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Sulfur match struck on vellum - Rasha Abdulhadi "Eleven Red Returns"

Matches near bone-dry trees - Alise Alousi "Lynndie's Other Voice"

A picture that matches an invented longing - Mary Jo Bang "The Earthquake She Slept Through"

Hot hands ablaze with spent matches - Samiya Bashir "Second Law"

Matching music with the weather - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady I"

Match the spirals in her eyes - Richard Blanco "Mexican Almuerzo in New England"

Prowl round the stackyards with tinder and match - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

A fitting shroud to match my wedding dress - Tania Chen "A Toast from Santisima Muerte"

Could match its awful visage - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Match you every coin you flip - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"

Has nought can match or mar her pride - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]

Nor is there any joy to match with mine - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In all the world is none so happy here]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

To match the field they thought they were playing on - Rita Dove "Family Reunion"

Behind enemy lines with no maps, no matches - Rita Dove "Insomnia Etiquette"

Now for the match that I must make - "The Game of Dice" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier

So now the match is square - "The Golfiad"

Matching the oblivion within - Edward Hirsch "The Unnaming"

To match the candle with the sun - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey "The Excellency of His Love"

In a powder-mill with a lighted match - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Fire from a match you never lit - Ilya Kaminsky "Alfonso Stands Answerable"

Match the bluebird in her mirth - Archibald Lampman "April in the Hills"

Nor faun nor fay can match - Emily Lawless "From the Burren XII: Yet a Little Longer"

Seek not to match the basilisk's false gleaming - "Let Never Cruelty Dishonour Beauty" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIII, v.LIX, Jan. 1846]

To match our blood against the cold - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

Found none to be your match - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Of a creature matched with strife - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

To match my value in action - Marianne Moore "Feed Me, Also, River God"

That matched the song of stream and bird - Henry Newbolt "To a River in the South"

Search for the matches to set fire to the unnamed - Margaret Noodin "Exhausted" transl. by the author

To match the gleams of heaven's night - Arthur Caswell Parker "Faith"

By matching its scent - Andrea Perry "The Sure-Footed Shoe Finder"

No match for the waking flame - Khadijah Queen "Declination"

For memory brought a deed to match - "A Report from Below" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.403, 5 Dec. 1829]

Match the whisper of the leaves - John Rollin Ridge aka Yellow Bird "Song [Come to the river's side, my love]"

No match for ourselves - Kay Ryan "Chinese Foot Chart"

To match against its increments - Kay Ryan "It's Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn"

Those who matched me in the race - Robert W. Service "At Thirty-Five"

My heart's only burnt match - Charles Simic "Makers of Labyrinths"

To match that hurricane of mind - B. Simmons "The Life of the Sea" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]

A garnet stone to match my gift - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Who could match the elegance of wind? - Wang An-Shih "A Moonlit Night in Mid-Autumn, Sent to Broad-Origin and My Other Brothers" transl. by David Hinton

Authority flings a struck match in our direction - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi


Re-staging that same old Cretaceous deathmatch - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"


Making each stone a matchbook - Paul Tran "Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising"


Matchless/Mismatched/Unmatched.


Dispatched the falcon to be my matchmaker - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson


Mistake your hands for matchsticks - Pacella Chukwuma- Eke "Why Is the Forest Lonely?"


Mismatch: See Matchless/Mismatched/Unmatched.


Unmatched: See Matchless/Mismatched/Unmatched.


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