somethingdarker | Jul. 8th, 2011

Jul. 8th, 2011

( Slow )

The dusk of slow-accomplished Time - Emily Lawless "Afterword"

Lit with one slow-burning flame - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

Of bells slow-dying from discord to the hush - Aldous Huxley "Philoclea in the Forest"

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

Slow-withering stick and stone - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"

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Followed the wild goats aslant the perilous hills - [Annie Winifred Ellerman] Bryher "Wild Rose"

Aslant the shadows of my prayer - Archibald MacLeish "The Altar"

That showed me the world aslant - Joyce Sidman "Lament for My Old Life"

Blow the thin streams aslant - William Carlos Williams "The Dark Day"

( Slant )

Tideless waves thundering slantwise - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"

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( Slaughter )

That slaughterhouse of light - William Brewer "The Messenger of Oxyana"

The stone of wisdom wrapped in the slaughter-mask of genius - Harry Martinson "Aniara 64" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

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( Slope )

Tracing the backslopes of deer in the yard - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"

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( Sliver )

Sliver-moons seen between the waves - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 99: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

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Buried under sleek pavement and spindly landscaping - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."

Sleek as moonlit grass - Elizabeth Bishop "Behind Stowe"

Sleek suns dipped in sleepy light - Maxwell Bodenheim "Steel-Mills: South Chicago"

Hidden from the cop car sleeking innocently past - Mark Jarman "The Black Riviera"

Sleeker than night-swollen mushrooms - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

For no sleek eel inside an oily skin - James Stephens "The Gang"

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( Slick )

All oil-slick sinew and chemical eyes - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

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( Slide )

Working with a slide rule protractor and graph paper - Nicholas Christopher "1943"

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Between flat slabs that mask the ancient well - Robert Graves "Down"

Patrolling a kingdom of marble slabs - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

An elephant mirrored in a slab of quartz - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 224: The Poet's Petition and Praise" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

The stone slabs of forces fallen - Derek Walcott "Arkansas Testament I"

Incised sunbaked on a slab of Euphratian clay - David Wojahn "For the Scribe Gar.Una of Uruk, 3,000 B. C."

Separated by a slab of air - Jenny Xie "The Rupture Tense"

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When the sun has slit its wrists into the undarkened sky - Woody Dismukes "The Color of the Mule"

Slitting a seam in the void - Chris Dombrowski "Partial Eclipse / N 46.677, W 114.244"

This slit of impossible time - Joy Harjo "Original Memory"

Down a narrow slit of the old earth - Alfred Kreymborg "Initials"

Threading time's slit-eye needle - Cynthia Zarin "The Muse of History: III. The Gone World"

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The slithering serpent of doubt - Edward Hirsch "Zora Neale Hurston"

A rattlesnake slithers among the stones - N. Scott Momaday "Jornada del Muerto"

My horse is the slithering wind - N. Scott Momaday "The Rider of Two Gray Hills"

My words keep slithering away from me - Marin Sorescu "Creation" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

As the train's smell slithers to checkpoints - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa

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( Sleeve )

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( Sleepless )

When gleam the ever-sleepless stars - Mrs. R.S. Nichols "[I know that thou wilt sorrow]" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.2, Aug. 1841]

Sleep.

The unsleeping captain of the dark - Zilka Joseph "Leaf Boat"

And leaves with me the rest of the unsleeping sea - Ae.P. "Love Unsung" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.742, 16 March 1878]

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( Slash )

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Teach you model methods for enslaving humankind - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Enslaved in tight frames - Kim Unsong "The Poor"

To enslave with an illusion about freedom - John Trudell "Living in Reality/Oklahoma Song"

( Slave )

Gilded galley-slaves of Mammon - Robert W. Service "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"

I in the stead of laureate wreathes with slavery am requited - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Seared with slavery's mortal scars - Jessie Redmon Fauset "Oriflamme"

with the arrows of slavery and white phosphorus - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

Slavery in a digital world - jessica Care moore "She Was"

How bitter-sweet and tyrant-slave is love - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: XII"

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( Sleepwalk )

Sleep.

Walk.

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( Slim )

From the slim-cut decanters of death - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"

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( Slipper )

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Which was a sluice of molten gold - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"

That maddened to burst from its sluices - W. Wilfred Campbell "The Vengeance of Saki"

Under the rain's gaping sluices - Johannes V. Jensen "At Memphis Station" transl. by S. Foster Damon

Your life a sluice of sensation - D.H. Lawrence "Fish"

The sloughs and sluices of my mind - Lorine Niedecker "Paean to Place"

The rain sluices down the bent azaleas - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

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( Slight )

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( Slice )

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Peer through sniper slots at the enemy's gowned grace - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"

Razor thin minutes slot without stop - Mary Jo Bang "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice"

For the coin in the slot to unlock the gears - Benjamin Garcia "Egg Tooth"

Orange slots of hot thought - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"

My soul a thin-slotted door - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"

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( Sloth )

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( Slander )

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( Slate )

Lost in the slate-cold sky - Theodore Maynard "The Stirrup Cup"

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( Sleet )

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( Sly )

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( Slake )

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( Slam )

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Slinging hoop in the dark - Denice Frohman "Shooting in the Dark"

What's slung between azure and cornfield - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

The veins in your neck slung with wind - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Does Not Care about Football"

slung from tractor factories - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"

Could not pierce these meshed and low-slung skies - Li Ho "The Northland in Cold" transl. by Burton Watson

A slingstone whirled for the desperate - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 6. Exposure"

Keep the meddlesome chthonic wordslingers cranky - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

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( Slender )

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Asleep.

( Sleep )

Their bones are coldsleep coral now - Ann K. Schwader "Rich & Strange"

Counting's hard in half-sleep - Jenny Xie "Rootless"

The nightmare-sleep of nations - James Clarence Mangan "Hymn for Pentecost"

Like frost that had over-slept - Edmond McKenna "Prelude"

In the Seven Sleepers' den - John Donne "The Good-Morrow"

Shapeshifting sleeper agents hiding in plain sight - Adam Ford "Arrival!"

Sleepless.

Sleepwalk.

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( Slay/Slain/Slew )

Slayer of the serpent brood - Edward Dowden "To a Year"

The slayer of that demon-beauty - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Serpent's Crown"

Note the tracks of the monster slayers - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"

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( Slip )

( Slippery )

Her children bright in the slipstream - Deborah Garrison "Sestina for the Working Mother"

In the slipstream above the stratosphere - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

Promise me the slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

Where space drips into our slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

Daydream a new reverie into the slipstream - Andrew Sinclair "Queer-Pastoral, Somewhere in the Slipstream"

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Obedient to the goad of grief - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

His wild steps goad onward - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Urges with a scorpion goad - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Thorny roses goaded into color - Allison Joseph "My Father's Kites"

Goaded by soliciting light - Lola Ridge "After the Recital (To Roland Hayes)"

A mad sun goading to frenzied flame - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"

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