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Potential Titles: Metals [Category]
Some metallic elements may only be here: Potential Titles: Metals [category]. I've tried to crosspost, but I forget sometimes.
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:
Poured like cast iron into our spines - Merdan Ehet'Eli "Common Night" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Onions sizzling in a cast iron skillet - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"
A cast-iron smile of joy - Robert W. Service "Grin"
A foundation of black cast iron - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #1: Heavy Lyricism" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Chrome.
Cobalt.
Copper.
Dross.
Gild.
Gilt.
Gold.
Gunmetal:
The dust motes grew gunmetal - Kristina Erny "Abduction"
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"
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
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
Navigation Links:
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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:
Poured like cast iron into our spines - Merdan Ehet'Eli "Common Night" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
Onions sizzling in a cast iron skillet - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"
A cast-iron smile of joy - Robert W. Service "Grin"
A foundation of black cast iron - Zheng Min "Heavy Lyrics #1: Heavy Lyricism" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Chrome.
Cobalt.
Copper.
Dross.
Gild.
Gilt.
Gold.
Gunmetal:
The dust motes grew gunmetal - Kristina Erny "Abduction"
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"
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
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
Navigation Links:
Go to Potential Titles: Art/Craft: Tools and Materials [category].
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.