somethingdarker | Jun. 2nd, 2011

Jun. 2nd, 2011

befriend radical thoughts and nightmares - Grisel Y. Acosta "Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic"

Radical in the dark room - Mary Jo Bang "Pear and O, an Opera"

The first radical road out - Ansel Elkins "Autobiography of Eve"

Our radical love of breath in motion - Tanya Lukin Linklater "Ewako"

Nothing radical in being the enemy - Danez Smith "anti poetica"

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( Raft )

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( Range )

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( Race )

A minnow down some wild mill-race - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VIII: To a Forgotten Triton"

( Outrace )

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In splendor of irradiant rain - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

Phantom suns in self-irradiance drowned - Clark Ashton Smith "White Death"

Ropes of firecrackers that irradiate the past - Jenny Xie "Memory Soldier"

carry it blazing through your irradiated life - Monica Youn "Whiteacre"

( Radiance )

( Radiant )

Radiate an amazing cloud of bees - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 33: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

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( Rain )

( Acid Rain )

Downpour.

To survive the fate-rained slaughter - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

Rainbow.

His ghost wears our raincoats - Marianne Chan "Cebu City"

Frozen, rain-drenched, sad betrayed - Eochadh O'Hosey (or Hussey) 17th century "O'Hussey's Ode to the Maguire" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Raindrop.

( Rainfall )

Pastures deep in rain-fed grass - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"

the slip of a rain-glazed rock - Ashley M. Jones "Lullaby for the Grieving"

( Rainless )

Roses rise with red rain-memories - Carl Sandburg "Follies"

Rain-scented eglantine gave temperate sweets - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

And from the hurt in rainsong - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Sweet Distress"

Water on a rain-spattered stone - Chris Dombrowski "Inscription"

Beneath as rainstorm of summer stars - Rebecca Dotlich "Room of Place"

Rain-surcharged and sun-forsaken - George Meredith "A Preaching from a Spanish Ballad"

Fishing in a pool of rainwater - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"

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( Raise )

What throne can dawn upraise - Winifred Welles "Exile"

Rise.

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( Raiment )

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( Rattlesnake )

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( Rare )

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Rivals Homer's god-enraptured dreams - Catullus "[Suffenus, whom we both have known so well]" transl. by Rev. George W. Bethune [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

And hear the enraptured lark - Edward Dowden "Recovery"

Bodies enraptured by the abounding earth - Robert Nichols "Fulfilment"

Dance with unmeasured mirth, enraptured - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

( Rapt )

( Rapture )

Vain the roses' rapturous breath - Susan Coolidge "Solstice"

The rapturous, wild, and ineffable pleasure - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"

Hushed into a rapturous dream - Agnes Repplier "Le Repos in Egypte: The Sphinx"

The burden of our rapturous psalm - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"

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( Raven )

Lance and drain this ravened sky - Rebecca Dunham "Atavism at Twilight"

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( Ransom )

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Raucous and willful, loud as thunder - Remica Bingham-Risher "Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from/how did you arrive?"

The raucous needle of winter- Pablo Neruda "The Drowned Woman of the Sky" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The raucous applause of the waves - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

In time to the raucous tide - Tracy K. Smith "In Brazil"

The raucous crows' raw caws - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

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Radio signals run through rain - Mary Jo Bang "One Photograph of a Rooftop"

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

Radio dust stretched across the night sky - Russell Brakefield "The Perseids"

Radio town singing dead frequencies - CR Colby "The Last Punk Rock Band in the Zombie Apocalypse"

The negative ecstasy of radio - fahima ife "we communicate together in a language that does not speak"

The film exists as broadcast radio - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Wailing radio waves warning - Mary Soon Lee "How to Betray Sagittarius A*"

Whoever tuned the radio to rain - Dean Young "Spring Reign"

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Let none judge us rashly - "Address to St. Andrews"

Wore scars and rashes like empirical clothes - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"

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

Back into rash light, dust, and air - Karolina Fedyk "Sawa"

Hail the rash hyacinth - Louise Imogen Guiney "April Desire"

The frenzy of too rash desires - William Hayley "On the Fear of Death: an Epistle to a Lady 1768"

Forcing rash sweetness on sage ocean's brine - T. Sturge Moore "Sent from Egypt with a Fair Robe of Tissue to a Sicilian Vine-Dresser 276 B.C."

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Into hell's ravine - Simon Armitage "Poundland"

Tall brick buildings slipping into a ravine - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Like thunder along the ravines - Li T'ai-Po "The Perils of the Shu Road" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

Flame that twists choking through the ravines - Mario Luzi "Las Animas" transl. by Dana Gioia

Threadbare stones lie cramped in the ravine - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "History" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

The mountains and the ravines of the soul - Marin Sorescu "Shakespeare" transl. by Michael Hamburger

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( Rat )

Legs entwined in that old ratty blanket of inevitability - Lynette Mejía "Harrowing"

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( Raw )

raw-red from offering white flags - Elliott Dunstan "Inherited Battlefield"

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The teeth hot in the mouth of a raccoon - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"

Raccoons too ready for their close-ups - Dorsey Craft "Women Tell Me How to Be Safe"

The sly raccoon with craft inborn - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Husking Time"

A thoroughfare for raccoons and opossums - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"

The raccoon's prowl was almost silent - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"

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( Razor )

Those razor-sharp moments you catch - Lore Graham "Absence"

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The tempest's rack outstripping - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "I Wonder"

And the storm's red rack in the sky is burning - Harriet Monroe "Hope"

Traveling the planet under racks of final sales - Idra Novey "Value City"

Balance their haloes on hatracks - Maurya Simon "Angels"

Between the mirror and the shoe rack - Valzhyna Mort "My Father's Breed"

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( Rag )

Rag-edged as a contorted filbert - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"

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Ghost forests raked by bears - Kimberly Blaeser "Apprentice to Justice"

Raking the white spent embers - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"

To rake the moon from out the sea - Thomas Love Peacock "The Men of Gotham"

Raking the cinders of a crucible - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Paper-wager and victory-rake - Marcus Jackson "40 Ounce"

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The rambling underground affairs of moles - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

The rough ramble of wordlessness - Tommye Blount "But the Weather, the Weather"

A rambling bramble binds his knees - John Masefield "The Dead Knight"

Rambling on the steaming savannas - Achy Obejas "The Land of Regal Elephants"

A ramble of mystery, pattern, accident, and surprise - Carl Phillips "Troubadours"

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Red feud and ravage of saber tooth and claw - William Francis Barnard "The Hymn of Labor"

Such night of ravage and rain - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

O'er the ravaged path of time - Felicia Hemans "The Widow of Crescentius"

Betray the ravages of night - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

Until the ravaged earth gave way - Ann K. Schwader "Desert Nocturne"

Gloom and frost are free to spoil and ravage here - J. Bayard Taylor "A Requiem in the North" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

the unzipping of dream-ravaged flesh - Jennifer Mace "Morphology"

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( Rave )

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They raze Cygnus with worries for the next day - John Grey "Skywatching"

How winter razes the shoals of heaven - Adele Kenny "Survivor"

Raze the world once and raise it twice - P. H. Low "Ode"

Praise to razed skylines & ruins - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"

From my memory raze one hour - Anna Cora Mowatt "To My Sisters: Written After Their Departure for Europe"

A forest razed down to its knees - Omodero David Oghenekaro "Questions for the Fallen"

The hulks of burned out houses stand unrazed - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"

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The treasure trove she raided while we dreamed - Duane Ackerson "Driving Across Idaho"

A raid on the inarticulate - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Of raids on the pantry and hen-coop - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]

And robbers arm them for the nightly raid - Adam Mickiewicz "The Ruins of Balaclava" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Meets the demons on their raid - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

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I would rather bear fruit than fire - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."

I'd rather put my trust in stones - Elizabeth Bartlett "The Sower"

Encouraging affection rather than awe - Edward Hirsch "Lafcadio Hearn"

The pang of worlds we'd rather be - Gary Jackson "The Restoration"

Would rather drink the wind - Mary Oliver "The Arrowhead"

But rather truth for love's own sake - Theodore H. Rand "Conduct"

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( Rattle )

Cardboard crammed between wind-rattled panes - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"

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( Random )

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( Rapid )

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The mice ransack our rations - Julia Bouwsma "Dear ghosts, in winter my camp on the hill becomes"

Faith and its meager rations - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen h"

Compendium of first person rations - Hailey Leithauser "Memoirs"

Provide rations of sand - Thomas Lux "Vaticide"

Mountain fruits served for rations - Tu Fu "Song of P'eng-ya" transl. by Burton Watson

The usual ration of air - Josephine Yu "The Failed Revolutionaries Apologize to Their Foreign Sponsors"

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drop squeezed from an enraged zero - Kaie Kellough "if who"

( Rage )

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( Ray )

Cold and rayless in the starless gloom - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

In the rayless house of darkness - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"

Boundless fields of rayless polar night - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Sequoyah"

By the first swift sun-ray slain - Edgell Rickword "Yegor"

Unraying yet, more pearl than star - George Meredith "The Thrush in February"

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That has derailed my dreams - Maxe Crandall "Sappho for Everybody"

( Rail )

That stood on the railing, puffed up with sky - Chloe Honum "Devonport"

Pushed grief under the railings - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

( Railroad )

Liquid ticking in a petrified railway station - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"

Parallel to the railway track - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"

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( Rampart )

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( Ravel )

Unravel.

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( Rainbow )

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( Rafter )

Horse-shoes on the ceiling-rafters hung - Alfred B. Street "The Smithy" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Bats at noontide rafter-hung - Robert Graves "Ghost Music"

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No ram appears to stop my hand - Julia Alvarez "Winter Storm"

A ram for the spirits of the road - "The Book of Odes: No.245. She Who First Bore Our People" transl. by Burton Watson

A young ram leapt from the copper depths - Mari Ness "The Restoration of Youth"

Rams straining beyond the gate - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Remember the ram's horn baritone - Brandon Som "Resistors"

Ploughed it with a ram's horn - "Three Acres of Land"

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( Ravenous )

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Marks the dust bath of a jackrabbit - Lucy Griffith "Attention"

Moved the jackrabbit from the road - Louise Mathias "Larrea"

The mind like a jackrabbit bounding - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

( Rabbit )

A rabbit-hole opens inside you - Timothy Donnelly "The Driver of the Car Is Unconscious"

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