Potential Titles: Vehicles [category]

Potential Titles: Machine/Device Parts [category].



Airplane.

Airship:
The sky is waiting for an airship - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"

Watch the smooth airships of Zen - Tony Hoagland "Upward"

Ambulance:
Holding only the echoes of ambulance screams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

Argosy:
Where shifting winds were driving his argosies - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"

Some outward voyaging argosy - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"

Argosies of earth their treasures bear - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"

Ark.

Armada.

Automobile:
Driving a cardboard automobile - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Far Rockaway of the Heart, 2"

Backhoe:
Of backhoes awakening each morning - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"

Balloon.

Barge.

Barque/Bark (boat).

Battle-Cruiser:
Ghosts of sleeping battle-cruisers - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"

Battleship:
Rimmed round by steel-built battleships - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"

Bicycle:
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"

Boat.

Bomber:
Where the grey bombers loose their metal thunder - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"

Bulldozer:
Past bulldozers and trucks pouring tarmac - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

Excavators & bulldozers that wait, like vultures, to ruin me - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"

Bus.

Cab: See Taxi/Taxicab.

Caboose:
Like cabooses ready to decouple - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"

Glide next to a forgotten caboose - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"

Canoe:
An unlit canoe silvering beneath the Milky Way - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"

To canoe over Niagara Falls and live - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"

Finds in our canoe no room - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Across the crease of smooth canoes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"

A capsized canoe full of mathematicians - Dean Young "Acceptance Speech"

Car.

Caravan.

Caravel:
I would understand the caravel of my childhood - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels - J.C. Squire "Sonnet [There was an Indian]"

Carousel.

Carriage:
an archive pulsing with the carriage of empires - DaMaris B. Hill "Come. Pray. Know"

Hunt bloated rubies in carriages on the moor - Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa "The Wicked Lady"

Kites and owls screech at the carriage yoke - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson

No carriage goes that does not follow the rut - Wang Seng-Ta "To Match the Prince of Lang-yeh's Poem in the Old Style" transl. by Burton Watson

Cart.

Chariot.

Coach:
Just departed in the sun's bright coach - George MacDonald "Within and Without"

Convoy:
A convoy of suspended shadows - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Corsair:
Every lover is a corsair seeking glory - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"

Dirigible:
Gilded aerialists in their giant dirigibles - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"

Dreadnought:
The foeman's dreadnoughts ride - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"

Old maid or dreadnought - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"

This dreadnought wreck cut loose - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"

Eighteen Wheeler:
The first one to an eighteen-wheeler accident - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: III"

Exit ramps lined with eighteen wheelers - Richard Jones "Rest"

Excavator:
Excavators & bulldozers that wait, like vultures, to ruin me - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"

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"

Ferry.

Fire Truck:
In winter bearded with fire truck ice - Mark Jarman "Tale of Two Cities"

Flatbed [Truck]:
A fast-driving diesel flatbed of felled trees - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"

Fleet.

Forklift:
Gorgeous scars won from wrestling with a forklift - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

Freight Car:
The clearing yard loaded with empty freight cars - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

Freight Train:
Of freight trains lacking finesse - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"

And stars a freight train passing - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [This beauty that I see]"

Into the crease the freight train hits - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"

Frigate:
Deep in the bilges of frigates - David Tomas Martinez "The Mechanics of Men"

High carrion frigates - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"

Galleon:
A galleon on the caustic waters - William Brewer "Resolution"

A faceted galleon perfect for a song - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"

Cloud-galleons with their sails of rose and snow - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"

Every galleon of the air - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"

Galley.

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

Gondola:
The boat-yard of the last gondola maker - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"

My soul is a sleeping gondola - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"

Hackney Cab:
Beauty a hackney cab of commerce - Mike Tyler "Palazzo Tartaruga"

Hearse:
Trailed a white hearse - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXII"

Hearses carrying the corpse of profit - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"

From our hearse of changing dust - Joshua Henry Jones "The Universe"

Helicopter:
When the helicopters shred the sky - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"

The covert jackaling of helicopters and jets - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"

Hybrid.

Ice Cream Truck:
The ice cream truck's jingle warped and blaring - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"

Jet.

Locomotive:
What fills a tunnel after a locomotive passes - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"

Locomotives and other forgettings - Sandy Florian "House"

With its alphabetical locomotives - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"

Locomotive running off the rails - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"

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"

Navy:
Where the gallant navy rides the deep - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"

Reckoning up their navies - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"

Navy blue around a fake significance - John Moncure Wettarau "On Looking at a Mediocre Painting"

Pinnace:
Love's pinnace overfraught - John Donne "Air and Angels"

The pinnace needs a swifter sail - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"

Plague Ship:
Bring this plague ship to port - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"

Pushcart:
A pushcart heaped beyond possibility - John Ciardi "Abundance"

Raft.

Rail/Railroad.

Rickshaw:
In the rickshaw mixing up cultures - Mike Tyler "Palazzo Tartaruga"

Riverboat:
Waiting for a riverboat loaded with music - T.R. Hummer "Who Remembers Davenport"

Rocket.

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

Rowboat:
A toy dog left on a rowboat adrift - Mary Jo Bang "Today You're the Still Photographer"

Schooner:
In a ghost schooner's nocturnal calm - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Ship.

Skiff:
a skiff of snow in the new week - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"

An exile in a self-made skiff - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"

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]

Snowplow:
Snowplow pushes time across the prairie - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"

Snowplows etch lines in the whiteness - Sue Budin "After the Blizzard"

Spaceship:
Hijack the next spaceship and travel to Mars - Julie Babcock "Dick and Jane Burn Down the House"

What yacht or spaceship have you hijacked? - Elaine Equi "No Other" [Poetry May 2019]

The spaceship dilemma is easy to fix - Daniel Errico "In Space"

Because spaceships are faster than cars - Daniel Errico "In Space"

the spaceships cover the sky completely - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins

Squadron.

Starship:
A list of starships decelerating toward us - Kendall Evans "Now We Must Speak in the Shadows of Silence"

Another wave of time-traveling starships - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"

Submarine:
Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"

Subway.

Taxi/Taxicab.

Tractor:
Beyond the knives of a tractor - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"

A tractor skirting a green triangle - Mary Jo Bang "Children Were Erasing Their Faces"

slung from tractor factories - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"

A rusty tractor sits fallow in the field - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"

Train.

Tram:
Leave the tram-car's jarring jangle - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"

Trawler:
Fishnets trawling stars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7

Skirted the rocks and wrecked trawlers - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"

Truck.

Van.

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

My body is just a vehicle to move me - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #39"

A cumbersome dream vehicle - Elizabeth Spires "The Snowy Day"

Vessel.

Wagon:
The wagons go along the little crooked streets - Miriam Clark Potter "The Highest Hill in Happy Town"

Warship:
His throne's the war-ship's lofty deck - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

The sun's great warship - A.E. Stallings "On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia"

Wheelbarrow.

Yacht:
What yacht or spaceship have you hijacked? - Elaine Equi "No Other" [Poetry May 2019]

Zeppelin:
Thunderheads like doomed zeppelins - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"


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