somethingdarker | Jun. 3rd, 2011

Jun. 3rd, 2011

Iridescent with promise of fire and rebirth - R.B. Lemberg "The Blanket, the Secret, the Dark" [31 March 2025]

Without my presence at your rebirth - Naomi Long Madgett "Without Condition"

allowing obstacle a rebirth as reason - Edwin Torres "The Law of the Apple"

Awaiting rebirth after apocalypse - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

( Reborn )

Birth.

Born.

Unborn.

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Joy.

( Rejoice )

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( Realize )

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( Recline )

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That distort perception into refraction and destruction - Etel Adnan "Night"

Light refracts my name in dialect only moths comprehend - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

Refracted into the prisms of the past - N. Scott Momaday "A Benign Self-Portrait"

Only if refracted first - Carl Phillips "Torn Sash"

Refracts discreet components of a beauty - A.E. Stallings "Eurydice's Footnote"

Calling you into a mirror refraction of a future - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

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( Reel )

Newsreels captured the death of a star - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Unreels in the road of the days and nights - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"

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To repel the darts which treason had hurled - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"

Wallace repell'd and smote the myriad foe - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]

That repels the footstep of the living - Elena Clementelli "Etruscan Notebook" transl. by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann

Repelled by millions of sea shells - Marin Sorescu "The Sea Shell" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Something classical and repulsive endures - Ari Banias "Curriculum"

Always repulsed by your effort - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Comes down to the repulsion of electrons - Ruth Madievsky "Electrons"

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( Repair )

Man's honor set at defiance and irreparable deicide - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

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In our restricted sphere - Emma Lazarus "City Visions"

Forms refused the restrictions he imposed - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

And seem from all restrictions free - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

Sappho's restriction was only the sky - Dorothy Parker "Words of Comfort to be Scratched on a Mirror"

Amid mirth's unrestricted din - Kenneth Rookwood "The Ruins of Burnside" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

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( Respond/Response )

To unresponsive walls of stone - Douglas Malloch "Inspiration"

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( Revolution )

Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.

Revolt.

Revolutionary.

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( Rearrange )

Arrange.

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( Reflex )

Where Heisenberg's rules are reflexive - Richard Chwedyk "Rich and Pam Go to Fermilab and Later See a Dead Man"

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( Regret )

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( Rein )

Cord-reins of sunbeams wrought - Scharmel Iris "The Forest of the Sky" [The Little Review Nov. 1914 (v.1, no.8)]

Reinless run of wind and sun - Charles G.D. Roberts "Wayfarer of Earth"

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( Remorse )

Remorseless.

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( Reject )

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( Respect )

Sign'd by a dozen respectable men - Henry S. Leigh "The House on the Top of a Hill"

In time may become a respectable frog - L.V.F. Randolph "Mrs. Rabothem's Party" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.1, July 1863]

No design of self-respect or self-knowledge - Mouna Ammar "For Every Khala"

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( Reason )

In the dawn of a reasonable doubt - Mary Jo Bang "What Is a Mouth?"

Bombs of reasonable fear of bombs - Ari Banias "No More Birds"

Includes all reasonable ends of knowledge - Rev. William Crowe "Lewesdon Hill"

Impossible to have a reasonable relation with the self - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"

Unreason.

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( Recognize/Recognition )

Unrecognizable to everyone except myself - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"

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( Rebel )

( Rebellion )

( Rebellious )

Unfurl'd their rebel-banners to the blast - Wm. Wallace "Birth of Freedom" [Graham's Magazine v.XX no.4, Apr. 1842]

Revolt.

Revolution.

Revolutionary.

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( Reflect )

Ten acres and a sky-reflecting pond - Julia Alvarez "Locust"

On its clouds a soul-reflected light - Edward S. Rand "A Song of the Present" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Star-reflected gardens walled with night - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Reflection.

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Water ices reacted with lava flows - Robert Frazier "The Mutant Forests of Mars"

No equal & opposite reaction to the everyday brawl - Joshua Bennet "Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch"

Causing a chain reaction of giant black holes - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Tweaking the World Bundle (Comstock's Synopsis of Improbably Events)"

Altered by a new story called chemical reaction - Leslie Contreras Schwartz "A Body's Universe of Big Bangs"

Missing the friction between action and reaction - Thomas White "After"

Act.

Action.

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Regimented shards of the Great Order - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

Booming drums of the regiment - Stephen Crane "War Is Kind"

Composed to soothe regiments of eyes - Rita Dove "Transit"

Fight a million regiments of wrong - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"

Broken regiments the sun had parched - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "The Voice from the Field"

Draw up his regiment all in a row - Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards "The Baby's Future"

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Make the sun our rendezvous - Stephen Vincent Benet "Positively the Last Performance!"

The appointed place of rendezvous - Robert Blair "The Grave"

Yet I would keep this rendezvous - Countee Cullen "I Have a Rendezvous with Life" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

I shall not fail that rendezvous - Alan Seeger "I Have a Rendezvous with Death"

The rendezvous within its vital boundary - Wallace Stevens "Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"

To join the final rendezvous - Jane Taylor "The Squire's Pew"

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Requesting permission to be welcomed in - Mouna Ammar "ID"

That my compliance to your request is owing - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Simple justice he requested - James T. Fields "On a Portrait of Cromwell"

My requests solemn as prayer - Allison Joseph "The Black Santa"

And no one came requesting an illusion - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Sing as th' winds request - James E. McGirt "Born Like the Pines"

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Reviewing lone departed years - Anne Bronte "The Arbour"

Reviewing the insurgent gales which tangle Ariadne's hair - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"

Reviewing the insurgent gales - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"

Invent a pseudonym to review it - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

Reviewed by five generations of scholars - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"

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Rewriting his theology of eternity - Kwame Dawes "At Anchor: The Real Situation"

Those who would rewrite your life - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Rebrand & rewrite their Dadaist daydreams - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"

men rewrite history with impunity - ire'ne lara silva "what the ghosts of las adelitas say in the afterlife part 1"

The surf rewrites our silences - Safiya Sinclair "Hands"

Write.

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( Reach )

To climb undaunted in far-reaching curves - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"

O'erreached me by thy treacherous arts - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull

They sit high in unreachable trees - Julie Babcock "Philomel"

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( Read )

Cardamom flavored with a cup-reading at the end - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"

Lip-read the heavens talking on in light, syllabic stars - Carol Ann Duffy "New Year"

Only a mind reading God could unfold - Phil Wright "Howling with Ginsberg"

So that the next reader will know - Tony Hoagland "Field Guide"

Wanting a transfusion of the reader's life blood - Diane Seuss "Toad"

Sequence life out of the paralyzed readouts - Wamuhu Mwaura "Circumbendibus" [Strange Horizons 7 April 2025]

Reread Aristotle by waning light - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Human Habitat"

Rereading the many translations of water - Matthew Thorburn "Loneliness in Jersey City"

A scroll within the tomb Unread forever - George Eliot "The Choir Invisible"

Those unreadable receipts at the bottom of a purse - Janet Kauffman "Zooplankton and More"

Gilding the edges of unread books - Danusha Lameris "Dust"

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Irresistible silence on the edge of a ruin - Mary Jo Bang "Etched, Tetched, Touched"

In your irresistible unspent force - Lola Ridge "Reveille"

Armed with irresistible secrets - Kristen Tracy "Half-Hatched"

( Resist )

( Resistance )

As resistant to focus as the gnat flitting - Anthony Butts "Triptych"

The Sensory Deprivation Tanks for Life Resistant Arrivals(tm) - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"

Resistless.

In her storm-resisting grace - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

An unresisting jumble of debris - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Now unresisted steals the changeless sun - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"

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( Retreat )

Some still-retreating goal - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"

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( Return )

Immortal migrants, the ever-returning stars - Cale Young Rice "Passage"

Watching the unreturning ships go forth - T.M. Kettle "Reason in Rhyme"

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( Reef )

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( Rest )

Looking upon the never-resting earth - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

Never-resting time leads summer on - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

Found a resting-place for laughter - Francis Brett Young "Porton Water"

Restless.

Unrest.

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( Refusal )

( Refuse )

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( Remember )

Smile translucent as a half-remembered sunset - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

This half-remembered light - Donika Kelly "Brood"

Memorize.

Memory.

Remembrance.

Unremembered/Unremembering.

A stranger in the well-remembered place - D.J. Robertson "The Return" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.119--v.III, 10 April 1886]

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( Renown )

( Revolutionary )

Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.

Revolt.

Revolution.

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( Rebuild )

Untouched, unbroken, unrebuilt, our dream - Kathleen Montgomery Wallace "Died of Wounds"

Build/Built.

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( Recent )

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With hoarded sweets replenished - Charlotte Bronte "Winter Stores"

Could replenish privacy - Jennifer Chang "The World"

Replenished from the sleepless root - Archibald Lampman "The Meadow"

Indulgence in ritual without replenishment - Maya Marshall "Self-Portrait as a Recurring Reflection Elongated like a Length of Vertebrae"

With their gifts of replenishment - Mary Oliver "Of Goodness"

No replenishment of unmarked light - Jay Wright "Kumu"

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( Reproach )

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( Residue )

( Resound )

By many a doom-resounding measure - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]

Resonance/Resonant/Resonate.

Sound.

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( Resplendent )

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( Retrospect )

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Where bombs have revoked bodies - Paul Chuks "Sonnet for the Unbeliever"

Revocation of the tears - Hart Crane "Recitative"

Revoking anger's privileges - Anthony Madrid "Try Never"

Revoked edge of water and dry land - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"

The irrevocable, raw dusk - Cyrus Cassells "Clarinet"

The distant beat of Spring's irrevocable feet - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: II. A Road Song in May"

Word and work irrevocably done - John Greenleaf Whittier "Response"

Whose mandates unrevok'd remain - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

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( Release )

It is her silences binds me unreleased - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

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( Remote )

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( Remain )

An anachronism about to be remaindered - Duane Ackerson "Giving Back the Moon"

Remnant.

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( Redeem )

( Redemption )

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( Realm )

That single realmless point of time - D'Arcy McNickle "Man Hesitates but Life Urges"

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( Reckon )

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( Religion )

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( Reconcile )

Over the muddy waters of reconciliation - Julia Alvarez "Fights"

But with a spirit all unreconciled - Adelaide Crapsey "To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window"

Chivalries of air, unreconciled - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

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( Relief )

( Relieve )

No grief goes unrelieved - Marie Ponsot "The Great Dead, Why Not, May Know"

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( Rear )

The rear guard of my own brutal defeat - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"

In the rearview oblique glimpses - Chrysanthemum "Aubade for the Habana Inn"

Looking back from the rearview and parked alone - Joseph Millar "Job"

Our glory-days in the rear-view mirror - Andre F. Peltier "Miyagi's Wisdom and the Lunch-Table Debates"

Where water-flags upreared their banners light - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

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( Recede )

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( Repent )

The endless chain of unrepentant years - C.H.B. Kitchin "Epilogue"

Brought by an unrepented deed - Wm. Wallace "Perditi"

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( Reply )

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( Reclaim )

Let his weakness die in self-reclaiming dust - "False Estimations" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

Claim/Unclaimed.

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( Reign )

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( Region )

Their voices ring through the echoing thunder-regions - Kate Putnam "Excuse" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.4, August 1864]

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( Remembrance )

Memorize.

Memory.

Remember.

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( Restless )

( Restlessness )

Rest.

Unrest.

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A revelatory metaphor for greed - Cheryl Dumesnil "Ode to Pink Floyd"

( Revelation )

Reveal.

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( Revive )

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Avenge.

( Revenge )

Avenge.

Vengeance.

Vengful.

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( Recess )

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And retain the landmark's weight - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

Retained from those lost nights our fathers slept - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

That image of despair retain - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

As long as the money retains no memory - Tony Hoagland "Ten Reasons Why We Cannot Seem to Make Progress"

Still retain their purity of functional design - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"

Retained its vivid crimson hue - Dr. John Leyden "The Mermaid"

Knowledge that I seemed incapable of retaining - Jason Schneiderman "Vocabulary"

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( Require )

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Fading redundancies - Rae Armantrout "Heaven"

Pondered the redundancy of rain - Jose Hernandez Diaz "The Flame"

Red with redundance of blood - "My Dark Rosaleen" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

In his void of redundancy - Robert Pinsky "Stupid Meditation on Peace"

Redundancies of rain - Lynn Powell "Driftings at Anchor"

The full redundance of their golden store - T.J. Terrington "Autumn"

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Ignorance can result in one of them devouring you - Duane Ackerson "Black Hole Hunter's Guide"

And all the long results of time - Arthur Colton "Epilogue to a Book of Unimportant Verse"

Apply the transitive property and consider the results - Tim Pratt "A Bestiary: Nidhigg"

A thousand pathways in one spot resulting - Charles Seabridge "Connected Poems VI"

See each result and glory - Walt Whitman "Savantism"

A result of the means - Katie Willingham "Artifact (Disambiguation)"

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( Really )

Real.

Reality.

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( Reek )

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( Refresh )

Fresh.

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( Reverie )

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At measured stages for the meet relays - Edward Edwin Foot "Jane Hollybrand; of Virtue Rewarded"

Twelve relays, I'll drive throughout the land - Edward Edwin Foot "Jane Hollybrand; of Virtue Rewarded"

Relayed the new gospels across mountains - Philip Levine "Buying and Selling"

The last relay of dreams - Walter S. Percy "Peep-of-Dawn"

Useless for gift wrapping and relay races - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

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( Refugee )

Refuge.

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( Revolve )

Though these be days of steam-revolving pistons - "The Times" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.4, October 1837]

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a replica of the first lock and key - Alise Alousi "Burnished in Future Time"

I am replica of nothing - Jan Beatty "Report from the Skinhouse"

Replicant echoes in red earth and Tesla coils - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

And list to her sweet replicating word - Edward Edwin Foot "Jane Hollybrand; of Virtue Rewarded"

To stir inert cells to divide and replicate - Robert Pack "Big Bang" [Poetry, January 1988]

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Resorts at time to bluff and temper - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

His refuge in affliction, and resort - Edward Edwin Foot "Jane Hollybrand; of Virtue Rewarded"

Where sovereigns frequent, and where wealth resorts - Edward Edwin Foot "Jane Hollybrand; of Virtue Rewarded"

In its toxin of last resort - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

In Astor's mansion, where the rich resort - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]

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Her anatomy in irregular stars - B. K. Fischer "Week 30 (Maternity Bathing Suit)"

Thread space with our irregular journeys - Naomi Shihab Nye "Necessity Is Only 8 Miles Away"

The fog's irregular documents break open - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Irregular composition of a will - Jay Wright "Sasa"

( Regular )

Your staircases looping themselves with infinite regularity - Stefani Cox "Fuzzy Logic"

The tempered regularity of falling leaves - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

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( Remorseless )

Remorse.

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( Reptile )

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Reveres the stillness of the syren's cell - "A Farewell to Naples" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXIII, v.LXVII, March 1850]

Could revere the simplest flower - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Hymn Written for a Sunday School"

Revering each prophetic sign of judgment - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]

( Reverence )

( Reverent )

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Listening to you recollect a lifetime - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

( Recollection )

Recall.

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( Regardless )

Disregard.

Regard.

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A feast of family recipes - Rasha Abdulhadi "Your Grandma Wishes I Wore Miniskirts"

The gamble of the recipe is salt and sweat - Oliver de la Paz "Chain Migration II: On Negations and Substitutions"

The recipe of who we are now - Andrea Gibson "Daytime, Somewhere"

Recipes as old as the cauldron - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"

Their spirits whisper old recipes - Zilka Joseph "Pantoum for Chik-cha Halwa"

The recipes like confessions - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

ruining our recipe for reanimation - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Three Sulas"

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Made & remade by longing - Safia Elhillo "Sudanese-American"

Deep in the center of my remade bones - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"

Memory of the land and the hands that remade them - Paul Tran "Terroir"

( Remake )

Made/Make.

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Reciprocal, illicit beyond touch - Wo Chan "the shoes"

Reciprocal will be their name - "Song of the Screw"

Bringing gifts we can't reciprocate - Dana Gioia "Tinsel, Frankincense, and Fir"

Best if we don't always reciprocate their hunger - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

The eternal reciprocity of tears - Wilfred Owen "Insensibility"

Tenderness as reciprocity - Sina Queyras "The Couriers"

His reciprocity opens a small hole in space-time - M. Bartley Seigel "Rabbit Snares"

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( Resin )

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A recital of our uncertainties - Sarah Mangold "The Atom No. 18"

The staying chant the recitation of everything - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"

( Recite )

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What the experts refer to as history - Carl Adamshick "Colorado"

Referring to the cold, as if that were the point - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

References to the serpentine after - Mary Jo Bang "We Took Our Places"

Each reference is a wandering - Tarik Dobbs "Artist Statement"

Slimming its index of references - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"

My mind as amnesiac reference - Stephanie Heit "Do You Have a Living Will"

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( Resistless )

Resist.

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Its fragile refined petal's belligerent fragrance - Margit Kaffka "Father" transl. by Laura Schiff

dream of sugar's refined fluorescence - Kaie Kellough "if who"

Bought refinement by the pound - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"

Blended with the ore refined by the wise hand of Nature - J.G. Percival "Young Love" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.5, November 1837]

With fingers thrice refined - John Presland "Tapestry"

Rituals of resignation and refinement - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

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( Relinquish )

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( Revolt )

Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.

Revolution.

Revolutionary.

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No longer reliant on gravitational pull - fahima ife "the coming of darkness informed us it was time to join the circle"

Relies upon time and erosions - Elmaz Abinader "Lines of Demarcation"

The mind can on itself rely - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

Firm on his own mountain vigor relying - "The King of the Mountain" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

Rely on chewing your lip and symmetry - Ted Kooser "A Perfect Heart"

Must rely upon ever new adornments - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough

We rely on the welcome of strangers - Judy I. Lin "a poet of the diaspora reflects upon the codes of jiānghú"

Except in shards of unreliable memory - Zilka Joseph "Once Upon a Shabbath"

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( Remind )

( Reminder )

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( Reside )

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Nerve now with brass your resolute wills - J.S.B. "Marathon" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXIII, v.LXXV, May 1854]

Resolutely through centuries of remorse - Shutta Crum "All That is Left"

Be welcome in resolute darkness - Herbert Woodward Martin "On Reading Wendell Berry's 'Sabbaths'"

With orbs that are so resolutely far - George Meredith "Meditation Under Stars"

Kissing resolution on the lips - Risalet Merdan "Today Is a Day to Write Poems" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Outcomes and aftermaths without resolution - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Three"

And make peppermint resolutions to the New Year - Tobias Seamon "A Daybook of Devils"

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Reverbing even the hum of stone - Nickole Brown "Prayer to be Still and Know"

( Reverberate )

( Reverberation )

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No bright reversion in the sky - Alexander Pope "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

When one of our myths reverts to abstraction - Rae Armantrout "Upper World"

Their blue reverts to swelling reveries - Max Bodenheim "Baby"

The desolate heart reverts to those far moments - G.H.H. "Night and Morning" (from The Knickerbocker, v. 23:3, March 1844)

Reverting to the old knowing words - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Ka ‘Ōlelo"

Retrospect in Time's reverted eyes - William Watson "Autumn"

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When parents revise stories or future visions - F. Douglas Brown "Aubade with Edits"

A little world of calm for luck and longing to revise - Armen Davoudian "Hot Springs"

As if smoke revises the story of the air - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

( Revision )

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( Renounce )

Under winter's blanket renunciation - Jaswinder Bolina "Tidal"

A renunciation of the known - Maxwell E. Foster "Five Sonnets 4 (February 1923)"

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( Renew )

by responding ways cloaked with renewal - E. E. Cummings "Amores (X)"

The longing for renewal - Patricia Spears Jones "Jim"

Renewal of life's secret spring - W. Gilmore Simms "Stanzas"

New.

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A resonance of thrumming spruce - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"

Resonance beyond our wildest dreams - Julie Quiroz "Superpowers"

The resonant and ancient darkness - Blake N. Campbell "Bioluminescence"

A resonant meteor of the North - Bliss Carman "The White Gull"

Resonant as the hum of a growing tree - Diane DeCillis "Mr. Right"

The silver resonant humming in the depths - fahima ife "a night in which my spirit cowers"

Warbler voices resonant under the blossoms - Po Chu'i "Song of the Lute" transl. by Burton Watson

Until something resonated in the very air - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

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

The resonating box of the body - Robert Bly "How David Did Not Care"

Along zigzagging, resonating routes - Mara Pastor "Los Bustos de Martí/The Busts of Martí" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong

An arc of atoms resonating with distant stars - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"

Resonate with illusion - Edwin Torres "Ellabyrinth"

Resound.

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( Reward )

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( Reversal )

( Reverse )

The closer you are to an irreversible apocalypse - Catherine Barnett "Amor Fati"

The irreversibility of rain - Victoria Chang "OBIT [The Blue Dress]"

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( Real )

Realism hastening down that leaden street - Paul Cameron Brown "The Gathering of Dead Wood"

Realistic decisions in columns and ledgers - John Trudell "Grafitti Man"

Reality.

Really.

Senseless to hammer at an unreal door - Robert Graves "The Red Ribbon Dream"

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( Record )

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( Retire )

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( Resurrect )

Mere Resurrectionists trying to get at the grave of the laws - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

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( Reality )

Just mirrors of unrealities - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

Cross the brink of utter unreality - George Sylvester Viereck "The Plaint of Eve"

Real.

Really.

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( Restrain/Restraint )

Those boundless breadths of forest unrestrained - B.B. "Away" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

The unrestrained fleet of bone - Joshua Bennett "Clench"

The unrestrained innocence of your intentions - Tim Seibles "Ode to My Hands"

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The restorative pulsing of the blood - Arthur Hugh Clough "Fragments of the Mystery of the Fall. Scene XII"

( Restore )

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( Reflection )

Reflect.

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( Rebuke )

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( Rescue )

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( Register )

Pre-registered for her own eventual absence - Rae Armantrout "Hoard"

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( Rent )

Guilt, that rent-free tenant - Rasha Abdulhadi "Pocketful of Warding Stones"

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( Requiem )

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( Reluctant )

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A buoy that the ocean resents - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Resented the sun's excess - Jamaal May "Per Fumum: Through Smoke"

Resents hearing the prayers and praise of sycophants - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

Will blur angles of resentment - Sue Budin "Forgiveness Comes in Two Colors"

Resentment, deep and just, our only Heritage - Lady Helena Carnegie and Mrs Arthur Jacob "Ill-Timed Levity"

Learned the language of resentment - Kristen De Leon "Reclaim"

A fugitive resentment in your eyes - T. S. Eliot "La Figlia Che Piange"

The old resentment lasts like death - William Ernest Henley "Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone"

Where old resentments roil - Conrad Hilberry "Blackout"

The resentment of thousands of years - Zheng Min "A False Image" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

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( Relic )

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Never leave the reservation - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

Not to celebrate anything without reservation - Keith Taylor "In the Presence of Large Predators"

( Reserve )

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Though the gods and the years relent - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

( Relentless )

Unrelenting.

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( Reed )

Where reed-beds start and quiver - Francis Brett Young "The Gift"

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

Frothing all the reed-fringed margins - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

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( Recall )

Recollect.

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( Revel )

( Revelry )

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( Repeat )

( Repetition )

Repetitive, obsessive, iterative mechanics - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

these unrepeatable needles of rock - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"

The unrepeatable contour of this breath - Arthur Sze "Transfigurations"

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( Reveal )

They caught me half-revealed - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"

Sweet as victory half-revealed - George Meredith "The Nuptials of Attila"

Revelation.

A vaster heaven of unrevealed stars - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

With rains of unrevealed desire - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

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Life's first, irreplaceable lover - Galway Kinnell "December Day in Honolulu"

( Replace )

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Persistently reappears just to howl by the gate - Mark Dimaisip "Housekeeping Duties"

The serial, the inexplicable and constant reappearance - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"

Reappear upon its foreseen circle - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

Reappear in silent symphonic gestures - Cedar Sigo "Arsenal 4"

From dawn till the stars reappear - Arthur Weir "Jules' Letter"

Appear.

Disappear.

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( Recover )

Another irrecoverable day - Kay Ryan "Say Uncle"

those unrecoverable legends - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

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( Ready )

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( Red )

Blood-Red.

Advertise a propensity for dark-red - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

A satyric smirk in vermillion, devil-red - Taylor Byas "Conversion: On Cincinnati's Converted Churches, God, and Lucifer"

Some flame-red salamander pirouetting - Iris Tree "[I met an Indian underneath a tree]"

Stands alone in its iron-red power - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Uluru"

The leaf-red fire warmed no one's hands - Ellen Kushner "Gwydion's Loss of Llew"

And all the rivers run poison-red - Edith Wharton "The Tryst"

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

Before they made the red carpet shine - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"

Weighed down with many a red-cheeked little Cain - Leonora Speyer "The Story as I Understand It"

Hurl in space a red-eyed star - James H. Cousins "The Blind Father"

The evidence of red-eye flights east - Ed Roberson "Here"

The red-foamed riot of delirious strife - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "The Torch"

Under old, red-fruited yews - Lionel Johnson "Laleham"

Red-glazed candles of petition - Audre Lorde "The Night-Blooming Jasmine"

a burglar caught red-handed - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"

Better grasp the red-hot steel, than touch another's gold - A.L.O.E. "Ragged Boy's Hymn"

And red-hot mists rose from quartz - Airea D. Matthews "Temptation of the Composer"

Fingers of red-hot steel - Robert Haven Schauffler "The White Comrade"

Teetering on red-lacquered stems - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

An angel lit by a red-light district - Shannan Mann "In Hell"

Red-mouthed storms behind them - George Martin "Montreal Carnival Sports"

Burnt to red-purple in the cup - H.D. "Prisoners"

Jagged as a red-rose thorn - Nikki Grimes "On Bully Patrol"

Behind the rich silence of red-running sunsets - Harindranath Chattopadhyaya "Imagery"

A bridge redshifts toward oblivion - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"

Little flowers made from red tape - Matthew Olzmann "Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz"

A rust-red share in an empty furrow - Algernon Swinburne "Sorrow"

The savage eyes salt-reddened - John Masefield "The Watch Below"

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Give the guests a fair reception - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]

Deepen our reception to twilight - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

So shall the cave be fit for his reception - Euripides "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Served for our reception in the devastation - Dean Young "Dear Friend" [Poetry Feb. 2006]

A receptive smile wherein new purities are snared - Hart Crane "The Wine Menagerie"

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In a ship made of recycled parts - Rasha Abdulhadi "Advice on Love from an Astronaut with a Failing Memory"

Broken ramparts on the edge of recycled empires - Ryu Ando "Season of the Ginzakura" [Strange Horizons 13 July 2015]

Wander the groves of recycled thoughts - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 2"

The grove of recycled thoughts - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XIV"

Craft the scene in recycled blood and stale diesel - Lalini Shanela Ranaraja "Tricona" [Strange Horizons 14 March 2022]

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His vigilance for once relaxed - Cora C. Bass "Washington"

Relax in the Alibi Bar - Katherine Edgren "Found Town"

Scholarly spiders relax in their carrels - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

Of an unwilling relaxing of grasp - Mark Rich "To Sleep"

Rain coaxes the icy lattices to relax - Brian Teare "Sitting River Meditation"

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Still repining, wait fierce Envy and calumnious Hate - Mark Akenside "Book II. Ode X. To Thomas Edwards, Esq.; on the Late Edition of Mr. Pope's Works. 1751"

Repine to taste the big distress - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. II"

To quiet all repinings of the heart - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

For other notes repine - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"

And unrepining bear his hateful presence - Mark Akenside "The Pleasures of Imagination Book. A Poem, in Three Books. II"

Pine [longing].

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Replete with many a load of criticism - Mark Akenside "The Poet. A Rhapsody."

With many a curiosity replete - Mark Akenside "The Virtuoso. In Imitation of Spenser's Style and Stanza."

How replete with falsehood is the voice of prophets - Euripides "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

The more replete with fear - "Hours of Childhood"

A night replete with gifts of June - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Replete with too much rage - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIII"

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From report alone let others speak - Euripides "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull

If any benefit arise from such report - Euripides "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Heard a mellow hunting horn make dim report - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]

Any delicate report of you - Lola Ridge "Adelaide Crapsey"

Filing endless reports on the nature of eternity - Dana Wall "Customer Service Representative's Nots on Soul Processing" [Strange Horizons 2 June 2025]

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The laws reprove such foul desire - Euripides "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

By what frenzy of reproof is your wisdom bitten? - Justin H. McCarthy "You and I"

Reproving the heart that exults too loud - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Became to us a reproof of our thoughts - "The Wisdom of Solomon 2" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

The bright stars unreproving mix - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

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( Recur )

( Recurrent )

Dreaming as gray recursion - Jaye Nasir "November"

Occur.

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Past all removal till the world were done - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: VI"

( Remove )

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( Remnant )

Remain.

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( Resign )

With your scarf of resignation - Tony Hoagland "Disappointment"

Rituals of resignation and refinement - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

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And represent you in your plight - Mike Allen "Lis Pendens"

To represent me in my absence - Rae Armantrout "Exact"

To represent impatience on a monument - Oliver Herford "The Gryphon"

To represent the shapes required of love - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

Truer representation of the hours' ruse - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"

As my grandfather misrepresented it to me - Amy Newman "Untitled [20 November]"

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For love, hope, reprieve - Simon Armitage "Maundy Thursday"

Be reprieved from the shadowy challenge of death - Edward Carpenter "The Complaint of Job chap. III"

Morning comes with small reprieves - Linda Pastan "I Am Learning to Abandon the World: for M"

Without hope or rumour of reprieve - Muriel Stuart "Mrs. Effingham's Swan Song"

The irreprievable instant of stern time - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

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Distilled from a banana republic in fire - William Archila "Spirits"

The republic my kisses founded - Pablo Neruda "Night XC" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Beneath a fresh republic of stars - Pablo Neruda "Vegetation" transl. by Jack Schmitt

In the republic of the winking stars and spent cataclysms - Carl Sandburg "The Answer"

Of all republics the Atlantis - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

Obscure the republic of memory - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"

Red Republicans settling with sin - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

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Reputed to feed on sand - Chiyuma Elliott "J-572 (431) I"

And sell their Reputations passing cheap - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Sold my Reputation for a Song - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Ambitious to extend my reputation - Henry S. Leigh "Un Pas Qui Coute"

While poised to devastate her reputation - Harry Martinson "Aniara 38" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And a reputation for death - Mary Oliver "Maker of All Things, Even Healings"

Smoke's reputation - A.E. Stallings "Burned"

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( Requite )

His unrequited trust pierces her - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"

Unrequited love can make an avalanche - Purvi Shah "Mira pushes aside the mountain you are climbing"

Give us our unrequited, forsaken nights - Charles Wright "Detour"

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Turns out tempered resilience outlasts regimes - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

Each seasonal chorus colored with resilience - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"

Resiliance in the face of despair and mass depredation - Michael Dumanis "Sehnsucht"

Trust manifested from generations of resilience - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"

Memory to disarm the most resilient - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"

To disarm the most resilient bully - Ching-In Chen "A Natural History of My White Girl"

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Death is a natural resource - William Brewer "West Virginia"

The resources expended to release you - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"

Love without resource or peace - Jenny Johnson "Aria"

This room made warm by our own resources - Deborah Landau "Ecstasies"

From the full resource of some purple dome - D.H. Lawrence "Last Hours"

Resources sacrificed to other crises - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"

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Couldn't be held responsible for his subconscious - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"

We hold the present responsible - Fady Joudah "Epithalamion"

A light along the edge of responsibility - Jay Deshpande "Actually Very Simple"

List the responsibilities of a needle - Susan Nguyen "The Body as a Series of Questions"

King of nightmare and responsibility - Philip Schultz "Enthrallment"

our responsibility to make the answer - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"

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A rehearsal for the Exodus - Adolf Wolff "On Seeing the Garment Strikers March"

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Bruised and irremediably bereft - Maurice Baring "In Memoriam, A.H. (Auberon Herbert, Captain Lord Lucas, R.F.C.; killed November 3, 1916)"

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Not for piping empty reeds - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Among the vocal reeds - "Flora: a Vision"

Breathe the thrilling reeds for wine - Robert Stephen Hawker "King Arthur's Waes-Hael"

A song among the golden reeds - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"

Clumps of reeds where there is no water - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

A perilous foot that treads the reeds - Humbert Wolfe "Sometimes When I Think of Love"

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The red resumé of hazel trees - Pablo Neruda "The Frontier (1904)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

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Our close resemblance turn'd the tide - Henry S. Leigh "The Twins"

Language of resemblance choose - Ambrose Philips "To the Honourable Miss Carteret"

for the sake of resemblance & record - Jayson P. Smith "on fathers & swords"

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But consider the time irretrievably wasted - Henry S. Leigh "Stanzas to an Intoxicated Fly"

Must again retrieve from nothingness - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Cannot retrieve you from rock - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Refrain"

Retrieve a few invisible souvenirs - Carolyn Forche "The Notebook of Uprising"

This sudden hour retrieves the purpose of the past - Alice Meynell "The Two Poets"

May still retrieve its heart's Eurydice - John Presland "February"

Flirting with volcanoes to retrieve your arsenic - Noel Quiñones "Orange"

Because he dove unflinchingly to retrieve Earth - Ray Young Bear "For You, a Handful of the Greatest Gift"

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The monarch whose reft hand made discord ring - Elizabeth J. Eames "Pedro and Inez" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Suffer unnumbered taunts for having reft Thetis of her Achilles - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Reft of our great protector - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

That envious crags have reft themselves in twain - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]

Reft from me and from my clinging grasp - W.E.L. "A Dirge of Love" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.454, 11 Sept. 1852]

Reft of desire, all love and madness gone - William Morris "Pygmalion and the Image"

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Pay.

Payment.

Unpaid.

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In some cannibalistic parent and child reunion - Duane Ackerson "Bird Seed"

To reunite shreds of boxed childhood memories - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

My scattered tears preserve and reunite - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XXXIII. Second Reading. A Prayer to Nature. Amor Redivivus" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Reunited members of the unacknowledged - Jim Daniels "The Religious Significance of the Super Ball"

No cause will sever that bond which reunites - Charlotte Elliott "Tuesday Evening"

Union.

Unite.

Unity.

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a reduction of mineral cinnabar - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

A reduction to absolute zero - David Salisbury "On Mars"

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Refugee.

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Disregard.

Regardless.

No unregarded star contracts its light - William Habington, born 1605, died 1654 "The Firmament" [The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 3, April 14, 1832]

Wandering unregarded through the cosmos - Theodore Maynard "The Boaster"

Unregarded by the mighty but detested by the small - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Dust cries to the unregarding dust - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

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( Relate )

Things unrelated to my need - Theodore Maynard "Faith's Difficulty"

Unrelated to jealous ears and eyes - William Carlos Williams "These"

( Relation )

The relationship of experience to sight - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Relationships our ancestors forged - Carol Ann Carl "I Remember"

A continually illegitimate relationship - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"

Relatives on other planets - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "New Boys 2"

My relatives are the salvage bodies of history - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

Relatives of the hammer - Pablo Neruda "Solar Ode to the Army of the People" translated by Richard Schaaf

Our relative the air - Lorine Niedecker [untitled]

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The nettles revel lustful and unreaped - Kostes Palamas "The Hut" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

Meadows unreaped and glades untrod - Kostes Palamas "The Paralytic on the River's Bank" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides

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