Potential Titles: Metals [Category]

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Alloy.

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"

Brass.

Bronze.

Cast Iron.

Chrome.

Chromium:
These women carry the tribe on their chromium backs - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"

Cobalt.

Copper.

Dross.

Gild.

Gilt.

Gold.

Gunmetal:
The dust motes grew gunmetal - Kristina Erny "Abduction"

Heavy Metals:
They will speak of heavy metals in the air - Mara Pastor "Entonces Mi Hija/Then My Daughter" transl. by María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong

Ingot:
Violet energy ingots - Hoa Nguyen "Haunted Sonnet"

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.

Metal.

Metallic.

Metallurgy:
Metallurgy could fight the giants - Nicky Russell "Machinist Hands"

Molten.

Nickel.

Nugget:
Panned the contents for every nugget of twinkling hope - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"

Nuggets of gold are her acres - Emily Pauline Johnson "Brandon"

Ore.

Pewter:
Between the planets' pewter light - Chris Dombrowski "Boreal"

Pewter on a porcelain field - N. Scott Momaday "The Snow Mare"

The pale pewter path of the trees' parting - Joyce Sidman "Riding a Bike at Night"

The fire-lit pewter glowing - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"

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"

Quicksilver.

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"

Scrap Metal:
A violet blooming through scrap metal - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

Sheet Metal:
Runways jeweled with wrenches and sheet metal - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"

Silver.

Slag:
Carved by the slag of too much coffee - Russell Brakefield "Raccoon Sighting Before Intimacy"

Left no more than slag and scale to mark its grave - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Slag of the seething furnaces - Alfred Noyes "Jean Guettard III: The Shadow of Pascal"

Steel.

Sterling:
Shall prove its sterling worth - Arthur Caswell Parker "My Race Shall Live Anew"

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

Vermeil:
A palace of vermeil fringed with gold - John William Draper "From a Grecian Myth"

Wire.

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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