somethingdarker | Jul. 6th, 2011

Jul. 6th, 2011

( Sister )

The virgin sisterhood of roses - Manmohan Ghose "Mentem Mortalia Tangunt"

Convocations of indispensable sisterhoods - Purvi Shah "You believed only a girl born of dandelion can be ferocious--"

Brims with memories of our long sisterhood - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"

Step-sister of To-morrow's marmalade - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"

The pale unsistered Phaedra - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"

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( Sieve )

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Sixteen times had known them come - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Parceled out in sixteen-second afternoons - Conrad Hilberry "Hurtle"

If I take my time machine back to sixteen - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Blows Out Sixteen Candles"

Sixteen wishes extinguish and burn - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Blows Out Sixteen Candles"

Sixteen arms electric to carry you - Rachel McKibbens "Untitled"

Sixteen clumps of sticks woven high into the oaks - Keith Taylor "In Memory: Dan Minock"

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( Sigh )

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( Silk )

( Silken )

( Silky )

Dropping brambles and silky-spite - Roshani Chokshi "To the High School Sweetheart, in Snatches"

Silkworm.

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( Sink )

Manifested as sinkholes under permafrost - Kadijah Queen "Undoing"

Sink holes consume fields of gold - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"

( Sank )

Sunk/Sunken.

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( Six )

On a six-foot stage of dust - Carl Sandburg "Old Osawatomie"

Only a sixth sense of faith or fear - Elizabeth Bartlett "This Side the Fog"

A knife between the fifth rib and the sixth - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"

Watching for a six-winged thought - Conrad Hilberry "Sloth"

The holy six-winged seraphim - Alexander Pushkin "The Prophet" transl. by John Pollen

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( Sip )

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( Sick )

Some heartsick caustic titan - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Raising Hell"

Clamping down on each homesick wish - Lisa M. Bradley "The Skin Walker's Wife"

Homesick for thy smile - Louise Imogen Guiney "Ode for a Master Mariner Ashore"

Homesick for harpings of eternity - Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C. "The Dead Musicians"

Wronged her in his homesick almanac - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"

Barges spinning on a mud-sick river - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"

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( Sift )

In the silver-sifted dark - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

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( Signature )

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( Silence )

The scent of the unsilenced sea - Charlotte Mew "The Forest Road"

Silent.

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( Sing )

Her never-singing lips shut fast - John Freeman "The Chair"

Gilded dreams of silver-singing night - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

In the sing-song of the butterfly aliens - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"

Sang.

Singer.

Song.

Sung.

Unsung.

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( Besiege )

( Siege )

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( Sit )

( Sat )

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( Silt )

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( Siphon )

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( Sin )

Sinless in sand - Chase Berggrun "Eccles. 9:7"

Scatheless through the sin-lit dark - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"

To feed unsinning at the iron dish - Lynn Riggs "Song of the Unholy Oracle"

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Following the stellar signposts - Daisy Aldan "The Cometary Script"

All the words the signpost tells - "Fairy's Album: V. Fairy's Dream"

Signposts in sorrow & paperwork - Stephanie Heit "Forecast"

Signposts leading to other words - Linda Pastan "All Nights" [Yes, 'words' is right.]

Too many flaming suns for signposts - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch "The White Moth"

Post.

Sign.

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Enclos'd in a case, which the Silk-Worm had spun - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"

A silkworm's bitten mulberry leaves - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XIV"

A silkworm caught in the grass - Tyler Mills "ectopic"

A silkworm upheld by a slender strand - David O'Neil "Poems: Moods and Moments"

The replacement of silkworm by chrysalis - Zheng Min "Death of a Poet #17" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf

Silk.

Worm.

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( Sidewalk )

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( Size )

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( Silhouette )

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A line of footsteps side by side - Auguste Angellier "Dreams" transl. by Henry van Dyke

With memory and oblivion side by side - Bliss Carman "The Crimson House"

Unfettered and yet side by side - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

Desire and regret live side by side - Philip Schultz "A Moment"

Running side by side with the fog - Frank Stanford "The Forgotten Madmen of Menilmontant"

God and the Devil hang side by side - Charles Wright "Tutti Frutti"

Side.

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( Singularity )

Singular.

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( Sight )

Call the far-sighted foxes - Karen Volkman "A Light Says Why"

Foresee/Foresight.

Powered by perpetual hindsight - Josephine Yu "Narcissist Revises Tidal Theory"

In their time-stained insight expelled - D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie "Miracles Welcome"

By this moonlight's near-sighted courtesy - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"

Indistinguishable from nearsightedness - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

the blinding mirror image of near-sighted dreams - Marcie R. Rendon "Dream Songs"

Witch and troll and second sight - John Greenleaf Whittier "Abram Morrison"

And dropped its sightless heaven - Maxwell Bodenheim "Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"

Weary vigil with sightless eyes - John Masefield "A Song at Parting"

Threat of sightless anarchs vast - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode on Imagination"

Where we pen these unsightly shards of men - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

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( Sign )

All callsign and codename - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

Into the violence of our callsign - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

To solve the doubt, watchword and countersign - John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln "On Guard" [The Continental Monthly v.II no.VI, Dec. 1862]

Signpost.

Started stealing stop signs - William Brewer "There Is a Gold Light"

The shadow of a stop sign - Sue Budin "Little Things"

sliding through the stop signs - Charles Coleman Finlay "Accidental Series"

Write unsigned love letters - Josephine Yu "An Unfinished Fairytale from the Palm-Leaf Manuscript"

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( Single )

Orange is the single-hearted color - Sandra McPherson "Poppies"

Your singleness within the universe - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"

Test what singleness can bear - Kay Ryan "That Will to Divest"

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( Singular )

Singularity.

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( Sibyl )

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( Sickle )

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( Significance )

Avoid any version of a significant rupture - Katie Condon "The Insurance Representative Tells Me How Much the Baby's Delivery Will Cost"

The significant silence of empty mansions - Philip Schultz "Greed"

A small branch signifying the impossible - Carl Adamshick "Our flag"

The desperate dance that signifies a loss too great to name - Abbi Ball "The Big Bang Cycle"

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( Silver )

To braid the crinkled-silver rain - Lola Ridge "Betty"

Beneath the dark's ensilvered arch - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

The silver-blue of incense mist - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Malvern: July 23rd, 1906"

A silver bullet against every demon you fashioned - Ali Trotta "The Devil You Know"

Still in its prehistoric silver-dawn atmosphere - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"

Guarded by silver-footed antelope - John Presland "To a Robin in December"

Casting a silver-laced pattern - Alice Corbin Henderson "From the Stone Age"

Silver-like thread the tarantula weaves - Ida Lee "The Forest King's Lament"

Silver-limbed and crescent-crowned - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

A silver lining of a poor sort - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"

The seven champions of the silver-mantled shield - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin Over His Sons"

We resurrect them in silver nitrate - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

Through the silver-pure hours - Amelia Josephine Burr "Perugia"

In the silver-sifted dark - George Cronyn "The Trail by Night"

Gilded dreams of silver-singing night - Naomi Long Madgett "Trinity: A Dream Sequence"

Silver-speaking mirrors of desire - Robert Bridges "Ode to Music"

Made from your own silver-tipped wishes - Nikita Gill "The Moon Writes a Love Letter to Artemis"

Silent but silver-tongued - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"

With quivering wand of silver-white - Joyce Kilmer "Star o' Love"

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( Simple )

The simplicity implicit in sea-sponges - Timothy Donnelly "To His Own Device"

Thinning to a final simplicity - Rosmarie Waldrop "Aging"

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( Signal )

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( Sinew )

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( Singe )

Singe-scoured and full of disbelief - TC Tolbert "This Is What You Are"

As through sun-singed grass - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

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In simulated venom crushed - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Part of this memory is a simulation - Leslie J. Anderson "I Understand Video Games Aren't Real"

Simulate the breath so well - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity XLI"

An overlapping pattern of simulated security - David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Mike Allen "Rattlebox"

Beautiful unsupported lies that simulate a universe - Humbert Wolfe "The Skies"

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Sincere in self-deception - Margaret Widdemer "An Old Portrait"

The ache of your sincerity - Maxwell Bodenheim "Short Story in Sonnet Form"

The best day to eat a meal of sincerity - Ada Limon "Farmers' Almanac"

Nothing sweeter than sincerity - Walter S. Percy "Little Words"

A well of frank sincerity - Alice Wellington Rollins "Reserve"

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( Sinister )

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( Sisyphus )

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The stars sizzling like 4th of July sparklers - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"

Onions sizzling in a cast iron skillet - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"

A boiling furnace of sizzling rock - Georgia Heard "Room of Science"

Sizzles a sermon from the stove - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"

The shy cat fiddling while Rome sizzles - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

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( Side )

My ancestors walking alongside me - Kristen De Leon "Reclaim"

Alongside the atlas's scribbled road - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen J"

Easy prey for the dockside phantoms - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"

The dream-side of a pennyroyal river - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

Up the mountain-sides of thought - Alfred Noyes "Darwin I: Chance and Design"

Their one-sided written constitution - Casey Aimer "Body Revolt"

One-sided skins of truth - Dylan Thomas "Our eunuch dreams"

The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee - Robert Frost "A Line-storm Song"

Side by Side.

Hide in sidelong glances - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 6: Krishna Growing Up" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Sidestepped Duchamp's fractured descent - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Sidestepping your bullets bloom - Lynn Xu "Earth Light: I"

Hoping to sidestep felony - Art Zilleruelo "Someone's Property"

Sidewalk.

Fell sideways instead of down - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"

The fall of a sideways flicker from a neon sign - Annie Finch "In Cities, Be Alert"

In the sideways glance of morning - Joyce Sidman "I Find Peace"

With faces turn'd sideways - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"

All the streamsides and unlistening vales - Edith Wharton "Nightingales in Provence"

But we don't trust in things two-sided - "Victory's Band" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Clipped to a grass blade's underside - Chase Twichell "Never"

At many a wayside worshipped - John Hall Wheelock "Legend"

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( Since )

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( Silent )

Silence.

Century-silent, shadowy mazes - Edward Dowden "To Hester"

To the shores of silent-dark and back - Deborah Landau "Flesh"

Visions leave us silent-hearted - Lennox Amott "Bright Scenes Must All Depart"

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( Siren )

Snag and fall and siren-haunted islet - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Wax bells of siren-teeth - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"

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Singer and shepherd of the lonely past - Lucius Beebe "Autumn Lament"

Singers standing on the outer rim - John Philip Bourke "John Philip Bourke"

I am the singer of the broken sanctuaries - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams

Six green singers stood at my door - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"

Made singers of tricksters - Joy Harjo "Rabbit Invents the Saxophone"

The voice of unseen singers - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"

Unearthly song of an eerie singer - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "curlew"

Where the singers of Saturn find tongue - Don Marquis "This Earth, It Is Also a Star"

Dancers and singers in the machine - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

Where the sorrows of our singers lie - Rennell Rodd "From the Hills of Gardens"

Singers in the wings of water - Z.G. Tomaszewski "Summer Song of Lake Michigan"

Will not soon have another singer - William Carlos Williams "Gulls"

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Sing.

Song.

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