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Dirt's ammunition against discipline - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"
Wrapped in ammunition staircases - Valzhyna Mort "Guest"
Arbalast:
Mace, and arblast [sic], and bandoleer - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Armor.
Armory:
All the weapons of Hell's armoury - Maurice Baring "August, 1918"
Arrow.
Artillery:
Not all his dread artillery could breach - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
The tempest's artillery rolled - Hannah Flagg Gould "The Butterfly's Dream"
The whole artillery of hell is brought to bear - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Axe.
Bandoleer:
Mace, and arblast, and bandoleer - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Barb.
Bascinet:
Hauberk, and helmet, and bascinet - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Battery:
In the teeth of bomb-proof batteries - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
In the direct path of a battery of signals - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"
Confront the battery's jaws of flame - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Bayonet.
Blade.
Bludgeon:
Bludgeons of light to force your seams - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"
Blunderbuss:
Try to fit a blunderbuss into a laptop - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"
Bomb.
Bomber:
Where the grey bombers loose their metal thunder - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Boomerang:
A boomerang flung from your throat - Lauren K. Alleyne "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"
Table tops zinging with boomerangs - Jenny Johnson "In the Dream"
Bow.
Bowstring:
Hangs by a bowstring from heaven's vault - Andy Miller "Diana"
Bullets.
Bullseye:
I can reach the bull's-eye nearer in the dark - "Boy Billy and the Rabbit" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
To ring a bull's-eye when he shoots at me - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Cannon.
Casque: see Helm/Helmet.
Catapult:
Fiery metamorphosed catapault - Daisy Aldan "Vertical Is Our New Sight"
The catapult from bad to everlasting - Carly Inghram "Last Night I Saw a Boat Just as it Was Exiting My Purview"
A child of some wild catapult - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
All of life catapulted into one day - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"
Club.
Corslet:
Spear, and corselet [sic], and musketoon - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Scarf athwart my corslet cast - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
With lance, with corslet, casque and sword - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Prepare your corslet, spear and shield - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Crossbow:
Falchion, and gauntlet, and good crossbow - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Another dart for a King's crossbow - Paul Cameron Brown "Pillage"
Crosshair:
how you hold a cottonmouth in a crosshair - C.T. Salazar "River"
Culverin:
Pike, and halberd, and culverin - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Cutlass:
Under the cutlass of her tongue - Shivanee Ramlochan "Witch Hindu"
Dagger.
Dart.
Falchion:
Falchion, and gauntlet, and good crossbow - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Now my lord hath seized a vengeful falchion - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Gauntlet.
Grenade:
Civilization's slow grenade - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Had turned into beds for grenades and shells and shrapnel - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"
In her nest a lone grenade - Safiya Sinclair "A Bell, Still Unrung"
Gun.
Gunpowder.
Habergeon:
Demi-pique, helm, and habergeon - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Haft:
A starbeam on the dagger's haft - Don Marquis "Sea Changes III: Moonset"
Halberd:
Pike, and halberd, and culverin - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Hand Cannon:
Wild cat with a hand cannon - Andre F. Peltier "At the Grave of Little Sadie"
Harpoon:
Harpoon barbs and arrow points - Theo Nicole Lorenz "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn"
Hatchet.
Hauberk:
Hauberk, and helmet, and bascinet - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Helm/Helmet.
Hilt:
My hilt lies broken in pieces three - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Crimson velvet and a diamond-hilted sword - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"
Javelin.
Knife/Knives.
Knout:
Heartless pleasure swinging its barbed knout - Charles Baudelaire "Meditation" transl. by David Yezzi
Lance.
Landmines:
Through a tunnel of kid gloves and landmines - Fady Joudah "The Poem as Epiphyte"
Landmines in the garden bed - John McCarthy "Planting"
Mace:
Mace, and arblast, and bandoleer - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
That ponderous mace deceitful gift of Daedalus - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Fate stuns as with a mace - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
Usurping the mace of the Lord - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
Machete:
Some grand ecosystem of machetes - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
With sharp machete eyes - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"
Machine-Gun:
Playing cards with machine guns - Mary Jo Bang "Ghost and Grays"
Machine-guns, tapping a code in Morse - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Of the piano and machine gun - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
Mangonel:
Culvert, and petrel, and mangonel - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Missile:
When rain falls like cold missiles - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
A missile's flight away - Jess Hyslop "After"
a wire picking up missiles on the strip - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"
A missile from Orion's belt - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
Mushroom Cloud:
Mushroom clouds cluster along the crimson horizon - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
Musket:
Who bears the sword and handles the musket - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
And points a musket at the crows - "The Scarecrow" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Made from his useless musket-barrels - B. Simmons "London Cries" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Musketoon:
Spear, and corselet, and musketoon - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Muzzle:
From the muzzle broke the sound - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Celebration"
Under the lightning's muzzle fire - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Pike:
Pike, and halberd, and culverin - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Hung around with pikes and guns and bows - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
A field of spears, a lake of pikes, a sky of hawks, a hundred winters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
Pistol:
A pistol tucked into a stranger's belt - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"
From a seaborn eternity to a pistol crack - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Pocketknife:
The pocketknife seducing the orange - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Bordercrosser's Pillowbook"
Your pocketknife rage and love - Michael Lauchlan "Dad and I, in a Snap"
Wounded by that pocket knife thrown by chance - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Rapier:
With a silver rapier by my side - anonymous? "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men"
To give that rapier lightning turn - Mona Gould "Sung in High Dudgeon!"
And the stars are rapier keen - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Rifle.
Rocket.
Saber/Sabre:
Flashed with a sabre's azure gleam - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"
The black iris with their sabered blooms - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
Of votive goods and sabred fugitives - Seamus Heaney "Kinship"
Hide the sabre's hideous glare - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Scabbard:
As the swords ran out of their scabbards - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Ribosomes in the scabbard of their maker - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"
A sword in a scabbard of meteors - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Scimitar:
A curved white scimitar pierced thru the swooning night - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A few stiff branches covered with scimitar thorns - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"
Scythe.
Sheath.
Shotgun:
Into chrome and sun and shotgun confection - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Electric fences and silos and shotguns - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"
kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"
Shrapnel.
Sling/Slung.
Spear.
Spike:
Spikes in the hostile night - Pablo Neruda "Commoners from Socorro (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Sten:
From gas and protest to gelignite and sten - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"
Stiletto:
The magnificent extravagance of my beloved stilettos - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Submarine:
Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Sword.
Target.
Throwing Star:
Throwing stars and fortune tellers - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"
Torpedo:
Torpedoes of disinterest - Kay Ryan "Don't Look Back"
Trident:
The trident-flame of the mind fails - Stephen Vincent Benet "Sir John Rimbeck to the Princess of Acre"
Sharp tridents beside private lairs - Paul Cameron Brown "Pondicherry"
Trigger:
Green vapors trigger an olfactory déjà vu - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Allowing the thought to stray the trigger - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
For fear of triggering a heart attack - Major Jackson "Addiction"
concealing an infinity of hairtrigger malice - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"
Potential Titles: Vehicles [category] includes some military vehicles.
Weapon.
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Dirt's ammunition against discipline - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"
Wrapped in ammunition staircases - Valzhyna Mort "Guest"
Arbalast:
Mace, and arblast [sic], and bandoleer - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Armor.
Armory:
All the weapons of Hell's armoury - Maurice Baring "August, 1918"
Arrow.
Artillery:
Not all his dread artillery could breach - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
The tempest's artillery rolled - Hannah Flagg Gould "The Butterfly's Dream"
The whole artillery of hell is brought to bear - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Axe.
Bandoleer:
Mace, and arblast, and bandoleer - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Barb.
Bascinet:
Hauberk, and helmet, and bascinet - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Battery:
In the teeth of bomb-proof batteries - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
In the direct path of a battery of signals - Adrienne Rich "Planetarium"
Confront the battery's jaws of flame - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Bayonet.
Blade.
Bludgeon:
Bludgeons of light to force your seams - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"
Blunderbuss:
Try to fit a blunderbuss into a laptop - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"
Bomb.
Bomber:
Where the grey bombers loose their metal thunder - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Boomerang:
A boomerang flung from your throat - Lauren K. Alleyne "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"
Table tops zinging with boomerangs - Jenny Johnson "In the Dream"
Bow.
Bowstring:
Hangs by a bowstring from heaven's vault - Andy Miller "Diana"
Bullets.
Bullseye:
I can reach the bull's-eye nearer in the dark - "Boy Billy and the Rabbit" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
To ring a bull's-eye when he shoots at me - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Cannon.
Casque: see Helm/Helmet.
Catapult:
Fiery metamorphosed catapault - Daisy Aldan "Vertical Is Our New Sight"
The catapult from bad to everlasting - Carly Inghram "Last Night I Saw a Boat Just as it Was Exiting My Purview"
A child of some wild catapult - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
All of life catapulted into one day - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"
Club.
Corslet:
Spear, and corselet [sic], and musketoon - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Scarf athwart my corslet cast - Robert Chambers "The Ladye that I Love" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
With lance, with corslet, casque and sword - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Prepare your corslet, spear and shield - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Crossbow:
Falchion, and gauntlet, and good crossbow - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Another dart for a King's crossbow - Paul Cameron Brown "Pillage"
Crosshair:
how you hold a cottonmouth in a crosshair - C.T. Salazar "River"
Culverin:
Pike, and halberd, and culverin - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Cutlass:
Under the cutlass of her tongue - Shivanee Ramlochan "Witch Hindu"
Dagger.
Dart.
Falchion:
Falchion, and gauntlet, and good crossbow - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Now my lord hath seized a vengeful falchion - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Gauntlet.
Grenade:
Civilization's slow grenade - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Had turned into beds for grenades and shells and shrapnel - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"
In her nest a lone grenade - Safiya Sinclair "A Bell, Still Unrung"
Gun.
Gunpowder.
Habergeon:
Demi-pique, helm, and habergeon - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Haft:
A starbeam on the dagger's haft - Don Marquis "Sea Changes III: Moonset"
Halberd:
Pike, and halberd, and culverin - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Hand Cannon:
Wild cat with a hand cannon - Andre F. Peltier "At the Grave of Little Sadie"
Harpoon:
Harpoon barbs and arrow points - Theo Nicole Lorenz "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn"
Hatchet.
Hauberk:
Hauberk, and helmet, and bascinet - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Helm/Helmet.
Hilt:
My hilt lies broken in pieces three - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Crimson velvet and a diamond-hilted sword - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"
Javelin.
Knife/Knives.
Knout:
Heartless pleasure swinging its barbed knout - Charles Baudelaire "Meditation" transl. by David Yezzi
Lance.
Landmines:
Through a tunnel of kid gloves and landmines - Fady Joudah "The Poem as Epiphyte"
Landmines in the garden bed - John McCarthy "Planting"
Mace:
Mace, and arblast, and bandoleer - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
That ponderous mace deceitful gift of Daedalus - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Fate stuns as with a mace - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
Usurping the mace of the Lord - "The Song of Metrodorus" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCLXI, v.LXXV, March 1854]
Machete:
Some grand ecosystem of machetes - Gabriel Ramirez "Learn Your Song"
With sharp machete eyes - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"
Machine-Gun:
Playing cards with machine guns - Mary Jo Bang "Ghost and Grays"
Machine-guns, tapping a code in Morse - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Of the piano and machine gun - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
Mangonel:
Culvert, and petrel, and mangonel - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Missile:
When rain falls like cold missiles - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
A missile's flight away - Jess Hyslop "After"
a wire picking up missiles on the strip - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"
A missile from Orion's belt - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
Mushroom Cloud:
Mushroom clouds cluster along the crimson horizon - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
Musket:
Who bears the sword and handles the musket - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
And points a musket at the crows - "The Scarecrow" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Made from his useless musket-barrels - B. Simmons "London Cries" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCII, v.LXV, Apr. 1849]
Musketoon:
Spear, and corselet, and musketoon - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Muzzle:
From the muzzle broke the sound - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Celebration"
Under the lightning's muzzle fire - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Pike:
Pike, and halberd, and culverin - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Hung around with pikes and guns and bows - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
A field of spears, a lake of pikes, a sky of hawks, a hundred winters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
Pistol:
A pistol tucked into a stranger's belt - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"
From a seaborn eternity to a pistol crack - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Pocketknife:
The pocketknife seducing the orange - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Bordercrosser's Pillowbook"
Your pocketknife rage and love - Michael Lauchlan "Dad and I, in a Snap"
Wounded by that pocket knife thrown by chance - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Rapier:
With a silver rapier by my side - anonymous? "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men"
To give that rapier lightning turn - Mona Gould "Sung in High Dudgeon!"
And the stars are rapier keen - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Rifle.
Rocket.
Saber/Sabre:
Flashed with a sabre's azure gleam - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"
The black iris with their sabered blooms - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
Of votive goods and sabred fugitives - Seamus Heaney "Kinship"
Hide the sabre's hideous glare - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Scabbard:
As the swords ran out of their scabbards - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Ribosomes in the scabbard of their maker - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"
A sword in a scabbard of meteors - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Scimitar:
A curved white scimitar pierced thru the swooning night - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
A few stiff branches covered with scimitar thorns - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"
Scythe.
Sheath.
Shotgun:
Into chrome and sun and shotgun confection - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Electric fences and silos and shotguns - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"
kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"
Shrapnel.
Sling/Slung.
Spear.
Spike:
Spikes in the hostile night - Pablo Neruda "Commoners from Socorro (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Sten:
From gas and protest to gelignite and sten - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"
Stiletto:
The magnificent extravagance of my beloved stilettos - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Submarine:
Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Sword.
Target.
Throwing Star:
Throwing stars and fortune tellers - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"
Torpedo:
Torpedoes of disinterest - Kay Ryan "Don't Look Back"
Trident:
The trident-flame of the mind fails - Stephen Vincent Benet "Sir John Rimbeck to the Princess of Acre"
Sharp tridents beside private lairs - Paul Cameron Brown "Pondicherry"
Trigger:
Green vapors trigger an olfactory déjà vu - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Allowing the thought to stray the trigger - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
For fear of triggering a heart attack - Major Jackson "Addiction"
concealing an infinity of hairtrigger malice - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"
Potential Titles: Vehicles [category] includes some military vehicles.
Weapon.
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
