Aug. 10th, 2012

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Adorn.

Potential Titles: Art/Craft [category].

Badge:
Merit badge in grief - Rachel Barenblat "Change"

Badge of the bondage he's destined to - Anthony Euwer "Spring--1919"

Bear no badge of roses or of rue - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Bauble:
Baubles of stolen kisses - Maya Angelou "When You Come to Me"

This cheat that uses us as baubles - John Drinkwater "Persuasion"

Each bright bauble by ambition prized - Thomas Gent "Prometheus"

Band.

Bead.

Belt.

Bracelet.

Braid.

Brocade.

Brooch:
Pull off, pull off, the brooch of gold - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "Lady Clare"

Cloak held fast by Psyche's brooch - Cynthia Zarin "Sunday X: Case Sensitive"

Buckle.

Button.

Carcanet:
Of all rich gems in Virtue's carcanet - Gregory Thornton "Sonnets of Shakespeare's Ghost: II"

Chain.

Charm.

Circlet:
The circlet woven of his soul's final art - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"

The circlet of your praise - Edward Dowden "Love-Tokens"

Gift my rings as circlets of celestial flowers - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"

Long circlets of silver moving - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"

Clasp.

Clip.

Potential Titles: Cloth/Fabric [category].

Potential Titles: Cloth/Fabric/Fiber - Things Made From [category].

Potential Titles: Clothing [category].

Potential Titles: Color [category].

Comb.

Coronet.

Crown.

Diadem.

Drag:
Full of drag queens & revolutionaries - Diane di Prima "City Lights 1961"

Earring:
Wear your earrings around my wrist - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"

Jewelry box for lone earrings - Julie Babcock "Singles"

The jangle of onyx earrings dangling - Lou Barrett "Once and Sixteen"

Embroidery.

Epaulette:
The deep-green forests of that epauletted century - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Fan.

Fashion.

Feather.

Flower.

Potential Titles: Flowers [category].

Fragrance.

Fringe.

Garland.

Gaudy.

Gem.

Gild.

Gilt.

Glamor/Glamour.

Glass.

Glitter.

Haircut:
Bad haircuts and sloppy tailors - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"

Hair Dye:
Allergic to hair dye and silver - Hala Alyan "Truth"

Hairpin:
Stir the fire with my hairpin of jade - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall

Dizzied among hairpin turns - Hai-Dang Phan "Canto for the Chestnut-Eared Laughingthrush"

Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth - Carl Sandburg "Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind"

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

Halo.

Headdress:
Bring me my headdress of black feathers - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"

Headpiece:
His elaborate head-piece of smoke - Dana Levin "The Gods Are in the Valley"

Insignia:
All the insignia of interiority - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

Time's grey insignia - Arthur Colton "The House"

Where nobody wears any insignia - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

Blazon me with jeweled insignia - Amy Lowell "Apology"

Jewel/Jewelry.

Lace.

Lipstick.

Locket:
I put the sky into my pocket, and the sea into my locket - James Stephens "The Gombeen-Man"

Carry decades of lockets shaped like metal hearts - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"

Manicure:
With her manicure of ice - Lynn Powell "Alberta Clipper"

Her manicured nails were of glass - Sofia Samatar "The Death of Araweilo"

Mascara:
Leaving the pit with their mascara still immaculate - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

Mask.

Potential Titles: Matter - Specific Substances [category].

Medal:
When medals shine upon my breast - Augusta A.L. Magra "The Roll-Call of Home" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.731, 29 Dec. 1877]

Medallion:
A medallion hung around his neck - Martin Espada "Breve Pausa"

A gold medallion for her suffering - June Jordan "Poems for One Little Girl Blue"

Potential Titles: Metals [category].

Mother-of-Pearl:
Of mother-of-pearl and moonshine made - Elinor Wylie "The Fairy Goldsmith"

Necklace.

Necklet:
Seven bead-strings and necklets seven - "The Vision of Mac Conglinne"

Oil.

Ornament.

Pearl.

Pendant/Pendent:
The pendant gold of necklaced summer - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

Hung with pendent stalactites like frozen vines - Amy Lowell "A Fairy Tale"

Perfume.

Perm:
With ankles of oak and a bullet-proof perm - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

Pin.

Plume.

Polish.

Powder.

Regalia:
Villainous fellows for War's regalia - Herbert E. Palmer "The Bushrangers"

Different phases of full moon regalia - Edwin Torres "Moroccan Highway"

Ribbon.

Ring.

Potential Titles: Rocks - Pretty Ones [category].

Ruffle.

Sceptre/Scepter.

Sequin.

Signet:
The Southern Cross shimmering like a signet of hope - Christopher Buckley "Desire"

The signet of the grave - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XL"

Shave.

Soap.

Spangle.

Spur.

Stud.

Style.

Sunglasses:
Famous in his sunglasses and blazer - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"

Twin vortices in her black sunglasses - Sofia Samatar "The Death of Araweilo"

Tassel.

Tattoo.

Tiara:
tiara of sunbeads, scepter of starlight - Caroline Dinh "City Girls"

The tiaraed brows of darkness - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

Tinsel.

Trim.

Trinket.


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