun - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"

And weep while I'm confiding - Leila "Stanzas" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Who confide in trumpet flowers - Maurya Simon "Angels"

Teach me how to confide - Henry van Dyke "God of the Open Air"


Confidant to my infinite dream - Charles Baudelaire "Posthumous Remorse" transl. by Keith Waldrop

The confidant of intimate hopes and fears - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"


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vanished in the dawn's contempt - Elizabeth Bartlett "cold wakening"

Contempt of generations - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity I"

But winter scorched by heaven's high contempt - Linda Gregerson "The Turning"

A thousand answers on contemptuous lips - Pablo Neruda "Men XIV" transl. by William O'Daly

If life could then depart in its contempt of dust - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

One day's contempt and anger - Mrs. Kāminī Roy "Call and Bring Her" transl. Miss Whitehouse


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An hour’s lull in the space-time continuum - Simon Armitage "Gravity"

Two stops apart on a tightwired continuum - Mary Jo Bang "Girls Dress Well to Stave Off Chaos"

This continuum of fairly average losses - Kate Knapp Johnson "Oh"

A settling and a continuum - Joseph O. Legaspi "On an Island (New York City)"

And bent toward the afternoon continuum - Ada Limon "Spring, 1989"

We will not be robbed of continuum - Cedar Sigo "Close-Knit Flower Sack"


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Compass, quadrant and sextant contrive no farther tides - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"

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

Fame you must contrive to bring - Henry S. Leigh "A Begging Letter"

Whom very few contrive to catch - Henry S. Leigh "My Ultimatum"

Could contrive to cure him of a theory - Henry S. Leigh "A Nursery Legend"

Whom Caesar contrived to annoy - Mrs. A. Ritson "Classical Enigmas"

Contrives her delicate masonry - Marguerite Young "Spring"


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Won’t donate the corpse of my dreaming - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

A corpse, your own or someone else's - Scott Cairns "Embalming"

Hearses carrying the corpse of profit - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"

Eating the corpses of your memories - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"

Corpses from the crypts of memory - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"


Leaving a corpselight burning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"


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A lone pilgrim to the cottage door - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"

The cottage lights a hundred starlights follow - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Nantucket Windows"

Never a hand on the cottage door - Caris Brooke "[Never a hand on the cottage door]"

Farewell to the cottage and vine - Charles Jefferys "Let Me Rest in the Land of My Birth"

In the quiet cottage of his brain - Loretta Diane Walker "Imagining my Neighbor"

Cottage deep in the intertwining green - Wang An-shih "Impromptu: Late Spring at Pan-shan" transl. by Burton Watson


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A melancholy jumble of basement counter bargains - Mary Aldis "Ellie"

Desk and counter and rock-quarried gold - Edward Carpenter "The Angel of Death--and Life"

And counter to all circumstance - Mari Evans "Modern American Suite in Four Movements"

At the complaint counter of life - Andrea Gibson "Gender in the Key of Lyme Disease"

Myriads of counter processions - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"


Trembling with change and fear of counter-change - John Freeman "The Stars in Their Courses"


Ask me about candles on countertops - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"


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Cowers in its white fog bed - Julius Berstl "Highland" transl. by William Saphier

Cower together in dark valleys - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

Through cowering moons and stellar dins - Louis Golding "Fires of Change"

Crouches and cowers from mortal view - Harry Graham "The Triumph of Jam"

Cowering in cavernous burrows - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "I'd Had a Lot of Rum, but Still..."


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To communicate my emotion to a star - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Heart"

The ethical structure of communicating - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
"New Boys 2"

Communications between rocks and whales - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Pleiades"

The law of communicating clouds - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"

Bacteria communicate in color - Brenda Hillman "Species Prepare to Exist After Money"

Excludes the idea of any communication - Holly J. Schaeffer-Raymond "Excerpts from Sign & Grudge"


An archive of miscommunication - Marcus Jackson "Letting the Emptiness Become My Government"


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Concluding thieves were out in force - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

Concludes with Cupid's curse - George Peele "Cupid's Curse"


Conclusion )


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The fleas congregating to party - Malika Booker "Jesus in the Wilderness 3: Sufferation"


Delighted by a congregation of trees celebrating - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Among the congregation of bluebirds - Joshua Effiong "3D Presentation of a Body Undergoing Catharsis in a Transterrestrial Habitat"

escorted by a congregation of flies - Tanque R. Jones "I Thought To"

Congregation of forgotten children - Rachel McKibbens "Minneapolipstick"

Over the whispering congregation of the lilies - Lola Ridge "Firehead part III: Judas 1: Flower of Silver"


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Muse upon eternity's constraint - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Cheerfulness Taught by Reason"

All your dust to dust constrain - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Constrained no longer by the laws of man - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah III: Nahab"

Freedom and constraint of motion - "Song of the Screw"

The menace of infinity constrained - George Sterling "A Dream of Fear"

Refuse to accept constraint - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 45: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley


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Ammon's solar fount congeals - Benjamin West Ball "Concetto"

Flowered frost congeals - Walter de la Mare "Alone"

Have half congealed the glowing tide - Miss H.E. Grannis "The Lifted Veil"

Peace congealed in black lava - D.H. Lawrence "Peace"

As the fiery waves congealed - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"

In a sea congealed with cold - Caitriona O'Reilly "II. The Mermaid (from The Sea Cabinet)"


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Found on our consenting sacrifice - Maurice Baring "Diffugere Nives, 1917"

Never gave consent to those red days of massacre - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"

Consents to no barter - Rebecca G. Biber "Lazy Money"

Long damned of earth's consent - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

The consent of weight to gravity - Leah Naomi Green "Camera Obscura"

If wayward Fate withhold his full consent - Eric MacKay "Letter II. Sorrow"

If you consent to my prayer - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (9)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

With headlong and unanimous consent - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Mano"


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Bones that contort into many forms - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"

Our bodies' contorted clocks - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

The night's contorted face - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

Rag-edged as a contorted filbert - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"

A solitary tree titanic and contorted - Adolf Wolff "Byron"


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My rib cage expanding and contracting in iambics - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

A contract of glory - Leonard Cohen "A Kite Is a Victim"

The contract of their intimacy - Megan Fernandes "In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife"

My contract with the earth - Pablo Neruda "The South" transl. by Alastair Reid

In this destruction contract - Rowan Ricardo Phillips "Who Is Less Than a Vapor?"

When life contracts into a vulgar span - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"


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Counterfeit )


A counterfeiter of ways flowering like snow - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"


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The coincidence of language and time - Omotara James "A Flair for Language"

When I no longer coincide with myself - Christopher Kondrich "Placeholder"

From one moment of coincidence - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"

Coincidence is the great mystery of the human mind - Sahar Romani "Sign"

As if coincidence alone explained such wounds - Ann K. Schwader "Time Ghosts"


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Colossal Power with overwhelming force bears down - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

Lost in colossal stone, my newer mountains - William Rose Benét "The City"

Darkness silently unfurls among colossal ruins - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]

Banding now in groups colossal - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Colossal right hand curled around a mystery - Devin S. Turk "Statue of David with Top Surgery Scars"

Mildness held the keys of the colossal silence - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell


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Conceived as illusory - Rae Armantrout "Bonding"

By the utmost flight of thought conceive - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXVII. No Escape from Love" transl. by John Addington Symonds

The first time you conceived of justice - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"

and conceives a holiday of feathers - Tamara Jerée "In the Cult of Nearly-Lost Dreams"

And the dust as the stars that conceive - George Sterling "The Forty-Third Chapter of Job"


Alive with something inconceivable - Bradford Tice "Milkweed"


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With no concept of the sea - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"

Violated any concept of domain - Camonghne Felix "Contouring the Flattening"

Lose the concept of weather - Stephanie Heit "Forecast"

Across the deep blue of conceptual space - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"


Sacrificed preconceptions and perspectives - Ann K. Schwader "Alexandria Next Time"

Preconceptions dug in stone and atmosphere - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]


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Will contact you with a separate invoice - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"

That mercurial measure of contact - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Harmony (I)"

Dying at the contact of your electric blood - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1937)" translated by Richard Schaaf

Out of fiery contacts - Lola Ridge "Electricity"

Fissures around points of contact - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"


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