somethingdarker | Jun. 5th, 2011

Jun. 5th, 2011

( Ridge )

Ridgeline ponderosas wind-pardoned - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

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( Rival )

Unrivalled in those halcyon days of truth - Lennox Amott "Stanzas Addressed to a Lady Coming of Age"

The unrivall'd Falstaff of the ground - "The First Hole at St. Andrews on a Crowded Day"

And stars unrivalled bright - Thomas Hood "Fair Ines"

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( Ribbon )

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( Risk )

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Arise/Arose.

Raise.

( Rise )

( Rose )

Slow-rising from the deep caves of his heart - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

From sun far-set or moon unrisen - Edward Dowden "By the Window"

The unrisen sun hiding behind the sea - Li Po "A Dream of T'ien-Mu Mountain" transl. by Arthur Waley

Uprise.

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( Ride )

Circuit-rider of the endless skies - Irving Sidney Dix "The Comet"

( Rode )

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Sugar-loaves from Paradise enriched our bread and milk - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

( Rich )

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( Ritual )

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( Rinse )

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( Riddle )

The bullet-riddled aftermath - Millie Ho "Beasts of New France"

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

On the mystery unriddled - Louise Imogen Guiney "Late Peace"

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( Rice )

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Not the rifle in fury seized - Jaswinder Bolina "Denouement"

Rifled in the wizard wind - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin Over His Sons"

To answer your rifle's last question - Saeed Jones "After the First Shot"

A siren of rifles, a widow of nets - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

With their rifles and their improvisation - Andre F. Peltier "Yub Nub, Motherfuckers"

Rifling Polaris and the Seven Stars - E.J. Pratt "The Fog"

Rifle in Babylon rifles in Sumer - Brian Turner "Phantom Noise"

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( Rite )

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( Rivet )

My hands part from the unriveted faith - Iris Tree "[Be perfect--for I love thee more in thought]"

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( Rim )

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( Rift )

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( Rip )

A ripped-out document of laughter - Ilya Kaminsky "A Cigarette"

Riptide pulling me under - Camisha L. Jones "Tinnitus"

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( Riven )

Sings upon the earth grave-riven - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraph and Poet"

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Keep their high and rigorous distinction - Stephanie Burt "Silt"

Lack the rigor of a lightning bolt - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

All the rigorous laws of risk - Robert Hayden "Words in the Mourning Time"

Rigorously arranging emotions by color - Ted Mathys "The National Interest"

Use rigour in my jail - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXXXIII"

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Of ships crossing at right angles - Mary Jo Bang "If Wishes Were Horses"

The right angles of fire - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 11"

How predictable its right angles - K. Iver "The Gotham Hotel"

The arcane power of right angles - Denise Levertov "The Sculptor (Homage to Chillida)"

Sharp right angles passed heading northward - Pablo Neruda "Migration" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Adds another right angle to all his angles - Maura O'Dea "Dad Explains Dimensions at Outback Steakhouse"

Angle.

Right.

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A riverbank cut deep enough to bury us - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

A lark chirps calmly on the river bank - Bianca Rae Messinger "After the Living Dead Girl"

A pale suit stitched from a riverbank - Anis Mojgani "Sock Hop"

Monsters that lurk in dark riverbanks - Eva Papasoulioti "Red Rite"

Surfaced on Gulf shoals and riverbanks - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"

The river banks tremble in horror - Hersart de la Villemarque "The Prophecy of Gwic'hlan" transl. by Edward Ramos

Bank.

River.

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( Rib )

Outtop the blue-ribbed sky - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Spirit of War"

My rib cage expanding and contracting in iambics - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

His ribcage filled with tiny boats - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"

Rock-ribbed and ancient - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"

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( Rigid )

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Read aright the day's Apocalypse - Benjamin Copeland "Let in the Light"

( Right )

A birthright to sing until emptied - Marlin M. Jenkins "Pokedex Entry #39: Jigglypuff"

The birthright of remembering - Porsha Olayiwola "We Drink at the Attenuation Well"

The color of their planet's birthright - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"

Scattering night to left and right - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "egret"

In the vise of left and right - Elizabeth Spires "Troubadour at a Fork in the Road"

The wild thing went from left to right - G.K. Chesterton "The Rolling English Road"

Every black tree blossomed outright - D.H. Lawrence "The Attack"

Supposing Society starves them outright - Henry S. Leigh "On Corpulence"

Right Angle.

Nested like a doll within right now - J. Everett Feinberg "Renaissance"

The devil's in the tower right now - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

The bloodied, the self-righteous, and the forsaken - Joy Harjo "Exile of Memory"

That received righteous and divine judgment - Nada Almosa "Queer Arab Dictionary"

Righteousness in inkstone underfoot - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

Of atrocities of the righteous - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"

In all my harvests rightful share - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

The furrows earned rightfully by crones - Khadijah Queen "Double Life"

Upright.

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( Rang )

( Ring )

Dead ringer in the wind, but worst - William Archila "Little soul lost, little shining ghost"

The tragic ring-barked forests - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"

( Rung )

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( Ripe )

Tart speech and full-ripe reason - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

Last year's late-ripening persimmons - Jane Hirshfield "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me"

( Over-Ripe )

Sun-ripe Nature's million strings - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

Unripe.

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( Ripple )

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( Rope )

Rope-work of wisteria, wands of oleander - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

Balancing on a tightrope of sound - Joy Harjo "Bleed Through"

Peace Walks a Tightrope - Anna Grossnickle Hines "Tough Act"

Walking the perilous tightropes of tension - Ruth Lechlitner "Ordeal by Tension"

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Squeeze sticky juice from the spent rind - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"

Dying honey and lemon rind - Taylor Johnson "States of Decline"

Rude mantles of the birch-tree's rind - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Buoyed by salt and rind of kelp - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "I Could Be a Whale Shark"

A split rind emptied of all good - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VI: The Merchant of Babylon 1: Before Dawn"

Less substance, more rind - Brenda Shaughnessy "Artless"

Core and rind of that same fruit - Elinor Wylie "Valentine"

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( River )

Anguish rushing downriver - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Irma Gate of Heaven"

Riverbank.

The riverbed's washed dream of gold - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"

A riverbend dredged of impossible children - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"

A frenzy of riverdrops, riot of current - Marilyn McCabe "Web"

Boldly sings the river-god - Louise Imogen Guiney "Down Stream"

The castle and the riverward rat - Mary Jo Bang "A Place"

Lost among graveyards and riverward ways - Henry S. Leigh "A Cockney's Evening Song"

The massed memory of upriver rain - Michael Lauchlan "Lips"

Between the rhubarb & riverine - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"

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