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( Acheron )
In the shadow of the Alamo - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"
Everything seems romantic in Alaska - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"
And Albyn's thousand harps awake - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
The august eye of Aldebaran - Lola Ridge "Fame"
( Alexandria )
( Alps )
That cloak the Amazon and its serpentine tributaries - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
America.
( Andes )
Mow through Andromeda spirals - Mike Allen "Deluge"
On tiptoe from childhood to Annunciation - Rainer Maria Rilke "Mary Virgin" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Antarctic.
To render strong Antares blind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
The still shimmering plastic shards of the Anthropocene - Keith Taylor "I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes"
For a seat on Appalachia's brow - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"
( Aquarius )
In pre-Archaean periods of elemental stress - William Hodgson Ellis "When You and I were Young, Adam"
Arctic.
( Arcturus )
Shall learn the quietness of Arden - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
( Argo )
The sighing zephyrs of sandy Argos - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Ark.
Paper all of Arkansas with your missing - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"
Armada.
( Armageddon )
In Arno's vale you made yourself a nest - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
And Assyrian wine to shatter her fever - H.D. "Acon"
Athens.
Atlantic.
Atlantis.
Under the frigid twinkling of Gemini and Auriga - Andre F. Peltier "Hockey Night in Emmett County"
( Avalon )
( Avon )
Babel.
Babylon.
spent my days staring into the eye of the Baltic - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"
At once Baroque and Paleolithic - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Through Bastile-bars it sought communion with the free - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Laura Bridgman"
( Bedlam )
Airs from the Beggar's Opera on broken fiddles played - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Beggar King"
Where the remote Bermudas ride - Andrew Marvell "Bermudas"
Through Bermuda triangles of blood - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fibroids"
While Bethel's thunder peal'd another story - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Wise Men lost on their way to Bethlehem - Martin Espada "Flowers and Bullets"
The psychosis behind Birth of a Nation - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
( Black Sea )
Cheap balloon juice of a Blarney brew - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Diamonds sought in deep Brazilian mines - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
Swim the violent current down Broadway - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
Tales that haunt the Brocken and whisper down the Rhine - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
As it festers every August in Brooklyn - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"
( Byzantine/Byzantium )
Ten gold suns in California - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
Through the depths of the Cambrian fen - Langdon Smith "Evolution"
Camelot will not stay - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
( Canaan )
Stranded in the Caribbean without a passport - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"
( Carthage )
A humble cloud can bust the lamp of Cassiopeta [sic] - John Grey "Skywatching"
Caught sturgeon in the reed-filled Caspian - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
Captured in Syrian ivory and Caucasian tin - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
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]
The many intricate songs of birds flying in Central Park - Nancy Mercado "New York at 42"
Within that curtain of Charybdis - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
an intermingling of viridian and chetwode horizons - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"
You're Iowa in the novel about Chicago - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Minor Character"
On Chimborazo's summits treads sublime - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Curtailed by the ever-growing Christmas trees - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Cimmerian depths of mystery and sin - Iris Tree "Streets"
Under the comfort of Cincinnati fog - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad I"
And long the way from Colchis - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
They nailed the Colosseum down - Oliver Herford "J. Pierpont Morgan"
( Colossus of Rhodes )
Our Cressy's too have dwindled since to penny things - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Re-staging that same old Cretaceous deathmatch - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Reduced to the greeting card section of CVS - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"
They raze Cygnus with worries for the next day - John Grey "Skywatching"
From the source of the Moldau to that of the Danube - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
( Dead Sea )
Ruffles and ribbons streaming into Delaware - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
( Delphi )
The calorie content of the Diet of Worms - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
( Disney )
In those weird wastes of Dixie - Effie Lee Newsome "Exodus"
A ghastly stain in the Domesday book - Henry S. Leigh "The Plot of a Romance"
Eden.
Egypt.
Our El Dorado's treasure stores - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
And lurked before the walls of Elsinore - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: ii) Godzilla in Shakespeare"
Elysium.
( England/English )
Convoluted Enochian cyphers occupying and freeing up the mind - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"
Houses Pegasus and Equules in its dusty windows - John Grey "Skywatching"
( Etna )
( Euphrates )
The Sphinx that puzzled Europe - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"
The square root of Everest - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
Where the snake and alligator lurk in endless everglades - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
( Exodus )
A longhorn winding its bells through the Field of Reeds - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Red tide strangling Florida's shore - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Never really left the Forbidden City of your heart - Alexandra Seidel "The City that Wasn't There"
Our private fountain of youth - Andre F. Peltier "After Soccer Practice"
( France )
That Sinbad once sailed to Gaza - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"
From beneath Gehenna stirred - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"
( Gemini )
In the shadow of the Alamo - Molly Spotted Elk [Molly Alice Nelson] "[Down in the land of roses]"
Everything seems romantic in Alaska - Victoria Chang "A Woman with a Bird"
And Albyn's thousand harps awake - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"
The august eye of Aldebaran - Lola Ridge "Fame"
( Alexandria )
( Alps )
That cloak the Amazon and its serpentine tributaries - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
America.
( Andes )
Mow through Andromeda spirals - Mike Allen "Deluge"
On tiptoe from childhood to Annunciation - Rainer Maria Rilke "Mary Virgin" transl. by Jessie Lemont
Antarctic.
To render strong Antares blind - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
The still shimmering plastic shards of the Anthropocene - Keith Taylor "I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes"
For a seat on Appalachia's brow - Joseph Rodman Drake "To a Friend"
( Aquarius )
In pre-Archaean periods of elemental stress - William Hodgson Ellis "When You and I were Young, Adam"
Arctic.
( Arcturus )
Shall learn the quietness of Arden - Sterling A. Brown "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
( Argo )
The sighing zephyrs of sandy Argos - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"
Ark.
Paper all of Arkansas with your missing - Hala Alyan "Aleppo"
Armada.
( Armageddon )
In Arno's vale you made yourself a nest - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]
And Assyrian wine to shatter her fever - H.D. "Acon"
Athens.
Atlantic.
Atlantis.
Under the frigid twinkling of Gemini and Auriga - Andre F. Peltier "Hockey Night in Emmett County"
( Avalon )
( Avon )
Babel.
Babylon.
spent my days staring into the eye of the Baltic - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"
At once Baroque and Paleolithic - Caroline Harper New "The Archaeology Magazine"
Through Bastile-bars it sought communion with the free - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Laura Bridgman"
( Bedlam )
Airs from the Beggar's Opera on broken fiddles played - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Beggar King"
Where the remote Bermudas ride - Andrew Marvell "Bermudas"
Through Bermuda triangles of blood - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fibroids"
While Bethel's thunder peal'd another story - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Wise Men lost on their way to Bethlehem - Martin Espada "Flowers and Bullets"
The psychosis behind Birth of a Nation - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
( Black Sea )
Cheap balloon juice of a Blarney brew - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Diamonds sought in deep Brazilian mines - Rev. James Gilborne Lyons "A Welcome Sacrifice" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.428, 13 March 1852]
Swim the violent current down Broadway - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
Tales that haunt the Brocken and whisper down the Rhine - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
As it festers every August in Brooklyn - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"
( Byzantine/Byzantium )
Ten gold suns in California - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"
Through the depths of the Cambrian fen - Langdon Smith "Evolution"
Camelot will not stay - Kiki Petrosino "Happiness"
( Canaan )
Stranded in the Caribbean without a passport - Duane Ackerson "Three Urban Legends"
( Carthage )
A humble cloud can bust the lamp of Cassiopeta [sic] - John Grey "Skywatching"
Caught sturgeon in the reed-filled Caspian - Juliana Spahr "December 2, 2002"
Captured in Syrian ivory and Caucasian tin - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
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]
The many intricate songs of birds flying in Central Park - Nancy Mercado "New York at 42"
Within that curtain of Charybdis - Grenville Mellen "Niagara"
an intermingling of viridian and chetwode horizons - Raina J. León "making life on a palette"
You're Iowa in the novel about Chicago - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Minor Character"
On Chimborazo's summits treads sublime - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"
Curtailed by the ever-growing Christmas trees - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Cimmerian depths of mystery and sin - Iris Tree "Streets"
Under the comfort of Cincinnati fog - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"
From Clee to heaven the beacon burns - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad I"
And long the way from Colchis - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"
They nailed the Colosseum down - Oliver Herford "J. Pierpont Morgan"
( Colossus of Rhodes )
Our Cressy's too have dwindled since to penny things - Thomas Hood "A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Re-staging that same old Cretaceous deathmatch - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Reduced to the greeting card section of CVS - Ishmael Reed "Skin Tight"
They raze Cygnus with worries for the next day - John Grey "Skywatching"
From the source of the Moldau to that of the Danube - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
( Dead Sea )
Ruffles and ribbons streaming into Delaware - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
( Delphi )
The calorie content of the Diet of Worms - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
( Disney )
In those weird wastes of Dixie - Effie Lee Newsome "Exodus"
A ghastly stain in the Domesday book - Henry S. Leigh "The Plot of a Romance"
Eden.
Egypt.
Our El Dorado's treasure stores - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"
And lurked before the walls of Elsinore - Jo Walton "The Godzilla Sonnets: ii) Godzilla in Shakespeare"
Elysium.
( England/English )
Convoluted Enochian cyphers occupying and freeing up the mind - Bogi Takács "Torah and Secular Learning"
Houses Pegasus and Equules in its dusty windows - John Grey "Skywatching"
( Etna )
( Euphrates )
The Sphinx that puzzled Europe - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"
The square root of Everest - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
Where the snake and alligator lurk in endless everglades - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]
( Exodus )
A longhorn winding its bells through the Field of Reeds - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Red tide strangling Florida's shore - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Never really left the Forbidden City of your heart - Alexandra Seidel "The City that Wasn't There"
Our private fountain of youth - Andre F. Peltier "After Soccer Practice"
( France )
That Sinbad once sailed to Gaza - Ammiel Alcalay "My Apologies"
From beneath Gehenna stirred - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"
( Gemini )
