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somethingdarkerAs always, broadly defined.
Accordian:
Raining on the accordion chest of the sea - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"
Alto:
One alto note of joy is gone - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"
Bagpipe:
Who pours out his soul through the bagpipes - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
And omened bagpipe screaming - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Band.
Banjo:
Crooning love songs to your banjo - Helene Johnson "Poem [Little brown boy]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
While Kipling's banjo strings blaspheme a sacred text - T.M. Kettle "Ulster (A Reply to Rudyard Kipling)"
Make our rag-time banjo hum - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
Sang rhapsodies on an old banjo - Richard Solomon "How Nightmares Began"
Bard.
Baritone:
Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
Remember the ram's horn baritone - Brandon Som "Resistors"
Bass:
Distorted trumpet, torn bass line - Carl Adamshick "New year's morning"
Bass tremors of a memory - Julie Babcock "Bright Light"
The fly's bass turned a lion's roar - John Clare "I Hid My Love"
As the bass player knocked out the bottom line - David St. John "Los Angeles, 1954"
Bassoon:
noon the implacable bassoon - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
With his deep bassoon chimes in the frog - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Bell.
Big Band:
In the mote that made the big band bang - Mike Allen "Pulse"
Bugle.
Calliope:
The gaudy calliope of the mind - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"
Blowing a calliope of promises - Conrad Hilberry "Four Kentucky Poems: Rivers"
To keep the calliope of dreams from sounding - Kiki Petrosino "Young"
Castanet:
Castanets from a jukebox we couldn't see - Edgar Kunz "Tuning"
Cello:
The song of a cello played by flame - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
A cello forgiving one note as it goes - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"
Were banging God's Throne with their cellos - Herbert E. Palmer "Air Raid"
When cellos shoulder the tune - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Chime.
Choir/Chorus.
Clarinet:
The last note of a clarinet - fahima ife "means of evasion"
The e-flat clarinet chases time - Joan Larkin "The Combo"
The music of rum and a sad clarinet - Alden Nowlen "The Last Waltz"
Clarion.
Contralto:
Vibrating like a dusty contralto - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
A hundred thousand pure contraltos - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Cornet:
Lifted his ordinary cornet and blew the world away - T.R. Hummer "Who Remembers Davenport"
Coronet.
Cymbal:
The shallow sound of cymbal-stroke - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Cymbals of Bacchus from the craggy steep - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
In the wild thyme crash cymbals - Louis Golding "Shepherd Singing Ragtime"
When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky - Sarojini Naidu "Street Cries"
Dinner-Bell:
Before they ring the dinner-bells - "Secrets" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Drum.
Dulcimer:
Touched aeolian dulcimers - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Jealous of that dulcimer - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"
Fiddle.
Flute.
French Horn:
Through the spiral of a French horn - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"
Gong:
The cuckoos beat their brazen gongs - John Davidson "Down-a-down"
The echoing song of a coppery gong - Edward Lear "The Jumblies"
And smite horizons like a gong - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Grand Piano:
A grand piano balancing on the tip of a fishhook - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Guitar.
Harmonica:
Informed by a faint harmonica grieving - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Poetry housed in a harmonica - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"
Harmonium:
An untuned harmonium that Muzaks our nights and days - Charles Wright "Music for Midsummer's Eve"
Harp.
Harpsicord:
Pirouetted with piquant harpsichord arpeggios - Juan Felipe Herrera "Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema"
the harpsichord of dead lovers - Frank Stanford "The Mind Reader"
Horn.
Hornpipe:
With a hornpipe in its heels - Herbert Randall "Off"
Instrument.
Jukebox.
Kazoo:
Covering Beowulf's greatest hits on your tin kazoo - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Kettle-Drum:
We shall know by the kettle-drums - R.L. Gales "Waiting for the Kings"
All the merry kettle-drums - John Masefield "Cavalier"
Lute.
Lyre.
Mandolin:
Lulled by a jester's mandolin - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"
Minstrel.
Oboe:
A concerto's saddest oboe - Erin Belieu "As for the Heart"
As the oboe lights the pure torch - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Orchestra.
Organ.
Pan-Pipe:
My own bouts of pan-pipe sickness - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"
Pennywhistle:
A siren song turned pennywhistle - Cynthia Zarin "Ouija Board"
Piano.
Pipe.
Saxophone.
Siren.
Sleigh-Bell:
Ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"
Soprano:
Her soprano spare and sharp in the night air - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
A line of melody sings soprano - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"
Mozart's soprano stitches the heart together - John Moncure Wettarau "Wally's Poem"
Tambourine.
Tenor.
Timbale:
Loud timbales and drums blasting down - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"
Trombone.
Troubadour:
A troubadour upon the elm - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
The Troubadour's wild song is waking - Felicia Hemans "The Troubadour and Richard Coeur de Lion"
The beauty of clashing troubadours - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
From the mouth of a wax museum troubadour - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"
Trumpet.
Tuba:
Our tubas concerned with what's original - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
Ukulele:
A chorus of trumpets and ukuleles - John McCarthy "On the Day I Left Town"
Torches at the kingdom's ukelele gate - Carol Muske-Dukes "After Skate"
Viol.
Viola:
To revel in the viola and violin - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"
We all danced with straw stuffed violas - Juan Felipe Herrera "Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema"
Violin.
Voice.
Whistle.
Wind Chime:
Joining the orchestra of wind chimes & rattling window panes - Geoffrey Jacques "Amulet"
With the trellis heavied by wind chimes - Janine Joseph "The Persistence of Symptoms"
Woodwind:
A woodwind inside the empire of still people - fahima ife "means of evasion"
Xylophone:
A xylophone jingle of the ice - Jaswinder Bolina "Make Believe"
Play a tune on xylophonic ribs - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 8"
Zither:
A splintering zither plays songs of the sphinx - Harry Martinson "Aniara 83: The Song of Erosion" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Zither of chromatic scale - A.E. Stallings "Momentary"
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Accordian:
Raining on the accordion chest of the sea - Cynthia Dewi Oka "American Abyss"
Alto:
One alto note of joy is gone - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"
Bagpipe:
Who pours out his soul through the bagpipes - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
And omened bagpipe screaming - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Band.
Banjo:
Crooning love songs to your banjo - Helene Johnson "Poem [Little brown boy]" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
While Kipling's banjo strings blaspheme a sacred text - T.M. Kettle "Ulster (A Reply to Rudyard Kipling)"
Make our rag-time banjo hum - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
Sang rhapsodies on an old banjo - Richard Solomon "How Nightmares Began"
Bard.
Baritone:
Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
Remember the ram's horn baritone - Brandon Som "Resistors"
Bass:
Distorted trumpet, torn bass line - Carl Adamshick "New year's morning"
Bass tremors of a memory - Julie Babcock "Bright Light"
The fly's bass turned a lion's roar - John Clare "I Hid My Love"
As the bass player knocked out the bottom line - David St. John "Los Angeles, 1954"
Bassoon:
noon the implacable bassoon - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
With his deep bassoon chimes in the frog - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Bell.
Big Band:
In the mote that made the big band bang - Mike Allen "Pulse"
Bugle.
Calliope:
The gaudy calliope of the mind - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"
Blowing a calliope of promises - Conrad Hilberry "Four Kentucky Poems: Rivers"
To keep the calliope of dreams from sounding - Kiki Petrosino "Young"
Castanet:
Castanets from a jukebox we couldn't see - Edgar Kunz "Tuning"
Cello:
The song of a cello played by flame - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
A cello forgiving one note as it goes - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"
Were banging God's Throne with their cellos - Herbert E. Palmer "Air Raid"
When cellos shoulder the tune - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Chime.
Choir/Chorus.
Clarinet:
The last note of a clarinet - fahima ife "means of evasion"
The e-flat clarinet chases time - Joan Larkin "The Combo"
The music of rum and a sad clarinet - Alden Nowlen "The Last Waltz"
Clarion.
Contralto:
Vibrating like a dusty contralto - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
A hundred thousand pure contraltos - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Cornet:
Lifted his ordinary cornet and blew the world away - T.R. Hummer "Who Remembers Davenport"
Coronet.
Cymbal:
The shallow sound of cymbal-stroke - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Cymbals of Bacchus from the craggy steep - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
In the wild thyme crash cymbals - Louis Golding "Shepherd Singing Ragtime"
When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky - Sarojini Naidu "Street Cries"
Dinner-Bell:
Before they ring the dinner-bells - "Secrets" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Drum.
Dulcimer:
Touched aeolian dulcimers - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Jealous of that dulcimer - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"
Fiddle.
Flute.
French Horn:
Through the spiral of a French horn - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"
Gong:
The cuckoos beat their brazen gongs - John Davidson "Down-a-down"
The echoing song of a coppery gong - Edward Lear "The Jumblies"
And smite horizons like a gong - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Grand Piano:
A grand piano balancing on the tip of a fishhook - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Guitar.
Harmonica:
Informed by a faint harmonica grieving - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Poetry housed in a harmonica - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"
Harmonium:
An untuned harmonium that Muzaks our nights and days - Charles Wright "Music for Midsummer's Eve"
Harp.
Harpsicord:
Pirouetted with piquant harpsichord arpeggios - Juan Felipe Herrera "Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema"
the harpsichord of dead lovers - Frank Stanford "The Mind Reader"
Horn.
Hornpipe:
With a hornpipe in its heels - Herbert Randall "Off"
Instrument.
Jukebox.
Kazoo:
Covering Beowulf's greatest hits on your tin kazoo - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Kettle-Drum:
We shall know by the kettle-drums - R.L. Gales "Waiting for the Kings"
All the merry kettle-drums - John Masefield "Cavalier"
Lute.
Lyre.
Mandolin:
Lulled by a jester's mandolin - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"
Minstrel.
Oboe:
A concerto's saddest oboe - Erin Belieu "As for the Heart"
As the oboe lights the pure torch - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Orchestra.
Organ.
Pan-Pipe:
My own bouts of pan-pipe sickness - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"
Pennywhistle:
A siren song turned pennywhistle - Cynthia Zarin "Ouija Board"
Piano.
Pipe.
Saxophone.
Siren.
Sleigh-Bell:
Ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"
Soprano:
Her soprano spare and sharp in the night air - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
A line of melody sings soprano - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"
Mozart's soprano stitches the heart together - John Moncure Wettarau "Wally's Poem"
Tambourine.
Tenor.
Timbale:
Loud timbales and drums blasting down - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"
Trombone.
Troubadour:
A troubadour upon the elm - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
The Troubadour's wild song is waking - Felicia Hemans "The Troubadour and Richard Coeur de Lion"
The beauty of clashing troubadours - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
From the mouth of a wax museum troubadour - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"
Trumpet.
Tuba:
Our tubas concerned with what's original - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
Ukulele:
A chorus of trumpets and ukuleles - John McCarthy "On the Day I Left Town"
Torches at the kingdom's ukelele gate - Carol Muske-Dukes "After Skate"
Viol.
Viola:
To revel in the viola and violin - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"
We all danced with straw stuffed violas - Juan Felipe Herrera "Saturday Night at the Buddhist Cinema"
Violin.
Voice.
Whistle.
Wind Chime:
Joining the orchestra of wind chimes & rattling window panes - Geoffrey Jacques "Amulet"
With the trellis heavied by wind chimes - Janine Joseph "The Persistence of Symptoms"
Woodwind:
A woodwind inside the empire of still people - fahima ife "means of evasion"
Xylophone:
A xylophone jingle of the ice - Jaswinder Bolina "Make Believe"
Play a tune on xylophonic ribs - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 8"
Zither:
A splintering zither plays songs of the sphinx - Harry Martinson "Aniara 83: The Song of Erosion" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Zither of chromatic scale - A.E. Stallings "Momentary"
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