somethingdarker | Jul. 10th, 2011

Jul. 10th, 2011

( Snow )

Snowbirds spread their crystallized wings - Daisy Aldan "Mutilated Fire"

Snowblind with grief - Sally Wen Mao "The Belladonna of Sadness"

Snow-clad Cenis' heart of stone might melt - E.B. Impey "The Savoyard" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.20 no.573, Oct. 27, 1832]

Buried beneath some snow-deep Alps - T.S. Eliot "A Cooking Egg"

When snowdrifts block the traveler's way - "The Brave Dog of St. Bernard" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

And snowdrifts keep the silent door - Bliss Carman "The Vagabonds"

When snowdrifts blocked the country roads - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"

In snowdrifts ten miles north - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"

The soft harp of snowfall - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"

Heavy with portents of snowfall - Kwame Dawes "Dawn"

Stepping light as snowfall - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"

Snowflake.

All the earth bound with frost, all the sky snow-full - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "Birds in the Snow"

When the wind frenzied up a snow globe of petals - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Smash a snow globe in a parking lot - Ruth Madievsky "You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies"

A cracked snow globe whose magic pool drips serum - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Over woods of snow-hung oak - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

The relief of snowmelt - Carl Phillips "Anyone Who Had a Heart"

Lost in snow-mist and confusion of cloud - Wang An-Shih "Farewell to a Monk Leaving for Heaven-Terrace Mountain" transl. by David Hinton

Snowplows etch lines in the whiteness - Sue Budin "After the Blizzard"

With snow-scent and lavender bless you - Jane Hirshfield "A Blessing for Wedding"

Snowshoes bite the trail open - Maureen N. McLane "Horoscope"

Snowplow pushes time across the prairie - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"

Snowstorm.

A snow-white butterfly dancing before the fitful gale - Richard Bowen "Genius" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

While yet the snow-wreaths to the rock-shelves cling - William M. MacKeracher "Vacation Verse"

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

Falling beneath the choke hold of profiling snipers - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Where daylong the sniper watches - Gilbert Frankau "Headquarters"

And the ever-watchful sniper - Robert Graves "Limbo"

The tree between me & a sniper's bullet - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Dysentery and frostbite and snipers - Vijay Seshadri "Road Trip"

Hiding from the sniper's crosshairs - Tom Sleigh "For a Libyan Militia Member"

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( Snake )

Within those snake-bright grottoes - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"

Shield and mirror to the fair snake-curled Pain - Francis Thompson "The Mistress of Vision"

From the smoke rise the flame's snake-eyes - John Freeman "The Chair"

Who sailed in a snake-prowed galley - Rennell Rodd "The Sea-King's Grave"

Wearing nothing but snakeskin boots - Ansel Elkins "Autobiography of Eve"

Tape snaking through a stealth machine - Mary Jo Bang "An Autopsy of an Era"

New ferns snaking fast up the old hosts' throats - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

Where the sea-snakes coil and twine - Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"

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Ensnare.

( Snare )

Brought him unsnared through the castle's deep shadows - Anne E.G. Nydam "Jorinde Remembers" [Strange Horizons 29 Sept. 2025]

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( Sneer )

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Playful ghosts snagged in the trees - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Snags back her blue memory - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"

Snagged like the yearning in dreams - Brenda Hillman "Unendangered Moths of the Mid-Twentieth Century"

Catch with a small snag - Kimberly Johnson "Ode on My Episiotomy"

Sirens snagging the matted air - Adrian Matejka "Mural with HUD Housing & School Bus (1980)"

Snags on my nexus of doubts - Kiki Petrosino "N/Ought"

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

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( Snatch )

Foresnatching fate with impious haste - J.S.B. "Caesar" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXII, v.LXII, Aug. 1847]

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Snuffed out candlewick shadow - Yona Harvey "But for now the music swings from her lacquered radio"

Snuffy old drone from the German hive - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Deacon's Masterpiece: Or the Wonderful 'One-Hoss-Shay'"

These truths like dark snuff - Ashley M. Jones "All Y'all Really from Alabama"

Let the March storm snuff out my flame - Naomi Long Madgett "How Shall I Face the Dawn?"

Had snuffed the kindling flame - Madeleine Sweeny Miller "Snuffed Out"

Old thoughts, dry as snuff - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

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( Snarl )

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( Snail )

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Our decision to sneak out to find our own sky - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

Sneak with the scoundrel fox - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

The notes themselves were sneak attacks - Stephen Dobyns "Thelonius Monk"

by dawn I'd sneak in beside your soul - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

The chuckle of ash sneaking into our lungs - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

More gray sneaking in each day - Allison Joseph "Thirty Lines About the 'Fro"

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Run home in a snowstorm - Andrea Gibson "Your Life"

The silver ache of a snowstorm - Vijayalakshmi Harish "Cure"

A snowstorm of white wings - Lionel Johnson "In England"

A million miles of white snowstorms - Carl Sandburg "Two Strangers Breakfast"

A snowstorm that buries the best of everything - Russell Thorburn "The TV Guide as the Book of Job"

Snow.

Storm.

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( Snap )

Snap-frozen in the blizzards called down by Baba Yaga - Jenny Blackford "Eleven Exhibits in a Better Natural History Museum, London"

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