Jul. 2nd, 2011

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Safety )


Bluff a flock of dragons with a safety pin - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"


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Of a song that outsang the lark - Algernon Swinburne "Insularum Ocelle"


Sang )


Sing.

Singer.

Song.

Sung.

Unsung.


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Sail )


Sailor )


The surging wake of full-sailed summer - Richard Le Gallienne "Autumn"


And the top-sail dripping wine - Herbert Randall "Off"


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Saunters into the world daring us to stay - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"

While hours sauntered past - Sterling A. Brown "Return"

Laughs with the wind as it saunters past - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Sauntering through a mile of sun - Katherine Hale "Going North I: White Porches"

Weightless silver saunters in - S*an D. Henry-Smith "heavy altar (no elevation),"

Until the truth saunters in - Mark Irwin "Life Is a Red Car"


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Sage )


In vast infant sagacity brooding - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"


The smell of sagebrush after a thunderstorm - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"

A music of sagebrush and bluebonnetts - N. Scott Momaday "Death Song"


Dust on the sage-grey desert - D.H. Lawrence "The Red Wolf"


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Sacrifice )


Fair flame of sacrificial light - Richard Le Gallienne "In the Night"

Once grim with sacrificial fires - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"

Or upward roll as sacrificial smoke - Claude McKay "Enslaved"


Built for terror and self-sacrifice - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Doo-Wop"


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Sand )


Quicksand.


My goosebumps heavy as a sandbag - Mouna Ammar "Finding Me"

Sandbagging the river of dreams - Carl Phillips "For It Felt Like Power"


A whole sandbar full of herons - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson


The four dimensions fold into a sandcastle - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"

Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"


Felt the smallest sandgrain like a knife - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

Streams through our sandgrain skulls - May Swenson "Sleeping Overnight on the Shore"


Pursued the colts among the sand-hills - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"


Sandpaper.


A sandstorm whispering in the joints - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"

Fleeing sandstorms, terror, and splendor - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

The shoreline baked in golden sandstorms - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"


Scuttle into sand-tubes and hide amongst the spinifex - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"


The rainbow of the salt sand-wave - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"


Go sprinkle the sea-sand upon their eyes - Miriam Clark Potter "The Sandman's Wife"


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Satisfy )


Satisfaction )


Dissatisfaction's clinging net - T. Sturge Moore "Renaissance"


Unsatisfied.


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Sandal )



Sandalwood and mandrake - Nicole Sealey "and"

With silence-sandalled Sleep - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

Soft-sandalled in misty ways - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"


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Salute us back with empty kitchen pans - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"

Salutes the pilgrim's eye - Benjamin West Ball "Anastasius"

Salute the crocus lustres of the stars - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

Saluted the arrival of webby darkness - Mark Ford "Twenty Twenty Vision"

Touched its head in poisonous salute - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

Saluted the lions three - John Presland "A Ballad of King Richard"

Over devastation I salute you - Lola Ridge "Red Flag"


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Giving a gull a sack of gold - Cornelius Eady "God Could Not Make Her a Poet"

Ripped open again his sack of grain - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Rolled home with brown sacks in our laps - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

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

Your forebear was the sack of winds - A.E. Stallings "The Mother's Loathing of Balloons"


Brings the world in sackcloth to him - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "A Protean Glimpse"

Born in sackcloth and ashes - Annie Lighthart "Let This Day"

my odalisque in apron and sackcloth - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"


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Pumped a saline shot of sadness - Cyree Jarelle Johnson "magenta"

A city that bleeds its saline soil - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Happily Ever After"

Give us salinity to float in the betweens - Rain Prud'homme-Cranford "Gills"


Salt )


Born of nothing but salt-air - Safiya Sinclair "Planet Dread"

Salt-blue eyes and rust lips - Claire Millikin "Dolls of Tifton, Georgia"

The salt-chased seas uncurled - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"

The burden of a salt-encumbered tide - C.H.B. Kitchin "Eschatological Sonnet"

Salt-king on the shore - Yehuda Amichai "O Lord Full of Mercy" (translated by Glenda Abramson)

Lone island of the saltless sea - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)

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

A fine old salt-sea scavenger - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"

Through the cloudless salt-seeped heavens - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Brimmed with salt-spiked tears - Ali-Shir Nava'i "Love Song of Nava'i (2)" transl. by Dennis Daly

Glided over the salt-stained water - Wallace Stevens "Prologues to What Is Possible"

When your dreams ebbed salt-thick - Adrienne Rich "Through Cottalitos Under Rolls of Cloud"

Of blood & saltwater prayer - Joshua Bennett "Praise House"

The eye's sudden and narrow saltwater - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Heaven's motes sift to salt-white - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"

A salt-worn dream-anchor - Terrance Hayes "Anchor Head"


Brine.


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Save )


Unsaved in the wilderness - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "The Stranded Lamb"


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Said.


Say )


Tracing gray skin around the unsayable - Brenda Hillman "The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice"


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A hot shudder of satin - Ted Kooser "Horse"

Dissolve on a satin tongue - Joan Larkin "The Combo"

The acrobat's taffy of satin - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"

Could ease a heart like a satin gown - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"

Satin's for the free - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"

The shadow waves of satin - Dujie Tahat "On Desire"

Three girls in crimson satin - William Carlos Williams "Good Night"


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Saturn )


Held the saturnalia of Red Death - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

Held months so saturnine - E.J. Pratt "In Absentia"


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A satyr turned to stone - George Cronyn "Dionysus Eleutherios: The Prayer"

Whether she send a satyr or a saint - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Rise to behold the satyr in their place - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Garlands splashing over the eyes of satyrs - Iris Tree "[Ah! the spring, sudden, surprising]"

The crimson evil of a satyr's lips - Helen Hay Whitney "The Flowers of Proserpine"


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Saw (past tense of See) )


Saw (tool for cutting) )


Chainsaw )


A hacksaw through the evening's calm core - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"

A violin plucked with a hacksaw - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"


Sawdust.


Saw-edged teeth in my peripheral vision - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"


The sawmills of the night - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

With the whine of saw-mills and whirr of hidden wings - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: VII. Three Grey Days"


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Love in the fluid shape of a saxophone - Joy Harjo "Healing Animal"

Eternity an unblown saxophone - Langston Hughes "Sport"

A saxophone that tells on me - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"

Windy saxophone revolutions - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

The bleating saxophones that come after - Adrian Matejka "Strange Celestial Roads"


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Safe )


And bid them rest safe-anchored - E. Nesbit "The Island"


Safe-conduct and a proud retreat - Helen Parry Eden "A Parley with Grief"


Not all of our safeguards are weapons - Kimberly Blaeser "I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them."

Who surrounds himself with crystal safeguards - Max Bodenheim "Color and a Woman"

My fancied safeguard made my snare - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"


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The edge of that insane remembering - Mary Jo Bang "Like Someone Asleep in a Cinema"

A wall between today and insanity - Walter Dean Myers "John Brambles, 55, Numbers Runner"

Played tricks on insanity - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu


Sane and destructive to fear - Howard Futhey Brinton "The Poor Man's Club"

Denounce the sane as vicious - Thomas Hardy "Murmurs in the Gloom (Nocturne)"

That through blood run sane - George Meredith "The Woods of Westermain"


Sanity )


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