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Blue witness of the Second Empire - Harold Acton "As Dmitri Karamazoff sang on the way to Chaos"

Once upon a second time - Mary Alexander Agner "Crane Husband"

In a harrowing second of time - Conrad Aiken "1915: The Trenches"

While I starve for a second of rest - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

War on the hinge of a second - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Under water for a full, astonishing second - George Bilgere "Swim Lessons"

For a few inclined seconds - Richard Blanco "Papa's Bridge"

Knowledge is born of a second - Maxwell Bodenheim "To a Woman"

Nopales as second line of home defense - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

Sewing up the spaces between seconds - William Brewer "There Is a Gold Light"

With the ferocity of a second lover - May Chong "Catering"

the name of the second was faith - Lucille Clifton "david, musing"

Learn the Second Reverence - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

The rotating contraption of a second baptism - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La consegna delle braci [The Distribution of Embers]" transl. by Moira Egan

Nor for a second summons idly wait - Eleanor C. Donnelly "The Vision of the Monk Gabriel" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.3, March 1863]

Wake up with a second chance - Rita Dove "Dawn Revisited"

The cricket has called the second hour - Joseph Rodman Drake "The Culprit Fay"

By the eternity of a second - Stephen Dunn "Time"

Vengeance seconded by luck - Thomas Dunn English "Jack, the Regular" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.11, no.23, Feb. 1873]

But what's the second panel of the tapestry? - Sarah Getty "Deer, 6:00 AM"

Blow up a second like a balloon - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"

A tree's second dream - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Two seconds shy of seven days - Lora Gray "Jupiter of Jupiter"

A 9 second lullaby in the dead of night - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"

the second hand a steel jaw I have set in the snow - Jim Heston "In the Time of Lycanthropy"

Shaking seconds out like salt - Mark Irwin "Dedication"

Or burn in me a second mouth - Daniel Johnson "Inheritance"

Rewind to the seconds of its resurrection - Janine Joseph "Oh, I'm Dying, I'm Dying"

Each white second was knit into a sheet - Mary Karr "The Patient"

The second hand ticking gently in front of the eyes - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Would revive my second heart with new legacy - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

Then treats you like the second flower he sees - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

The strength of second thoughts - Nick Laird "Miscegenation"

The flood-wave and the second ebb tide - "The Lament of the Old Woman of Beare" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Clutching for one second's pause - D.H. Lawrence "Man and Bat"

Still for a wingbeat second - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"

Thirty seconds of yellow lichen - Dana Levin "Watching the Sea Go"

Thirty seconds of coil and surge - Dana Levin "Watching the Sea Go"

Death is the second terror - Amy Levy "The Two Terrors"

Every second is stolen - Robin Coste Lewis "Math"

The paler primrose of a second spring - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

In the swing of a second - Claudia Castro Luna "Maria Isabel Cup of Morning Sun"

Takes years to grow and seconds to crash - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heartwood"

Set to measure out the time in seconds - Harry Martinson "Aniara 67" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The blackbird's second brood - John Masefield "The Scallenge"

Each nymph her hero seconds - Thomas Mathison "The Goff"

In the seconds before a tornado - John McCarthy "Garnett, Kansas"

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

Worth the effort of a second look - Michael Mesic "Night Letter"

Seduced by the second beautiful harvest - Dante Micheaux "The Second Beautiful Harvest"

Of a second Argo steering before a prosperous gale - "The Modern Argonauts" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]

Smooth ripple of the wind's second name - Naomi Shihab Nye "Always Bring a Pencil"

Lament every transient second - Matthew Olzmann "Build, Now, a Monument"

Took gladly the second chain - D.A. Powell "To Last"

This season of the second thought - Lynn Powell "Indian Summer"

A second thought ripening - Lynn Powell "Needing the Baroque"

Seconds wasted count as wanting - Khadijah Queen "A Tiny Now to Feed On"

A second obol secret beneath my tongue - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"

A second shock boiling its stone to your heart - Anne Sexton "All My Pretty Ones"

Stood to savor the seconds - Solmaz Sharif "Visa"

Savored every second sickly sweet - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"

Go for the foul with thirty seconds left - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

Hesitates for a second to be incarnate - Bruce Smith "What Are They Doing in the Next Room"

Not for one good second - Gerald Stern "Grass and Water"

A second of the self - Wallace Stevens "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together"

Slammed his second fist into the bedrock of the sea - Gretchen Tessmer "Hey Man, Nice Shot"

Second in the unfinished song - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"

The web of sticky seconds - John Updike "December Sun"

For all of our second chances - Vanessa Angelica Villarreal "Ram, Laborer"

It's only midnight for a second - Ocean Vuong "Beautiful Short Loser"

Between the seconds of life - Afaa Michael Weaver "This Morning, This First Poem"

every second I become something new - M. Darusha Wehm "The Chrononaut"

Seconds from this drowned quantum - Sam Witt "The First Law of Entanglement: From the Swimming Pool Where You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed"

Nor a second time will he come - "XXIII: Ycuic Nezahualcoyotzin | Songs of the Prince Nezahualcoyotl" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Even though this is my second heart - Dean Young "Belief in Magic" [Poetry July/August 2014]


Out of a storm of secondary things - Wallace Stevens "Man Carrying Thing"


Infinitely second-hand - Aldous Huxley "On the 'Bus"

A bughouse peddler of second-hand gospel - Carl Sandburg "Billy Sunday"

Nothing but secondhand details - Randall Mann "September Elegies"

Who appreciates secondhand revelations of wolves - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"


Capture in that second sight - W.S. Merwin "Testimony"

Witch and troll and second sight - John Greenleaf Whittier "Abram Morrison"


Parceled out in sixteen-second afternoons - Conrad Hilberry "Hurtle"


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