Potential Titles: Food - Eating/Drinking (mostly verbs) [category]

Appetite.

Bread-Breaking:
Satisfied before bread-breaking - Mina Loy "The Dead"

Calorie:
The calorie content of the Diet of Worms - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"

Chew.

Devour.

Diet.

Digest.

Dine.

Drink/Drank.

Drunk.

Eat.

Famish.

Fed/Feed.

Gnaw.

Gobble:
Russia gobbling your world half in - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Graze.

Gulp:
Wolf dark matter gulfs in gassy gulps - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Vast dragon-gulps of steam - Harriet Monroe "In the Yellowstone"

Hunger/Hungry.

Imbibe:
Imbibes a tone of nature-nurtured truth - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"

All the vehicles for imbibing - Brandon D. Johnson "Standing by a Shelf"

All of joy imbibe the dew - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

Ingest:
Ingested by terror - C. K. Williams "And Fear"

Masticate:
Masticate the ash of witness - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"

Meal.

Nibble.

Nourish.

Quaff.

Savor.

Sip.

Slake.

Starve.

Sup:
They that supped with War - George Sterling "Tidal, King of Nations"

Swig:
Another stolen swig of whiskey - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"

Thirst.

Toast.


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Potential Titles: Food/Drink - Preparation [Category]

Bake.

Barbecue:
The beer and barbecue footnote - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"

Blanche:
The blanched eye of our grief - Aracelis Girmay "Ceremony for Remembering the Doorless World"

Holy horror blanch each brow - Frances E.W. Harper "The Martyr of Alabama"

A blanched moon full of fear - Iris Tree "Bahama Islands I"

Boil.

Brew.

Brine.

Cater:
How we cater to loneliness - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Churn.

Cook.

Curdle:
Black, curdling fog climbing into their nostrils - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"

Sap that curdles milk - D.H. Lawrence "Figs"

To curdle dawns uneaten skin - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"

Crossed and curdled wells and streams - Algernon Swinburne "A Ninth Birthday. February 4, 1883"

Decant:
Decanting these omens - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"

Distill.

Ferment.

Fry:
Careful chemistry of fried egg - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Root Systems"

Curled ribbons of fried light - Natalie Diaz "Duned"

Steeped in sodium and stir-fry - Wo Chan "[What makes you possible?]"

Kitchen.

Knead:
Filthy hands kneading dough under the cosmos - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Of bread kneaded on the moon - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Kneaded out of the formless clay - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"

Leaven.

Mince:
Fed them platters of minced scandal - Maxwell Bodenheim "Captain Simmons' Wife"

Mull:
Songs like old mulled wine - John Masefield "The Golden City of St. Mary"

Pare:
The blade that pares and cleaves me - Jade Cho "Three Months Since"

Pared until only the edge remained - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"

Peel.

Percolate:
Of percolation and policy - Erin Belieu "Field"

Dawn oversees percolating coffee - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"

Pickle.

Roast:
Rage roasting me tender - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"

Roasted & packed like a warm thought - Kiki Petrosino "Post-Apocalyptical"

Seasoning:
Seasoned with need - jayy dodd "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"

Hear eclipses' seasoning - Elaine Equi "After and in Keeping with H.D."

Seasoned with sorrows and blasted hopes - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

Simmer:
Inside your simmering year - Joyelle McSweeney "Simon the Good"

Tomatoes simmered on the summer vines - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Sizzle.

Stew.

Stir.

Stir-Fry:
Steeped in sodium and stir-fry - Wo Chan "[What makes you possible?]"

Toast.

Whisk:
The sun whisking your deepest marrow - Erika L. Sanchez "Portrait of a Wetback"


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Potential Titles: Food/Drink - Tools for preparing/serving/consuming [Category]

Barrel.

Basin.

Bowl.

Cask:
Spent casks of wind - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XVI"

In casks safe from time and tears - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"

Cauldron.

Churn.

Colander:
More colander than container - Stephanie Heit "Waiting Bay"

Corkscrew:
A mauve vine corkscrewed up from the deep oblivion - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

With its buried corkscrew of hate - Kiki Petrosino "Young"

Crock:
A crock of gold inside a hollow tree - James Stephens "Behind the Hill"

Cup.

Cutlery:
Rattling cutlery with our absence - Jamaal May "Love Poem Moving Back and Forth Across Glass"

In the cutlery of lightning - Pablo Neruda "Death" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Decanter:
From the slim-cut decanters of death - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"

Dipper:
The dipper spills its emptiness into my cup - Conrad Hilberry "Virginia Night"

Dish.

Dishsoap:
Joy, which is also a dishsoap - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"

Altered its taste to bitter dishsoap - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"

Drinking-Cup:
With an emperor's skull for a drinking-cup - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"

Flagon.

Flask.

Fork.

Goblet.

Grill:
Grilling ink into the blue thaw - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"

Sausage cackling char on the grill - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"

Jar.

Jug:
Cement burst jugs and make them healthy - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"

A jug of cider on the board - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Joys of the Road"

A leaky jug of lust and worry - Ted Kooser "In the Hall of Bones"

A jug of bloody milk, poured - Aimee Le "My Winter of Acid"

Keg:
Both by the keg and by the pound - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Celebration"

Bargain for a keg of apple-sauce - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

Old liqueurs in leather kegs - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"

Kettle.

Kitchen.

Knife/Knives.

Mason Jar:
A recurring nightmare about being trapped in a Mason jar - Bruce Boston "Signs You Could Be a Clone"

Your brains puddled in a brass-capped mason jar - Emma Trelles "Florida Poem"

Menu:
Enticing maps and menus of easily affordable adventures - Dana Gioia "Travel"

A dropdown menu of dreams - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"

Mortar.

Mug:
Pull a ribbon of honey into handmade mugs - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"

Ruining your heart over mug after mug of bitter coffee - Edward Hirsch "The Task"

Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"

Gave you a mug of warm wine - Richard Scott "dem bones"

Napkin:
Unfolded trust from its cloth napkin - Christopher Kondrich "Trust"

Oven.

Pan (used for cooking).

Pitcher:
Like empty pitchers to a full fountain - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Plate.

Platter:
Fed them platters of minced scandal - Maxwell Bodenheim "Captain Simmons' Wife"

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

Pot.

Pressure-Cooker:
Diamonds in a pressure-cooker sky - Allan Wolf "Uranus: The Planet Behind the Blue-Green Mask"

Punch Bowl:
Gymnosperms by the punch bowl - Haley Bossé "When the Time Comes to Split the Gym"

Recipe.

Salver:
Pearls on silver salver rattling - Count Tolstoi "The Scolding" transl. by John Pollen

Samovar:
Made salt tea in a coral samovar - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Saucer:
Pottery saucers with wicks and butter - Ava Leavell Haymon "Festival of Lights"

Skillet:
My skillet has gone to war - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"

Onions sizzling in a cast iron skillet - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"

the skillet heat of black asphalt - Maria Zoccola "Dry Land"

Spice-Box:
My rhymes I pick out from the spice-box - Hugh Lofting "The Porridge Poet"

Spoon.

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

Stove:
Sweets for the stove god - May Chong "Catering"

Sizzles a sermon from the stove - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"

The stove is cold so salt won't burn - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Teacup.

Teapot:
Ocean's teapot of eroding waves - Mary Jo Bang "Real Time"

A teapot pouring into the black cup of a summer night - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

Teaspoon:
Plus a teaspoon-taste of history - Chen Chen "First Light"

Just a teaspoon of you - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"

Thermos:
Liquid hydrogen filled a thermos - Tyler Mills "'Mike' Test"

Tin Can.

Vat:
Where poppies heap the marble vats - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"

Pickled in a vat of tears - A.E. Stallings "Olives"

Vial.

Whiskey-Flask:
Found a little whisky-flask of Irony - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

Wine-Cup:
To beware of the wine-cup's demon lure - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"

Wineglass:
bring me wineglasses of miracles - Michael Leong "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"

Like a wineglass of hatred - Pablo Neruda "Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)" transl. by Jack Schmitt

The wineglass of hereafter - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly

Wine-Press:
The wine-press of the Wrath of God - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"

Wok:
Sharp singing aromas from scarred woks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."


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Potential Titles: Food - Specific Meals [Category]

Banquet.

Breakfast.

Dessert:
Her theater of absurd desserts - Philip Schultz "Cakes"

Diet.

Dinner.

Feast.

Lunch.

Picnic:
In the glorious picnics of the past - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"

In the quiet picnic of consciousness - Billy Collins "Going Out for Cigarettes"

Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

I don't picnic on Sundays - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi

Supper:
A supper that wants a grace - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

Fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"


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Potential Titles: Food [Category]

Food - Herbs & Spices [category].


Almond.

Apple.

Applesauce:
Bargain for a keg of apple-sauce - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

Apricot.

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

The artichoke watches the train - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"

To dig the homely artichoke - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"

An artichoke in six varieties of blue - Marianne Moore "When I Buy Pictures"

Asparagus:
Wander among the silver asparagus - Kiki Petrosino "Afterlife"

Avocado:
Saw my entire history in an avocado seed - Mary Karr "For My Children"

Her forest of planted avocado jars - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"

Bacon:
Bring us in no bacon - "Bring Us in Good Ale"

Baklava:
As Twinkies are to baklava - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"

Bean.

Beet:
Beets made into involuntary supports - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"

Four beets in a bag - Susan Landers "Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention"

To starve the soil as beets do - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"

A bitter taste of beetroot - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"

Biscuit:
Like biscuits in the wind - Calef Brown "Biscuits in the Wind"

Bread.

Breadcrumb:
Feeding breadcrumbs to geese - John James "Sonata"

Broth:
Until the fear was a thin broth you could swallow - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"

The ingredients of a witches' broth - Robert Frost "Design"

Dispensing with justice the broth and the bread - A.D.T. Whitney "The Big Shoe"

Brown Sugar:
Brown sugar waves dance through - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"

Bun:
A kiss of mayo & mustard on a whole wheat bun - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"

Butter.

Butter Beans:
Butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds - Mahogany L. Browne "When Fannie Lou Hamer Said"

Butter Cookie:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Butterscotch:
Unwrapping golden butterscotches - Maggie Smith "Accidental Pastoral"

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

Growing cabbages or currant bushes - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"

Starves while growing Roses in a Cabbage Lot - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Cake.

Candy.

Candy Bar:
Candy bars with names you didn't recognize - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

Got caught stealing a candy bar - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"

Know where candy bars come from - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"

Cane Syrup:
temper a piston with cane syrup - DaMaris B. Hill "Come. Pray. Know"

Caramel:
The brown caramel days of youth - Maya Angelou "Faces"

Caramels you pick like berries - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"

The dragon orders an iced caramel mocha - Cislyn Smith "Hot"

Carrot:
Two black cats and a beaver who eats carrots all day - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"

White crickets and bouquets of wild carrot - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Chess"

Wild carrot taking the field by force - William Carlos Williams "Queen-Ann's-Lace"

Celery:
A city of swamps and celery - Conrad Hilberry "Causation"

Cheese:
Familiar as his cheese and ale - Theodore Maynard "Sight and Insight"

Full of mirth and cheese - "Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House"

Chickpea:
Wide open with chickpeas and ivy - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Chocolate.

Coconut:
Captive of the coconut glade - Angela Manalang-Gloria "Yellow Moon"

Confection:
Into chrome and sun and shotgun confection - Catherine Bowman "Heart"

a flood of sweet confections waiting inside - Karla Cordero "Everything Needs Fixing"

Cookie:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Corn.

Cotton Candy:
Suck cotton candy nebulae through his teeth - Mike Allen "Deluge"

The sky sells cotton candy - Ralph James Savarese "The Bearing Edge"

Cream.

Cress:
In the aftermath of purple cress - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"

In a carpet of starwort and cress - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

Crumbs.

Cucumber:
Planted eggplant too close to the cucumbers - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

Guess the number of seeds in a cucumber - Dorothy Parker "Parties: A Hymn of Hate"

Dessert:
Two bites of the same dessert - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Address Book of a Lonely Man"

Her theater of absurd desserts - Philip Schultz "Cakes"

Dough:
Filthy hands kneading dough under the cosmos - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Egg/Eggshell.

Eggplant:
Planted eggplant too close to the cucumbers - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

Cantaloupe and plum, eggplant and olive - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Fast Food:
Born in this cold fast food of a mall of a country - Carmen Bardeguez-Brown "Rican Issues"

Filbert:
A filbert hedge with wild briar overtwined - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Rag-edged as a contorted filbert - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"

Flour.

Food.

Fruit.

Fruit [Category].

Gelatin:
The gelatinous mass controlling this machine - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"

Who plays the gelatin piano - Carsten Rene Nielsen "Night"

Grain/Granary.

Grain [Category].

Grape.

Gumdrop:
The gum-drops grow like cherries - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"

A baby lizard gumdrop green - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"

Hard Candy:
mouths like hard candy spitting - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"

Horse droppings and hard candy - Maggie Smith "Accidental Pastoral"

Hardtack:
Hardtack and dried lime - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #9"

Hazel-Nut:
Bearing pleasant mead of hazel-nuts - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull

Honey.

Honeycomb.

Hotdogs:
Between hotdog stands and hallelujahs - Matthew Olzmann "My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency"

Ice Cream.

Icing:
the icing on this flaming trash cake - Eve L. Ewing "eschatology"

Jam:
Raspberries ripened into jam - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

And such sweet jams meticulously jarred - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Jam jars to can this summer sky - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

Jelly:
Jelly jars tinted with homemade whiskey - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"

Kale:
Follow the dark blue blades of kale - Kiki Petrosini "De Jure Sanguinis" [excerpt]

Leftover.

Legume:
An ocean of green legumes joining hands - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"

Lemon.

Lentil:
Learned accounting to sort lentils - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"

Better things than picking lentils out of the hearth - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Lettuce:
little lines run crazy across the lettuce - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"

The lettuce has grown too bitter to eat - January Gill O'Neil "Sunday"

A bully pushing lettuce around - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"

A career of washing lettuce - John Wieners "Charity Balls"

Loaf.

Manna.

Marmalade:
Baskets of bright berries and red marmalade - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"

Coaxed him in with marmalade - James Johnson "Sugar and Spice"

Step-sister of To-morrow's marmalade - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"

Marzipan:
Waiting room made out of marzipan - Ana Bozicevic "Paris Pride Parade"

Meat.

Molasses:
Past the thick memory of molasses - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

Absorbing molasses air - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Despojo"

Molasses threads descending toward devotion - Ocean Vuong "Devotion"

Morsel.

Mutton:
The kitchen table spread with mutton bones - Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe "The Lay of the Sheriff"

Nopal:
Nopales as second line of home defense - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

Nut.

Nutrient:
I need all the nutrients I can get - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"

Oatmeal:
Eat cod liver oil and oatmeal - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"

Oil.

Okra:
The seeds of okra in trade winds headed to a new world - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

Their okra bore an essence of perfection - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"

Olive.

Onion.

Onion Soup:
Some small magic to make onion soup - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"

Orange.

Pancake:
The management of pancakes and preserves - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"

The promise of pancakes - DJ Savarese "The Caseworker Speaks of a Good Fit"

Pastry:
With pastries and the charge of regret - Tina Chang "Sugar"

Spread the pastry with sweet cream - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"

Peas.

Pecan:
Filled me with pine needles & pecan halves - Tyree Daye "Dream Book"

Peppermint Candy:
The music of so many peppermint candies - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"

Peppermint Cream:
Mittens and rose colored peppermint creams - Miriam Clark Potter "The Dream-Ship"

Pickle.

Pie:
Until the oven claimed the pie - William E. Barton "The Story of a Pumpkin Pie"

Craving fresh pie and hot toddies - Elizabeth Bradfield "Why They Went"

A pie gets one chance - Alberto Rios "Perfect for Any Occasion"

Bees' quaint seduction of apple pie - Richard Solomon "Young Virgin Autosodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity"

Pizza:
Between the pizza and the death ray - Leah Bobet "Her Hero"

Plants [Category].

Plum Cake:
Plum-cake, instead of bread - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"

A plum cake when she died - Diane Mehta "Plum Cake"

Pop-Tart:
The Pop-Tart lottery - John F. Buckley "Left Behind"

Popcorn:
Popcorn and figs in the lobby - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

The megaplex of popcorn-scented tranquility - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"

Popcorn and the buzz of circus music - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"

Porridge:
Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"

Potato:
Butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds - Mahogany L. Browne "When Fannie Lou Hamer Said"

Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Too cold and dry for spiritual small potatoes - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

A dress of potato peels, a gown of garlic cloves - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"

Potato Salad:
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Preserves:
The management of pancakes and preserves - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"

Pretzel:
Jostling the salt from a pretzel - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

Produce/Product.

Pumpkin.

Radish:
Summon a minion made of radishes - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"

Eating nothing but radishes and lime leaf tea - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Rapunzel: I Like the Quiet"

Rhubarb:
Between the rhubarb & riverine - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"

Rhubarb sings in dark gardens - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"

Roux:
A sigh seasons the roux - Donte Collins "they need some of us to die"

Salad:
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"

Old greens not crisp enough for salad - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"

Have a salad dressed with moonbeams - Tim Pratt "Wolfways"

Once could be charmed with our salads - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]

Sausage:
Sausage cackling char on the grill - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"

Scallion:
White scallions with frost on their spines - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson

Spring scallions cut in night rain - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson

Scone:
Starting a brawl over scone crumbs - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"

Scotch Bonnet:
the scotch bonnet burn in the curry - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"

Sheet Cake:
fresh as an uncut sheet cake - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."

Snap-Bean:
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Snow Peas: See Peas.

Souffle:
A souffle of angles - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

Soup.

Squash:
Place squash blossoms and nasturtium on the plate - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"

Inside the shade of a squash flower - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"

Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Starch:
Having psychoanalysis with a starch, a sugar, or a fat - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"

Stew.

Strudel:
Making a strudel of bluebirds - Mary Jo Bang "The Numbers"

Sub Sandwich:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Sugar.

Summer Squash:
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Sunflower Seeds:
Chew the baby stars inside like sunflower seeds - Mike Allen "Deluge"

Sweet Potato:
Sweet potatoes root for their own harvest - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"

Syrup.

Taffy:
And taffy's thick as peas - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"

The acrobat's taffy of satin - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"

Take-Out:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"

Tart:
Mixing a magic with your cakes and tarts - John Freeman "The Chair"

Toast.

Tomato.

Turnip:
A subway tunnel through the turnips - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"

And gnaw the frozen turnip - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"

A line of turnips where the seed ran out - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"

Amidst onions, and turnips, and tape - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"

Twinkie:
As Twinkies are to baklava - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"

Vegetable.

Venison:
Fish and venison and badger's fat - "Deirdre's Farewell to Scotland" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Waffle:
Take my conscience out for waffles - Kristen Tracy "Urban Animals"

Walnut.

Water-Chestnut:
Water-chestnut and lotus for a coat - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Wheat.

Whole Wheat:
A kiss of mayo & mustard on a whole wheat bun - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"

Yolk:
Creatures came coated with yolks of myth - Sheikha A. "Nesters"

Yolks needed to bind portraits to walls - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"


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Potential Titles: Food - Herbs & Spices [category]

Allspice:
with ginger and sugar and allspice and clove - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"

grinding allspice and clove and fennel and cinnamon - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"

Anise:
With tender anise overweighed - Harold Acton "Lament for Adonis"

Basil.

Bay.

Capers:
The vine with wild thyme and caper - Stephen Yenser "Petition on Santorini"

Caraway:
The bitter she flavored with caraway - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "Caraway"

Cardamom.

Cayenne:
The kitchen smell of cinnamon and cayenne - Joanne Merriam "Cherries for Buttons"

Chamomile:
Collected on the heads of chamomile plants - Taneum Bambrick "Intimacies Received 5"

Cinnamon.

Cloves.

Coriander:
Piles of sumac and coriander - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

Ginger warm, garlic sharp, coriander mellow - Zilka Joseph "Kaulee Haddi"

The coriander, struggling all summer, alive - D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie "Miracles Welcome"

Cumin:
Rue, myrrh, and cummin for the Sphinx - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Sphinx"

Shavings fragrant as cumin - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Curry:
the scotch bonnet burn in the curry - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"

Tears water the curry-leaf dragon - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Dittany:
A magic bed of sacred dittany - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Where healing dittany grows - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard I: The Rock of the Good Virgin"

Fennel:
Had expected a fennel frond - Brian Blanchfield "In Their Motions"

grinding allspice and clove and fennel and cinnamon - Malcolm Friend "Caliban Theory"

Rank fennel and broom - Effie Lee Newsome "Exodus"

And one was some fennel up on the shore - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "At the Water"

Garlic.

Ginger.

Herb.

Hops:
With hop-vines' incense all the pensive glory - Bret Harte "Dickens in Camp"

Wanders through the clustered hops - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Rustic Courting XV: The Ledbury Train"

The hopvine's tresses sweeping the low roof - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]

Hyssop:
In the hyssop, vinegar, and gall - John Castillo "Thoughts on Good Friday"

Broke hyssop and bramble - H.D. "The Helmsman"

Gave the Hyssop and Cedar their place - Rudyard Kipling "Banquet Night"

A pleasant draught of bitter hyssop - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Protest of Faith: to Rev. --"

Lemongrass:
Sharp stones beneath the wayward lemongrass - Brandon O'Brien "lagahoo culture (Part II)"

Sprigs of lemongrass, a pod of cardamom - Preeti Vangani "One Cup of Chai"

Licorice:
Driven off by the smell of licorice gone bad - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"

Whose cows graze on licorice - Enheduana "The Temple Hymns: 11. Gabura, the Temple of Ningublaga in Kiabrig" transl. by Sophus Helle

Knotting lengths of licorice - Idra Novey "Value City"

Malt:
And malt does more than Milton can - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LXII"

Marjoram:
And buds of marjoram had stol'n - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCIX"

A savor of marjoram and mountain thyme - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"

Mint.

Mugwort:
Mugwort and orchid alike wither - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

Wind over mugwort and moxa - Su Tung-p'o "[Soft grasses, a plain of sedge]" transl. by Burton Watson

Mugwort, red clover, firethorn for compost & company - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

Mugwort sheared to resemble a lawn - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"

Mustard.

Myrtle.

Nutmeg:
Castles of nutmeg - Yvonne Caroutch

Onion.

Oregano:
Oregano's first cousin - Pablo Neruda "Midday XXXIV" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

Paprika:
A hush of paprika and burnt honey - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Wrap"

Parsley:
Fresh garlic and parsley from our garden - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"

Pepper.

Peppermint.

Poppy Seed:
As to the heart of a poppy seed - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Rosemary.

Rue.

Saffron.

Sage.

Spice.

Sumac:
Piles of sumac and coriander - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

Beneath the sumac, yarrow, and bitter water - Jake Skeets "In the Fields"

Thyme.

Vanilla:
Grew rich with vanilla - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Edmond Albius"

Wintergreen:
Wintergreen peeps through the snow - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"

Wormwood.


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Potential Titles: Food - Condiments & Flavors [category]

Aftertaste:
To consider the aftertaste of bark - Deborah Ruddell "The Woodpecker"

leaves petrichor as aftertaste - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"

Bitter/Bitterness.

Bittersweet.

Butter.

Condiment:
Odd condiments bought on impulse - Timothy Donnelly "Habitable Nebula"

Delectable:
Painted in a delectable poison - Tommye Blount "The Bug Chaser"

Delicious.

Fat.

Flavor.

Food - Herbs & Spices [category].

Fruit [category].

Horseradish:
Horseradish on your bread instead of butter - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

Hot Sauce:
Adding silent spices and hot sauce - Kevin Young "The Dry Spell"

Ketchup:
Steadfast in passing the ketchup - Louis Jenkins "Diner"

Mayonnaise:
the mayonnaise is crystalline and dangerous - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"

A kiss of mayo & mustard on a whole wheat bun - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"

Mustard.

Relish:
To relish the watchers' tears - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

Found me roots of relish sweet - John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

Saccharine:
Sauterne and quinine, saccharine and gall - Stephen Vincent Benet "Two More Muses"

In a mist of saccharine blood - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny Consults the GPS"

The saccharine gardens of Verona - Mitchell Dawson "Poems: Under the Cypresses"

Hoarded saccharine and toothmarks - Jenny Xie "Origin Story"

Salsa:
A Minerva woman of herbs and salsas - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"

Salt.

Sauce:
Butter and the sauce of a hundred ripe tomatoes - Paola Bruni "The Lesson"

Coated in sauces I've never tasted - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"

Semisweet:
An acre of semisweet tenor notes - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Sour.

Spice.

Sriracha:
Carp smeared with a smack of sriracha - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"

Sweet.

Sweet and Sour:
Blossoms of sweet and sour light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"

Sweet-sour fruit under the moon's regard - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

A world of sweets and sours - Edgar A. Poe "Israfel"

Syrup.

Tang/Tangy.

Tart:
The Pop-Tart lottery - John F. Buckley "Left Behind"

Tart speech and full-ripe reason - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"

Vinegar.

Yeast.


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Potential Titles: Food/Drink Adjacent [Category]

Beverages [category].

Food [category].

Food - Condiments & Flavors [category].

Food - Eating/Drinking [category].

Food - Herbs & Spices [category].

Food/Drink - Preparation [category].

Food - Specific Meals [category].

Food/Drink - Tools [category].


Al Dente:
Still searching for that perfect al dente tone - Andre F. Peltier "Let the Rigatoni Be My Reeds"

Delicious.

Edible:
Edible only by the imagination - Philip Schultz "Cakes"

Famine.

Fare.

Food Chain:
Carnivores in their own essential food chain - Achy Obejas "Dancing in Paradise"

Forage.

Grocery:
The grocer of despair - Leonard Cohen "Field Commander Cohen"

Pushing a grocery cart of empty beer cans - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"

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

A trip to the grocery store at the end of the world - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"

Ingredient:
The most important ingredient is the silence - Taneum Bambrick "Saying I Am a Survivor in Another Language"

The ingredients of a witches' broth - Robert Frost "Design"

Mixing six simple ingredients - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"

Insatiable:
Novas of insatiable energy - John Ciardi "Everywhere that Universe"

The insatiable hands of the rain - Lynn Powell "Tantrum, with Mistletoe"

Insatiable ardor of the sun - Sara Teasdale "Sappho"

Effaced by the insatiable winds - Willard Huntington Wright "What of the Night?"

Liquid.

Ration.

Ravenous.

Raw.

Sate/Satiate:
Satiate the hungers of your restlessness - Dana Gioia "Seaward"

Sated with a faint breath of music - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Weighed with satiate passion's power - Rainer Maria Rilke "Solitude" transl. by Jessie Lemont

It is possible to sate a trickster - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"

Savor.

Stale.

Succulent:
Succulent pillows of salt and sea - Terry Blackhawk "A Blessing of Scallops: Eastern Market, Detroit"

Succulents when the rain was scarce - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Eve Revisited"

Herbs and succulents on their windowsills - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"

Taste.

Vegan:
Do their best work on vegan fare - May Chong "Catering"

Voracious:
Their appetites voracious yet discerning - Mary Soon Lee "What Giants Read"


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Potential Titles: Family Relationships [category]

Adopt:
Adopted to some Neighbouring Star - J. Dryden "To the Pious Memory of the Accomplisht Young Lady Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the two Sister-Arts of Poesie, and Painting"

Ancestor.

Aunt:
Letters sent by island aunts - Julia Alvarez "Aficionados"

My aunts danced the mambo - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman

All the aunts in my father's house - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

Baby.

Bastard.

Betroth:
By memory, by rote, by benign betrothal - Elizabeth Powell "Pledge"

Betrothed to dreams - Sonia Sanchez "A Love Song for Spelman"

Was first betrothed to death - "The Source of Poetic Inspiration" transl. by Whitley Stokes

Blood Brother:
Blood brother to the snow angels - Bob Hicok "Grooming"

Blood brother to silence - Linda Pastan "The moon"

Brethren:
The fickle crowd rejoicing o'er their brethren slain - Mrs. L.H. Sigourney "Victory"

Bride.

Bridegroom.

Bridesmaid:
Stood with the other bridesmaids in champagne - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"

Brother.

Child/Children.

Clan:
And clans engaged for trifles - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

Of castle moats and pixie clans - Deborah Ruddell "The Swan"

Consort:
Her bastard consort Gravity - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

And want consorts with crime - Frances E.W. Harper "The Present Age"

Who consorts with cheating hearts - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 139: The Bee Messenger" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Cousin.

Daughter.

Descendant:
descendant of pistons & drive trains - Jose Olivarez "now i'm bologna"

The last descendant of the stone dynasty - Ekhmetjan Osman "Uyghur Impressions 6: Thousand Buddha Caves" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

A descendant of Sisyphus on his father's side - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Two"

Descendant from the starry throng - George Sterling "The Evanescent"

Divorce.

Dynasty.

Elope:
The way your eyes elope - Luther Hughes "[Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil's palm]"

Every departure's an elopement - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Estrange.

Ex-Husband:
Sees her ex-husband in my excuses - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"

Family.

Family Tree:
To flutter about her family tree - Will Carleton "Wealth"

Under the shelter of the family tree - Robert Frost "The Generations of Men"

Crashing against the family tree - jessica Care moore "She Was"

write a family tree in chalk - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"

Father.

Filial:
A host of filial fair designs - William Hayley "Felpham: An Epistle to Henrietta of Lavant 1814"

The extreme logic of filial trash - Claire Millikin "Shoe-Box Doll House"

Firstborn:
Ushers the firstborn of the radiant year - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"

Firstborn into a hurricane - Yona Harvey "Hurricane"

Asking for cuts from your first-born heart - Cassandra Khaw "We Aren't Their Fairytales, Baby"

Forebear:
Your forebear was the sack of winds - A.E. Stallings "The Mother's Loathing of Balloons"

Forefather:
Whose forefathers made miracles - Gulten Akin "Ellas and the Statues" translated by Nermin Menemencioglu

The forefathers of stone - Pablo Neruda "Land and Man Unite" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Forerunner:
His hand extended to grasp the forerunner's - Cynthia Hogue "The Changeling"

His forerunners who were not regarded - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"

Chequers the shade with her forerunning light - Henry David Thoreau "Greece"

Foster.

Foster-child:
Foster-child of Silence and slow Time - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Sin is the foster-child of Doubt - George Martin "The Hawk and the Sparrow"

Foundling:
Keep this foundling self - Lou Barrett "Fanny"

Fraternity:
Closed the heart's fraternal gate - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

Scorned the fraternity of war - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."

A fraternity ghost waiting to stay home - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"

Fratricide:
And children born for fratricidal war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Genealogy:
Soft genealogy of birch bark and fiddleheads - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Whose features are a timeless genealogy - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "Beneath the Southern Cross"

Generation.

Godmother:
Gift of a forgotten godmother - Josephine Yu "An Unfinished Fairytale from the Palm-Leaf Manuscript"

Grandfather.

Grandmother.

Grandparent:
My orphan grandparents and theirs - Irene Inatty "Ours"

Guardian.

Heir/Heiress.

Heritage.

Household:
Morning wakes its household noises - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]

Lord of ten thousand households - Li Shang-yin "Poem for My Little Boy" transl. by Burton Watson

Of the shadow on the household - Robert Louis Stevenson "Christmas at Sea"

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

Husband.

Infant.

Jilt:
By jilting Fortune whirled - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Bohemia: a Pilgrimage"

Kin/Akin/Kindred/Kinship.

Legacy.

Lineage.

Marriage/Marry.

Matchmaker:
Dispatched the falcon to be my matchmaker - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Mate:
Refusing to abandon its captured mate - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

As a wary duck parted from its mate - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

Ice and snow, dead weeds and unmated birds - Robert Frost "Wind and Window Flower"

Mirthfullest mate of all my moral games - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Maternal:
Maternal source of words - Pablo Neruda "The Word" transl. by Alastair Reid

In Nature's maternal keeping - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Spring Hopes: Song"

Mistress.

Mother.

Nephew:
A nephew to confusions - Hart Crane "The Fernery"

Newborn.

Next of Kin:
I am next of kin to Time, the historian of her dreams - George William Russell "The Grey Eros"

Nuptial:
The nuptials of flowers and the marriage of streams - Giosue Carducci "To Aurora" transl. by Frank Sewall

Offspring.

Orphan.

Parent.

Paternal:
A few paternal acres bound - Alexander Pope "Ode on Solitude"

Patriarch:
Patriarchs of the infant world - William Cullen Bryant "Thanatopsis"

A patriarch that strolls through the tents of his children - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Factory of the patriarchal flames - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XII" transl. by William O'Daly

Pedigree:
A Pedigree withdrawn and vast - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part II."

The long pedigree of the rivers - R.B. Lemberg "Stone Listening: Prelude"

Posterity:
Earn no more than posterity's jeers - "Selections from the 'Nineteen Old Poems of the Han'" transl. by Burton Watson

Progenitor:
Without progenitor nor end of years - Erastus W. Ellsworth "Shakspeare" [sic]

Progeny:
The happy progeny of mirth - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Banquet" transl. by Frank Sewall

Her progeny of steel and steam - John McCrae "The Captain"

Potential Titles: Rank/Titles - Hereditary (ish) and Adjacent [category].

Relate/Relation/Relationship/Relative.

Scion:
Being scion to Homer - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Scion of thunder and frost - W. Wilfred Campbell "To the Ottawa"

Sibling:
Here the perfect poem eats its siblings - Kaveh Akbar "The Perfect Poem"

Stay and say are two siblings walking home - Mónica Gomery "The End Is the Beginning"

His demon siblings by the score - Ann K. Schwader "Fiesta of Our Lady"

The music of her distant siblings dying - Heather Shaw "The Children of the Moon"

Sister.

Son.

Spinster:
A knot of spinster Katydids - Oliver Wendell Holmes "To an Insect"

Step-sister:
Step-sister of To-morrow's marmalade - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"

Suitor:
Fear, the most thwarted of the suitors - Paul Cameron Brown "Desire"

And Suitors more than she could count - Oliver Herford "A Corner in Curls"

Sweetheart:
The sweetheart of the sun - Thomas Hood "Ruth"

To catch the sweetheart wind - Richard Le Gallienne "Tree-Worship"

Having sweethearts, but no wives - "The Rakes of Mallow" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Glance of the eye and sweetheart's sigh - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Diamond Wedding"

Tribe.

Twin.

Uncle:
My uncle in grief - Claire Meuschke "Caught Sight"

Widow.

Wife.


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Potential Titles: Flowers [category]

Also check Fruit [category], Grain [category], Plants [category], and Trees [category] because I can be arbitrary and/or confused about things that fit in more than one category.

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Amaryllis:
Where Amaryllis lies in state - Oscar Wilde "Theocritus"

Anemone/Sea Anemone.

Angelica:
Picking river sage and rare angelica - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Arum:
And many an arum lifts her hooded head - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]

Asphodel.

Aster.

Azalea:
In a pool surrounded by azaleas - Myronn Hardy "Solemnity"

Into a cloud of sudden azaleas - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Rider"

Your life lined up like azaleas - Kiki Petrosino "Prophecy"

The rain sluices down the bent azaleas - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

Baby's Breath:
An infection of baby's breath in your wake - Nicole Callihan "Summer Elegy"

Begonia:
blood dripping on my begonias - Emory Noakes "In Which My Grandma Kicks Ass and Takes Names During the Zombie Apocalypse"

at the precipice between gardenias blue and begonias black - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

Bloom.

Blossom.

Bluebell.

Bluebonnett:
A music of sagebrush and bluebonnetts - N. Scott Momaday "Death Song"

Bouquet.

Buttercup.

Calendula:
Brought me yellow calendulas - Lynn Riggs "A Letter"

Calla:
The budding calla is bold enough to bloom - Ellen Tracy Alden "Little Florence"

Camellia:
The fumes of pale camellias - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "North and South"

Carnation.

Celandine:
Celandines as heavenly crowns - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"

The sun on the celandines lie redoubled - Edward Thomas "Celandine"

Found the celandines of February - Edward Thomas "Celandine"

Cherry Blossom.

Chocolate Cosmo:
The maroon perfume of the chocolate cosmos - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Chrysanthemum.

Clematis:
The trailing clematis dropped on the sundial - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"

Wreathed with starry clematis - Dorothea Mackellar "Settlers"

The sap struggling up unseen in the clematis - Edith Wharton "The First Year [All Souls' Day]"

Clover.

Columbine:
Columbine with horn of honey - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Humble-Bee"

Cornflower:
Cornflower in the rustling rye - Maurice Baring "Sonnets: 1913-1914 V"

Filigreed ivory and cornflower crystal - Mona Gould "Gift Shop Window"

Cosmo:
The good earth opening into a field of Cosmos - Jari Bradley "You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See"

The maroon perfume of the chocolate cosmos - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Cowslip.

Crocus.

Cyclamen:
Watching the pink bursts of the cyclamens - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Cyclamens in heaven roots growing among the clouds - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Daffodil.

Dahlia:
Let the majestic dahlia glitter - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

The dahlia rooted in Egyptian sleep - Mary E. Coleridge "Chillingham"

People throng around the dahlias - Patricia Spears Jones "Autumn, New York, 1999"

Daisy.

Dandelion.

Devil's Paint-Brush:
Where the devil's paint-brush spread - Henry van Dyke "The Red Flower"

Dianthus:
Dianthus crowned with hint of cinnamon - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"

Edelweiss:
With Edelweiss upon her breast - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"

Eglantine.

Flora/Floral.

Flower.

Forget-Me-Not:
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]

Forget-me-nots bloom unhindered - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Forget-me-nots in the ditch - William Carlos Williams "Primrose"

Forsythia:
Gasoline to the roots of the forsythia - Saeed Jones "Terrible Boy"

On a field lined with forsythia - Emily Jungmin Yoon "Bell Theory"

Four O'Clock:
A little garden all edged with four-o'clocks - Anna Burnham Bryant "My Garden" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Of four o'clocks now and to come - Frank O'Hara "Chez Jane"

Foxglove.

Frangipani:
Of frangipani and dark oratory roses - Claire Millikin "Superhero Costume, Attic, Tifton, Georgia"

Fuchsia.

Gardenia.

Garland.

Gentian:
Tears on the gentian's eyelids - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "Her Cradle"

Encompassed all with gentians blue - Alexander Lamont "In a Bernese Valley"

Where gentian flowers make mimic sky - William Watson "A Child's Hair"

Geranium.

Gladiolus:
Bending over gladioli in the field - Toi Derricotte "A Note on My Son's Face"

Left the gladioli & zinnias maimed - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Goldenrod:
Through the yellow plumes of goldenrod - Emily Pauline Johnson "Thistle-down"

Walk across the field of goldenrod and mustard weeds - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Even the redbuds and goldenrod you cultivate - Keith Taylor "Prayers from the Polish Church, Detroit, 1963"

Deer going by fields of goldenrod - William Carlos Williams "To Elsie"

Heartsease:
Starry with delirious heartsease - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman

Heath-Bloom:
Dark hills whose heath-bloom feeds no bee - William Morris "I Know a Little Garden-Close"

Heliotrope:
Sowed a hundred fields with heliotrope - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Fashion a sash of heliotrope - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Heliotropes to drink the sun - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

Hellebore:
Hellebore, trumpet vines and heirloom tomatoes - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"

Of black hellebore and rosemary - Francis Brett Young "Prothalamion"

Hibiscus.

Hollyhock.

Honeysuckle.

Hyacinth.

Hydrangea:
Blue hydrangeas by the blistered door - Charlotte Mew "The Sunlit House"

Those hydrangeas that I call forgiveness - Carl Phillips "Permission to Speak"

Impatiens:
How jewelweed snaps its seeds at a touch - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time" [impatiens]

The ingenue faces of pink and white impatiens - Lisel Mueller "When I Am Asked"

As the red impatiens wither and brown - January Gill O'Neil "The Blower of Leaves"

Iris.

Jasmine.

Jessamine:
Out of myrtle and jessamine made - J.L.B. "The Butterfly's Funeral"

Toxic as the jessamine vine - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"

Nine drops of water bead the jessamine - Thomas Hardy "A Wet August"

The jessamine music on the thin night air - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

Jewelweed:
How jewelweed snaps its seeds at a touch - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time" [impatiens]

Jonquil:
Jonquils and pansies round her head - Laurence Binyon "Psyche"

Like jonquil perfume softly falls - Maurice Francis Egan "He Made Us Free"

The glory of jonquils strewn - Louise Imogen Guiney "On Some Old-Music"

Golden jonquils like a star amid the gloom - "A Sign of Spring" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]

Larkspur:
With baskets of larkspur - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hokkolen p"

Lamps up through the larkspur evening - Mona Gould "Rain"

Laurel.

Lavender.

Lilac.

Lily.

Lupin/Lupine:
Unbroken field of poppy and lupin - Robinson Jeffers "Carmel Point"

Only a faint path strewn with lupine - Philip Levine "Gospel"

Ripple through the meadow of lupine - David St. John "In the High Country"

Magnolia.

Marguerite:
Embroidered in a daisy stitch with marguerites - Elizabeth Bishop "Filling Station"

Marigolds.

Meadowsweet:
In dells of rose and meadowsweet - Walter de la Mare "The Enchanted Hill"

Mimosa:
White lights in the mimosa trees - Erin Belieu "She Returns to the Water"

Moonflower:
A human one with moonflowers for eyes - Liz Adair "Dragon in the E.R."

Wreathed with moon-flowers pale - Lord Alfred Douglas "Two Loves"

Lucid as a moon flower - RK Fauth "Playing with Bees"

The moonflower that no one tends - Kaneko Misuzu "Wonder" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

Morning Glory:
Each tingle a bright white morning glory - James Crews "Awe"

Among the harp-like morning-glory strings - Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man"

Confirmed the morning glory's crown - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck and Buffon"

Mountain Rose:
Rocks where blooms the mountain rose - H.K.W. "Lenachluten" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.702, 9 June 1877]

Narcissus.

Nasturtium:
Place squash blossoms and nasturtium on the plate - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"

Oleander.

Orchid.

Osmanthus:
Burying melancholy with jasmine and sweet osmanthus - Laura Ma "Cradling Fish"

Pansy:
Jonquils and pansies round her head - Laurence Binyon "Psyche"

Glowing rose and pensive pansy - F.W. Harvey "English Flowers in a Foreign Garden"

Drowsing on some bed of pansies - Don Marquis "Silvia"

Pansies, that laugh in every face - "She Defines Her Position" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.6, Nov. 1863]

Pasqueflower:
pasqueflowers open their palms to straight rain - Jake Skeets "Eating Wild Carrots with My Brothers on the Mesa"

Passionflower:
A batch of Picasso's passion flowers - Lou Barrett "Time's Fool"

Dream in ten spikes of passionflower - francine j. harris "i live in detroit"

Passionflowers lit my father's garden - Thomas James "Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty"

The half-secret gleam of a passion-flower - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"

Peonies.

Periwinkle:
Trails of periwinkle among the brambles - Dorothea Mackellar "The Road to Ronda"

Dream of baboons and periwinkles - Wallace Stevens "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock"

Petal.

Petunia:
From this profusion of petunias - Rachel Barenblat "Peak"

And gossip with the petunias - Stephanie Burt "White Lobelias"

And even the vile petunia smiled - E. Nesbit "To a Child (Rosamund)"

Phlox:
When the creeping phlox covers the moon - Antoinette Brim-Bell "Insomniac Tankas"

Brought her by the phlox and marigold - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"

Where phlox and marigolds dispute for room - Amy Lowell " The Fruit Garden Path"

Between the beds of phlox - Francis Brett Young "The Rain-Bird"

Poinsettia:
These poinsettia meadows of her tides - Hart Crane "Voyages II"

Poppy.

Potato Blossom:
Passing like potato blossoms - Jos Charles "Seagull, Tiny"

Primrose.

Red Clover:
Mugwort, red clover, firethorn for compost & company - L. Lamar Wilson "Lauren Oya Olamina Explains Earthseed to Ernest Hemingway"

Rose.

Rose of Sharon:
Knotted as rose of Sharon - Michael Field "Relics"

Sea-Lily:
Robed in red and sea-lilies - James Elroy Flecker "The Dying Patriot"

Snapdragon:
Into the snap-dragon throat of desire - Mitchell Dawson "Asperities: Teresa"

Snowdrop:
Gentler than a snowdrop - Louis Golding "To A.L.O."

Caught from a snowdrop in earliest spring - Fanny Wheeler Hart "Harry: Part 1"

Who bid good-bye at snowdrop time - Muriel Stuart "In Memory of Douglas Vernon Cow"

Speedwell:
The fragile speedwell blue bade us on our journey haste - Florence Tylee "Fairyland in Midsummer" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.51-v.I, 20 Dec. 1884]

Spider Lily:
From the ashes of red spider lilies - Jeff William Acosta "Call Out My Name"

Spikenard:
Crocus and spikenard blossom - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

Squash Flower:
Place squash blossoms and nasturtium on the plate - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"

Inside the shade of a squash flower - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"

Statice:
No incantation, no rosemary and statice - Amie Whittemore "Spell for the End of Grief" [sea lavender]

Sunflowers.

Sweetbriar:
Perched all upon a sweetbriar bush - Walter de la Mare "The Riddlers"

Touched by sweetbriar and tangled vetch - Seamus Heaney "Come to the Bower"

Sweet-Pea: See Peas.

Tansy:
The whisper through the tansies run - Edmund Blunden "Perch-Fishing"

Our merchandise with tansy bound - William Bell Scott "The Witch's Ballad"

Tea-Rose:
My lady of the tea-rose - Vachel Lindsay "Dancing for a Prize"

Tiger Lily:
The tiger lily's orange fires - Effie Lee Newsome "Pansy"

Trillium:
Bloodroot and wake-robin rest in quiet slumber - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage" ['Wake-robin' is an alternate name for trillium.]

Not to touch the wild trillium - Katie Ford "Breaking Across Us Now"

If you lean down to smell a painted trillium - Major Jackson "In the Eighties We Did the Wop"

No longer interested in the trillium - Ellen Bryant Voigt "The Field Trip"

Trumpet Flower:
The trumpet vine that grows up the ginko's trunk - Carl Phillips "Fall Colors"

Who confide in trumpet flowers - Maurya Simon "Angels"

Hellebore, trumpet vines and heirloom tomatoes - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"

Tulip.

Verbena:
Through a bank of verbena & fog - Brenda Hillman "Poem for a National Seashore"

Violet (color and flower).

Wallflower:
In the wallflower's fragrance dwell - Anne Bronte "Memory"

The golden wall-flower stood like seneschal - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877]

Wall flowers that once were flame - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"

Water-Flag:
Where water-flags upreared their banners light - Julia Goddard "The Deserted Garden" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.718, 29 Sept. 1877] [iris]

Waterlily:
Where the waterlilies grow - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Wildflower.

Windflower:
Cold countless quaking windflowers - Edmund Blunden "The March Bee"

Where sweet wind-flowers bend before the breeze - C.A. Dawson "Sketches" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, 12 June 1886]

Whose sweet breath is kissed by windflowers - 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]

Wisteria.

Witch-Hazel:
Witch hazel going wild along the walkway - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"

Unless you carve witch hazel in the old style - Janet Kauffman "Uncalled-For"

Such hands no charmed witch-hazel hold - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"

Wild-Rose.

Woodbine.

Zinnia:
Foxglove and zinnia fold their colors - Lou Barrett "Brief Truance"

Left the gladioli & zinnias maimed - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

A vase of mint sprigs and zinnias - R.T. Smith "Still Life: From the Notebook of Ambrose Bierce, 1862"


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Potential Titles: Fabric/Fiber - Ways to Work with Them [category]

Baste:
Cut my pattern from a wind, and baste it up with dew - Katherine Hale "I Who Cut Patterns"

Cobble/Cobblestone.

Crochet:
And heavy with gray crochet - Elizabeth Bishop "Filling Station"

This crocheted fog I wrap close - Julia Bouwsma "Annie in the Boat"

Crocheting holes in the land - Jennifer L. Knox "Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa"

Rain crocheting moss from mist - Cynthia Zarin "Meltwater"

Cross-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)"

Daisy Stitch:
Embroidered in a daisy stitch with marguerites - Elizabeth Bishop "Filling Station"

Dye.

Embroider.

Fashion.

Fray.

Hem.

Knit.

Knot.

Needlepoint:
The needlepoint of language - Jenny Xie "Reaching Saturation"

Patchwork.

Seam/Seamless.

Seamstress:
Out of the seamstress and the ghost - Carlie Hoffman "The Year Made Out of a Cut in Your Civilization"

Sew.

Spin/Spun.

Stitch.

Tailor.

Tatter.

Unravel.

Weave/Wove.


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Potential Titles: Fruit [category]

Also check Flowers, Grain [category], Plants [category], and Trees [category] because I can be arbitrary and/or confused about things that fit in more than one category.

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Apples

Apricot.

Banana:
Banana ghosts and handsome monkey kings - May Chong "Kamcia"

Beneath a banana tree at noon - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"

The bananas flow like wine - Nicholas Johnson "One of the Monkeys"

Bergamot.

Berry.

Bilberry:
Shares its weather with asphodel and bilberry - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heather"

Black Cherry:
Remember the black cherries' gleam - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Blackberry.

Blueberry:
Folded into the violence of blueberries - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"

Sour blueberries from the farmer's market - Richard Solomon "Ann Arbor Art Fair 2005"

Nestled in a bowl of basalt and blueberries - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"

Breadfruit:
Find clues in the taste of breadfruit - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Canteloupe:
Cantaloupe and plum, eggplant and olive - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Cherry.

Chokecherries:
On the chokesome cherry bent - Henry A. Beers "Ye Laye of ye Woodpeckore"

Picking chokecherries in the marsh - Chris Dombrowski "A History of Barbed Wire"

Citron:
Exhaled from rose and citron bower - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Ripe juices of citron and grape - James Whitcombe Riley "Dolores"

With citrons yellow and tangerines still green - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson

Citrus.

Cranberry:
Cranberries strewn like unholy rosaries - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Coast Yarn"

With a surplus of cranberry wine - Dorsey Craft "The women my husband ought to love"

Made her a necklace of cranberries - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Out-Doors Girl"

The marshes where cranberries grow - William Walker, Jr. "The Wyandot's Farewell"

Currant:
That made a nest upon a currant bush - John R. Bolles "Lullaby [There, lullaby, and I will sing to you]"

With a pocket full of currants - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"

Growing cabbages or currant bushes - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"

More than all my currant wine - Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe "The Lay of the Sheriff"

Damson:
Till damsons dropped from the branches sere - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"

Date.

Elderberry:
Opens inwards to a dark elderberry place - Seamus Heaney "The Grauballe Man"

Grinding a path through elderberries and laurel - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

Like the blood of elderberries - Lola Ridge "Iron Wine"

Figs.

Fruit.

Gooseberry:
In the thicket of gooseberries hung their lanterns - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

Grape.

Grapefruit:
And enter honeyed grapefruit time - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"

Honeydew:
The glimmer of the honey dew - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Cherry Valley"

Drunk on honey-dew and violet's breath - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"

Jackfruit:
The heavy jackfruit bent with the weight of gravity - James F. Yockey "What If"

Juniper.

Key Lime:
Underneath a key lime moon - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #69"

Lemon.

Lime.

Mango.

Melon.

Mulberry.

Nectarine:
Opulent boughs that dropped with nectarines - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Orange (color and fruit).

Orchard.

Papaya:
Getting lost among mangoes and papayas - Francisco X. Alarcon "Earthly Paradise"

Peach.

Pear.

Persimmon.

Plum.

Pomegranate.

Pomelo:
Reached on tiptoe to pull ripe pomelos from the dark - Edgar Kunz "Fixer"

Quince:
Groves of mango, quince and lime - Robert Graves "It's a Queer Time"

Among the wind-felled bodies of my quince trees - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"

Eye acrid as a quince - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Leaves fall from the quince tree - Wang Yu-ch'eng "Journey to a Village" transl. by Burton Watson

Raisin:
Of the raisins of wrath - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Americus, Book I [excerpt]"

In the grape turning raisin - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"

They feed on the sacred raisins - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Raisins of honey and salt - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Raspberry:
Raspberries ripened into jam - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

Raspberries of the glowing amber kind - Louise Morey Bowman "Amber Raspberries"

Taken in by the netted branches of raspberries - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

Strawberries.

Tamarind:
Tamarind bushes welcomed them - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

A patter shaking the tamarind pod - Ira Sadoff "Once I Could Say"

Tangerine.

Watermelon:
Calmed by our watermelon sun - Ada Limon "Territory"


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Potential Titles: Furnishing/Furniture [category]

This category has a lot of overlap with Potential Titles: Buildings - Parts and Specific Rooms [category]. Some things there might fit better here and vice versa.

Arras:
In the wind of night the arras swells and swings - E. Fonton "A Vigil with St. Louis" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.1, Jan. 1864]

Lurks no ghost behind the arras - J.I.L. "The Old Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.746, 13 April 1878]

And shadows on the arras flit - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

The blue arras of nightmare - Iris Tree "Moods II"

Bar.

Barstool:
To walk away from their barstools upright - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

Bed.

Bench.

Bier:
Weave a chaplet for the Old Year's bier - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "November"

Passing on his temporal elm-wood bier - W.J. Turner "Death"

The King himself bore up the bier - "Valdemar and Tove (A)" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

Blackboard.

Broom.

Cabinet.

Candelabra:
Candelabra lit with flowers - Helen Parry Eden "The Ascent"

Beneath the many-branching candelabrum - D.H. Lawrence "Bare Fig-Trees"

Dry candelabras of bristling stature - Pablo Neruda "Climates" transl. by Jack Schmitt

A candelabra for the spiders' silvery halo - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Carpet.

Centerpiece:
Centerpieces on another table - Aimee Le "The Best Lesson"

Chair.

Chandelier.

Chest.

Clock.

Clothes Hamper:
her clothes hamper full of Euclidean geometry - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Ogechi Hula-Hoops The Rings Of Saturns"

Clutter.

Cot:
Pauper's cot and hall of kings - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

From gloomy cot to sparkling palace - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "On Lomonossoef" transl. by John Pollen

If you'll share there my ivy-crowned cot - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Cotton Mangle:
That cotton mangle of a sky - Patrick Rosal "Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard"

Couch.

Counter/Countertop.

Cradle.

Crib.

Cubby:
Build Versailles in a maple's cubby - Julia Alvarez "Small Portions"

Cupboard.

Curtain.

Dais:
On the darkest dais of his night - Muyesser Abdul'Ehed Hendan "He

Was Taken Away" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman

A dais of silk and down - Christina Rossetti "A Birthday"

Desk

Doornail:
As dead as doornails used to be - John Grey "The Computer vs. My Personal Evolution"

Drawer.

Dresser:
Three crows perched on the dresser - Alison Hawthorne Deming "First Encounter Beach"

Dumpster:
Dumpster shrine of miracles - Adrienne Rich "Veteran's Day"

Fan.

Feather Bed:
Makes trouble look like a feather bed - Cornelius Eady "I'm a Fool to Love You"

Frame.

Furnish.

Furniture.

Garbage Can:
An angel on every garbage can - John Ciardi "Abundance"

A familiar sweater in a garbage can - Laura Kasischke "Recall the Carousel"

Hamper:
her clothes hamper full of Euclidean geometry - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Ogechi Hula-Hoops The Rings Of Saturns"

Hatrack: See Rack.

Ice-Box:
My inspiration's in the ice-box - Hugh Lofting "The Porridge Poet"

Incense Holder:
Selenite incense holder to honor my fresh dead - Chet'la Sebree "An End"

Key.

Ladder.

Lamp.

Lampshade:
A lampshade exhausted by light - John James "Catalogue Beginning with a Line by Plato"

Lantern.

Latch.

Laundry-Frame:
Littered with laundry-frames and clotheslines - Marilyn Hacker "Montpeyroux Sonnets 7"

Lightbulb.

Lock.

Locker:
Nailed in lockers sealed with beeswax - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"

storage locker of unpaid bills and auctioned objects - Asiya Wadud "number four"

Looking-Glass.

Loom.

Mat.

Mirror.

Mop:
Who mops the four corners of my world - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

Mousetrap:
Spiderwebs and mousetraps - Pablo Neruda "Autumn Testament" transl. by Alastair Reid

In this poor mousetrap of a hold - John Russell "The Old Viking" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.115-v.III, 13 March 1886]

Oven.

Paperweight:
Becomes confetti circling in a paperweight - Thomas M. Disch "The Clouds"

Pedestal:
From high pedestals toppled - David J. Brown "Sequoyah"

On its time-defaced pedestal - Eleanor Farjeon "Pan-Worship"

Pillow.

Podium:
Rope you to the podium and ask - The Cyborg Jillian Weise "Nondisabled Demands"

Poster:
A poster child for signs and wonders - Rachel Zucker "Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs"

Rack.

Scale.

Seat.

Shelf.

Shoe Rack: See Rack.

Shower.

Shrine.

Sink.

Sofa:
The faded bloodstains on the sofa - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

Space Heater:
Huddled by the space heater in Baba Yaga's hut - Lincoln Michel "Another Tuesday Afternoon"

Stool:
Reaching out towards the opal stool - Carly Inghram "Praise Poem"

To walk away from their barstools upright - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

Storage Locker:
storage locker of unpaid bills and auctioned objects - Asiya Wadud "number four"

Table.

Tapestry.

Television/TV.

Timepiece:
Of ghosts inhabiting timepieces - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"

We're laid out like liquid timepieces - Major Jackson "Designer Kisses"

Trunk.

Urn.

Vacuum.

Vanity.

Vase.

Vault.

Wardrobe:
Our wardrobes mostly empty - Mukut Borpujari "Stoic"

Wreath.


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