somethingdarker | Feb. 4th, 2011

Feb. 4th, 2011

( Nightfall )

Fall.

Night.

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( Night-wind )

Night.

Wind.

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( Nightmare )

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A piece of time the size of a nickel - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"

The nickel wire of my throat - John James "Catalogue Beginning with a Line by Plato"

Backed by a nickel star - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Nickel to ride to the zigzag stars - Lola Ridge "Phyllis"

Clenched like two small sacks of stolen nickels - Patrick Rosal "Brokeheart: Just like that"

With my nickel in my hand - Leta V. Meyers Smart "On a Nickel"

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( Nimble )

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( Nine )

And with your ninefold harmony - John Milton "Verses from the Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity"

The nine-bend stream of time - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"

Driving out of a nine-circle hell - Mary Jo Bang "Magic Makes Everything Right"

Submitted to the nine-tiered palace - Han Yu "Written on My Way into Exile When I Reached the Lan-t'ien Pass and Shown to My Brother's Grandson Hsiang" transl. by Burton Watson

Sweeping all the nine-tiered sky - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "In the Year with the Cyclical Sign Mou-shen (408), in the Sixth Month We Had a Fire" transl. by Burton Watson

The ninth heaven as witness - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

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( Night )

A drawing of an all-night sky - Mary Jo Bang "Speaking of the Future, Hamlet"

Crimson from your all-night vigil - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 96: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Chasing a fly-by-night sparrow - Cyrus Cassells "How Many Lives Have We Lived in Paris?"

Shopping has become my good-night kiss - Maggie Farren "Palms"

Unholy trinity of suburban late-night salvation - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"

Scattering our night-born ills - "Centos and Suggestions" transl. and arranged by Rev. John Brownlie in Hymns from the Greek Offices

Away from this year's cubicle to night class - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"

Dark alleys between night-crested waves - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Footprints on some night-drowned beach - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Nightfall.

Dream upon the night-hawks peopling heaven - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

Gives song a nightless day - Charles Bertram Johnson "Negro Poets"

Nightlights going unused in the swinging forests - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

Sleeker than night-swollen mushrooms - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

A bell upon the night-tide - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 2"

That nighttime brigade of ghosts now laid to rest - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"

In the night-time or sorrow - E. Clementine Stedman "Stanzas"

The nightvault swarming with stars - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

O'er which they had kept night-watch - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

His the voice in the night-watches - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Night-Wind.

Night-wrought spells about me thrown - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"

To survive overnight - Robin Becker "Hummingbird"

Built up soundless overnight - Molly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison "Recovery"

Through the dreams of yesternight - Robert Graves "The Dying Knight and the Fauns"

On the door of Yesternight - Ruth Guthrie Harding "Song"

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( Nightingale )

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always nibbling at my edges - t'ai freedom ford "house hunting as an act of faith"

Little gray hunger that nibbles the night - Hailey Leithauser "Charm against Insomnia"

An empty skin for the mice to nibble - Mary Oliver "Black Snake This Time"

Abandon your nibbling illusions - Elizabeth Spires "Bloated Haiku"

Nibbling on a darkening wick - Paul Tran "Hypothesis"

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The drunken birds in the belladonna - Frank Stanford "My Day Is Over"

( Nightshade )

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( Niagara Falls )

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When fire and brimstone rained on that nice little house - J.D. Harlock "I Thought the End of the World Would Be a Bit More Exciting Than This"

A thousand things more nice than true - Henry S. Leigh "Wisdom and Water"

Take my nice new wheelbarrow and fill it to the brim - F. Liley-Young "Haying Time" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Could use a nice invasion - Valencia Robin "After Graduate School"

Knit straw plaits for the nest's nice lining - James Stephens "Fifteen Acres"

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Nigh to all who dwell in sweet accord - Ibn al-Fāriḍ "Khamriyyah" [excerpt. There is a vineyard planted by the Lord] transl. by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt

When the dreaded day draws nigh - José de Espronceda "Hymn to the Sun" transl. by Ida Farnell

Nigh impossible to staunch avarice - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"

And half my course is well-nigh run - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

Well-nigh extinct under man's fickle care - Henry David Thoreau "To a Stray Fowl"

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May call the frost to nip and ruin all - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

The sudden nip of knives - Richard Hughes "The Ruin"

Ev'ry leaf has been nipped by a blight - Alex A. Irvine "The Withered Rose" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

With throats like nipped roses - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"

Chilled by nipping blasts of autumn - Susan Pinkerton "Autumn Leaves" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.306, 10 Nov. 1849]

Nipped by sudden frosts and keen - Henry W. Rockwell "Sonnets: Sonnet V"

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