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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2010-06-05 03:13 am

Potential Titles: Floor

A green growing odour seeping up through the floor - Joan Aiken "Down Below"

Floor vowing vengeance on Ceiling - Mike Allen "Space War"

From the glass to the killing floor - William Archila "Spirits"

Curl up on the floor of the sun - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

My ivory floors shall glitter - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

Dripping onto a broken stone floor - Mary Jo Bang "The Echo"

The frayed edge of the dance floor - Mary Jo Bang "Reminds Me Ramona"

Leaving today on the floor - Mary Jo Bang "Y Is for Year's Mind"

that lies on the floor of atlantis - Elizabeth Bartlett "log for a voyage"

Diagrams like songs on ocean floors - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Singing"

Draws a diagonal across my floor - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

Lose to the sawdust floor - Terry Blackhawk "Out of the Labyrinth"

Open floors of steel - William Brewer "Resolution"

Until the floor stung my feet awake with cold - Nickole Brown "Wild Thing"

Heaven's own shining floor - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Shining rivers with their brimming floors - W. Wilfred Campbell "Phaethon"

Floors of distant forests - Anne Carson "Short Talk on Pain"

This level floor of liquid glass - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Scattering names on a dusty floor - Nandi Comer "The Check In"

Gold and crimson strew earth's gloomy floor - Mrs. Martha Walker Cook "Autumn Leaves" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.2, August 1863]

Sunshine skirts that swept the floor - Olive Custance "A Morning Song"

Left no footmark on the floor - Anna Bunston de Bary "Under a Wiltshire Apple Tree"

Through a footbridge's fenced floor - Chris Dombrowski "I Canonize Dick Curran"

The floor becomes air - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Beauty's Daydream"

Dissolve the floors of memory - T.S. Eliot "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"

Across the floors of strangers - Tarfia Faizullah "Djinn in Need of a Bitch"

The frost of the moon fell over my floor - Eleanor Farjeon "Six Green Singers"

The chill from drafty factory floors - Chad Frame "A Union Victory"

On a floor of pine silt and spring mud - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"

Steals across a thousand floors - Florence Hoatson "The Friend of Santa Claus"

Tie my body to the floor - Jane Huffman "On Moving"

Down on the stubborn floor of Earth - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Sitting careless on a granary floor - John Keats "To Autumn"

Across the river's shadow-haunted floor - Archibald Lampman "September"

Your barns show vacant floors - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

Floors where reverent feet once trod - Emma Lazarus "In the Jewish Synogogue at Newport"

The floor is littered with unfinished spells - Angel Leal "The Witch Recalls Her Craft"

Ermined floors and tangled seas of silk sheets - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

All my bones scattered across the floor - Gary Copeland Lilley "Alpha Zulu"

Her secret forest's floor and lawn - Vachel Lindsay "A Rhyme for All Zionists: The Eyes of Queen Esther, and How they Conquered King Ahasuerus"

the floors holding our reflections - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"

Fairy rings on floors of moss - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"

Sweep me up with the dust on the floor - Toby MacNutt "When You Read this Debris"

The mouse that gnawed the floor - John Masefield "The Hounds of Hell"

A roof of flint and a floor of chalk - John Masefield "Reynard the Fox"

On the second floor of the universe - Jeffrey McDaniel "Compulsively Allergic to the Truth"

Secure on Hades' floor - Louis J. McQuilland "Fleet Street"

The bones along the ocean floor - Achy Obejas "Recountal"

Four floors of guilt - Diana O'Hehir "Riding the San Francisco Train"

Into the floor of darkness - Mary Oliver "Moccasin Flowers"

Sapphire in Heaven's floor inlaid - Conde Benoist Pallen "Maria Immaculata"

Wrought its ghost upon the floor - Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven"

A fixed sea floor of grief - Sina Queyras "Years"

Through the mazes of that crowded floor - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

light that fell against the prison floor - C.T. Salazar "River"

Down on the floors of salt and wet - Carl Sandburg "Bones"

Makes the floor weep and the ceiling grieve - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"

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

Whose floor is the lower void - Clark Ashton Smith "Chant to Sirius"

A sorry message on the sawdust floor - Emily Smith "Such Monstrous Births"

From the harvest's middle floor - Algernon Charles Swinburne "August"

Camouflaged bombers on the ground floor of truth - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"

From the floor of an ocean we can't imagine - Keith Taylor "Drummond Island Fossils"

The threshing floor of the past - Charles Wright "Sentences II"

Into the solid floor of sky - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"


The wailing from under the floorboards - Toby MacNutt "You Are Entitled to Your Pain"

Beneath the floorboards of my thought - Michael McGriff "Inversion"


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