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Electron.
Element.
Elemental.
Ion:
My brother's unfamiliar ions vibrating - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"
Through the wires on the backs of ions - Bob Hicok "Calling him back from layoff"
Innumberable ions of light - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Isotope:
Rare isotopes housed in translucent green - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Molecule.
Nucleus:
grief wakes the nucleus of the whole atom - Lee Ballentine "The Whole Atom"
Rogue electrons twining around those almond nuclei - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."
Splitting the nucleus of human vice - Anthony Madrid "Try Never"
The nucleus of that larger league - Amy Redpath Roddick "The British Lands"
Quark:
Desire a particular flavor of quark - Nora Weston "Things Allergic to Sleep"
Aluminum:
The aluminum morning takes on more tension - Mary Jo Bang "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice"
How quickly oil moves to aluminum - Mary Jo Bang "S Is for Strategies for Making Sense of Spectacles"
Keeps sanctity in aluminum cans - B. K. Fischer "Perceptive"
Arsenic:
Holy Mother of Arsenic and Lead - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Arsenic slurry caged behind a dam - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
Powdered arsenic upon his lips - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Barium:
Swirls of copper blue and barium green - Ian Goh "Firework"
Sunlight scattering sodium and barium in the atmosphere - August Huerta "Concerning President Carter and the UFO Sighting"
Cadmium:
Our cadmium needles scatter - Chris Dombrowski "Larches"
A curious lantern's cadmium - Chris Dombrowski "Van Gogh's Palette"
Rising with copper in one hand and cadmium in the other - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Calcium:
Blinded by fierce calcium rays - Oliver Herford "The Hydra"
The calcium's sleeping feet - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Small calcium words uttered in sequence - Naomi Shihab Nye "Different Ways to Pray"
Old caves of calcium icicles - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"
Carbon.
Cesium:
A Cesium fountain spouts an arc of atoms - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
Chlorine:
The silvery smell of chlorine in his clothes - Laurel Blossom "Bonnie Blue"
Under the crush of chlorinated water - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Letdown"
Cobalt.
Copper.
Gold.
Helium:
A crystal ball lowered into low-hanging helium - Ian Goh "Firework"
A taste of helium in the veins - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Featuring Lonette Mckee as Sister"
Hope and all of its helium - Camisha L. Jones "Praise Song for the Body"
Happenstance and helium - Lauren Russell "Exposition"
Hydrogen.
Iodine:
Licks its wounds that taste of iodine - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
Patterning a name in driblets of iodine - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"
In the reek of iodine and blood - Francis Brett Young "After Action"
Iridium:
A few iridium specks of idea - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"
Iron.
Lead (all)/Led.
Lithium:
I have enclosed my voice in lithium - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"
Magnesium:
Dragons breathing white-hot magnesium across humid skies - Ian Goh "Firework"
Mercury/Mercurial.
Neon.
Nickel.
Nitrogen:
A red rose just before it's dipped in liquid nitrogen - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Infused with lies and nitrogen - Ana Castillo "A Storm upon Us"
Hope for the nitrogen feeding your grass - K. Iver "For Missy Who Never Got His New Name"
Oxygen.
Phosphorus.
Platinum:
Shoot the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Hippopotamus"
Platinum but hollow inside - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
The platinum thread beyond them - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"
Just there on reality's platinum fringe - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"
Plutonium:
Sweating drops of liquid plutonium - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Radium:
But I have radium dreams - Sheila Black "Radium Dream"
With eyes of radium - Max Bodenheim "The Operation"
A radium of the word - Mina Loy "Gertrude Stein"
Silver.
Sulfur/Sulphur.
Sodium:
Sunlight scattering sodium and barium in the atmosphere - August Huerta "Concerning President Carter and the UFO Sighting"
Steeped in sodium and stir-fry - Wo Chan "[What makes you possible?]"
Strontium:
As strontium red and shot silver explode - Ian Goh "Firework"
Tin.
Titanium:
Titanium scales rhyming across curves - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Tungsten:
Tungsten for the fireflies' freeze tag - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Uranium:
The promise of honey, the symbol for uranium - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Zinc:
The wind shrieking in the zinc roof - Noemia da Sousa "Poem of Distant Childhood" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver
The shimmering of zinc and apples - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
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Electron.
Element.
Elemental.
Ion:
My brother's unfamiliar ions vibrating - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"
Through the wires on the backs of ions - Bob Hicok "Calling him back from layoff"
Innumberable ions of light - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
Isotope:
Rare isotopes housed in translucent green - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Molecule.
Nucleus:
grief wakes the nucleus of the whole atom - Lee Ballentine "The Whole Atom"
Rogue electrons twining around those almond nuclei - Robert Frazier "A Rebel's Pale Eyes ..."
Splitting the nucleus of human vice - Anthony Madrid "Try Never"
The nucleus of that larger league - Amy Redpath Roddick "The British Lands"
Quark:
Desire a particular flavor of quark - Nora Weston "Things Allergic to Sleep"
Aluminum:
The aluminum morning takes on more tension - Mary Jo Bang "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice"
How quickly oil moves to aluminum - Mary Jo Bang "S Is for Strategies for Making Sense of Spectacles"
Keeps sanctity in aluminum cans - B. K. Fischer "Perceptive"
Arsenic:
Holy Mother of Arsenic and Lead - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Arsenic slurry caged behind a dam - Melissa Range "Flat as a Flitter"
Powdered arsenic upon his lips - Francis Brett Young "Dead Poets"
Barium:
Swirls of copper blue and barium green - Ian Goh "Firework"
Sunlight scattering sodium and barium in the atmosphere - August Huerta "Concerning President Carter and the UFO Sighting"
Cadmium:
Our cadmium needles scatter - Chris Dombrowski "Larches"
A curious lantern's cadmium - Chris Dombrowski "Van Gogh's Palette"
Rising with copper in one hand and cadmium in the other - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Calcium:
Blinded by fierce calcium rays - Oliver Herford "The Hydra"
The calcium's sleeping feet - Pablo Neruda "Atacama" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Small calcium words uttered in sequence - Naomi Shihab Nye "Different Ways to Pray"
Old caves of calcium icicles - Sylvia Plath "Nick and the Candlestick"
Carbon.
Cesium:
A Cesium fountain spouts an arc of atoms - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"
Chlorine:
The silvery smell of chlorine in his clothes - Laurel Blossom "Bonnie Blue"
Under the crush of chlorinated water - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Letdown"
Cobalt.
Copper.
Gold.
Helium:
A crystal ball lowered into low-hanging helium - Ian Goh "Firework"
A taste of helium in the veins - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "Featuring Lonette Mckee as Sister"
Hope and all of its helium - Camisha L. Jones "Praise Song for the Body"
Happenstance and helium - Lauren Russell "Exposition"
Hydrogen.
Iodine:
Licks its wounds that taste of iodine - Anne Hebert "Spring Over the City" transl. by Kathleen Weaver
Patterning a name in driblets of iodine - Paisley Rekdal "Bats"
In the reek of iodine and blood - Francis Brett Young "After Action"
Iridium:
A few iridium specks of idea - May Swenson "Colors Without Objects"
Iron.
Lead (all)/Led.
Lithium:
I have enclosed my voice in lithium - Sarah Grey "Biophilia"
Magnesium:
Dragons breathing white-hot magnesium across humid skies - Ian Goh "Firework"
Mercury/Mercurial.
Neon.
Nickel.
Nitrogen:
A red rose just before it's dipped in liquid nitrogen - Duane Ackerson "Operation Macbeth"
Infused with lies and nitrogen - Ana Castillo "A Storm upon Us"
Hope for the nitrogen feeding your grass - K. Iver "For Missy Who Never Got His New Name"
Oxygen.
Phosphorus.
Platinum:
Shoot the hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum - Hilaire Belloc "The Bad Children's Book of Beasts: The Hippopotamus"
Platinum but hollow inside - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
The platinum thread beyond them - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"
Just there on reality's platinum fringe - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"
Plutonium:
Sweating drops of liquid plutonium - Tim Pratt "Carcinodjinn"
Radium:
But I have radium dreams - Sheila Black "Radium Dream"
With eyes of radium - Max Bodenheim "The Operation"
A radium of the word - Mina Loy "Gertrude Stein"
Silver.
Sulfur/Sulphur.
Sodium:
Sunlight scattering sodium and barium in the atmosphere - August Huerta "Concerning President Carter and the UFO Sighting"
Steeped in sodium and stir-fry - Wo Chan "[What makes you possible?]"
Strontium:
As strontium red and shot silver explode - Ian Goh "Firework"
Tin.
Titanium:
Titanium scales rhyming across curves - Christine Stewart-Nuñez "Credo"
Tungsten:
Tungsten for the fireflies' freeze tag - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"
Uranium:
The promise of honey, the symbol for uranium - Pablo Neruda "Gautama Christ" transl. by William O'Daly
Zinc:
The wind shrieking in the zinc roof - Noemia da Sousa "Poem of Distant Childhood" transl. by Allan Francovich and Kathleen Weaver
The shimmering of zinc and apples - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
