somethingdarker | Jan. 2nd, 2011

Jan. 2nd, 2011

The nihilism that managed to keep me alive - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Atlantic"

How dragons order their lives, how they manage and act - Harry Martinson "Aniara 54: Chefone's Garden" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

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

Manage their work in such regular forms - Isaac Watts "The Ant, or Emmet"

The management of pancakes and preserves - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"

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The massive argument of light - Louise Gluck "Lamentations"

The blue massive ridges of pressure shift - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

In a massive, radiant hall of utter distance - Harry Martinson "Aniara 10" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The massive beauty of your stacked skyline - Nancy Mercado "New York at 42"

The massive map of the granite - Pablo Neruda "Stones from the Sky: XV" transl. by James Nolan

Mass.

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With matchless brilliance burn - Cora C. Bass "Even-tide"

In my matchless graces wrapt - Thomas Blacklock "The Author's Picture"

Revealed such nerve and matchless power - Palmer Cox "The Brownies at Archery"

Matchless mirrors of delight - Nathalia Crane "The Rose of Rest"

With all the matchless glory of that Sun - Eleanor C. Donnelly "The Vision of the Monk Gabriel" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

Of matchless might and fearless soul - "The Lay of Starkàther" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXI, v.LXII, Nov. 1845]

The pearl of matchless Prudence drew - B. Simmons "Lines on the Landing of His Majesty King Louis Philippe, Tuesday, October 8, 1844" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]

Two mis-matched puzzle pieces - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"

Dividing the hours into two mismatched halves - Yoon Ha Lee "Equinox"

The unmatched phoenix lives anew - Michelangelo Buonarroti "LIX. Love Is a Refiner's Fire" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Match.

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A small braid of mayflies - Chris Dombrowski "Going Home"

When the May-fly burst his shell - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]

The May-fly and the Man each flutter out the same small span - "The May-Fly" [Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge issue 7, May 12, 1832]

By ignorance of a mayfly's ending - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"

Wavering as the May-fly's dancing - F.H. Wood "At the Mill" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.124-v.III, 15 May 1886]

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( Master )

Sweeps in one all-mastering flood - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

In the garden under the masterful Sun - Bob Holman "Van Gogh's Violin"

Masterful negation and collapse - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

Rushed masterless, by tower and town and wood - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece - Shakespeare "Macbeth"

Played the makings of a masterpiece off-key - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"

Towards a mastery of disappearance and creation - Russell Brakefield "Shutter, Lag"

Of soul and body lose the mastery - Po-Chu'i "The Harper of Chao" (translated by Arthur Waley)

And the truck-master's pail holds unmystified milk - "Christmas Carol, 1845" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

Unmastered still by disbelief - George Sterling "The Echo and the Quest"

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( Margin )

Ever lingering on Doubt's dizzy margent - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"

The sparse marginalia of a scroll - Mary Jo Bang "Poem"

Foraged for my marginalized hungers - Prageeta Sharma "Glacier National Park and the Elegy"

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( Man/Men )

Crows flapped down to keep the boatman company - Su Tung-p'o "Written on a Painting Entitled 'Misty Yangtze and Folded Hills' in the Collection of Wang Ting-kuo" transl. by Burton Watson

When boatmen boil their rice on the river - Tu Fu "Wine-Flask at Sunset" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

While the bondmen all are weeping - "The Kansas John Brown Song" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

And e'en Gehenna's bondsmen understood - Rudyard Kipling "The Legend of Mirth"

Unfurled for the exile, the bondman, the world - "The Northmen are Coming" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

The bloodhound's hellish baying stills the hunted bondman's cries - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

Towering bellows of babbling businessmen - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"

Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade - Rudyard Kipling "Cold Iron"

The silver obol I must drop in the grim ferry-man's hand - Richard Aldington "Hermes-of-the-Dead" [The Little Review, Mar. 1917, v.3, no.9]

This hooded ferryman with forked tongue - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

This road requires a toll, a tip to the ferryman - Lynette Mejía "A Modern Prometheus"

A whisper lost on the ferryman's lips - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"

Falling through the broken smoke of a fireman's net - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

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

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

Foeman/Foemen: See Foe.

Foreman's shack at the mining pool's edge - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"

So vulgar it would make a foreman blush - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

And made a court that freemen never saw - "The Ghost of Chatham"

A handyman when something breaks down - Mouna Ammar "Ode to Ammou"

The hangman wind that tortures temper and light - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"

The mighty helmsman of the world - Frances Anne Kemble "Lines Written at Venice in October, 1865" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.XVII, no.97, Jan. 1876]

And bid the helmsman have a care - Rudyard Kipling "The Coastwise Lights"

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

Horseman/Horsemen.

Hunter/Huntsman.

Death's celestial journeymen unveil - Geoffrey Dearmer "Dedication: to Christopher Killed, Suvla Bay, October 6th, 1915"

Have heard the junkman's obbligato - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

That kinsman to the wretched - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 186: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Danced the floors of cold longshoremen's halls - David St. John "Guitar"

That was sung to the soul of the madman, Blake - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

The madman in command - John Masefield "Forget"

A madman, kneeling to a thing of stone - William Morris "Pygmalion and the Image"

None but a madman will fling about fire - Isaac Watts "Innocent Play"

Gather the chin hairs of a man-eating goat - A.E. Stallings "Fairy-tale Logic"

The manhandled grammar of nature - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

( Mankind )

Never a man-made law held good - Frank J. Cotter "The Land"

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

At every step, new man-made barriers rise - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Leaving manmade dreams behind - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"

Queen of the fleets of No-Man's-Land - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"

The scent of an oilman determined to drill - Gabriel Cortez "Upon Hearing Your Building is up for Sale"

A one-man rave in the body's industrial district - Kyle Dargan "Points of Contact"

The policeman's voice an aftershock - Joshua Bennett "Still Life with Toy Gun"

The children the sandman goes to see - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"

Quite unknown to the brown sandman - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"

A spokesman of the night - Wallace Stevens "Chocorua to Its Neighbor"

From thieving statesman down to petty knave - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]

Never so rash a steersman - "The Drowning of John Remorsson"

A bark all lonely tosses without steersman - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"

Watchman.

Before the woodman's fatal stroke - Pliny Earle, M.D. "Soliloquy of an Octogenarian"

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( Marvel )

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( Mantle )

On the mantelpiece an Invitation to the Dance - T.S. Eliot "A Cooking Egg"

The seven champions of the silver-mantled shield - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin Over His Sons"

The shining of some silver-mantled star - "I Am Coming!" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]

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( Mansion )

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( Marigold )

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( Mature )

Of hope grown to maturity - Georgia Douglas Johnson "I've Learned to Sing"

In a maturity of motion - Edwin Torres "Migration"

The fruit of the vine bitter and premature - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

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( Maybe )

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( May )

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( Maple )

Rub chalk maple over the head of a screech - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Burgundy air under the Japanese maples - Brian Tierney "Catering"

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( Martyr/Martyrdom )

A martyr-cloud with halo dipped in gold - Humbert Wolfe "The Dancers"

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( Mass )

Massive.

A massless eddy in a trail of smoke - John M. Ford "Sonnet: Against Etropy"

What is born massless at light speed - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"

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( Mad )

( Madden )

( Madly )

That was sung to the soul of the madman, Blake - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

The madman in command - John Masefield "Forget"

A madman, kneeling to a thing of stone - William Morris "Pygmalion and the Image"

None but a madman will fling about fire - Isaac Watts "Innocent Play"

( Madness )

Assembled in mad-moon crowd - Louis Golding "Gallop"

Bare in a mist-mad forest - Mary Jo Bang "Gretel"

These moonmad swans and ecstatic ganders - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"

Trapped, stone-mad - Sandra McPherson "Pregnancy"

Born of a vision-mad organist - Morris Tyler "The Bells of Antwerp"

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( Manifest )

Some prisoned joy half-manifest in you - Robin Flower "The Bacchante"

Manifestations of self-discipline - Jen Bervin "shakuhachi repertoire, handwritten from liner notes"

Manifestations of anger - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"

Manifestation of letting go - Carl Phillips "A Summer"

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( Magpie )

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Marooned in the Land God gave Cain - Paul Cameron Brown "Helluland"

The maroon perfume of the chocolate cosmos - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

The last of the maroon crabapple ovates - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

Small stars jetting maroon and crimson - Amy Lowell "Vintage"

Which ran to loss in a deep maroon - Edgar Lee Masters "The Loom"

Marooned by empty chairs - Kiki Petrosino "The Garden"

Marooning all you've left behind - A.E. Stallings "The Mother's Loathing of Balloons"

Legend of the maroon and olive forest - Wallace Stevens "The Green Plant"

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Gold and steel enthroned at the gates of the mart - William Francis Barnard "The Tongues of Toil"

One of the mart-made helots - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"

For the mart or for the temple - Edward Dowden "Michelangelesque"

In the lowly mart of tremulous darkness - Darrell Figgis "[Friends vanish at my face]"

With Orestes through the mart - Louis Golding "Down Tottenham Court Road"

Bearing the produce of a thousand marts - "Rhyming Ruminations on Old London Bridge" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20, no.557, 14 July 1832]

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Getting lost among mangoes and papayas - Francisco X. Alarcon "Earthly Paradise"

Speared mangos with bayonets - Martin Espada "Inheritance of Waterfalls and Sharks"

Groves of mango, quince and lime - Robert Graves "It's a Queer Time"

Twist with the sweet of mangos - Conrad Hilberry "Letter to the North"

Like a basket of invincible mangoes - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

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Greeting the sunrise with its matin song - John Philip Bourke "John Philip Bourke"

The larks their matins raised - Patrick Bronte "The Happy Cottagers"

Their matin song of gratitude - Ieuan Gwynedd "The Cottages of Wales" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

The first wild matins of the thrush - Alfred Noyes "Goethe II: The Prophet"

The birds chant loud their matins - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"

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The mauve of Honour - Coningsby Dawson "Florence on a Certain Night"

Forgetting her mauve vows - Donald Evans "Love in Patagonia"

A mauve vine corkscrewed up from the deep oblivion - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Lights up the mauve of three - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

The same mauve petals my grandmother wore - jessica Care moore "She Was"

Swarming up the mauve mist - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

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The knack of a mason outlasts a moon - Carl Sandburg "The Lawyers Know Too Much"

Masons laying courses of stone ascending - Tom Sleigh "The Parallel Cathedral"

One hand on the mason's trowel - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

The muskrat plied the mason's trade - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

A recurring nightmare about being trapped in a Mason jar - Bruce Boston "Signs You Could Be a Clone"

Collect marbles inside of mason jars - Anis Mojgani "4 stars"

( Masonry )

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( Marble )

With marble-dust and vitriol - "Bogus Champagne" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

Till the marble-stone was rent and riven - "Young Svejdal" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

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( Malevolence )

( Malice )

With malicious abundant joy - Alicia Suskin Ostriker "August Morning, Upper Broadway"

The mud gleams with malicious light - Iris Tree "[Washed at my feet by the curded foam of sluggish waves]"

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( Maze )

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( Merciless )

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( Market )

Sour blueberries from the farmer's market - Richard Solomon "Ann Arbor Art Fair 2005"

Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

Disintegrating worldwide stock markets - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

( Marketplace )

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( Marsh )

And ride to the heron-marsh - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

Wild as a marsh-borne meteor's glance - Sir Walter Scott "The Dance of Death"

A marshland of snakes - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 8. E-Kishnugal, the Temple of Nanna in Ur" transl. by Sophus Helle

Across the marshlands of my heart - Mary Oliver "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard"

The naked sea-marsh binds her home - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

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( Maid/Maiden )

The handmaidens of circumstance - Anthony Butts "Triptych"

The handmaids of Disaster - Fu Hsuan "A Gentle Wind" (translated by Arthur Waley)

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( March (month) )

In the March-wind, ragged and forlorn - Henry van Dyke "Spring in the North"

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( Masquerade )

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( Magnolia )

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Strange garrisons of emerald-mailed chameleons - Harold Acton "When Frigates from Long Voyages ..."

( Mail )

In the mailboxes of the arrested - Ilya Kaminsky "When Momma Galya First Protested"

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( Maelstrom )

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Manacled in misery - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

The golden manacles of verse - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

The mind-forged manacles I hear - William Blake "London"

Manacled to a tyrant's fence - Cyrus Cassells "Clarinet"

Burst their manacles and wear the name - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "France: An Ode, 1797"

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( Mar )

And only memories live unmarred - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "The Burning of Chambersburg [July 30, 1864]"

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( Magic )

Magician.

The unmagical invitations of Iceland - Seamus Heaney "North"

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( Marrow )

From our marrow-bone bodies - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"

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( Manner )

The lost, well-mannered rhetoric of your day - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

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( Magnet )

Weaving light and electromagnetic chatter - Duane Ackerson "Black Hole Hunter's Guide"

Three minutes of electromagnetic flux - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"

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( Main )

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Born in this cold fast food of a mall of a country - Carmen Bardeguez-Brown "Rican Issues"

A little space between shopping malls - Scott Cairns "A Lot"

rows of houses fenced by concrete malls - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

Supermarkets and malls, the altars of money - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"

Scenes from a strip mall childhood - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"

An orchard behind the strip mall - Patrick Phillips "Matinee"

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( Mammoth )

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( Mandate )

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Birdhouse hanging from a make-believe branch - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Imagination"

No longer please himself with make-believe - R.C.K. Ensor "Ode to Reality"

Her sea and her boat were make-believe - Hannah G. Fernald "A Voyage" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Make believe mushrooms are pearls - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

Sometimes they feed me make-believe - Rebecca Deming Moore "The Wooden Horse" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

his holy make-believe childhood - Vi Khi Nao "Fog"

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Fate with the mangled wings - Grant Allen "Only An Insect"

The sullen masters of a mangled world - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"

The lines of our cropped and mangled vines - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"

Mangled, mutant, and indiscernible - Mack W. Mani "Sanctuary"

That cotton mangle of a sky - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"

The lovely hooves and mangled pianos - Erika L. Sanchez "Baptism"

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Who come to her with manna - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Holy manna from an astronaut's boot - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

Gathered up the crystal manna - Robert Bridges "London Snow"

What is manna to the raven - Linda Gregerson "Maculate"

As manna on the meadow falls - David Gray "The Mavis"

The manna's sacred dew distil - Andrew Marvell "A Drop of Dew"

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Brocade and sonnet marathons - Billy Collins "Nostalgia"

Your grief always a marathon - Andrea Gibson "Ivy"

A marathon of clouds - Derrick Harriell "Underground King"

Ceasing marathon plastic productions - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

Near of Marathon's fair and fateful field - J.S.B. "Marathon" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]

Sailed from Marathon on swift disaster's wings - J.S.B. "Marathon" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]

A battle-shout from Marathon - Ione "Lay" [The Knickerbocker v.10 no.3 Sept. 1837]

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Escape thru the maw of an Arctic sea - Paul Cameron Brown "Ahoy"

Out of the black maw of the peat - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"

Disrobe in night's cold maw - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

The maw of oblivion consumes all - Jess Nevins "My Last Duke"

Into the maw of the grim black night - John Oxenham "The Hungry Sea"

The smiling bright light lure over the maw of the abyss - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"

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( Math/Mathematics )

A capsized canoe full of mathematicians - Dean Young "Acceptance Speech"

The math-prone leaves of every rhododendron - Conrad Hilberry "Subtract the Digits"

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( Marriage/Marry )

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( Machine )

Machinery.

Playing cards with machine guns - Mary Jo Bang "Ghost and Grays"

Of the piano and machine gun - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"

A machine-learning algorithm to calculate the odds - Edgar Kunz "Willrobotstakemyjob.com"

The grasshopper works at his sewing-machine - Edward Thomas "The Child on the Cliffs"

Time Machine.

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( March )

Alarmed by the heart's death-march notes - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Deep-muffled as the dead-march of a god - Alexander Smith "[Joy, like a stream, flows]" [Blackwood's Ediburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]

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( Match )

Re-staging that same old Cretaceous deathmatch - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

Making each stone a matchbook - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"

Matchless/Mismatched/Unmatched.

Dispatched the falcon to be my matchmaker - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Mistake your hands for matchsticks - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"

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Onward through realms immaterial - John William Draper "When on the Shore Grates My Barge's Keel"

The sound of my immaterial twin - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen b"

Turnstiles for their immaterial sleep - Claire Millikin "Medicine for Broken Dolls"

( Material )

The provenance of our own materiality - Asiya Wadud "Syncope"

The time it takes to materialize - Katie Willingham "Darwinist Logic on Disappointment"

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( Matter )

Dark Matter.

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( Maenad )

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( Maintain )

Maintenance itself is never won - J.M. Allen "Maintenance"

Maintenance issues breaking out all over - Jeffrey Brown "Succession"

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( Mast )

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( Mat )

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Through mandrake groves and tangled vines - Anna Cates "Three Triolets"

The mandrake root that fattens in the gloom - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Seeks the thrice-curst mandrake - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Down to the mandrake mere it prowls - William Lumley "The Elder Thing" [The Fantasy Fan, v.2, no.5, Jan. 1935]

Sandalwood and mandrake - Nicole Sealey "and"

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A magnified photograph of a distant quasar - Mary Jo Bang "The Actual Occurences"

Navigate by sound magnified through muscle - Stephanie Heit "Yours Truly"

Sought through mystic rigmaroles to magnify his station - Harry Martinson "Aniara 30" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Magnify the longings of the mind - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 2: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Magnify his shadow - Derek Walcott "Roman Peace"

Hold a magnifying glass to time - Deborah Garrison "Both Square and Round"

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Against the scarab of malachite - Zaina Alsous "Window Strike"

The arching wave's suspended malachite - Edward Dowden "Deus Absconditus"

Through secret eyes of malachite - Audre Lorde "Parting"

To await the malachite beetles - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

The storm of malachite beetles - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

On sharp-edged, malachite wings - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

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( Mammon )

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( Machinery )

Machine.

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As befits a mage so skilled - Edward Dowden "The Mage"

The spell of the mage of music - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

( Magician )

Magic.

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( Magnificence )

( Magnificent )

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( Mars )

In these last rations of the Martian cold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

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( Malign )

A little vial of sure malignancy - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"

Designed to forestall malignancy - Philip Schultz "A Moment"

( Malignant )

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( Manifold )

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Illuminate us through an invisible matrix - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "The Loom"

A matrix of tales that are one - Marilyn Hacker "Ghazal (Ya Lateef!)"

From the matrix of Jefferson's imagination - Kiki Petrosino "The Maiden"

From the matrix of the black cloud - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Fault-lining matrix-lodged turquoise and jade - Chet'la Sebree "An End"

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( Majestic )

( Majesty )

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( Map )

Carry a bloodmap for a lost country - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Aftermath"

Its most mapless lost cause - Patricia Smith "The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon"

Who labor and toil in unmapped soil - Nelson S. Bond "The Ballad of Venus Nell" [Planet Stories summer 1941 issue]

The unmapped seas took tribute - Sharlot M. Hall "The West"

We travel unmapped roads - Alberto Rios "The Cities Inside Us"

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( Made )

Pull a ribbon of honey into handmade mugs - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"

One of those old homemade heartbreak songs - Joy Harjo "Washing My Mother's Body"

To mix with nuts and home-made cake - Leslie Pickney Hill "Christmas at Melrose"

Jelly jars tinted with homemade whiskey - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"

Never a man-made law held good - Frank J. Cotter "The Land"

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

At every step, new man-made barriers rise - James Edward McCall "The New Negro" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

Leaving manmade dreams behind - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"

One of the mart-made helots - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"

A mind new-made of shadowless delight - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

An iron claw and a new-made screw - Mary Jo Bang "A Calculation Based on Figures in a Scene"

Remade/Remake.

An exile in a self-made skiff - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

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

Unmade/Unmake.

( Make )

Messenger, trickster, curfew-maker - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

A glassmaker's dream of blue - Elizabeth Spires "Cote d'Azur"

With blood of some high-making passion - Ivor Gurney "The Day of Victory"

The boat-yard of the last gondola maker - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

The silence of the shadows' makers - Tim Newcomb "The Smoke Within the Fire's Ring"

The maker of a woodland hymn - Grantland Rice "The Bug's View-Point"

The maker of terrible delicate decisions - Adrienne Rich "Char"

Makeshift forests - Carol Frost "Circus City"

Mercy at the makeshift desk - Gerald Stern "Places You Wouldn't Believe"

Dispatched the falcon to be my matchmaker - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Mischief-making Time would never dare - Sterling A. Brown "Challenge"

Dawn's chorus is a peace-making operation - Amie Whittemore "Future History of Earth's Birds"

Remade/Remake.

Taker of risks and riddle-maker - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

Unmade/Unmake.

To go with the old grey Widow-maker - Rudyard Kipling "Harp Song of the Dane Women"

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( Mark )

Unmarked.

A birthmark with visions to see past illusions - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"

Birthmarks on curved ivory tusks - Cynthia Manick "A Taste of Blue"

The earmarks of the actual - Kay Ryan "Blast"

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

Left no footmark on the floor - Anna Bunston de Bary "Under a Wiltshire Apple Tree"

Landmark.

A magic marker Venus de Milo - B. K. Fischer "Week 30 (Maternity Bathing Suit)"

Make a fleeting run through the markdowns - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"

A soul with a pockmarked, bitten past - Elizabeth Spires "Badger Disguised as a Monk"

Hoarded saccharine and toothmarks - Jenny Xie "Origin Story"

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( Mask )

To put a death-mask on tragedy - Mary Jo Bang "The Role of Elegy"

The retrospective, maskless rage of inception - Vijay Seshadri "Trailing Clouds of Glory"

The stone of wisdom wrapped in the slaughter-mask of genius - Harry Martinson "Aniara 64" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

( Unmask )

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