Potential Titles: Time - Units Of [category]

Calendar.

Century.

Day.

Decade.

Half Hour:
One half hour of the long twenty-four - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

Hour.

Instant.

Millennium/Millennia.

Millisecond:
To count milliseconds by watching a brook run - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Minute.

Moment.

Month.

Nanosecond:
A nanosecond flowers into eternity - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"

Period.

Season.

Second.

Week.

Year.


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Potential Titles: Time of Day [category]

8:20:
Space went to war with itself at 8:20 - Mike Allen "Space War"

10pm:
There is a 10pm curfew for noise - Dimitri Reyes "[Oye! This is an apartment building ode]"

Afternoon.

Coffee Break:
two tragic martyrs on coffee break - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Maternal Otherhood Of Mythematists Will Now Come To Order"

Curfew.

Dawn.

Day.

Daybreak.

Dog-Watch:
While the tired Dog-Watch hailed the sea-merged Star - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Dusk.

Eve [time of day or night before].

Evening.

Eventide:
The hare that feeds at eventide - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"

Conquering kings at eventide - Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton "I Watch the Ships"

Food - Specific Meals [category].

Gloaming:
Braiding in drops of the gloaming - Henry Scott Riddell "When the Glen All Is Still"

At the gloaming's pensive hour - James Thomson "To My Robin Redbreast" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.726, 24 Nov. 1877]

Thin blades you sharpen in the gloaming - G.E. Woods "How to Skin Your Wolf"

Matins.

Midnight.

Months and Days of the Week [category].

Morning.

Morrow.

Night.

Nightfall.

Nocturnal.

Noon.

Noonday.

Noontide.

Rush Hour:
By the daydream of lawless rush hour - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

Sunrise.

Sunset.

Sun-Up:
Jewels harvested before sun-up - Zilka Joseph "Man hu? Man Hu?"

Today.

Tomorrow.

Tonight.

Twilight.

Vesper.

Yesterday.



Where a century fits comfortably inside 10 am - John McCarthy "Gravestone"


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Potential Titles: Trees [category]

Tree.

Plants/Trees - Parts [category].


Acacia.

Alder.

Almond.

Ash (both trees and fire residue).

Aspen.

Balsa:
My fingertips were all balsa - Amanda Mitzel "Arach"

Balsam.

Baobab:
Each time a baobab drops a beetle - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"

Beech.

Birch.

Black Walnut:
Blackbird shouting in the black walnut tree - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Boortree:
The boortree and the lightsome ash across the portal grow - William Allingham "Abbey Asaroe"
[another name for an elder tree]

Boxwood:
Carved his body from a bough of box-tree - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LXIV: Brotherless Sisters" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Lounges in an abstract of boxwood and holly - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"

Camphor:
Rigid myrrh-bud, camphor-flower - H.D. "Sea Iris"

Cedar.

Chalk Maple:
Rub chalk maple over the head of a screech - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Cherry.

Chestnut.

Christmas Tree:
Curtailed by the ever-growing Christmas trees - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"

Cottonwood.

Crabapple:
The last of the maroon crabapple ovates - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"

Cypress.

Dogwood.

Ebon/Ebony.

Elder:
Where the grey elder-thickets hang - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"

Elm.

Eucalyptus.

Evergreen.

Fir.

Fuchsia.

Ginko:
Little ginko fans confettied on the sidewalk - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"

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

Gravetree:
Gravetree estuaries against the winds of Paradise - Charles Wright "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted..."

Greenwood:
Out in the greenwood to romp and play - L.A.B.C. "Our May-Day at the South" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Fifty years under the greenwood tree - Andrew Lang "The Brigand's Grave"

Hawthorn.

Hazel.

Hemlock.

Hickory.

Honey Locust:
Covet the seeds of the honey locust - D.A. Powell "corydon & alexis, redux"

Ironbark Eucalyptus:
The ironbark eucalyptus dwells in ignorance and beauty - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"

Japanese Maple:
Burgundy air under the Japanese maples - Brian Tierney "Catering"

Joshua Tree:
Roosting in the dark branches of the Joshua tree - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

Juniper.

Larch.

Laurel.

Lemon.

Linden.

Magnolia.

Mahogany:
In unfettered mahogany abandon - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

Darkens with alabaster and mahogany - Ellen Hinsey "Epistle"

Watch true brews slide down that mahogany bar - Bob Holman "Scotty and the Rib Tips"

Mangrove:
Mangrove thrusts deep in salty mud - Muna Lee "Caribbean Marsh"

In the land of mangroves and abandonment - Emma Trelles "Dear Sister"

In hollows under the mangrove root - Elinor Wylie "Escape"

Maple.

Mesquite:
Deeper into the pit of pitch and mesquite - Russell Brakefield "Raccoon Sighting Before Intimacy"

carved me from the old mesquite that stretched impossibly - ire'ne lara silva "me llamo viento"

Mesquites with nothing to lose - Analicia Sotelo "Eating the Moon in Cotulla, TX"

The mesquites know their time to burn - Analicia Sotelo "Quemado, Texas"

The closely matted branches of the mesquite - Bertrand N.O. Walker [Hen-toh] "A Mojave Lullaby"

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

Monkey Puzzle:
the fossilized needles of a monkey puzzle - Dylan Brennan "A First Glimpse of Ireland" [excerpt]

Mulberry.

Oak.

Oleander.

Olive trees.

Palm (tree).

Parasol Tree:
A table in the shade of a parasol tree - Dara Barrois/Dixon "Incident on the Road to the Capital"

Pine.

Ponderosa:
Ridgeline ponderosas wind-pardoned - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

Poplar.

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

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

Redbuds dispersing their ruby secrets - Amie Whittemore "Ghosting Aubade"

Redwood:
Listen for a green word from the redwoods - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"

The penumbra of a redwood across frozen ground - Kailee Pedersen "Four Sea Interludes"

Pornographic magazines ported into the redwoods - Dean Young "Lucifer"

Rowan:
Berried branches of the rowan - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Lament of Padraic Mor Mac Cruimin Over His Sons"

Chewing bitter rowanberries - Krystyna Dąbrowska "Confession" transl. by Karen Kovacik

At the foot of the rowan-tree - "Do You Remember that Night?" transl. by Eleanor Hull [Written down by O'Curry for Dr. George Petrie.]

Sapling.

Shagbark:
Twisted vines on a shagbark tree - Conrad Hilberry "Angles"

Shrub-Pine:
Treasure spilled near the shrub-pines - H.D. "Sea Poppies"

Spruce.

Sumac.

Sycamore.

Tamarack:
Through golden tamaracks in autumn - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"

Tea-Tree:
A trumpet in the tea-tree - Furnley Maurice "Neely Lorst"

Walnut.

Willow.

Yew.


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Potential Titles: Toys & Games [category]

Ace:
Knows the deuce from the ace - Frank J. Medina "That's My Beau"

Playing faro with no aces - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"

Ball.

Balloon.

Baseball:
Playing baseball with the dead - Chris Dombrowski "A History of Barbed Wire"

Flaws stacked like baseball cards - Andrea Gibson "Boomerang Valentine"

Down past empty baseball diamonds - Keith Taylor "The Skateboard Park, Seen from Afar"

Baton:
Twirls a baton of broken broomstick - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "La Cachiporrista"

Bicycle:
The dreambike had eyes on its spokes - Duane Ackerson " Proof of Existence"

Bike riding across insecure cement - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

Precarious choreography of bicycles - Safia Elhillo "Amsterdam"

Riding a bicycle towards the ceiling - John Yau "Music from Childhood"

Blind-Man's-Bluff:
Rough accompaniment of blind-man's-buff - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Card.

Carousel.

Checkers/Chequers.

Chess.

Contest.

Cribbage:
All of us playing cribbage on the lawn - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"

Croquet:
The mice play their games of croquet - Mary Jo Bang "In the Quieter Aftermath"

Deuce:
Turns and plays the deuce with Spring - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: April"

Who with his landlord stands deuce high - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Knows the deuce from the ace - Frank J. Medina "That's My Beau"

Dice.

Doll.

Doll House:
In this doll's house lived together - Edmund Blunden "Almswomen"

Paced their dollhouse walls - Leah Bobet "Hold Fast"

In whose adorable doll's house nothing was ever broken - Adrienne Rich "A Ball Is for Throwing"

Domino.

Faro:
Playing faro with no aces - Sonya Taaffe "Last Minute"

Ferris wheel:
A Ferris Wheel in winter - Lou Barrett "Coney Island Afternoon"

Ferris wheel with tickets for sale - Stephanie Heit "Solar Eclipse"

Went down to the ferris wheel - Brenda Hillman "Sediments of Santa Monica"

Football:
And pile them high like football fiends - Jennie Earngey Hill "Nature's Game"

Four-Flush:
Can't four-flush when he's paying rent for two - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Freeze Tag: See Tag.

Frisbee:
Throw my voice like a Frisbee - Ruth Madievsky "Electrons"

Game.

Games - Mental [category].

Go-Cart:
Their meteor go-cart running on a firecracker - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Hide-and-Seek.

Hopscotch:
A dynamic rendition of the hospscotched [sic] past - Bruce Boston "Futurity Wears the Head"

Hopscotch squares painted new in the street - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

Ice Skates:
My mind is loose on ice skates - Arthur H. Manners "Now You Know"

Jack:
In this field of tens and one-eyed jacks - Joy Harjo "A Winning Hand"

Jack-in-the-Box:
Chaos plays Jack-in-the-Box - Dom "Number Cruncher: Here's a Crowd"

Jackstraws:
And fall like jackstraws - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

Jigsaw.

Jump Rope:
The jump ropes' portentous looming - Major Jackson "Letters to Brooks [Spring Garden]"

Kaleidoscope.

Kings of various suits:
Between the King and Queen of Swords - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"

Kite.

Leap Frog:
An entire career built upon leapfrogging elephants - Joshua Bennett "Owed to Ankle Weights"

Play at leap frog with the grass - Alexander Posey "The Idle Breeze"

Magic 8-Ball:
Our Magic 8-Ball fortune - Kiki Petrosino "The Maiden"

Make-Believe.

Marble/Marbled/Marbles.

Marionette:
Defanged marionette, flattened clown - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"

Waltzing with your marionettes - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"

Marionette running on the brain's dark marrow - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"

Meccano:
In this swirling meccano of empires and loves - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"

Merry-Go-Round:
Somebody counts the merry-go-rounds inside - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"

On our spherical, miracle merry-go-round - Allan Wolf "The Sun Did Not Go Down Today"

Monkey Bars:
Upside-down on the monkey bars - Marilyn Hacker "Iva's Pantoum"

Musical Chairs:
An endless game of musical chairs - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

Paper Airplane:
Five paper airplanes poking at turned dirt - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"

Westward paper airplane and origami crane poems - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"

A silken basket catching our paper airplanes - Bryce A. Taylor "Cartilage"

Send letters back and forth by paper airplane - Evan Williams "Yours, Stalagmite"

Paper Doll:
The violent side of paper dolls - Claire Millikin "Paper Doll Eyes"

Pastime:
Life but a coin to be staked in the pastime - William Ernest Henley "The Song of the Sword"

Pawn.

Pinata:
The dandelion turns into a pinata - John McCarthy "Planting"

Pinwheel.

Play.

Plaything.

Poker: See Poke.

Puppet.

Puzzle.

Queen cards of specific suits:
I began as the Queen of Hearts - Conrad Hilberry "Jack of Spades"

Some ghostly queen of spades had come to mock - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"

Between the King and Queen of Swords - Sydney Sackett "After a Line from Bob Dylan's 'Changing of the Guards'"

Ragdoll:
In the ragdoll physics of this world - R. Christopher Aversa "Gold Foil Experiment"

Rocking Horse:
The rocking horse dreams of riding the carousel - Duane Ackerson "Various Horses"

Roller Coaster:
This forest of drowned roller coasters - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"

Roller Skate:
Rushing by on roller skates - Dorothy Keeley Aldis "Spring"

roller skate down the new sidewalk - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."

Roulette:
Playing roulette with my breath - Stephanie Heit "Dear Murderer"

Hear the insects' smooth roulette - Conrad Hilberry "Hunch"

Sandcastle:
The four dimensions fold into a sandcastle - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Origin of Planets"

Make myself a sandcastle and draw myself a door - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"

Skate.

Skateboard:
A cowboy reincarnated as a skateboarder - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"

Sled:
Dolls, and tops, and sleds, and balls - Sydney Dayre "A Letter to Mother Nature" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Snow Globe:
When the wind frenzied up a snow globe of petals - Nickole Brown "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Smash a snow globe in a parking lot - Ruth Madievsky "You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies"

Solitaire:
When I am playing more than solitaire - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Sports & Athletics [category].

Stilts:
An elaboration of stalk and stilts - Janet Kauffman "An Elaboration of Stalk"

Swing.

Swing Set:
A pair of empty swing sets - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Forsythe Avenue Haibun"

Tag.

Toy.

Trampoline:
The trampolined floor of a windowless room - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

Trapeze:
Trapeze wires below the cloud cover - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Rocked like a trapeze of fire - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

Trapezes that our passion frenzies - Iris Tree "Nerves"

Tug of War:
The deadly tug of war at length must limits find - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"

A perpetual tug of war - Monica de la Torre "Equivalent"

Video Game:
still the tint of video game to your voice - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Second Stop Is Jupiter"

Wild Card:
And the small death of the wild card - Frank Stanford "Embark"


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