Potential Titles: Elements - Chemical [Category]

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"

Molecule.

Nucleus:
grief wakes the nucleus of the whole atom - Lee Ballentine "The Whole Atom"

Rogue electrons twining around those almond nuclei - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."

Splitting the nucleus of human vice - Anthony Madrid "Try Never"

The nucleus of that larger league - Amy Redpath Roddick "The British Lands"

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:
Holy Mother of Arsenic and Lead - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Arsenic slurry caged behind a dam - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"

Powdered arsenic upon his lips - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"

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"

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:
Blinded by fierce calcium rays - Oliver Herford "The Hydra"

The calcium's sleeping feet - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Small calcium words uttered in sequence - Naomi Shihab Nye "Different Ways to Pray"

Old caves of calcium icicles - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"

Carbon.

Cesium:
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"

Cobalt.

Copper.

Gold.

Helium:
A crystal ball lowered into low-hanging helium - Ian Goh "Firework"

A taste of helium in the veins - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Featuring Lonette Mckee as Sister"

Hope and all of its helium - Camisha L. Jones "Praise Song for the Body"

Happenstance and helium - Lauren Russell "Exposition"

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"

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


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Potential Titles: Elements - Traditional [Category]

Air.

Earth.

Element.

Elemental.

Fire.

Metal.

Water.

Wood/Wooden/Woodland.


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Potential Titles: Employment [category]

Career.

Contract.

Earn.

Employ.

Hire/Hireling.

Job:
Because it is convenient for the jobs - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"

The job of resisting the sweep of time - Mary Jo Bang "Mistress Mary, Quite"

On the beautiful bleak enamel paint job - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"

Jobs making infinite voids - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Labor/Labour.

Overtime:
The devil works overtime - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"

Payday:
Sinatra always plays on payday - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"

Adds water to the soup until payday - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"

Rent due & payday missing - Jose Olivarez "Maybach Music (with a sample from Paul Wall)"

Lend it to you like a payday loan - Amie Whittemore "The Alien Epistles, Letters 1-3"

Pension:
Win the drifting pension of dust - Maxwell Bodenheim "The Incurable Mystic Answers Western Ambitions"

A pensioner of sea and cloud - Jeannette Marks "The Wanderer"

and retired without a pension - Chaun Webster "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"

Per Diem:
I organize on vinyl and per diems - Russell Brakefield "Field Recordings"

Resume:
A resume of thin successes - Julia Alvarez "Lunch Hour, 1971"

Stipend:
In love with a meager stipend - Su Tung-p'o "New Year's Eve" transl. by Burton Watson

Vocation:
A vocation of anger - Anne Carson "The Glass Essay"

Burnishes her prized vocations - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Wage.

Work.


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