somethingdarker | May. 25th, 2010

May. 25th, 2010

( Exact )

Exposed to the high exacting sun - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"

An exacting warmth - Jay Wright "Ilhuitl"

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

Speak with tasseled exactitude - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

Gods and goddesses of geometric exactitude - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"

Exactly half a mile from the ocean - Megan Fernandes "In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife"

Like a cage shaped exactly like his body - Diana Khoi Nguyen "Đổi Mới"

Exactly where my country ended me - Fasasi Ridwan "Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre"

Exactly the color that it is - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"

The poignant exactness of oranges - Kay Ryan "Death by Fruit"

The inexact value of an empire of ether - Mary Jo Bang "Portrait in the Form of Ephemera"

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( Except )

By rules of large exception - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

People who desire exceptional experience - Chloe Honum "St. Mary's Home for Unwed Mothers in Orahuhu, Auckland"

As large as its exceptions - Courtney Kampa "Law of Large Numbers"

That the exceptions have devoured the rule - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

Unexceptional as a rain gauge - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"

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( Excess )

Becoming excessively noon - Richard Greenfield "Hither Come Hither"

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( Excuse )

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( Exist )

Existence/Non-existence.

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( Expand )

( Expanse )

The expansion of things infinite - Charles Baudelaire "Correspondences" transl. not credited

Expansive enough to fill years' worth of slumber - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

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( Expect )

As heir expectant of unnumbered spoons - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Where benches stand expectant - Rainer Maria Rilke "Maidens. II" transl. by Jessie Lemont

Stood in silent ranks expectant - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

( Expectation )

Unexpected.

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( Explain )

Beneath the futility of explanation - Maxwell Bodenheim "More About Captain Simmons"

Looked to meteorologists for explanations - Stephen Dunn "Moon Song"

Wiped out the syntax of explanation and inquiry - Lisa Sewell "The Land of Nod"

Inexplicable.

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( Explode )

( Explosion )

( Explosive )

Festered bones under the yet unexploded sun - Okwudili Nebeolisa "A Different Farming Tale"

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( Express )

Wearing gray coats and monochromatic expressions - Bruce Boston "Gray People"

The direct expression of emptiness - Gabriel Jesiolowski "Entry for Not an Island"

The commonplace expression of my heart - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

Inexpressible in three dimension - Michael Mesic "Gaudi"

That unexpressed complaint - Katherine Edgren "The Subterranean Splinter Blues"

Our hearts happy with love unexpressed - William Gibson "To a Canary Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

For what the oak left unexpressed - John Presland "Wisdom and Youth"

The half-hope and passion unexpressed - John Hall Wheelock "Andante"

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The extreme logic of filial trash - Claire Millikin "Shoe-Box Doll House"

Operating at temperature extremes of absolute zero - Sara Omer "Djinndroid"

Clear flame in lands extreme - Clark Ashton Smith "A Vision of Lucifer"

The extremest skirts of glory sees - Benjamin Stillingfleet "Sonnet"

( Extremity )

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Each other's exercise in perpetual enchantment - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

Using no other exercise - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

To exercise his virtue - Vijay Seshadri "Enlightenment"

Exercised in the still night - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"

Be an exercise, not an exhibition - Jean Toomer "As the Eagle Soars"

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( Extend )

Standing on the watery extension of time - Ada Limon "Fifteen Balls of Feathers"

The extensive culmination of a legacy - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"

Touched by the extensive reach of mutation - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"

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What the experts refer to as history - Carl Adamshick "Colorado"

Take form in ways only experts can decipher - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

An expert witness on the death of God - Tony Hoagland "In the Waiting Room with Leonard Cohen"

Were experts on stars before astronomy had a name - Tracina Jackson-Adams "Shepherds in the Night"

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

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The resources expended to release you - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"

To expend in sighs for this hard doom - Thomas Hood "The Two Swans"

Magic arts in truth not worth the spirit I expend - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Against hungry faces of expendable pawns - Paul Cameron Brown "Pillage"

What you already know to be expendable - Monica Youn "Leave"

Accountants of random expenditures - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"

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A troupe of exorcists - Catherine Chen "My Poem Asks to Be Read Right to Left"

Whose ghost we prayed that Time might exorcise - Paul Laurence Dunbar "Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Diving into a dark, incenseless exorcism - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"

In an exaggerated exorcism of breath - Rusty Morrison "please advise stop [the rustle of a Sunday bundle of newspapers tucked under my father's arm stop]"

Leave with the violence of an exorcism - Sandra Simonds "It's Going to Hurt" [Poetry May 2017]

The absolute bright Will would exorcise them - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XIV: Dream-Ghosts"

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( Exodus )

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Extra girls swinging in the rafters - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"

Weave the lattice extra tight - Carrie Grigorian "Baking in Different Conditions"

Form & light, extra space in the ampersand - Brenda Hillman "Unendangered Moths of the Mid-Twentieth Century"

An extra smile or a burst of tears - Henry S. Leigh "In a Hundred Years"

The secret's in the extra ice - Allan Wolf "Saturn: And the Winner for Best Wardrobe Is..."

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( Extinguish )

My apparently inextinguishable notion - Tony Hoagland "Entangled"

Capturing inextinguishable light - Michael McGriff "Men Keep on Dying"

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( Exchange )

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( Exhaust )

Gems of Art's exhaustless mine - Felicia Hemans "The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy"

In the inexhaustible store of lost deeds - Pablo Neruda "Being Like the Maize" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn

As inexhaustible as a cherry tree - Pablo Neruda "Goodbye to the Snow" transl. by Alastair Reid

An unexhausted cup of day - Joyce Kilmer "Love's Lantern"

What store of unexhausted spells - Emily Lawless "From the Burren III: Resurgence"

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( Exalt )

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( Expose )

( Exposure )

Overexposed in spring sunlight - Elizabeth Spires "On Upnor Road"
In that faraway dark

So the dominant side of your body is safe unexposed - CM Burroughs "One Way to Resurrect an Ancestor"

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( Exquisite )

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An exhalation rising from a darkness foreign - Etel Adnan "Night"

The exhalation of a furious thought - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

Inhalation and exhalation paused - R.B. Simon "The Galaxy that Swallowed Me from the Inside Out"

( Exhale )

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Excel his boasted Strength and Speed - Oliver Herford "How the Lion Became King"

Bright forms of excellence attend - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination, Book the Third"

Who marry excellence and understatement - Mouna Ammar "My North Africans"

The tea showed its excellent sense - Henry S. Leigh "The Compact"

A melody old as rain and excellent of voice - Mark Rudolph "Surreal Wedding"

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A tiger well repay the trouble and expense - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Tiger"

Expense of grief gains no remorse - Sir William Davenant "The Soldier Going to the Field"

Expense of spirit - William Shakespeare "Sonnet 129"

The praises sold at truth's expense - L.A. Wilmer "To Mira" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Without e'en a farthing's expense - "Wonders of a Toy-Shop"

Expensive innocence - Suzanne Vega "Fool's Complaint"

As if color were too expensive - C. Dale Young "The Wolf"

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Where tragedy experiments with lanterns - Max Bodenheim "To a Corpulent Singer"

Ambitious experiments in destruction - Lawrence Joseph "In Parentheses"

Repeat the delightful experiment - Henry S. Leigh "An Unappreciated Crichton"

Rich instruments with which to experiment - Marianne Moore "Those Various Scalpels"

The sun of unknown experiments - Khadijah Queen "If Gold, Your Figure as Mirror on the Ground Is"

Experiments in creating anger escaped control - Dave Whippman "Gothic Romance"

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To the extent of his vantage - Brian Blanchfield "Eclogue Onto an Idea"

To that extent will know the truth - W.A. Frisbie "A Fore Word [The Pirate Frog, and Other Tales]"

A list of enormous extent and variety - Henry S. Leigh "An Unappreciated Crichton"

In its little globe's extent - Andrew Marvell "A Drop of Dew"

The extent of her impoverished heart - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fannie Lou Hamer"

And dwindled to the sun's extent - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"

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( Expire )

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( Exit )

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( Explore )

To sail Death's unexplored and open deep - Edward Carpenter "By the Mouth of the Arno"

A labyrinth of unexplored corridors - Keith Taylor "Picasso and the Taj Mahal"

The unexplored and endless skies - Louis Untermeyer "God's Youth"

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( Exult )

Breathless Victory's exultant tread - Amelia Josephine Burr "In the Roman Forum"

Shout beneath exultant skies - Theodore Maynard "Vocation"

And sings exultant with the Iron - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

To blot the sunshine of exultant years - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

With the smoke of your fierce exultations - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Listening to the language of muck and exultation - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

By exultation of the flying dance - Clark Ashton Smith "Lament of the Stars"

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( Experience )

Seeing some unexperienced light - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

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( Extravagance/Extravagant )

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Excludes nothing except why it was done - Paul Cameron Brown "Emptiness"

A brazen sound excluding others - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

All hope excluded thus - John Milton "Paradise Lost"

Enclosing and excluding like shawls - Man Ray "Three Dimensions"

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

The habitual tropes of exclusion - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal: The Dark Times"

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Deserts waiting to expel your bones - Ennis Rook Bashe "We Have Slain the Savage Martians, but Their Princess Escaped"

In their time-stained insight expelled - D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie "Miracles Welcome"

Alchemy expelling every parasitic thing - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

Expel your suppressing cells - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

Expel your alphabet's clinical infection - Maral Taheri "Asylum Seeker" transl. Hajar Hussaini

Despite the trauma of expulsion - Zahir-Ud-Din Muhammad Babur "Poems of Babur (3)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

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( Existence )

Knee-deep in existential gloom - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

False existential sorcerers - Pablo Neruda "The Celestial Poets [Canto General]" transl. by Martin Espada

a hard rain cancelled this existential parade - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "As The Universe Yawns Brer Rabbit Spins A Yarn"

When in the inexistent void I heard - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XIV"

Living on the opposite side of non-existence - Mary Jo Bang "The Disappearance of Amerika: After Kafka"

To the office park of nonexistence - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"

Ships bound for nonexistent promised lands - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

Exist.

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( Exile )

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( Extinct )

An algorithm for de-extinction - Zaina Alsous "Bird Prelude"

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A new house of executions - Agha Shahid Ali "Even the Rain"

The executioner's reversal of fortune - Monica de la Torre "$6.82"

The powerful rage of the immense executioner - Pablo Neruda "I Say Goodbye to Other Subjects" transl. by Teresa Anderson

Executing all the deaths that goodness requires - Christina Olivares "Preserving an Ecosystem"

Sing the song of its own execution - Linda Pastan "Late September Smile"

Executing the blueprints of resistance - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

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Set up exhibits in the cafeteria - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"

The exhibit of birches the forest has made - Katie Ford "Song After Sadness"

Kissed in a dark exhibit - Paige Quinones "At the Museum"

Be an exercise, not an exhibition - Jean Toomer "As the Eagle Soars"

The life that has exhibited itself - Walt Whitman "To a Historian"

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