somethingdarker | Jun. 4th, 2010

Jun. 4th, 2010

( Five )

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

With five-fold strains of harmony - Shinran Shonin "Buddhist Psalms" transl. by L. Adams Beck and S. Yamabe

Five-legged pocket spiders - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

Gold and silver freckles burning five-pointed holes into the bone - Mayra Paris "New York, 2009"

Fifth.

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15 new reasons for laughs - Nikita Gill "The Meaning of a Day"

Filtered through fifteen generations - James Weldon Johnson "Brothers--American Drama"

Your pale fifteen-eyed head - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The fifteenth line of a sonnet - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"

That a light wave could take 15 years to travel through me - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"

In a hotel room for fifteen years - A. Van Jordan "Old Boy"

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( Finish )

No finishing school's velvet etiquette - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"

To spend it on a half-finished freedom - Hanif Abdurraqib "Glamor on the West Streets/Silver Over Everything"

Brushstrokes of a painting half-finished - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"

Unfinished.

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( Firm )

Mountain-firm vows go on forever - Lu Yu "[Pink tender hand]" transl. by Burton Watson

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( Find )

Found.

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( Fit )

( Fitful )

Curled wave and shattering thunder-fit - Elinor Wylie "Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water--on Turning Latin into English"

The tight-fitting black truth of my narrative - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

Unfitted by an instant's grace - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LI"

Temperamentally unfit for death - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

A virtual world unfit for the virtuous - Charles Wright "Description's the Art of Something or Other"

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( Fiber/Fibrous )

Fiberglass.

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( Fiction )

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( Fig )

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( Fill )

Governed by fill in the blank - Ira Sadoff "A Few Surprising Turns"

Half-filled with wine from the cliffs - Paul Tran "Terroir"

Singing through moon-filled teeth - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"

A cloth kept in a moth-filled closet - Tania Chen "Half-Quarter-Life Crisis"

Never overfilling from this banquet - Elizabeth W. Garber "Feasting"

A single drop would overfill - A.J. Requier "A Charm"

In the pressure-filled waters of heartbreak - Lysz Flo "Railroad del Mar"

Sliding down the rain-filled darkness - Kevin Prufer "Rain"

Caught sturgeon in the reed-filled Caspian - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"

And the belated moor refilled her sphere - George Santayana "Cathedrals by the Sea"

Ancient algae, reptile tread, soot-filled skies - Shutta Crum "On the Beach"

As an astronomer looks at the star-filled sky - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."

Wild horses of the storm-filled plains - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"

A gilded curtsy to the sunfill - Elizabeth Acevedo "Ode to the Head Nod"

Frauds of the unfilled heart - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Like two flagons yet unfilled - Lola Ridge "Unburnt Offering"

Unto the wine-filled rose - Elizabeth Bridges "Sonnets from Hafez & Other Verses 26"

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( Filigree )

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Hands afire with a vision of two great towers - Mike Allen "Kandinsky's Garden"

Set afire by a secret ruby - Pablo Neruda "Ode to a Stamp Album" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

We foxes can set the night afire - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

( Fire )

( Fired )

While they front the firing line - Roscoe Conkling Jamison "The Negro Soldiers"

Firing bullets of wet light - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

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

To polar snows the Aurora-fires are given - Nicholas Michell "The Oases of Libya" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.431, 3 April 1852]

Bale-fires burn and cities wrapped in flame - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Bonfire.

Time was a brushfire burning - Mary Jo Bang "The Still Knife Still Suspended"

Campfire.

Another halo to shake loose galloping into the crossfire - Kaveh Akbar "I Wouldn't Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance"

Webs and dim branching, cross-firing - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"

In a crown-fire forest blaze - Anthony Euwer "By Scarlet Torch and Blade"

With scathing breath the deluge-fire of a descending hell - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Dim curtains of duskfire and dew - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Wayfarer"

Fen-fire that conducts her to her doom - William Watson "Ireland (December 1, 1890)"

The storm that douse the firebird - R.B. Lemberg "Firebird, Stormbird"

Firebright blessings of fallen leaves - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

A dynamo of swirled memory, of fire-bursts - Ian Goh "Firework"

( Firecracker )

My voice a fire extinguisher - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"

Fire-eyed wraiths of daffodils - Elinor Jenkins "The Lovers' Walk"

Crawled under fire-forgotten rocks - Brenda Hillman "& After the Power Came Back"

Where the fire-haired comet runs - John Masefield "Lollingdon Downs"

Firelight.

The fire-lit pewter glowing - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"

Firemen hacking into the heart of the blaze - Mark Rudolph "Tarot Cards and UFOs"

Fire-ships through the tamed seas glancing - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Alice and Una"

Disturbs my fireside's stillness - Eleanor Hull "The Old Woman of Beare"

Where firesides and altars govern hearts - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Cold fireside and alienated home - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

The smoke of fire-spangled passion - Iris Tree "[Slowly the pale feet of morning]"

My paws no good for fire-starting - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

Won't hold me back from the firestorm - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"

A fire-tipped spear of corn - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A fire-white ghost - Tracy K. Smith "Einstein's Mother"

A fire-wind funneled to order - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "From the Front of the Fourth World"

Fire-winged cats that light the nights - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"

( Forest Fire )

When fox fire glimmers through drizzling rain - Lu Yu "In a Boat on a Summer Evening, I Heard the Cry of a Water Bird. It was Very Sad and Seemed to Be Saying, 'Madam Is Cruel!' Moved, I Wrote This Poem" transl. by Burton Watson

A skein of foxfire and the bruised scent of vervain - Sonya Taaffe "Night Boat"

Gunfire barks its questions - Seamus Heaney "The Betrothal of Cavehill"

( Hell-fire )

A love-fire sharp like pain - Langston Hughes "When Sue Wears Red"

The exit wounds of every misfired word - Ocean Vuong "To My Father/To My Future Son"

Ash and cinder of star-fire - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"

Starfire of silver flames, lighting the dark beneath - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"

Sun-fires course in all the veins of me - Eleanor Farjeon "Apollo in Pherae"

Clothed in obsidian and sunfire - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Catching play of sun-fire - Carl Sandburg "In a Breath"

Tempest-fires and surging storm - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

A watchfire that smoulders and dwindles - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

Kept vigil with the watchfires of the sky - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

His watchfires cores of menace in the gloom - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

In the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps - Julia Ward Howe "Battle-Hymn of the Republic"

Each white-fire-leaf of a star distinct - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"

Wildfire.

Clad in the garb of wonder-fire - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"

The god of the secret world-on-fire - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

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( Fir )

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( Firelight )

The firelit glow of a great hearth's gleam and glare - E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke "[Where do we fly, under deep dark sky?]"

Fire.

Light.

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( Fickle )

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( Fifty )

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( Fingertip )

Finger.

Tip.

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( Finite )

Infinite.

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( Fireworks )

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( Firmament )

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( Fiddle )

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( Fishing )

Pulled from the fog by a fishing pole - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"

Fish.

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( Fiend )

The subtle storm-fiend watches for his prey - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Wind-fiends hunt the water - Dorothea Mackellar "The Grey Lake"

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( Figure )

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

A figure-skating elephant - Edward van de Vendel "The Bottommest"

With gorgon-figured veil o'erspread - James Beattie "Ode to Hope"

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( Fish )

Dream-fish to beguile - Alpha Angela Bratton "Slumber Song"

Fishbone stuck to my throat - Lu Christófaro "I See You Too"

Bade him leave his Fisher's net - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "On Lomonossoef" transl. by John Pollen

Beginner's luck and a fisherman's zeal - Lloyd Roberts "A-Fishing"

The sere old fishermen of madness - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Fishermen" transl. by Alma Strettell

Rusty fishhook still lucky - Julia Bouwsma "Midden"

Fish-hooks baited to catch greed - John Masefield "Biography"

A grand piano balancing on the tip of a fishhook - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Hammer needles to make fish-hooks - Tu Fu "The River Village" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough and Amy Lowell

Fishing.

Fishnets trawling stars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7

Siphoning memory like gas through fishnets - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"

Bearded goblin-fish and sharks - Theodore Maynard "Blindness"

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( Fingerprint )

Finger.

Print.

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( Final )

( Finally )

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The fiberglass net of paradise - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen p"

A murmur of birds in a fiberglass net - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen E"

Songs in our fiberglass nets - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen M"

Not to be swayed by fiberglass - Mary Hickman "Eva Hesse"

Fiberglass caverns lit by crystal clouds - Bogi Takács "A Self-Contained Riot of Lights"

Fiber.

Glass.

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( Fissure )

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( Fix )

Infixes deep its restless twists - William Blake "The Book of Thel"

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( Field )

Battlefield.

Red shall the cornfields ripen - Lionel Johnson "Enthusiasts"

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

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

A flexible field trip to nowhere - Monica de la Torre "Theorem of Sorts"

Brown hayfield in the dew - Jeannette Marks "Thatch"

This pyramid contains more corpses than the potter's field - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Raise lilies to the skyfields - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

A luminous starfield of questions - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"

To the never-fading sun-fields - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

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( Fierce )

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( Fiery )

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( Fight )

( Fought )

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( First )

Ushers the firstborn of the radiant year - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"

Firstborn into a hurricane - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"

Cull time's sweet first-fruits - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Headfirst dive into stillness - Achy Obejas "Slow"

hurling herself teeth-first at the windows - Jennifer L. Knox "How old is Maggie?"

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( File )

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( Film/Filmy )

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( Fine )

Harvest-feeding dews, fine-winnowed light - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Disbelieving finery spun from flight - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"

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These rising waters filthy and licking with flames - Nickole Brown "Mercy"

No filth soured the sweetness of his well - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited

Filthy with murder and mud - Don Marquis "A Song of Men"

Filthy hands kneading dough under the cosmos - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Through a fen of filthy darkness grope - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"

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Thin as the fingernail of god - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"

home is soil beneath my fingernails - Mariposa Fernández "Verses in the Wind"

must uproot the tree with fingernails - Soonest Nathaniel "Why?"

a fingernail scratching the scars of yesterday's ruins - Abu Bakr Sadiq "Driving Downtown"

Black salt beneath the fingernails - Holly J. Schaeffer-Raymond "Excerpts from Sign & Grudge"

Waking under the fingernails of Scheherazade - Nathan Spoon "The Genie Speaks"

Finger.

Nail.

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Five hundred years of tide - Cynthia Arrieu-King "Ming the Clam"

Five hundred steel cages lined up - Toi Derricotte "The Minks"

A war against 500 lifetimes of submission - Abiola Haroun "Identity Voodoo"

A conversation of five hundred years- Marianne Moore "In This Age of Hard Trying Nonchalance Is Good, and"

Had to knock five hundred times - James Stephens "Behind the Hill"

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( Fingers )

Give us their incandescent fingerbones - Charles Wright "Detour"

The act fingermarked upon the weave - Jason Lee "The Wash of Moments"

Fingernail.

Fingerprint.

The finger-stains of the devoured - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Fingertip.

Futile as those icy-fingered winds - W. Wilfred Campbell "Unabsolved"

Ivy-fingered winds - Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Daemon of the World"

A many-fingered horror of daylight - D.H. Lawrence "Fish"

The wizard-fingers never rest - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XII: Psalm of the Day"

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( Filter )

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( Firefly )

The spectral traces of lightning bugs - Joseph O. Legaspi "Childhood Elegy"

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( Fist )

( Fistful )

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When the fifth angel's vial pours - Tommaso Campanella "XLI. A Prophecy of Judgment. No.2. The Doom of the Impious" transl. by John Addington Symonds

the fifth was the stone of my regret - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"

Like the painting's fifth cow - Jane Hirshfield "February 29"

A knife between the fifth rib and the sixth - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"

In the midst of his fifth lustre - Giacomo Leopardi "Consalvo" transl. by Frederick Townsend

Chromatic fifths of derision - William Carlos Williams "January"

Five.

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The past stored in your filaments - Aria Aber "Ode to My Hair"

The resonating filaments of a song across the abyss - R. Christopher Aversa "Gold Foil Experiment"

Her legs filaments of light - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

On a filament tethered to a star - Fady Joudah "Pisces"

Filaments, gauze cut and stitched - Janet Kauffman "A Body Walking in Clothes"

Cinching filament and tendril - Hailey Leithauser "Frostbite"

A swell of cells becoming spinal filaments - Chet'la Sebree "An End"

Lace-cut flame green filament - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"

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