somethingdarker | Mar. 7th, 2010

Mar. 7th, 2010

In base compliance to the world - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

With amorous glances and a fond compliance - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

That my compliance to your request is owing - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

By no known means compliant - Khadijah Queen "Copper Men"

( Comply )

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( Coax )

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( Coast )

Coastline.

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Confounding reality, fingering experience - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"

Do but themselves confound - John Bunyan "True Valour"

Shall the mighty mother's wrath confound - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

That lawless viper, with double tongue confounding all - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull

To confound the earth and sky - E. Sutton "The Drum"

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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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Yielding gratefullest repose to their consorted measure - Mark Akenside "Hymn to the Naiads. 1746"

Her bastard consort Gravity - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Consort of thundering Jove - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

To promote such virtue in my consort - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

And want consorts with crime - Frances E.W. Harper "The Present Age"

Who consorts with cheating hearts - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 139: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

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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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( Conspicuous )

So inconspicuous among the suns of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

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Its flag of convenience for rent - B. K. Fischer "Economies of Scale"

Because it is convenient for the jobs - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

A place convenient for their toys - Lord Alfred Douglas writing as The Belgian Hare "Hymn for Howlers"

When a convenient distance we had steered - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

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

With some show of inconvenience - William Carlos Williams "Tract"

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( Council )

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The bitter symbiosis of couples - Rae Armantrout "Two, Three"

Whom wedlock couples with the man she hates - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Geographic couplings with no witnesses - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Like meeting a couple of sphinxes - Charles Simic "Paradise"

Like cabooses ready to decouple - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"

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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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( Collide )

( Collision )

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

The wet wind hums its colorless refrain - Ralph Chaplin "Prison Nocturne"

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"

Under a colourless desolate sky - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Passions" transl. by Bernard Miall

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"

Downward from that high companionship of dreaming - George William Russell aka A.E. "Dawn"

Vexed with the ache of uncompanioned souls - Elizabeth Rachel Chapman "A Little Child's Wreath XIV"

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( Contest )

The final hour arrives of long-contested Power - B. Simmons "Columbus (A Print after a Picture by Parmeggiano)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIV, v.LV, June 1844]

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( Conscious )

So many self-conscious molecular assemblies - Christopher Buckley "Desire"

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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( Context )

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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"

Convinced the flowers belonged to them - Theodora Goss "The Nightingale and the Rose"

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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( Cocoon )

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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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( Counsel )

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( Condemn )

A happier condemnation than I deserved - Thom Gunn "Legal Reform"

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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( Coyote )

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( Come )

( Came )

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

That the bygone is hellbent on a comeback - Anthony Borruso "Some Melodious Plot"

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

Fulfillment dropping on a come-true dream - Sidney Lanier "To Charlotte Cushman" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.17, no.99, Mar. 1876]

A sparkle the far-coming splendour might fling - B. Simmons "To a Caged Skylark, Regent's Circus, Piccadilly" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXCV, v.LXIV, Sept. 1848]

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

Indignation at my own shortcomings - Robert Graves "Sullen Moods"

The zodiac sign wherefrom our times-to-come descend - Sidney Lanier "Special Pleading" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

Oncoming.

Outcome.

Overcome.

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( Conquer )

( Conqueror )

( Conquest )

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

Sworn to conquer kings, self-conquer'd fell- "Napoleon" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

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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( Collapse )

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( Compass )

dialects curbing the confidence of compass needles - Cortney Lamar Charleston "Magnitude and Bond"

Encompass.

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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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( Complicate )

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( Contemplate )

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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"

Gray-robed and cold-breathed and frozen-eyed - Lucy H. Hooper "Winter" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.24, Mar. 1873]

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)"

Cobra-poison none may leech - Rudyard Kipling "The Outsong: Kaa"

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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

For the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

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"

True to the incomparable couch of death - E.E. Cummings "La Guerre (II)"

The incomparable anguish of his jest - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LVII: The Ironist"

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( Contain )

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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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( Contend )

Awaked to war the long-contending foes - George Crabbe "The Library"

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( Continent )

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( Confuse )

Confusion.

By the dust of tumult unconfused - George Sylvester Viereck "A Vision of Man"

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( Continual )

( Continuance )

( 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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( Contour )

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( Command )

Whose commandments have no force now - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Because of some commandment in the stars - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"

Lightnings uncontrollable and waters uncommandable - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "An Interrupted Worker's Revelation"

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( Contradiction )

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

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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"

Within reach of this uncontrolled mitosis - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"

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

The demon of uncontrol - Marguerite Mooers Marshall "Ghosts"

Lightnings uncontrollable and waters uncommandable - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "An Interrupted Worker's Revelation"

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

Tapped uncontrollably on invisible piano keys - Sasha Wade "Del Parto"

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( Convulse )

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( Common )

Commonplace.

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

less savior than common sense calling - Ed Roberson "Come On in the Song of the Changes"

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"

That fierce confessor of the flowers - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXXVI: Art and Women"

Love and laughter song-confessed - James Joyce "Chamber Music: XXV"

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"

The ever-burning, unconsuming fire - William Morris "Pygmalion and the Image"

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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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( Core )

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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"

Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? - George MacDonald "Baby's Answers" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

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

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( Compulsion )

The lore of soul-compelling song - Joyce Kilmer "George Meredith"

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( Contagious )

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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"

A conditional clause hanging from something to do with spring - Noah Warren "Cut Lilies"

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"

Magic circles are a useful spell against contentment - Thom Gunn "A Plan of Self Subjection"

That delicately sunder corruptions of contentment - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XXIII: The Justification"

Discontent.

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( Complain/Complaint )

In ceaseless melodies of plaintive tone - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

No dirge's plaintive moan - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"

Whine not in melancholy, plaintive lays - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Scarce had died that plaintive strain - Mrs. Alaric Watts "The Ship's First Voyage" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.452, 28 Aug. 1852]

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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"

Which frets, uncomforted of dream - Bliss Carman "Low Tide on Grand Pré"

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 disconsolate petals on the grass - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

Mourned by disconsolate crickets - William D. Howells "Clement"

Silence the bells disconsolate - Arthur Weir "Ode for the Queen's Jubilee. 1837-1887"

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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( Comprehend/Comprehension )

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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( Compose )

( Composition )

A composure which promises never to end - Scott Cairns "Necropolitan"

Bear with silence and composure thy misfortunes - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull

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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"

While the universe practices its cosmic comedy routine - Dana Wall "Customer Service Representative's Nots on Soul Processing" [Strange Horizons 2 June 2025]

Selling stolen comics for eight bucks and change - Sophie Fink "The Dogs Don't Forgive Us"

Filled your streets with your comic Pentecost - T.M. Kettle "Asquith in Dublin"

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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"

Whose look demure consults the ground - Latienne "'76" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

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 )

Preserved forever uncorroded by time and salt - Harry Martinson "Aniara 52: Shards from Mima" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

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With complacence views his own reflection - Mark Akenside "A British Philippic Occasioned by the Insults of the Spaniards, and the Present Preparations for War, 1738"

The hour that we spend complacent - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"

With studied complaisance and kindly word - Edward Edwin Foot "Jane Hollybrand; of Virtue Rewarded"

Blooming in complaisance - Kim Unsong "Elusive"

The cold complacency of earth - Louis Untermeyer "Challenge"

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( Consequence )

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

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With complimentary rages - Nava EtShalom "Iteration"

Peace and plenty, compliments and smiles predominate - Edward Edwin Foot "Jane Hollybrand; of Virtue Rewarded"

Spoke their compliments and duties - John Gay "Fable LIII: Ape and Poultry" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

What doors are open to fine compliment - Ezra Pound "Near Perigord"

Know how to give forgotten compliments - Emilio Villa "What's New" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

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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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All the cogs of our life have broken teeth - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"

The cog in the eye - Charif Shanahan "Indeterminacy"

Turning in the cogs of the clockworks - Dean Young "Lucifer"

Escape from cog-wheel mandates - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"

We take a tumble and the cog-wheels stop - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Where the clattering cog-wheels ply - H.G.K. [Henry George Keene per the Digital Victorian Poetry Project.] "Day-Dreams of an Exile" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine v.LXX, no.CCCCXXXII, Oct. 1851]

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Directed toward greater coherence - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Darkness"

The exchange of gravity for coherence - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

Find the secret of universal cohesion - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"

Coherently webbed and knotted - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Clamourously falling into gabbling incoherence - D.H. Lawrence "Week-night Service"

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Neither divorced from combustion - George Abraham "Essay on Submission"

The combustion of plants through sulphurous summer - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

This leaping combustion of spring - D.H. Lawrence "The Enkindled Spring"

By the shadowy outline of complete combustion - Stephen Leggett "Seven Winter Poems"

Combustible with desperation - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Goes to the Next Whisky Bar"

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Compact of spirit and fire and dew - Edward Dowden "Prologue to Maurice Gerothwohl's Version of Vigny's 'Chatterton'"

A box where sweets compacted lie - Herbert "Song [Sweet day, so cool, so calm]" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 24, 18 Aug. 1832]

Where hidden sweets compacted dwell - F.A. Hillard "A Dead Love" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

Glittering, compact drops of dawn - D.H. Lawrence "Pomegranate"

As against a cloud of distant compact shame - Harry Martinson "Aniara 28" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Their walls are compacted of heavy stones - Henry van Dyke "The Great Cities"

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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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When heaven and earth their concord break - J.A.E. "In Memoriam (M.A.W.--Poetess. Aetat 25.)" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.750, 11 May 1878]

Whose perfect concord meets in the soft light - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

The true concord of well-tuned sounds - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VIII"

Along a scale of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail - William Wordsworth "Mutability"

Wadding from a concord of cocoons - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson

Echoed with concordant Why - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"

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The mystic cone, with hieroglyphics crusted - Robert Blair "The Grave"

A mouth of gravel constructed in a cone - Lee Ann Brown "Beauty Supply"

Silent under the steep cone of afternoon - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"

Dazzled moths blind in a searchlight's cone - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

Whose blended cones no reckless storm could sever - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

Standing in a constant cone of light - Richard Siken "Seaside Improvisation"

The course dictated by the law of conic sections - Harry Martinson "Aniara 39" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

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To a burnt out rage consigned - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Trap"

Consign an empire to the grave - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"

Where we are inescapably consigned - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

The gulfs to which the others were consigned - Harry Martinson "Aniara 43" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Their dust is now to kindred dust consigned - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]

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One endless night, stolen contraband - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

Contraband or some secret knowledge - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"

In a moment contraband - Emily Dickinson "Part Five: The Single Hound"

His contraband and only comfort - Chad Frame "A Union Victory"

with contraband and trafficked cargo - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"

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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"

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With Odin's might did cope - Benjamin West Ball "A Hermitage"

Where the ivy crept around the ruined coping of the wall - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]

To cope with One who should no longer live - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

Fearless and steadfast with all foes to cope - Francis J. Lys "On Re-reading 'Ruth'"

To cope with waves so vast - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Inland Waves"

the aftermath of failed coping mechanisms - Rachelle Saint Louis "Manman Ak Pitit"

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Collect.

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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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To watch with compensating eyes - George Sterling "An Altar of the West"

That brings the wayfarer his recompense - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

Of many woes the perfect recompense - Lord Alfred Douglas "Wine of Summer"

Must look for recompense unpleasant - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]

For all the dear things I forfeited a recompense - Alan Seeger "The Aisne (1914-15)"

A gift whose recompense is double - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 20" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

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Consummate voice uttering a voice, from every line - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

To seek his consummation beyond himself - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"

The consummation of our difficult dreams - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"

Without consummation of clay - "The Sea-God's Address to Bran" transl. by Kuno Meyer

My death already consummated - Charles Simic "Story of My Luck"

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Getting themselves tied to conventional assumptions - Mary Jo Bang "Madonna Overview"

Between the intimate and the conventional - Rick Barot "Adjacent, Against, Upon"

So I don't visit the details of convention - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Lust Money"

Love my lost convention - Remica Bingham-Risher "The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. 'across the surface of my studied speech'"

Convention's shrewd Bacchante - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"

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Nights when sleep plays coy - Maya Angelou "Insomniac"

Most lavish and most coy - George Crabbe "Parish Register: Part I. Baptisms"

Coy spring-time and her laughing hours - J.W. Forney "Winter" [Graham's Magazine v.XVIII no.2, Feb. 1841]

For mortal eyes too proudly coy - Archibald Lampman "June"

Played coy as if everyone didn't already know - Tomás Q. Morín "Bird"

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( Cobweb )

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

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( Code )

All callsign and codename - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

A tail of color-coded wires - Michael Collier "Birds Appearing in a Dream"

Symbolically joined with color-coded floral candelabras - Elaine Equi "Wolves of the Sacred Heart" [Poetry July/Aug. 2014]

Before they can decode the message sent to the cells - Rita Dove "Borderline Mambo"

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"

The convict's melancholy king - Charles Baudelaire "The Beacons" transl. not credited

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

Have but made the convict half divine - Ralph Chaplin "The Vision Maker: To Eugene Victor Debs"

Far less shall a friend be convicted unheard - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

Their lawless deeds shall convict them - "The Wisdom of Solomon 4" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

If my hands speak with conviction - Joshua Bennett "You Are So Articulate With Your Hands"

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"

On the fox he flies, the self-convicted felon dies - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

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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( Countless )

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( Combat )

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( Convert )

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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"

This conflagration of green fires lit on the soil - D.H. Lawrence "The Enkindled Spring"

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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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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( Compassion )

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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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( Collect )

( Collection )

Collective.

( Collector )

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( Confusion )

Confuse.

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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--"

Reconsider your reasons for travel - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"

Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth - Rudyard Kipling "A Centurion of the Thirtieth"

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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( Coral )

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( Count )

Countless.

Recounts these careless wonders - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

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

( Uncounted )

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( Corridor )

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( Constellation )

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

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

Interrupted by the living points of constellated skin - Margaret Ross "Socks"

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

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

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( Constant )

An inconstant April laughing into May - T.M. Kettle "Dreams and Duty"

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

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( Conceal )

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The glad impulse of congenial powers - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. I"

Congenial sister of immortal Fame - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"

Less congenial to the seeing eye - Linda Gregerson "Elegant"

Mutual raptures to congenial hearts - William Hayley "On the Fear of Death: an Epistle to a Lady 1768"

Sitting all silent in congenial gloom - Alexander Smith "[Joy, like a stream, flows]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

Genial.

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( Coastline )

Coast.

Line.

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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

Cobbled with the anguished stones that the thoroughfare disowns - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"

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

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

Horses with hooves to split cobblestones - Paul Cameron Brown "The Jolly Tupper"

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"

Unloads clean, bone-colored napkins - Christian Gullette "The Fish"

A tail of color-coded wires - Michael Collier "Birds Appearing in a Dream"

Symbolically joined with color-coded floral candelabras - Elaine Equi "Wolves of the Sacred Heart" [Poetry July/Aug. 2014]

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"

With their crow faces and their sky-colored suits - Noah Warren "The Standard"

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"

Encouraged me to keep searching - Kristen De Leon "Reclaim"

A quality encouraged for navigation - Myronn Hardy "Aurora Americana"

Encouraging affection rather than awe - Edward Hirsch "Lafcadio Hearn"

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( Cowslip )

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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

A spoil of roses coffered in the soul - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta LV: Treasure"

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( Comb )

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( Coal )

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

Leave us quiet in the dark of our coal-shadows - Elizabeth B. Barret [Barrett Browning] "The Cry of the Children" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXXIV, v.LIV, Aug. 1843]

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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"

Blazoned our confinement gold with fire - Harry Martinson "Aniara 48" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

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"

( Colony )

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( Commerce )

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

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( Commonplace )

Common.

Place.

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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"

By close computation I found it came near - Percy Hendon "On Lord Grosvenor's Annual Income" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12, no.335, 11 Oct. 1828]

Computations astronomical, algorithm and star-law - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

Faded computations erased by the light of blood moons - River "The Egg" [Strange Horizons 27 Jan. 2025]

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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( Contempt )

Contemptuous of the distant cry - Robert Graves "Country at War"

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

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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"

That cunning trade in hearts contrives - Sidney Lanier "The Symphony" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1875, v.XV]

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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( Corpse )

Myriad corpse-lights glimmer on their way - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

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"

The change of musical coins across the zinc counter - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

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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( Comrade )

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Communicate through showing how an object acts on me - Mary Jo Bang "Long-Exposure Photograph of a Man"

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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( Conceit )

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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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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"

But in his mouth the rhetoric congealed - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

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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( Cobalt )

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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"

Sing and shine with one consent - Cowper "Nightingale and Glow-worm" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 11, June 2, 1832]

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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( Cotton )

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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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( Compete )

And competition knocks me off creation - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

No competition for brightness - Dean Young "Son of Fog" [Poetry April 2005]

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( Contract )

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( Courtyard )

Court.

Yard.

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( Conscience )

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( Counterfeit )

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

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( Covert )

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( Coward )

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Woe to the cock who strutteth on ice - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry CXV: Woes" transl. by J.W. Wiles

The blue eye of that young crow cocked to me - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

The cock desired the heron's flight - John Gay "Fable IV: Jove's Eagle, and Murmuring Beasts" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]

( Cockcrow )

Crow.

Braver notes the storm-cock sings - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad X: March"

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The concentred glory of the boundless universe - Effie Afton "The Soul's Destiny"

See our love in the concentric ripples - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

Concentres all the rays of all the ages past - "Columbia's Safety" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

All the light of life concentred in the focus of the towns - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

A finite number of concentric rings - Wendy Xu "Praxis"

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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"

Struck by lightning or coincidence - Fiona Templeton "Why Say That"

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Conscripted to say what I shouldn't - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

The abating shadows of our conscript dust - Hart Crane "For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen"

I am conscripted to their shadows' glow - Hart Crane "The Wine Menagerie"

Conscripted to their shadows' glow - Hart Crane “The Wine Menagerie”

you're a conscript to this battlefield - Elliott Dunstan "Inherited Battlefield"

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( Colossal )

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( Conceive )

Alive with something inconceivable - Bradford Tice "Milkweed"

To misconceive of all enticing art - Th. Stoker "Heaven" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]

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Copying all the soaring outlines - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Copies created from awkward drawings - Adam Ford "The Strangers Came" [Strange Horizons 5 May 2025]

Rocketed copies of the decree to paradise - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Tear up his copy-books to fabricate a kite - Henry S. Leigh "A Nursery Legend"

In the copycat soft of me - Marissa Davis "Singularity"

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( Concept )

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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Turned to stone by the writhing countenance of time - M. Frost "Pterosaur" [Strange Horizons 22 Sept. 2025]

With bold countenance and knowledge small - Rudyard Kipling "A Centurion of the Thirtieth"

When the water's countenance blurs - Rudyard Kipling "The Wet Litany"

The countenance of the heart is made better - Nancy Luce "No Comfort"

A glance of wrath upon her countenance - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

With calm upon my countenance and storm in mind - Kostes Palamas "The Return" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

The countenance and gestures of Mercy - J. Sylvester "Mercy and Justice" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829.]

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The covenant of a clearer sight - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"

The covenant of timelessness with time - Robert Hayden "Words in the Mourning Time"

Made a sable covenant with grief - Thomas Hood "The Two Peacocks of Bedfont"

The glass doors and their covenant - David Hornibrook "Pony"

A new covenant of hospitality - Henry van Dyke "The Camp-Fires of My Friend"

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