somethingdarker | Jul. 15th, 2011

Jul. 15th, 2011

( Steadily )

( Steady )

With face averted and unsteady eyes - Coleridge "The Pang More Sharp Than All"

Asks of our bright, unsteady flame - Arthur Colton "The Cheneaux Islands"

Swerving around that unsteady silhouette - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"

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( Stun )

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( Stretch )

Outstretch.

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( Strand )

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( Store )

Standing hushed in the aisles of bookstores - Allison Joseph "Notebooks"

A dimestore magic trick in legendary light - Regie Cabico "In a Legendary Light"

The dime store flower fields - francine j. harris "i used to write"

Stolen dime-store moments - Philip Levine "Magic"

Your dollarstore deities - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Black Dragons"

Scanning the cans on the grocery store shelf - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"

A maze of mildewed storage rooms - Dana Gioia "Haunted"

Ampersands of storage compounds - Brenda Hillman "To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mother's Garden"

Storefront merchants hawking our wares - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"

In Time's storehouse lie days, hours, and moments - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Say thou not sadly, "never," and "no more,"]"

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( Stitch )

The non-stop roaring hum of cross-stitched freeways - Mouna Ammar "Time-travel"

A sky cross-stitched and beaded - Rickey Laurentiis "Tall Lyric for Palestine (Or, The Harder Thinking)"

Our love double-knotted, saddle-stitched - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

The shadow-stitched perimeter of childhood - Carl Phillips "Why so this Quiet"

The shadow-stitched perimeter - Carl Phillips "Why So This Quiet"

the shadow unstitched from its body - Tahnia Barrie "I Am Scabs, One and Legion"

Unstitches the quartered earth - Canisia Lubrin "In the Middle of the Burning"

Sets the well-stitched void - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

Whip-stitched into the lining of that question - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"

From the willow-stitched islands - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

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( Star )

Across that billion-star ocean - Richard Solomon "Salt Doll's Incarnation"

The span of the black-starred zone - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

Hauling remnants of light from these daystars - Pamela Gross "The Hive"

The day-star of celestial Hope - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Miss Dix, the Philanthropist"

The dog-star of treason grows dim - "The Last Charge" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

The green night-baying of the dog-star - D.H. Lawrence "Almond Blossom"

Evening Star.

From Ambition evil-starred - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Falling Star.

To be the wanderer's guiding-star - Emily Bronte "The Visionary"

Ill-Starred: See Starred/Ill-Starred.

That lodestar of the ghost - John Masefield "King Cole"

Morning Star.

By North Star or candlelight - Gregory Pardlo "Copyright"

The million lights of the polar-star - Eleanor Farjeon "A Sheaf of Nature-Songs III"

Pole-star of my darkest hours - Anne Bronte "The Three Guides"

Which pressure causes metamorphoses, protostar pre-nucleosynthesis - Chet'la Sebree "An End"

Shooting Star.

A starbeam on the dagger's haft - Don Marquis "Sea Changes III: Moonset"

Through spray of splintered star-beams - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Embroideries of starbound silver - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

And all the myriad star-buds burst in flame - Lloyd Roberts "Flowers of the Sky"

A tremulous star-built stair - W. Wilfred Campbell "Lazarus"

Below a star-built arch - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"

A minor star-burst of cranes - Sheila Black "Radium Dream"

A starburst compass pointing in all the directions - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"

The deep star-chant of the seraphs - A.E. "Love"

Latest monarch of a star-crossed line - Maurice Baring "Epitaph

Through some starcrossed lineage - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "In the ن of it all"

Star-crossed diamonds on the coffee cup - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Lie spent in star-defeated sighs - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad XV"

A dream of stardrives shattered - Ann K. Schwader "If Cold Is a War"

Stardust.

Star-enchanted hollows of the night - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Dons her star-encrusted veil - Cora C. Bass "Life's Temple"

A luminous starfield of questions - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"

As an astronomer looks at the star-filled sky - Adolf Wolff "Lines Inspired on Meeting a Lady: To A. L."

Ash and cinder of star-fire - Denise Levertov "Two Threnodies and a Psalm"

Starfire of silver flames, lighting the dark beneath - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"

In which eyes burn like star-flame - Jeannette Marks "White Hair"

Irrevokably as a star gazer's charm - Sandra J. Lindow "Dreaming Black Holes"

Luna, with her star-gemmed, glorious crown - Rufus W. Griswold "The Sunset Storm" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.3, Sept. 1842]

Reap the far star-gold - Charles Baudelaire "The Venal Muse" transl. not credited

Stargrit. Heartlocked. Vowstrung - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"

Delicate lanterns, star-kindled - Louise Morey Bowman "Song [Dew... Delicate lanterns, star-kindled anew]"

Computations astronomical, algorithm and star-law - Jeffrey Pethybridge "Note on Method"

Starless.

Starlight.

Star-like gems which blow beside pale sorrel - J.C.H. "A Day in Early Summer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.44-v.I, 1 Nov. 1884]

As its bright drops fall starlike - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

To float through star-littered fields - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"

Grapes of the heaven's star-loaden vine - Francis Thompson "The Dread of Height"

Down Time's star-lucent stream - Louise Imogen Guiney "Cyclamen"

Your body made full with starmilk - Sara Eliza Johnson "Parable of the Unclean Spirit"

All this star-poised frame - James Russell Lowell "The Brakes"

In that star-powdered night - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"

The star-pricked West shines hollow - Emily Lawless "From the Burren XI: A Wave"

Remote in voids star-purged - Louis Golding "The Moon-Clock"

Star-reflected gardens walled with night - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

Starred/Ill-Starred.

Starry.

The Guests Star-scatter'd on The Grass - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

We are Starseeds every one of us - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez "In a Grain of Sand"

Star-sentinelled from our humanity - Edith Wharton "Heaven"

Starshine.

A list of starships decelerating toward us - Kendall Evans "Now We Must Speak in the Shadows of Silence"

Another wave of time-traveling starships - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"

Like light dissolved in star-showers - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples"

Into the star-soaked nights - Jenny Molberg "Civilization"

The fire of the star-souled Lucifer - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

The vast pool of heaven star-spawned - Robert W. Service "The Land of Beyond"

Sifts the star-streams between the Then and the Now - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Star-strewn above the new moon - Alfred Perceval Graves "The Sea Singer"

To her star-strewn palace brought - George William Russell "A Vision of Beauty"

And a star-tipped wand for light - Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord "The Fairies' Ball"

Star-touched, across the fading trail - David Gillis Carter "Dusk"

The poet's star-tuned harp - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Sleep"

Still feels the star-winds blow - Ann K. Schwader "Lavinia in Autumn"

strung their frosted hex-cells starwise - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

To guide the star-worlds of eternity - Adam Mickiewicz "Mountains from the Keslov Steppe" transl. by Edna Worthley Underwood

Stellar.

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( Steer )

Insidious as rats in steerage - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Never so rash a steersman - "The Drowning of John Remorsson"

A bark all lonely tosses without steersman - Friedrich Schiller "Longing [Ach, aus Thales Gründen]"

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( Stern )

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( State )

Restate the strength of leaf and bone - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"

With hunger the unstated core - John Updike "Pura Vida"

Stately.

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( Stare )

Trying to outstare the distance - Carl Phillips "Archery"

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( Stair )

Staircase.

Stairway.

Stairwell.

Ascend stairwise to expectation's height - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: The Gardens" transl. by Alma Strettell

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( Strange )

( Stranger )

The imprecise and strangering distinctions - Robert Hayden "[American Journal]"

Red is the strangest pain to bear - Charlotte Mew "The Quiet House"

Like fish from the strangest sea - Pablo Neruda "The Poet" transl. by Jack Schmitt

( Strangeness )

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Backstage ducks preening in the wings - Julie Babcock "Jonah's Trick"

( Stage )

The future restages the past - Jenny Johnson "Aria"

Re-staging that same old Cretaceous deathmatch - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

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( Steam )

Each a steam-engine of crime - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"

Screeching of steam-glutted cauldrons - Lola Ridge "The Song of Iron"

Daft, round-the-world steampunk wagers - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

in sylvan steampunk surroundings - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"

Like another steamrolled peony - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "What Spells Trouble"

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( Strip )

To my bare-stript heart - Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"

The tempest's rack outstripping - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "I Wonder"

Outstrip the falling star - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

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A rumor of sleep stampedes through - William Brewer "Withdrawal Dream Amongst Spring Acreage"

The woman riding a stampede of seahorses - Ama Codjoe "Come One, Come All! Step Right Up! Welcome to the World of Wonders!"

The usual orange stampede - francine j. harris "feeder"

Stampede when we must - Irene Latham "Dear Wandering Wildebeest"

Stampeding across the stars - Tracie Vaughn Zimmer "Cousins of Clouds"

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Down dirty streets in stench and smoke - Robert Graves "Oh, and Oh!"

The charnel stench of the end of the world - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"

The sputtering stench of an expiring form - Terese Mason Pierre "A New Face"

Clear of the saddest soul-stench - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

Memorize shame's numbing stench - Jenny Xie "Naturalization"

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To stretch the stew to the end of the month - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

Only suited to the stews of hell - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"

You're not the only oyster in the stew - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

A stew full of murder - Nicholas Johnson "One of the Monkeys"

Sage leaves stripped, stirred into stew - Susan Landgraf "What's Left"

Stewed it with sugar and lemon peel - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"

Hot enough to boil a stew pot - Tommye Blount "Karl Lagerfeld's line of beauty"

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The sterile taker's tools - Amanda Johnston "We Named You Mercy"

The false light sterile upon our eyelids - Ruth Lechlitner "A Winter's Tale"

Spirit spent by sterile tears - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Summons III. The Reckoning"

Bade the sterile moon to multiply - E.J. Pratt "Sea Variations"

Plague-wind, over a sterile shore - Cale Young Rice "The Immanent God"

Sterile as the arms of my desire - Iris Tree "[Lulled are the dazzling colours of the day]"

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( Stubborn )

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( Stab )

A whirl of flame-stabbed smoke - Gilbert Frankau "Eyes in the Air"

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( Startle )

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( Stolen )

Steal/Stole.

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( Strong )

To strongholds in the thickest woods - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

In the assaulted stronghold of his will - Alice Meynell "The Unknown God"

Ours to stronghold and defend - Robert W. Service "The Pines"

Who spilled the strong-willed wine - Dean Young "Spring Reign"

Strength.

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( Study )

Student.

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( Steed )

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( Station )

A little way station just beyond silence - Charles Wright "Future Tense"

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( Steadfast )

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( Stand )

In the backstand of our existence - m.s. RedCherries "the end cannot be me"

Bystanders back from the river of light - Charles Wright "I've Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life..."

The last freestanding rebellion - Faylita Hicks "The Fantastic Life of My Guardian Angels"

Standalone heron borrowing a pylon - Brian Blanchfield "Edge of Water, Portage Bay, Washington"

A stand-in for complexities - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "You Are Here"

Hurled an instant standstill to our haywire - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

( Stood )

Withstand/Withstood.

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( Storm )

Gilding the battle-storm, rolling in wrath - "The Star-Flag" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]

Doomsday-storms rage round about - Friedrich Schiller "The Peasants"

Won't hold me back from the firestorm - Marlane Quade Cook "Breaking"

Those flash-storms of rage - Lee Ann Roripaugh "#to my mother's dementia #kaze no denwa"

The last hail-storm to trouble spring - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

Hailstorms and diffracted confusions of light - Katie Ford "Colosseum"

Underneath a hailstorm of light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"

Rising up through a hailstorm - Matthew Zapruder "As I Cross the Heliopause at Midnight, I Think of My Mission"

Against a heat-storm of cicadas - Ana Bozicevic "About a Fish"

Playmates of the mountain-storm - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni"

Beneath as rainstorm of summer stars - Rebecca Dotlich "Room of Place"

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"

Snowstorm.

Acid-dipped, and sky-tempered, storm-bathed - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"

Jibing the night's storm-battered prow - Cynthia Zarin "Mirror"

Of the storm-beaten years - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Loud round my storm-beaten bark - S. Anna Lewis "The Unmasked"

only the stormbird's flight is wild - Elizabeth Bartlett "stormbird"

Clouds of white linen and storm-black damask - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"

Hunt a storm-cell's shifting edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"

Stormcloud.

Loose the storm-dogs from their bed - Helen Hay Whitney "Song [Sofly sighs the gracious wind]"

Silt clogging the storm drains - Rachel Barenblat "Chord"

A thought of storm-drenched fields - Lola Ridge "Electrocution"

The subtle storm-fiend watches for his prey - J.S.D.S. "The Poet" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Wild horses of the storm-filled plains - Ellen Hinsey "The Multitude"

Where the gates of the Storm-god are - William D. Hodjkiss "Song of the Storm Swept-Plain"

And give her to the god of storms - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Old Ironsides"

The fierce storm-lion's distant growl - Alfred B. Street "The Devil's Pulpit: Tupper's Lake"

Dry snow under the storm-locked sills - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"

In her storm-resisting grace - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

The storm-seers failed to tell us - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"

Like the storm-shook shadows of themselves - Carl Phillips "Rockabye"

For the rapture of storm-spent eyes - Algernon Swinburne "Insularum Ocelle"

Sketched storm-static and the dust of masks - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"

Caught in the stormstrike - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of ash"

Like a storm-swept flower - Claude McKay "Poetry"

Submerging mountaintops in stormwater - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Storm-wind shattering the boughs - Wilfred Childe "Rosa Innocens"

Outracing the stormwind - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wild Ride"

By many a storm-worn stone - E.J. Bronte "The Outcast Mother"

Storm-worried Argo slept - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"

Thunderstorm.

Forests of wind storms newly risen - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"

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( Streak )

Her sky grows dark and lightning-streaked - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

Crowding the sea-streaked marsh - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

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( Stream )

Bloodstream

A bullet-stream of oyster shells - Dana Levin "The Living Teaching"

While someone else's fortune drifts downstream - Dana Gioia "At the Crossroads"

Two old swans landing downstream - Richard Solomon "The River Through Your Eyes (For Linda)"

Jet-streams of oxygen spun like pinwheels - Ian Goh "Firework"

In these mid-stream waters - Roger Casement "Lost Youth"

Nepenthe-streams of ecstacies - H. Perceval "Callirhoe"

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

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"

Sifts the star-streams between the Then and the Now - William Rose Benét "Mad Blake"

Thin fluttering streamers of breeze - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"

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

Descend down this flaming Sun-stream - Daisy Aldan "Vertical Is Our New Sight"

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( Strength )

Strong.

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( Strife )

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( Steeple )

A steeple chase marked by clocks - Dom "Seaside Sunrise: Happiness when it Comes"

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( Stricken )

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Students of our fathers' disciplines - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"

To be a student of regret - Taylor Johnson "Club 2718"

We must be a student of both - Mark Nepo "Art Lesson"

a student first of ingratitude - Sam Sax "Pedagogy"

A student in the landscapes of light - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"

School.

Study.

Truant.

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Short fires and stubble on a monsoon coast - Meena Alexander "Central Park, Carousel"

Caught in the stubble of the world - Stephen Crane "The Black Riders"

Grasshopper from out the stubble - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"

Where many a stubble gray-goose preens - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"

The mottled quail runs in the stubble - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "November"

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Dusk strumming the birches - Richard Blanco "Listening at Reading Farm, an Elegy"

Strum a November midnight - Chris Dombrowski "Nostrums (Bill Monroe)"

A finger strums a seam of glass - fahima ife "our general banality"

A wavering strumming collects off-site - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"

Strumming the blacknesses of black - Wallace Stevens "Madame la Fleurie"

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( Storm Cloud )

Cloud.

Storm.

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Stuff his stomach on bloated creation - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Something for the mercurial stomach - Mary Jo Bang "Ghost and Grays"

The stomach-swirling of forgetting - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"

Entering the stomach of stones - Carolyn Forche "Song Coming Toward Us"

History's four-thousand-year stomach ache - Phan Nhien Hao "Don't Die Another Person's Death" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)

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( Starshine )

Shine.

Star.

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( Staircase )

Case.

Stair.

Stairway.

Stairwell.

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( Sturdy )

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There may still be some of these hiding in the general post of 'dust' or in the general post of 'stars. Both are long, and it's easy to miss things.

( Stardust )

Star.

Starless.

Starlight.

Starred/Ill-Starred.

Starry.

Stellar.

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( Stark )

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( Starry )

Beside the river grows starry-eyed forget-me-not - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]

Star.

Stardust.

Starless.

Starlight.

Starred/Ill-Starred.

Stellar.

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Around a stump that crackled with flame - Robert Frazier "Wereman"

The wren upon the tree-stump carolled - John Masefield "The Return"

A stumpy gray asymmetry of grasp - Heather McHugh "The Matter Over"

Even these stumps of cedar - Lynn Riggs "The Corrosive Season"

Wretched stumps all charred and burned - George Santayana "Cape Cod"

A stump with a jar of lightning - Frank Stanford "The Lacuna"

Rotting stumps of mulberry and bamboo - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "Returning to My Home in the Country, No.4" transl. by Burton Watson

Stumps in a charred forest - Derek Walcott "Central America"

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Airless corridors staffed by ghosts - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Its song a staff of light - Meg Day "10 AM is When You Come to Me"

With staff and scrip to walk - Lionel Johnson "In England"

Till the lopped staff blooms again - Lola Ridge "Red Flag"

Plies the hooked staff and the shortened scythe - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

The staff of beauty and the clothes of pride - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 75: The Pangs and Politics of Love" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Has missed her pilgrim staff and gown - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Unstave the winter's tangle - Tess Taylor "Mud Season"

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Over years of my stagnant dreams - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

To a stagnant place apart - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Poet's Vow"

Cast bread on stagnant water - Countee Cullen "Sacrament"

An escape route for stagnant intentions - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "The bomb shelter"

Stagnate like a knot in time - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

Or anchor silent in what stagnant dark? - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Unlock yourself into a stagnant life - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"

The stagnant pools of Time - Charles William Wallace "I Wonder"

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( Stainless )

Unstained with flattery's art - James Beattie "Ode on Lord Hay's Birth-Day. 13th May, 1767"

Unstained with hostile blood - John Milton "Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"

Stain.

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The stalled time after lunch - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

Stalls where now the ox is fed - John Castillo "The Country Love Feast"

Stalled in forgetfulness and salt - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

My heart a stalled engine - Patrick Phillips "Having a Fight With You"

The herded stalls in dissolute array - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

A nagging sense of neurons stalled - Ann K. Schwader "Abductee: Two Sonnets: Missing Time"

Playing a pantomime to spectres in the stalls - Iris Tree "[I think myself the fool of tragedy]"

That never stalls at boundaries - Jay Wright "Boli"

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( Stairway )

Stair.

Staircase.

Stairwell.

Way.

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( Stammer )

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( Starless )

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( Story )

The world remained a storybook - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

A spill of storybook umber - Kiki Petrosino "Approaching the Smith Family Graveyard"

Back through the brindled understory - Donovon Kūhiō Colleps "He Mea Mālo'elo'e #3"

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Thick doorways which confronted narrow winding stairwells - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"

night bending through a stairwell - Ruth Ellen Kocher "She Manifests Her Own Ineffable"

Porches lit like vacant stairwells - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

On the stairwell of bones - Linda Pastan "Anatomy"

Following you up stairwells of scarred oak - Adrienne Rich "Modotti"

Stair.

Staircase.

Stairway.

Well.

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( Stay )

Overstayed our party in the heavenly city - Elizabeth Willis "The Steam Engine"

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( Stick (verb) )

Stickers imprinted in your mind - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"

Milk vetch, tumbleweed, and sticker bush - Jake Skeets "In the Fields"

( Sticky )

Stuck.

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A mortgage statement wrapped around an artichoke - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

A doorknob statement, a breakneck goodbye - Randall Mann "The Fall of 1992, Gainesville, Florida"

The sky's edgeless statement about vastness - Carl Phillips "Searchlights"

your mission statement was always insufficient - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "John Henry Says I Am Not My Hammer (a.k.a., To Boldly Go Drylongso)"

My tentative statement under the threatening sky - Charles Wright "Four Dog Night"

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Must watch the waves with ruin all bestrew - Edward Carpenter "As Round a Lighthouse to--"

( Strew )

Walks the paths of the petal-strewn park - Sarah Kathryn Moore "Excerpts from the Dr. Sexpot Saga"

Rockstrewn caves where dragonfish evolve - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"

Star-strewn above the new moon - Alfred Perceval Graves "The Sea Singer"

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( Still Life )

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( Stifle )

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( Starlight )

( Starlit )

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( Straight )

Straightened by its shadow - Terrance Hayes "The Golden Shovel"

Straightened and resumed its vegetable oath - May Swenson "Hearing the Wind at Night"

Straighten like a flame - Sara Teasdale "On the Dunes"

Straighter than the wife of Caesar - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

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( Strangle )

The strangulation of the self - Brandon Shimoda "The Desert"

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( String )

( Strung )

Sorrow clings to my apron-strings - Dorothy Parker "Anecdote"

Seven bead-strings and necklets seven - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"

Leave his name upon the harp-string - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Heart-String.

Dance on seaweed-strings for clapping hands - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"

Teases string theory and quantum mechanics - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

Along the miles of tight-strung wire - Dana Gioia "The Argument"

Your many hearts unstrung - Kim Addonizio "Here"

Unstrung by her heart's first sorrow - R.S. Chilton "The Little Peasant"

Pleasure, with her harps unstrung - George Moses Horton "Memory"

A lute with one string left unstrung - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"

Stargrit. Heartlocked. Vowstrung - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"

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( Struggle )

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You were every streetlamp that winter - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"

The thin cycle of streetlamps on pavement - Russell Brakefield "This Is America and We Are Boys"

The drifts covered the streetlamps - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"

Every one of the unconcerned streetlamps - Adrian Matejka "Mural with HUD Housing & School Bus (1980)"

( Streetlight )

Light.

Street.

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Astride the sound barrier - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"

A queen astride a lion - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle

( Stride )

Strode across the hills and broke them - T.S. Eliot "Cousin Nancy"

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( Style )

A lifestyle fueled by vodka - Yona Harvey "You Don't Have to Go to Mars for Love"

The cyborg lifestyle has its thrills - Ann K. Schwader "It Wears You"

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( Structure )

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( Stuck )

Sticky/Stick (verb).

That old one with time unstuck - Janet Kauffman "The Original Brain"

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The leopards stake out the backyard - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"

Realized that the stakes are myself - Diane di Prima "Revolutionary Letter #1"

Must sit and stake with quiet breath - Robert Graves "To Lucasta on Going to the Wars--for the Fourth Time"

High stakes the purpose of my throw - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"

Life but a coin to be staked in the pastime - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"

Fate stakes the final claim - Carl Phillips "And Love You Too"

Staked a claim on the cosmos - Analicia Sotelo "Eating the Moon in Cotulla, TX"

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( Statue )

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( Stellar )

Built their sky one story and one stellar cluster at a time - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

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( Stress )

Unstressed by factory and loud humming fuel - francine j. harris "Oregon Trail, Missouri"

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( Stroll )

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Wood ripped from studs and joists - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Stairway to Heaven"

Studded with three nails of burning gold - Robinson Jeffers "Wonder and Joy"

Studded with the last universe's stars - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

With coral clasps and amber studs - Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"

Studded with stars in belt and crown - Marianne Moore "Baseball and Writing"

Their scales studded with tiny barnacles - Lisa Zimmerman "Lake at Night"

Catastrophe's jewel-studded tail - Carl Phillips "At Bay"

Hot beneath this sorrow-studded shield - Molly Raynor "This Is the Undone Season"

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( Stale )

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( Stately )

State.

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( Stuff )

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The stags and does may frolic - Harold Acton "Werther-Introspection"

Built like stags of light - Ana Bozicevic "Intervals of Please"

Four tall stags at a green mountain - E. E. Cummings "Songs (V)"

Hounds scenting out the retreat of the stag - W.H.C.H. "Death of Rob Roy" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

As the stag leaps down the mountain - Arthur Weir "Fleurs de Lys: The Captured Flag"

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This desire for her staggering breath - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"

The stagger in your eyes - Joy Harjo "The Friday Before the Long Weekend"

When the first sleep staggers into dream - Conrad Hilberry "Waning Moon"

When a brass sun staggers above the sky - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"

To the staggered weightlessness of sorrow - Carl Phillips "Meanwhile, and Anyway"

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The meadows of the Sirens starred with blossoms - Benjamin West Ball "Disenchantment"

And starred hibiscus to the brink - Eleanor Downing "Mary"

Starred and spangled courts - Sir William Jones "An Ode: in Imitation of Alcaeus"

Sceptred hands of starred humility - Isaac Rosenberg "On a Lady Singing"

One of the earth-starred denizens - Seamus Heaney "Freedman"

As ill-starred May and blank September - E.J. Pratt "In Absentia"

The toll of ill-starred voyagers - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Sinking of the Titanic"

Star.

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( Stygian )

( Styx )

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( Stain )

Bloodstain.

Rusty cup-stains on the tables - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"

The quiet intent of my earth-stained hands - Pablo Neruda "The Forest" transl. by Alastair Reid

The finger-stains of the devoured - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

In the nest of my inkstained fingers - Forugh Farrokhzad "Born Again" transl. by Jascha Kessler and Amin Banani

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

Their glories, scarlet-stained and golden - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

Arrange the facets of stained glass into story - N. Scott Momaday "The Dragon of Saint-Bertrand-De-Comminges"

Stainless.

All the sun-stained fragments of the day - Helen Hay Whitney "The Supreme Sacrifice"

Time-stained and crusted with the sea's salt breath - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

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

Unstained with flattery's art - James Beattie "Ode on Lord Hay's Birth-Day. 13th May, 1767"

Unstained with hostile blood - John Milton "Hymn: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"

The sun's self unstain'd and bright remains - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: VII"

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( Starve/Starvation )

The cheek of the rain-starved air - Lynn Powell "Indian Summer"

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( Stone )

The past becomes a broken altar-stone - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Made of birthstone & birchbark - John McCarthy "I Wanted to Save Her but the Trailer Park Was a Chasm"

The names those noteless burial-stones display - Owen Roe mac an Bhaird (or Ward), c.1608 "A Lament for the Princes of Tyrone and Tyrconnel" transl. by James Clarence Mangan

Cobble/Cobblestone.

Jesus leaned on the cornerstone - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"

The cornerstone in Truth is laid - Henry van Dyke "For the Friends at Hurstmont"

A grapestone choked Anacreon and hushed his song - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

The groom among the gravestones - Sonya Taaffe "He Should Marry the Daughter of the Angel of Death"

Still as gravestones and as hard - Jane Yolen "Baba Yaga Has Tea with Kostchai the Deathless"

Where Life is at her grindstone set - George Meredith "Hard Weather"

Who have turned the Devil's Grindstone - Ruth Comfort Mitchell "He Went for a Soldier"

Hailstones galloping across the hard earth - Chris Dombrowski "Strange Lullaby"

Where headstones claw up through the clouds - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

The milestones into headstones change - James Russell Lowell "Sixty-Eighth Birthday"

Hearthstone.

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

Wine mixing with cherry blossoms and inkstone - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

The keystone of his airy bridge - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

The stone forest alive with limestone - Khadijah Queen "Reclusionary"

Through limestone caverns of mistakes - A.E. Stallings "Daedal"

Had passed some milestone unaware - Dana Gioia "The Road"

The milestones into headstones change - James Russell Lowell "Sixty-Eighth Birthday"

The gleam of the milestones you must pass - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: XI. The Lodger"

Millstone.

With a sandstone faith still worn - Rebecca G. Biber "Artichoke"

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

Platters of fungus climbing like stepping stones - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"

Stepping-stones of dust - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Blue-Flag in the Bog"

Beneath their feet a living stepping-stone - Margaret Widdemer "The Old Suffragist"

Stone-dust on his tongue - Lola Ridge "Firehead part V: Peter 2: The Vision of the Church"

Graffiti on the stonework - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

( Stony )

The thunder-stone flung forth - Edward Dowden "A Day of Defection"

The fiery tombstone of a cabbage - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"

Tombstone tapestries of digital memories - Sandra J. Lindow "Tombstone Tapestries"

Dread of making another tombstone - Robert Pinsky "First Things to Hand: 2. Book"

Your names as a talisman and a touchstone - Pearl Cleage "We Speak Your Names"

Listened for his whetstone on the breeze - Robert Frost "The Tuft of Flowers"

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( Stiff )

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Astray.

( Stray )

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( Strive )

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( Sting )

( Stung )

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( Stack )

An urgent revelation in a haystack-mounded field - Mike Allen "Mondrian's War"

A needle in a haystack of light - Mary Oliver "Mindful"

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( Strike )

( Struck )

airstrikes littering the litanies of my existence - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"

Joystruck demon of rain - manuel arturo abreu "Klangfarbenmelodie"

Open, lightning-struck and gashed - Janet Kauffman "A Body Walking in Clothes"

Some tower tumbles, lightning-struck - Ann K. Schwader "Slouching Towards Entropy"

Who tames the moonstruck tide - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Moonstruck with music and madness - Oscar Wilde "In the Forest"

Who tames the moonstruck tide - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Moonstruck with music and madness - Oscar Wilde "In the Forest"

Caught in the stormstrike - Rasha Abdulhadi "Mouthful of ash"

Mapping his way through sun-strikes - Charles Wright "In Memory of the Natural World"

Some Titan still unstruck - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"

The desperation of unstruck piano keys - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"

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( Stroke )

Brushstroke.

The shallow sound of cymbal-stroke - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

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( Stick (botanical) )

Lipstick.

Mistake your hands for matchsticks - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"

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Thousands of footprints stamped in the red sand - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

The coursers of the dark stamp down - Walter de la Mare "Nightfall"

A postcard with a foreign stamp - Dana Gioia "Travel"

Stamp'd and scowl'd like any bandit - Henry S. Leigh "With Musical Society"

Stamped the miles of mosses and blackened out the day - Lloyd Roberts "Runners of the Rain"

Marked him with his own black stamp - A.D.T. Whitney "Bo-Peep"

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( Stoop )

Full of the dark-stooping night - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"

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That roam the stock exchanges of the earth - Nancy Mercado "I Have Seen"

Disintegrating worldwide stock markets - Nancy Mercado "2020 A Year to Forget"

His mystic stock in trade - Jack Prelutsky "The Wizard"

Stumbling over stock and stone - Friedrich Schiller "The Peasants"

With thy stock of haloes - Taras Shevchenko "To the Goddess of Fame" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Our stock of tears is vanishing - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 141: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Pond stocked with clouds - Charles Wright "Celestial Waters"

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( Stumble )

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And frugal housewives, strictly pennywise - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

The soul with strict economy - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Life II: Superiority to Fate"

And the blackbirds built their strict songs - Joseph Fasano "Hermitage"

From the paths of strictest sobriety - Henry S. Leigh "An Unappreciated Crichton"

True in word and strict in vow - "Nala and Damayanti" (translated by Henry Hart Milman)

Everything dances with its strict negation - Jeremy Radin "Evening"

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( Straw )

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This word will be erratically indexed as I'm trying to keep the versions that mean 'motionless' or 'a thing for distilling alcohol' while avoiding the version that means 'ongoing.' There are cases where I could take it either way, and I'm not likely to be consistent in my criteria for deciding.

( Still )

When the cider-stills run amber - Clinton Scollard "Now's the Time o' Year"

The porch dust-still, vine-wreathed - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

All flower-still she moved - Zona Gale "When Did Spring Die?"

Among the noon-stilled linden-trees - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

Roots tangled around stillborn engines - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

And basks in the warmth of these still-fragile stars - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

Still Life.

Within the still-point of the song - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"

Some still-retreating goal - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"

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( Static )

The electro-static hum of the big bang - Andre F. Peltier "The Love Theme from Switchblade Sisters"

Sketched storm-static and the dust of masks - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"

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( Start )

My paws no good for fire-starting - Timothy Donnelly "Poem Interrupted by Whitesnake"

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Hurdles and stiles scarce visible - Thomas Hardy "Growth in May"

Ere I pass life's sunset stile - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"

A swinging dream perched on a stile - Charlotte Mew "On the Road to the Sea"

The turnstiles of my life - Perry Janes "Nearly all my friends call me spoiled and ungrateful"

Turnstiles for their immaterial sleep - Claire Millikin "Medicine for Broken Dolls"

Stumbling drunk through the subway turnstile - Minnie Bruce Pratt "The Subway Entrance"

My random turnstile of thirst - Bino A. Realuyo "Euler's Equation"

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( Stem )

Sapphires adorned the bramble-stems - Charles George Douglas Roberts "The Silver Thaw"

The undergrowth of many-stemmed machines - D.H. Lawrence "The Evening Land"

The kite a thin-stemmed flower - Seamus Heaney "A Kite for Aibhin"

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( Stalk )

The stoic, dignified stalker through chaos - D.H. Lawrence "Lui et Elle"

Climbing the beanstalk down the gravity well - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Rattlebox III"

Kingfishers ghosting in cornstalks - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 16"

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( Steep )

The unclouded glow of sun-steeped skies - Emma Lazarus "An Epistle"

The sound of sun-steeped weather - Effie Lee Newsome "O Autumn, Autumn!"

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( Step )

Doorstep.

Footstep.

The roaches march in lockstep - Mike Allen "Ascending"

Reminding you of past missteps - Bogi Takács "You Are Here" [24 Nov. 2014 Strange Horizons]

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"

Platters of fungus climbing like stepping stones - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"

Beneath their feet a living stepping-stone - Margaret Widdemer "The Old Suffragist"

Two-step with beloved ghosts - Angel Nafis "When I Realize I'm Wearing My Girlfriend's Ex-Girlfriend's Panties"

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( Street )

Streetlight/Streetlamp.

Street-smart hip-hop of starling song - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "starling"

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( Stop )

The non-stop roaring hum of cross-stitched freeways - Mouna Ammar "Time-travel"

Nine hundred degrees of nonstop night - Allan Wolf "Venus: Come Live with Me and Be My Lunch"

The canvas for another sunset showstopper - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"

The secrets we stopper within our own mouths - Sonya Taaffe "Amitruq Nekyia"

Inhale the scent of long-unstoppered flasks - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

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

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

Unstoppable beats fiery impact every time - Rae Armantrout "Lie"

Dismay at unstoppable liveliness - Janet Kauffman "Oh, Corporeal"

Could unstop all the laws of the universe - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"

Raised in a whistle-stop town - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"

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( Strain )

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( Stir )

Lives by noise unstirred - Charlotte Bronte "Gilbert I: The Garden"

Sleeps unstirred by any storm - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Stream"

Lies unstirred at summer's heart - Clark Ashton Smith "The Winds"

That jeer from out the wind-stirred tapestries - Iris Tree "[Sun-aureoled lilies are your priestesses]"

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( Steel )

Rimmed round by steel-built battleships - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"

With steel-clad breast, and coward heart - "By Memory Inspired" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Steel-skeletal cars stacked with stranger cargo - Mike Allen "Strange Cargo"

A tumbleweed with steel-toed boots - Yesenia Montilla "a brief meditation on breath"

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