somethingdarker | Aug. 4th, 2010

Aug. 4th, 2010

( High )

A highball of history and radio - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Skipping high-heeled flames courtesied before my eyes - E. E. Cummings "Amores (I)"

Highlighted lessons and dog-eared parables - Camille T. Dungy "One to Watch, and One to Pray"

The world before highlighter's applied - Carol Moldaw "Meditation on the Veranda"

Highlights the potential for interruption - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"

Leave the highlights for last - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"

Insomniac for a high noon called midnight - Raquel Gutiérrez "Would It Kill Me to Be a Nicer Guy?"

Twelve hundred high-piled years - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

Born of high-souled hope - Algernon Swinburne "To Dora Dorian"

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( Hiss )

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( Hieroglyph )

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( Hit )

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( Hint )

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( Himself )

Herself.

Itself.

Myself.

Ourselves.

Self.

Themself/Themselves.

Yourself/Yourselves.

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( Hinge )

Hut of wood and hingeless door - "Queen Bengerd" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Unhinge.

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( Hibiscus )

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( History )

Heroism upon historic sand - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

The historical atrocity of cotton - Allison Joseph "Thirty Lines About the 'Fro"

The hard edge of historical light - Ed Pavlic "from "all along it was a fever: a what poem""

Still in its prehistoric silver-dawn atmosphere - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"

Each gap a prehistoric horizon - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten VII"

In the sinister caverns of howling prehistory - Pablo Neruda "Election in Chimborongo (1947)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

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The same slow steps as our hide-and-seek sun - Samiya Bashir "Second Law"

From babes that play at hide-and-seek - Robert Frost "Revelation"

In the wood play hide-and-seek - R.L. Gales "A Childermas Rhyme"

Playing hide and seek with stars - Amy Lowell "The Crescent Moon"

Safe from this game of hide-and-seek - Henry van Dyke "Homeward Bound"

Hide.

Seek.

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Cannot be hired in noonday light - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"

Your blades bit deep for their hire - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

The glow-worm being hired the highways to light - "The Emperor's Rout"

Hired for your silent hammer - Patricia Hampl "This Is How Memory Works"

Some rigamarole they hired cheap - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

Guarded by hired knives - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"

Surrounded by a hireling crowd - Edmund H. Yates "The King of the Cats"

For hireling traitors' wages - Robert Burns "Fareweel to A' Our Scottish Fame"

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( Hide )

Hide-and-Seek.

To bed me down among my love's hideouts - Seamus Heaney "The Betrothal of Cavehill"

From the hiding-place of memory - Walter de la Mare "The Journey"

And drag the lightning from its hiding-place - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"

Vast, profound, primeval hiding-place - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"

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( Hill )

Small rivulets still flowing downhill - Jane Hirshfield "I wanted to be surprised."

Over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes - Carl Sandburg "Wilderness"

From the ghost-hills of your fathers - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Mojave Lullaby"

On your little grey-black hillock - William Carlos Williams "Trees"

Scrape life from gnarled hillsides - Allison Hutchcraft "Though from Here I Can't Smell the Smoke"

A fox upon the hillside - Emily Lawless "Eighteenth Century Echoes V: Wishes"

Toward me from that dead hillside - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"

The hilltop trees still bend like dancers - Joseph Bruchac "Tutuwas"

A hilltop made of papier mache - Neil Gaiman "House"

When tyrants tread the hill-top - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"

Up to the farthest hilltops - Fritz Schnack "Evening Gift" transl. by William Saphier

A grave where the hill-winds call - Nora Chesson "A Connaught Lament"

Pursued the colts among the sand-hills - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"

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( Hive )

( Beehive )

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( Highway )

To ride with the Bandit King and his highwaymen - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

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Before the hills like hindered rubies - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature IV: Day's Parlor"

Never hindered by man-made walls - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"

Hindered your seeing the heights - Laura Redden Searing "Corinna Confesses"

A hundred hindrances there were to my coming - Hemantabālā Dutt "Open Thou Thy Door of Mercy" transl. by Miss Whitehouse

Unhindered by the rocks - Olivia Ward Bush-Banks "A Picture"

Forget-me-nots bloom unhindered - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

The cold unhindered swell of time - N. Scott Momaday "Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion"

That still unhindered range through Heaven - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

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