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Atom.
Electron.
Element.
Elemental.
Ion:
My brother's unfamiliar ions vibrating - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"
Through the wires on the backs of ions - Bob Hicok "Calling him back from layoff"
Innumberable ions of light - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Isotope:
Rare isotopes housed in translucent green - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Heavy Metals:
They will speak of heavy metals in the air - Mara Pastor "Entonces Mi Hija/Then My Daughter" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
Molecule.
Nucleus.
Proton:
In proton loops, on cushioned air - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Quark:
Desire a particular flavor of quark - Nora Weston "Things Allergic to Sleep"
Aluminum:
The aluminum morning takes on more tension - Mary Jo Bang "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice"
How quickly oil moves to aluminum - Mary Jo Bang "S Is for Strategies for Making Sense of Spectacles"
Keeps sanctity in aluminum cans - B. K. Fischer "Perceptive"
Arsenic.
Barium:
Swirls of copper blue and barium green - Ian Goh "Firework"
Sunlight scattering sodium and barium in the atmosphere - August Huerta "Concerning President Carter and the UFO Sighting"
Cadmium:
Our cadmium needles scatter - Chris Dombrowski "Larches"
A curious lantern's cadmium - Chris Dombrowski "Van Gogh's Palette"
Elephants in cabaret dresses reddish & cadmium blue - Juan Felipe Herrera "Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema"
Rising with copper in one hand and cadmium in the other - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Calcium/Calcify.
Carbon.
Cesium:
Spun round the edges of the cesium quarry - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A Cesium fountain spouts an arc of atoms - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
Chlorine:
The silvery smell of chlorine in his clothes - Laurel Blossom "Bonnie Blue"
Under the crush of chlorinated water - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Letdown"
Chromium:
These women carry the tribe on their chromium backs - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Cobalt.
Copper.
Cyanide:
Pack my toothbrush and my cyanide molar - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"
Gold.
Helium.
Hydrogen.
Iodine:
Licks its wounds that taste of iodine - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
Patterning a name in driblets of iodine - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"
In the reek of iodine and blood - Francis Brett Young "After Action"
Iridium:
A few iridium specks of idea - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"
Iron.
Lead (all)/Led.
Lithium:
I have enclosed my voice in lithium - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"
Magnesium:
Dragons breathing white-hot magnesium across humid skies - Ian Goh "Firework"
Mercury/Mercurial.
Neon.
Nickel.
Nitrogen:
A red rose just before it's dipped in liquid nitrogen - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Infused with lies and nitrogen - Ana Castillo "A Storm upon Us"
Hope for the nitrogen feeding your grass - K. Iver "For Missy Who Never Got His New Name"
No nitrogen cycle or atmosphere or cantaloupe - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]
Oxygen.
Phosphorus.
Platinum:
Shoot the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Hippopotamus"
Platinum but hollow inside - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
The platinum thread beyond them - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"
Just there on reality's platinum fringe - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"
Plutonium:
Sweating drops of liquid plutonium - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Radium:
But I have radium dreams - Sheila Black "Radium Dream"
With eyes of radium - Max Bodenheim "The Operation"
A radium of the word - Mina Loy "Gertrude Stein"
Silver.
Sulfur/Sulphur.
Sodium:
Sunlight scattering sodium and barium in the atmosphere - August Huerta "Concerning President Carter and the UFO Sighting"
Steeped in sodium and stir-fry - Wo Chan "[What makes you possible?]"
Strontium:
As strontium red and shot silver explode - Ian Goh "Firework"
Tin.
Titanium:
Titanium scales rhyming across curves - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Tungsten:
Tungsten for the fireflies' freeze tag - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Uranium:
The promise of honey, the symbol for uranium - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Zinc:
The wind shrieking in the zinc roof - Noemia da Sousa "Poem of Distant Childhood" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver
The shimmering of zinc and apples - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The change of musical coins across the zinc counter - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
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Electron.
Element.
Elemental.
Ion:
My brother's unfamiliar ions vibrating - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"
Through the wires on the backs of ions - Bob Hicok "Calling him back from layoff"
Innumberable ions of light - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Isotope:
Rare isotopes housed in translucent green - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Heavy Metals:
They will speak of heavy metals in the air - Mara Pastor "Entonces Mi Hija/Then My Daughter" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong
Molecule.
Nucleus.
Proton:
In proton loops, on cushioned air - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Quark:
Desire a particular flavor of quark - Nora Weston "Things Allergic to Sleep"
Aluminum:
The aluminum morning takes on more tension - Mary Jo Bang "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice"
How quickly oil moves to aluminum - Mary Jo Bang "S Is for Strategies for Making Sense of Spectacles"
Keeps sanctity in aluminum cans - B. K. Fischer "Perceptive"
Arsenic.
Barium:
Swirls of copper blue and barium green - Ian Goh "Firework"
Sunlight scattering sodium and barium in the atmosphere - August Huerta "Concerning President Carter and the UFO Sighting"
Cadmium:
Our cadmium needles scatter - Chris Dombrowski "Larches"
A curious lantern's cadmium - Chris Dombrowski "Van Gogh's Palette"
Elephants in cabaret dresses reddish & cadmium blue - Juan Felipe Herrera "Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema"
Rising with copper in one hand and cadmium in the other - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Calcium/Calcify.
Carbon.
Cesium:
Spun round the edges of the cesium quarry - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
A Cesium fountain spouts an arc of atoms - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
Chlorine:
The silvery smell of chlorine in his clothes - Laurel Blossom "Bonnie Blue"
Under the crush of chlorinated water - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Letdown"
Chromium:
These women carry the tribe on their chromium backs - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Cobalt.
Copper.
Cyanide:
Pack my toothbrush and my cyanide molar - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"
Gold.
Helium.
Hydrogen.
Iodine:
Licks its wounds that taste of iodine - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
Patterning a name in driblets of iodine - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"
In the reek of iodine and blood - Francis Brett Young "After Action"
Iridium:
A few iridium specks of idea - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"
Iron.
Lead (all)/Led.
Lithium:
I have enclosed my voice in lithium - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"
Magnesium:
Dragons breathing white-hot magnesium across humid skies - Ian Goh "Firework"
Mercury/Mercurial.
Neon.
Nickel.
Nitrogen:
A red rose just before it's dipped in liquid nitrogen - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Infused with lies and nitrogen - Ana Castillo "A Storm upon Us"
Hope for the nitrogen feeding your grass - K. Iver "For Missy Who Never Got His New Name"
No nitrogen cycle or atmosphere or cantaloupe - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]
Oxygen.
Phosphorus.
Platinum:
Shoot the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Hippopotamus"
Platinum but hollow inside - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
The platinum thread beyond them - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"
Just there on reality's platinum fringe - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"
Plutonium:
Sweating drops of liquid plutonium - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Radium:
But I have radium dreams - Sheila Black "Radium Dream"
With eyes of radium - Max Bodenheim "The Operation"
A radium of the word - Mina Loy "Gertrude Stein"
Silver.
Sulfur/Sulphur.
Sodium:
Sunlight scattering sodium and barium in the atmosphere - August Huerta "Concerning President Carter and the UFO Sighting"
Steeped in sodium and stir-fry - Wo Chan "[What makes you possible?]"
Strontium:
As strontium red and shot silver explode - Ian Goh "Firework"
Tin.
Titanium:
Titanium scales rhyming across curves - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Tungsten:
Tungsten for the fireflies' freeze tag - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Uranium:
The promise of honey, the symbol for uranium - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Zinc:
The wind shrieking in the zinc roof - Noemia da Sousa "Poem of Distant Childhood" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver
The shimmering of zinc and apples - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
The change of musical coins across the zinc counter - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
