somethingdarker | Aug. 6th, 2011

Aug. 6th, 2011

Hundreds will tour the bloodshot house - Ama Codjoe "If They Come in the Morning"

Tourists before the separate, chiseled ruin - Katie Ford "Koi"

Be a tourist in the memories of that place - Amelia Gorman "Pickling Dog"

Offer trips to heaven at tourist's rates - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Tourists keeping the views new - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

Where tourists walk by camera light - John McCarthy "On and Off Route 130, Collinsville, Illinois"

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( Torture )

What a torturer wears to a press conference - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"

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( Torment )

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( Atop )

( Top )

A Big-Top tent turned fallout zone - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"

A seaside saint in her clifftop niches - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"

( Hilltop )

Submerging mountaintops in stormwater - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

The mountaintop of experience - Edward Hirsch "Marina Tsvetaeva"

That out-top the adoring spheres - Frederick George Scott "The Frenzy of Prometheus"

Outtop the blue-ribbed sky - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Spirit of War"

Have overtopped the wheat - Aubrey de Vere "Human Life"

a certain rooftop not far from collapse - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"

A tabletop scattered with ruins - Mary Jo Bang "Interrupted Briefly by a Borrowed Phrase, the Scene Proceeds"

Cleaving the topmost cloud - Amy Levy "Medea"

Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock - Thomas Warton Jr. "The Pleasures of Melancholy"

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

( Treetop )

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( Torrent )

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( Town )

Up on a midtown metropolis edifice - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"

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Tornado's sharp-toed steeds - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Resurrection"

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

Tiptoe.

( Toe )

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( Touch )

The silver of moon-touched magnolias - Amy Lowell "Opal"

Photos retouched for accuracy - Achy Obejas "Recountal"

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

Arms curve over a touchless embrace - Daisy Aldan "A Dance Without Touch"

The final touchpoints of calligraphy - Rumi "Sanai" transl. by Coleman Barks

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

wilting like the wind-touched crops - Giovannai Rosa "a force is a push, or a pull (5.8 million puerto ricans in america)"

Everything wild and wonder-touched - Gretchen Tessmer "A Jar of Condensed Milk"

Untouched.

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( Tool )

A toolbox to support purgatory - Mary Jo Bang "A Equals All of a Sudden"

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( Toy )

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( Tore )

( Torn )

A torn-bread awkwardness - Mary Jo Bang "February Elegy"

Legions in the flame-torn sky - Virna Sheard "Carry On!"

Bloodrust fire, fleshtorn ground - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"

Between its flood-torn shores - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"

Deeps of the wind-torn west - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Summons"

( Tear/Tearing (as in ripping or rending) )

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Cold seas of azure and topaz - Ruth Margaret Muskrat "In Class"

And bud with amethyst and topaz - William Cullen Bryant "A Winter Piece"

The topaz fire of votive urns - Amy Lowell "The Coal Picker"

Magic dew in topaz cup - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "The Crocus Bed"

A topaz sky and huge windows - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman

In the tranquility of topaz - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

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Flying through the ten toasts - Alda do Espirito Santo "The Same Side of the Canoe" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver

A toast of bottled kerosene - Tarik Dobbs "Parade in Gaza: The Model Is About to Be Burned"

One more Toast before we go - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

So let us toast our Foe of Foes - Oliver Herford "Mephisto"

Drizzles gold on her breakfast toast - Maggie Smith "Where Honey Comes From"

His flasks and alembics proposing a toast - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"

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Those implacable princes of tobacco - Cyrus Cassells "Caesars and Dreamers"

In those tobacco killing fields - Tyree Daye "Ms. Shirley Writes Us a Letter from the Other Side"

Long tendrils of tobacco smoke - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

A bonfire of cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"

Dimmed with tobacco and dream - Robert W. Service "Good-Bye, Little Cabin"

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Entombed with the hourless night - Djuna Barnes "Call of the Night"

Fossil of a seahorse entombed - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"

Entomb blind joy in its spell - Rickey Laurentiis "Because we love each other"

The amulets of home entombed for solace - Maureen N. McLane "Populating Heaven"

( Tomb )

Which shouts its tomb-like silence - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"

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"

A tombstone in a cemetery of teeth - Jacques J. Rancourt "The Loons Prove that Even Before There Was a Word for Grief It Existed as Song"

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( Toad )

The tree-toad trilled his dream - W. Wilfred Campbell "How One Winter Came"

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In another dream altogether - Ralph Angel "In Every Direction"

( Together )

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( Tonight )

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( Topple )

O'ertoppling moment of supremest bliss - Edith Wharton "The Last Token. A.D. 107. (She Speaks)"

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( Tomorrow )

Morrow.

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( Today )

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( Toward/Towards )

Dared to scorn untoward chance - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"

Cast out by the hand that scatters food untowards - D.H. Lawrence "Bread Upon the Waters"

With untoward avowal break the peace - Carmen Sylva "A Room"

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( Tower )

Crimson kings on battle-towers - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

Wearing a crown of overtowering rage - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"

In the watchtower that is my body - Jada Renée Allen "Interior"

The dread watch-tower of man's absolute self - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "To a Gentleman"

To purge the god of watchtowers - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

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( Toll )

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The total of my bolder gains - Maxwell Bodenheim "Portraits. V: Housewife"

The rhythm of total destruction - Anne Boyer "The Revolt of the Peasant Girls"

Slip into total eclipse - Christopher Kondrich "Map of Belonging"

Give the sum total of infinity - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Numbers" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Where life's total sum is sleep - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "An Idyll of Dandaloo"

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The years of the tortoise and the crane - Kuo P'u "Poem on the Wandering Immortal" transl. by Burton Watson

Tortoises always foresee obstacles - D.H. Lawrence "Tortoise Family Connections"

Traded the golden tortoise for wine - Li Po "Facing Wine with Memories of Lord Ho" transl. by Burton Watson

Still as any startled tortoise - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

Tortoiseshell hairpins with a pair of pearls - "There's Someone I Think Of" transl. by Burton Watson

Toys of tortoise-shell and jasper - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"

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( Tomato )

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Intoxicate.

An antitoxin to the world's infections - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

A mutant rose's neurotoxin - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen C"

( Toxic )

This element of toxicity falling like snow - Wendy Xu "Notes on Sentence Crossing"

In its toxin of last resort - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"

the toxins of past memories - Rachelle Saint Louis "Manman Ak Pitit"

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Bring and betoken toil and grief - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry IX: Curse" transl. by Sir John Bowring

( Token )

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( Tornado )

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( Tongue )

Adder-tongues in coats of gold - Bliss Carman "The Deserted Pasture"

Crown you double-tongued and quicksilver - Sonya Taaffe "Muse"

Where Macha's flame-tongued horses flee - Thomas Boyd "The King's Son"

Read the air for ghost-tongues - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Some loose-tongued prophet's meddling word - Don Marquis "The Sage and the Woman"

Sharp-tongued flame of death - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"

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

Do not press my tongue-tied patience - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXL"

Come not trumpet-tongued from Heaven - Edith Wharton "Opportunities"

The wolf-tongued rapid howl - Duncan Campbell Scott "Home Song"

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( Toss )

Heart-tossed shadows in them lie - Martha Walker Cook "Clouds: Cumuli. Respectfully Dedicated to Professor Guyot" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]

Like a sparrow tempest-tost - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"

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( Torch )

Good citizen torch bearers out to set the night ablaze - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Ajax stands in the Trojan torchlight - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

That has run so many torch-lit races - Maxwell E. Foster "Truth"

By torch-light and alone - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

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( Tone )

The deep-toned yell of hounds - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.X--Autumn, in its Second Aspect"

An echo-tone of memory - Mrs. Harriet S. Handy "Stanzas for Music"

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( Toil )

As the long-toiling light fades - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Death of the Laureate"

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The air is full of tolerant embraces - Susan Comninos "Our Father, Our King"

Tolerant of memories and the muttering prophets - Robinson Jeffers "Ocean"

In their green and breathing tolerance - Grace Nichols "In the Shade of a London Plane Tree"

How much choreographed relief a kingdom tolerates - K. Iver "Sleeping Beauty"

The intolerable thought none can ignore - Cale Young Rice "Submarine Mountains"

Amidst this intolerable radiance - Kamini Roy "In the Light" transl. by Lilian M. Whitehouse

Intolerant mountains of iron and ice - Louis Golding "The Quest"

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( Tough )

Tough-grained calamities - Harold Acton "Cold Joints"

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