Potential Titles: Rust
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somethingdarkerRusty bells and hollow songs - Cristoso Apache "Gahe Dzil/Mountain Spirits"
Of mildew and rust - Simon Armitage "Privet"
Ticking down into rust - Simon Armitage "Prometheus"
Give me a crown that will never rust - Albion Fellows Bacon "At Last"
A rusted absence extending back in time - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"
The snake wrapped around a rusted tree - Mary Jo Bang "W Is for Whatever"
An old trumpet harsh with rust and gold - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A key no thief can steal, no time can rust - Stella Benson "Christmas, 1917"
Till the body rusts away from the light - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Beauty with a rusted mouth - Louise Bogan "A Tale"
Buried in the night, preparing destinies of rust - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Rusty fishhook still lucky - Julia Bouwsma "Midden"
All the yards torn by their green rust beings - Russell Brakefield "Effigy"
Ending with that blade of rusted teeth - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
A rusty vane with rickety ways - Sterling A. Brown "Effie"
Months of steel rust blisters - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
The sparrows in evening's rusted trees - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Held a golden cup and tasted rust - Witter Bynner "The New World III"
A rusty yawn in a rumored year - Chen Chen "Self-Portrait as So Much Potential"
Blooming like rust under oil and tender iron - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"
lapping them into rust - Lucille Clifton "one year later"
Which moth and rust corrupt - Arthur Hugh Clough "Easter Day. Naples, 1849"
Even the best box of nails are capable of rust - Karla Cordero "Everything Needs Fixing"
Cutting the silence with the rusty blade - James Henry Cousins "Etain the Beloved"
Forgetfulness does rust the key - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Names dim with Time's dull rust - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
Whose name defies all rust and wear - Armen Davoudian "The Yellow Swan"
Custom's rusty fetters spurn'd - Delta "Stanzas for the Burns' Festival" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVII, v.LVI, Sept. 1844]
Till rust will come upon the screw - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
An arrangement in rust and gray-green - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"
Last week's rusty eclipse - Cheryl Dumesnil "Lake Dharma"
Land unscrubbed to rust - Rebecca Dunham "Atavism at Twilight"
Tireless as rust and bold as roots - Louise Erdrich "Fooling God"
Be tireless as rust - Louise Erdrich "Fooling God"
Demon rust loosening the bolts - Martin Espada "A Million Ants Swarming Through His Body"
The way water tastes rust in the pipes - Monica Ferrell "Rime Riche"
With rusty plumes and blunted swords - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Until the water rusted its way in - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"
The wheel never rusts, never stopped - Vievee Francis "Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding"
the candles' glow grows rusty - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer
And unsuspected moth and rust ate deep - Lydia Gibson "Lost Treasure"
Was now left in rubble and rust - Nikita Gill "Hekate: At the End of the World"
Whether by rust or decayed memory - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
Disillusioned roofs with teeth of rust - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
A museum of rusted scythes - Donald Hall "Alterations"
Tarnish of moth and rust - Frances E.W. Harper "Mother's Treasures"
Sharpen wood's warp to a rust - francine j. harris "senses"
The years have turned the rusted key - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Around the Boree Log"
Hushed and clicking to rust - Terrance Hayes "Three Measures of Time"
The iron key in the rusted lock - Marilyn Hacker "For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back"
Scarred with sordid rust of years - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Chains clanking together on rusty wheels - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"
A rusty shadow neither hunting nor playing - Jane Hirshfield "Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight"
The rust on his glaive and the rust in his heart - C.V. Hoffman "Le Faineant" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
Not relied on my blade, but remembered its rust - C.V. Hoffman "Le Faineant" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
Moth and rust so soon - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"
In dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Spires springing in dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Springing in dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
The pale rust of this moon - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"
Stains of rust on mounds of plaster - Robinson Jeffers "Summer Holiday"
And rust began to bleed through - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"
Smothered in the rust of its old gates - Ashley M. Jones "I Find the Earring that Broke Loose from My Ear the Night a White Woman Told Me the World Would Save Her"
Lattices of rusted lace - A.M. Juster "No Man's Island"
On the bright steel, great spots of rust had grown - Kate "An Old 'Chubb'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.109-v.III, 30 Jan. 1886]
Left my blessings to rust in the rain - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"
Deeper than rust - John Kinsella "'A Coda to History: 29'"
The rust of brittle color - Hailey Leithauser "Dolor"
Bowed by rust - Philip Levine "It Was Autumn"
Glorify the land of rust - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
Sleeps in a cemetery of rusted cars - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
Won't listen unless the rusted gates are open - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
Past the reach of moth and rust - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"
All clanks and clicks and rusty squeaks - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heron"
A bloom of rust at your vision's edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"
Of treasure liable to moth and rust - William M. MacKeracher "Motive"
Our skin is rust and metal - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"
Strutted along a rusted past - David Tomas Martinez "from Forgetting Willie James Jones"
Ripened the rusty metal - David Tomas Martinez "The Mechanics of Men"
Oil the unused armour's rust - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
Tugs a rusted chain - John McCrae "The Captain"
Before the cane knife's rust - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"
When her treasures are rust - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
The rusted towers haunting one hill - M.S. Merwin "Letters"
Rusting around stopped notes - M.S. Merwin "Returning Season"
Her plowshare eaten up with rust - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"
Salt-blue eyes and rust lips - Claire Millikin "Dolls of Tifton, Georgia"
Red needles marking air with rust - Claire Millikin "Dress Like a Girl"
Iron rust countries with caves of diamonds - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XX" transl. by William O'Daly
A savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Its rusted ribs were stolen from the junkyard - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
Gnomes in rusty red and gold - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
CCTV lenses, rusted wide - CP Nwankwo "Error 404: Expiation Not Found" [20 Oct. 2025]
Every fragile thing shall rust - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"
With a husk of mould and rust - W. Theodore Parkes "The Ghosts of Hampton Court"
Embraces me with her rusted hope - Cynthia Pelayo "Casa Juicio Final"
Nevermore to rust unblemished - Andre F. Peltier "A Long Walk"
Breeze blowing across its rusted strings - Patrick Phillips "Piano"
Blood-colored rust rubbed into my hands - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
The rust of the cold day breaking - Khadijah Queen "Declination"
The rusting edge of your reflection - Lalini Shanela Ranaraja "In the Year of the Wedding" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2025]
The key was turned in that rusty door - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
All that rots or rusts - Adrienne Rich "She"
What rust peels away - Jack Ridl "It Was Last Night, I Think"
The rain will rust it red - James Whitcombe Riley "Charms I: For Corns and Things"
Elegance married to rust - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Echoes a falsehood in her lone, rusty voice - Nicky Russell "Machinist Hands"
Polished free of the rust of hypocrisy - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
A rusted trumpet plays itself - Erika L. Sanchez "Capital"
Rust and gold on the roofs of the sea - Carl Sandburg "Fins"
Turns the ashen sphere about the rusted poles - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Ashes and rust and food for moths - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Rimmed with rust and regret - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Wears an Artificial Eye"
That I chew on until my teeth rust - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
Their joints were rusty and out of repair - Albert W. Smith "The Arctic Ball"
Whereon the shadows lay like rust - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
A horse-shoe rusts above the door - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"
Pause upon the threshold's rust - Leonora Speyer "Protest in Passing"
Deep gnawed by rust and stain - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Rusty cup-stains on the tables - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
When the spirit's chains are rust - George Sterling "In a Thousand Years"
When matter's chain shall rust - George Sterling "The Moth of Time"
On custom's rust and Beauty's dust - George Sterling "The Yellow Rose"
Rust scratches on rust in wind, noise unheard - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"
His sword is rusting in its sheath - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
Rusted nails fell from the knots - Tennyson "Mariana"
In its rusty evolution toward shadow - Amber Flora Thomas "Shed"
Then spear and lance were left to rust - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Whose index has yet to rust - Edwin Torres "Territory"
Caging the sun in rusted prison bars - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"
A rusty tractor sits fallow in the field - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
My heart was eaten by corroding rust - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours V" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Gold rust down my back - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"
Running toward a rusted horizon - Ocean Vuong "In Newport I Watch My Father Lay His Cheek to a Beached Dolphin's..."
Gathering the memory of rust & iron - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
A brief rainbow through a mist of rust - Ocean Vuong "Of Thee I Sing"
Let it rust under the stairs - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"
Rust creeps through the brittle reeds - Noah Warren "Cattail History"
Shut his rusty valves the tighter - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
Let it not rust under the stone to be lost - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 29" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Four or five mountains gone rust in twilight - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie VI"
A curse locks a rusty wooden door - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Mottled with creeping rust stains - Shuyi Yin "Growing Chair"
Rust's brown hatred - Adam Zagajewski "Highway"
Bloodrust fire, fleshtorn ground - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
A rust-colored rosary worn from prayer - Danni Quintos "Breast Pain"
We wander the rust-dark aisles minefield on minefield - Lalini Shanela Ranaraja "Tricona" [Strange Horizons 14 March 2022]
Rust-flakes erupting from the lungs - John James "After Guatemala"
A rust-red share in an empty furrow - Algernon Swinburne "Sorrow"
Only one sun-rust afternoon - Airea D. Matthews "Sexton Texts a Backslider After Breaking Lent"
The rust-trunk of memory - Hailey Leithauser "Memoirs"
Strength of unrusted will - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Dead III. Plaint of Friendship by Death Broken"
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Of mildew and rust - Simon Armitage "Privet"
Ticking down into rust - Simon Armitage "Prometheus"
Give me a crown that will never rust - Albion Fellows Bacon "At Last"
A rusted absence extending back in time - Mary Jo Bang "The Last Two Seconds"
The snake wrapped around a rusted tree - Mary Jo Bang "W Is for Whatever"
An old trumpet harsh with rust and gold - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
A key no thief can steal, no time can rust - Stella Benson "Christmas, 1917"
Till the body rusts away from the light - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"
Beauty with a rusted mouth - Louise Bogan "A Tale"
Buried in the night, preparing destinies of rust - Gordon Bottomley "To Iron-Founders and Others"
Rusty fishhook still lucky - Julia Bouwsma "Midden"
All the yards torn by their green rust beings - Russell Brakefield "Effigy"
Ending with that blade of rusted teeth - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
A rusty vane with rickety ways - Sterling A. Brown "Effie"
Months of steel rust blisters - Mahogany L. Browne "My face is an iteration, but the song in my belly is ancestral"
The sparrows in evening's rusted trees - Christopher Buckley "Prayer To Escape The East"
Held a golden cup and tasted rust - Witter Bynner "The New World III"
A rusty yawn in a rumored year - Chen Chen "Self-Portrait as So Much Potential"
Blooming like rust under oil and tender iron - Wendy Chen "They Sail Across the Mirrored Sea"
lapping them into rust - Lucille Clifton "one year later"
Which moth and rust corrupt - Arthur Hugh Clough "Easter Day. Naples, 1849"
Even the best box of nails are capable of rust - Karla Cordero "Everything Needs Fixing"
Cutting the silence with the rusty blade - James Henry Cousins "Etain the Beloved"
Forgetfulness does rust the key - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"
Names dim with Time's dull rust - Eleanor Rogers Cox "Dreaming of Cities Dead"
Whose name defies all rust and wear - Armen Davoudian "The Yellow Swan"
Custom's rusty fetters spurn'd - Delta "Stanzas for the Burns' Festival" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLVII, v.LVI, Sept. 1844]
Till rust will come upon the screw - Dark Eileen "Dirge on the Death of Art O'Leary, Shot at Carraganime, Co. Cork, May 4, 1773" transl. by Eleanor Hull
An arrangement in rust and gray-green - Timothy Donnelly "The New Intelligence"
Last week's rusty eclipse - Cheryl Dumesnil "Lake Dharma"
Land unscrubbed to rust - Rebecca Dunham "Atavism at Twilight"
Tireless as rust and bold as roots - Louise Erdrich "Fooling God"
Be tireless as rust - Louise Erdrich "Fooling God"
Demon rust loosening the bolts - Martin Espada "A Million Ants Swarming Through His Body"
The way water tastes rust in the pipes - Monica Ferrell "Rime Riche"
With rusty plumes and blunted swords - John Gould Fletcher "Irradiations"
Until the water rusted its way in - Vievee Francis "Given to Rust"
The wheel never rusts, never stopped - Vievee Francis "Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding"
the candles' glow grows rusty - Gloria Gervitz "Migrations" [excerpt] transl. by Mark Schafer
And unsuspected moth and rust ate deep - Lydia Gibson "Lost Treasure"
Was now left in rubble and rust - Nikita Gill "Hekate: At the End of the World"
Whether by rust or decayed memory - Sarah Gittens "Pineapple Bedposts"
Disillusioned roofs with teeth of rust - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"
A museum of rusted scythes - Donald Hall "Alterations"
Tarnish of moth and rust - Frances E.W. Harper "Mother's Treasures"
Sharpen wood's warp to a rust - francine j. harris "senses"
The years have turned the rusted key - Patrick Joseph Hartigan writing as John O'Brien "Around the Boree Log"
Hushed and clicking to rust - Terrance Hayes "Three Measures of Time"
The iron key in the rusted lock - Marilyn Hacker "For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back"
Scarred with sordid rust of years - John Northern Hilliard "Iconoclasm" [The Fly Leaf no. 3 v.1 Feb. 1896]
Chains clanking together on rusty wheels - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"
A rusty shadow neither hunting nor playing - Jane Hirshfield "Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight"
The rust on his glaive and the rust in his heart - C.V. Hoffman "Le Faineant" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
Not relied on my blade, but remembered its rust - C.V. Hoffman "Le Faineant" [Graham's Magazine v.XXI no.1, July 1842]
Moth and rust so soon - Margaret Houston "Aftermath"
In dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Spires springing in dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
Springing in dark and rusty flame - Aldous Huxley "Song of Poplars"
The pale rust of this moon - Elizabeth Jacobson "Blood Moon"
Stains of rust on mounds of plaster - Robinson Jeffers "Summer Holiday"
And rust began to bleed through - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"
Smothered in the rust of its old gates - Ashley M. Jones "I Find the Earring that Broke Loose from My Ear the Night a White Woman Told Me the World Would Save Her"
Lattices of rusted lace - A.M. Juster "No Man's Island"
On the bright steel, great spots of rust had grown - Kate "An Old 'Chubb'" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.109-v.III, 30 Jan. 1886]
Left my blessings to rust in the rain - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"
Deeper than rust - John Kinsella "'A Coda to History: 29'"
The rust of brittle color - Hailey Leithauser "Dolor"
Bowed by rust - Philip Levine "It Was Autumn"
Glorify the land of rust - Vachel Lindsay "Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down"
Sleeps in a cemetery of rusted cars - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
Won't listen unless the rusted gates are open - Angela Liu "The Church at the Edge of Time" [Strange Horizons 14 April 2025]
Past the reach of moth and rust - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Shelter and Fellowship"
All clanks and clicks and rusty squeaks - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heron"
A bloom of rust at your vision's edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"
Of treasure liable to moth and rust - William M. MacKeracher "Motive"
Our skin is rust and metal - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"
Strutted along a rusted past - David Tomas Martinez "from Forgetting Willie James Jones"
Ripened the rusty metal - David Tomas Martinez "The Mechanics of Men"
Oil the unused armour's rust - Andrew Marvell "Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
Tugs a rusted chain - John McCrae "The Captain"
Before the cane knife's rust - Brandy Nālani McDougall "Pō"
When her treasures are rust - Louis J. McQuilland "The King's Bride"
The rusted towers haunting one hill - M.S. Merwin "Letters"
Rusting around stopped notes - M.S. Merwin "Returning Season"
Her plowshare eaten up with rust - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"
Salt-blue eyes and rust lips - Claire Millikin "Dolls of Tifton, Georgia"
Red needles marking air with rust - Claire Millikin "Dress Like a Girl"
Iron rust countries with caves of diamonds - Pablo Neruda "Still Another Day: XX" transl. by William O'Daly
A savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid
Its rusted ribs were stolen from the junkyard - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
Gnomes in rusty red and gold - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"
CCTV lenses, rusted wide - CP Nwankwo "Error 404: Expiation Not Found" [20 Oct. 2025]
Every fragile thing shall rust - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"
With a husk of mould and rust - W. Theodore Parkes "The Ghosts of Hampton Court"
Embraces me with her rusted hope - Cynthia Pelayo "Casa Juicio Final"
Nevermore to rust unblemished - Andre F. Peltier "A Long Walk"
Breeze blowing across its rusted strings - Patrick Phillips "Piano"
Blood-colored rust rubbed into my hands - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
The rust of the cold day breaking - Khadijah Queen "Declination"
The rusting edge of your reflection - Lalini Shanela Ranaraja "In the Year of the Wedding" [Strange Horizons Fund Drive 2025]
The key was turned in that rusty door - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]
All that rots or rusts - Adrienne Rich "She"
What rust peels away - Jack Ridl "It Was Last Night, I Think"
The rain will rust it red - James Whitcombe Riley "Charms I: For Corns and Things"
Elegance married to rust - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"
Echoes a falsehood in her lone, rusty voice - Nicky Russell "Machinist Hands"
Polished free of the rust of hypocrisy - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton
A rusted trumpet plays itself - Erika L. Sanchez "Capital"
Rust and gold on the roofs of the sea - Carl Sandburg "Fins"
Turns the ashen sphere about the rusted poles - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"
Ashes and rust and food for moths - Francis Sherman "A Prelude"
Rimmed with rust and regret - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Wears an Artificial Eye"
That I chew on until my teeth rust - Courtney Skaggs "The Little Death After the Apocalypse"
Their joints were rusty and out of repair - Albert W. Smith "The Arctic Ball"
Whereon the shadows lay like rust - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
A horse-shoe rusts above the door - Leonora Speyer "New England Cottage"
Pause upon the threshold's rust - Leonora Speyer "Protest in Passing"
Deep gnawed by rust and stain - "The Spur of Monmouth" [The Continental Monthly v.I - April, 1862 - no.IV]
Rusty cup-stains on the tables - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"
When the spirit's chains are rust - George Sterling "In a Thousand Years"
When matter's chain shall rust - George Sterling "The Moth of Time"
On custom's rust and Beauty's dust - George Sterling "The Yellow Rose"
Rust scratches on rust in wind, noise unheard - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"
His sword is rusting in its sheath - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Christmas Comes Again"
Rusted nails fell from the knots - Tennyson "Mariana"
In its rusty evolution toward shadow - Amber Flora Thomas "Shed"
Then spear and lance were left to rust - M.E. Thropp "The City of Mexico. Written While the War Was Pending" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Whose index has yet to rust - Edwin Torres "Territory"
Caging the sun in rusted prison bars - Iris Tree "[I know what happiness is]"
A rusty tractor sits fallow in the field - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
My heart was eaten by corroding rust - Emile Verhaeren "The Sunlit Hours V" transl. by Charles Royier Murphy
Gold rust down my back - Ocean Vuong "Immigrant Haibun"
Running toward a rusted horizon - Ocean Vuong "In Newport I Watch My Father Lay His Cheek to a Beached Dolphin's..."
Gathering the memory of rust & iron - Ocean Vuong "Ode to Masturbation"
A brief rainbow through a mist of rust - Ocean Vuong "Of Thee I Sing"
Let it rust under the stairs - Rosemarie Waldrop "Inserting the Mirror"
Rust creeps through the brittle reeds - Noah Warren "Cattail History"
Shut his rusty valves the tighter - John Greenleaf Whittier "Voyage of the Jettie"
Let it not rust under the stone to be lost - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 29" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]
Four or five mountains gone rust in twilight - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie VI"
A curse locks a rusty wooden door - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton
Mottled with creeping rust stains - Shuyi Yin "Growing Chair"
Rust's brown hatred - Adam Zagajewski "Highway"
Bloodrust fire, fleshtorn ground - Elizabeth Bartlett "The House of Sleep"
A rust-colored rosary worn from prayer - Danni Quintos "Breast Pain"
We wander the rust-dark aisles minefield on minefield - Lalini Shanela Ranaraja "Tricona" [Strange Horizons 14 March 2022]
Rust-flakes erupting from the lungs - John James "After Guatemala"
A rust-red share in an empty furrow - Algernon Swinburne "Sorrow"
Only one sun-rust afternoon - Airea D. Matthews "Sexton Texts a Backslider After Breaking Lent"
The rust-trunk of memory - Hailey Leithauser "Memoirs"
Strength of unrusted will - Robert Nichols "Ardours and Endurances: The Dead III. Plaint of Friendship by Death Broken"
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