Potential Titles: Buildings [Category]
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somethingdarkerAbbey:
That had eaten the abbey's fruits - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"
Aerodrome:
Blowing through the aerodromes of space - Geoffrey Dearmer "Tell Me, Stranger"
Airport.
Amphitheater:
Whirl of winds against the amphitheatre of hills - Katherine Hale "Buffalo Meat"
Apartment:
An apartment building of locked jaws - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
Entered their apartments at twilight - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Women of the 1980s"
The first key flip in an apartment - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
Apiary:
I approach my moon's apiary - Devan Barlow "A Moon Witch at the Party"
Arena:
Even when the arena is empty - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"
absence is the arena of death - Kara Jackson "fleeing"
Aviary:
Exploding from this toxic aviary - Timothy Donnelly "By Night with Torch and Spear"
Bank.
Barbershop see:
Shop.
Barn.
Barrack:
The black hole in the barracks - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"
Big Top:
But the Big Top can't accommodate all - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"
A Big-Top tent turned fallout zone - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"
Biodome:
Ice feathers across the biodome - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"
Boardinghouse:
Spirits entering a boardinghouse - Tyree Daye "Friday Night on the Hill"
Bookstore:
Standing hushed in the aisles of bookstores - Allison Joseph "Notebooks"
Booth:
The window inside of a confessional booth - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"
The Fair of Vanity has many a Booth - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Double rows of bartering booths - Amy Lowell "Market Day"
Bridge.
Brothel:
Cries in a haunted brothel - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
Brownstone:
A brownstone for hummingbirds - francine j. harris "Wetland"
Bungalow:
The red sun eats the bungalows - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"
Cabin:
Cabins on either side of an hour - Mary Jo Bang "In November We Inched Closer"
Cannery:
Double agents in the cannery - Jaswinder Bolina "Stump Speech"
Casino:
In an abandoned casino - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Castle.
Cathedral.
Chapel:
The silent chapel of a pine forest in winter - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
The basilisk of the Steadfast Chapel - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
While she dreams of chapel bells - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"
Near its stones and chapel doors - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"
Chateau:
Chateaus where mammoth Queens once ruled - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"
Church.
Cinema.
Citadel.
City Hall:
My birthday went up in smoke in a fire at City Hall - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"
Clock Tower:
Whirling high, from the Clock Tower to the sky - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"
Cloister.
Convent:
Within the Convent of the Past - Annie Fellows Johnston "Retrospection"
Coop:
Of raids on the pantry and hen-coop - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
Cot:
Pauper's cot and hall of kings - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
From gloomy cot to sparkling palace - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "On Lomonossoef" transl. by John Pollen
If you'll share there my ivy-crowned cot - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Cottage.
Den.
Department Store:
Boxes bearing the names of lost department stores - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
Depot:
The dock and depot waiting - Conrad Hilberry "Quatrain"
Dimestore:
A dimestore magic trick in legendary light - Regie Cabico "In a Legendary Light"
The dime store flower fields - francine j. harris "i used to write"
Stolen dime-store moments - Philip Levine "Magic"
Diner:
In the harsh inner light of an all-night diner - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
Distillery:
A distillery of virtue & fiction - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"
Dollar Store:
Lay dollar store boats in the gutters - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"
Dwelling.
Edifice:
Up on a midtown metropolis edifice - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
An edifice of temporal flame - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"
Embassy:
This joyous embassy convey - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The secrets of your lunar embassy - Dana Gioia "Pardon Me, Pilgrim"
In tender embassy of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
In one rich embassy of gold - "The Summer"
Buzzing private embassies were sped - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"
Establishment.
Factory.
Fallout Shelter:
Hunkered down in the old fallout shelter - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"
Fane:
Nor see the ivy clasp the fane - J.D. "To a Blind Girl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
A guard behind the massive columns in the fane - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Beneath Apollo's unpolluted fane - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Through every fane harmonious numbers sound - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
On whose steep promontory stands Minerva's fane - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Who guard the portals of Minerva's fane - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Ruthless hands to rend the fairy fane - William Mountain "Dies Irae"
In some gazette obtain alike an apotheosis and fane - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Dark fanes where truth has ceased to dwell - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Finishing School:
No finishing school's velvet etiquette - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"
Fort.
Fortress.
Fruit Stand:
Silos and farmsteads, fruit stands and hogs - Kurt Brown "Road Trip"
Gallery.
Gazebo:
The private gazebo of their youth - Solmaz Sharif "Patronage"
Generator Station:
A generator station opens its eye - Jake Skeets "Let There Be Coal"
Granary.
Grocery:
The grocer of despair - Leonard Cohen "Field Commander Cohen"
Pushing a grocery cart of empty beer cans - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
Scanning the cans on the grocery store shelf - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"
A trip to the grocery store at the end of the world - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"
Habitation:
The crowded habitation of the mind - N. Scott Momaday "The Essence of Belonging"
Halfway House:
The halfway houses where I met my kind dreaming - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"
halfway house for broken history - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Abstrack Africana"
Hall.
Hen Coop:
Of raids on the pantry and hen-coop - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
Hermitage:
Some hermitage of flutes and fibers - Conrad Hilberry "Open"
Hideout:
To bed me down among my love's hideouts - Seamus Heaney "The Betrothal of Cavehill"
High Rise:
Your subdivisions and high rises - John Yau "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the Oval Garden"
Home.
Hospice:
The far-famed Hospice crowns the heights - "The Brave Dog of St. Bernard" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
Hospice of memory & malice - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
Hospital:
Martyrdom in the far Canada of a hospital room - Thom Gunn "Lament"
Hotel.
Hothouse:
Pining in vain some hothouse plant to meet - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Hot-house deep in the forest's heart - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Hot-House" transl. by Bernard Miall
House
Hut.
Hydroelectric Plant:
hydroelectric plants to fry your eggs in the microwave - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
Igloo:
Cutting out blocks of ice and fashioning another igloo - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
Inn.
Jail.
Kennel:
No more shall I kennel with pain - Arthur Stringer "Hill-Top Hours"
Kiosk:
The kiosk shutters crash down - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
Lean-To:
A lean to in a starved storm - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Library.
Lighthouse.
Lodge.
Mall.
Mansion.
Mart.
Meeting-House:
A meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
Megaplex:
The megaplex of popcorn-scented tranquility - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Menagerie:
His menagerie lined up close behind - Alise Alousi "Back to School"
Mill.
Monolith:
Pylons and monoliths went on by ages - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
The monoliths tell me everything - Gwynne Garfinkle "Scenes from a Marriage"
No monoliths inscribed with ancient rites - David Salisbury "On Mars"
Monument/Monumental.
Motel:
Such lit vacancy as interstate motels announce - Scott Cairns "A Lot"
A sparrow on the motel bed - Matthew Thorburn "An Annunciation"
Museum.
Observatory:
Drones sent from an alien observatory - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Outhouse:
Outhouse meant a ravine brimmed with spiders - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"
Palace.
Pavilion.
Pawnshop.
Penitentiary:
The penitentiary of free speech - Denise Duhamel "Delta Flight 656"
Plantation:
Between plantation memory and cosmic impulse - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Used-up plantations worn and dry - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Round a plantation of Old Nick's - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Prison is a plantation made of stone & steel - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."
Prison.
Pyramid.
Railway Station:
Liquid ticking in a petrified railway station - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"
Restaurant:
The restaurant no one goes to anymore - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"
Saloon:
Each raw saloon was raising Cain - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"
Standing in the dust of saloons and public squares - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen
Sidewinders in the saloons of fools - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Sawmill.
School/Scholar.
Schoolhouse:
A schoolhouse filled with dust - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Low"
Shack:
Foreman's shack at the mining pool's edge - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"
Shed.
Shelter.
Shop.
Shopping Mall:
A little space between shopping malls - Scott Cairns "A Lot"
Shrine.
Silo:
An elegy with silo and fever - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"
Silos and farmsteads, fruit stands and hogs - Kurt Brown "Road Trip"
Electric fences and silos and shotguns - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"
Even the silos' shadows freeze - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"
Skyscraper.
Slaughterhouse:
That slaughterhouse of light - William Brewer "The Messenger of Oxyana"
Stable:
Stable your six dragon-steeds - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley
Grass grows in a stable - Adil Tunyaz "But a Thorn Was Left in Our Tongues..." transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
A colt come from heaven's stable - Wang An-Shih "Death of My Horse" transl. by David Hinton
Stockade:
The stockade and the bastioned gate - Laura Da' "The Honest Tongue"
Store.
Storehouse:
Merely chaff from life's storehouse - Fenton Johnson "Harlem: The Black City"
In Time's storehouse lie days, hours, and moments - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Say thou not sadly, "never," and "no more,"]"
Filling up the vast storehouses of his mind - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Strip Mall:
Scenes from a strip mall childhood - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"
An orchard behind the strip mall - Patrick Phillips "Matinee"
Stronghold:
To strongholds in the thickest woods - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"
In the assaulted stronghold of his will - Alice Meynell "The Unknown God"
This unbarred stronghold of sweet gold - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"
Structure.
Supermarket:
Supermarkets and malls, the altars of money - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Tavern:
In the tavern bear the golden cup - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LIII: Mine Everywhere" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Whispers in a ghostly tavern - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
Teahouse:
In a teahouse of the mind - Elizabeth Spires "Tea"
Temple
Tenement.
Tent.
Theater.
Tower.
Warehouse.
Watchtower.
Way Station:
A little way station just beyond silence - Charles Wright "Future Tense"
Windmill.
Workhouse:
To the workhouse let them gather - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Workshop.
Ziggurat:
Waves as high as ziggurats - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
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That had eaten the abbey's fruits - G.K. Chesterton "The Secret People"
Aerodrome:
Blowing through the aerodromes of space - Geoffrey Dearmer "Tell Me, Stranger"
Airport.
Amphitheater:
Whirl of winds against the amphitheatre of hills - Katherine Hale "Buffalo Meat"
Apartment:
An apartment building of locked jaws - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
Entered their apartments at twilight - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Women of the 1980s"
The first key flip in an apartment - Chet'la Sebree "An End"
Apiary:
I approach my moon's apiary - Devan Barlow "A Moon Witch at the Party"
Arena:
Even when the arena is empty - Andrea Gibson "In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don't lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down"
absence is the arena of death - Kara Jackson "fleeing"
Aviary:
Exploding from this toxic aviary - Timothy Donnelly "By Night with Torch and Spear"
Bank.
Barbershop see:
Shop.
Barn.
Barrack:
The black hole in the barracks - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"
Big Top:
But the Big Top can't accommodate all - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"
A Big-Top tent turned fallout zone - Donald Towers "A Headline Ripped from a Past, Present, and Future Issue of Anachronistic New America"
Biodome:
Ice feathers across the biodome - Joanne Merriam "Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds"
Boardinghouse:
Spirits entering a boardinghouse - Tyree Daye "Friday Night on the Hill"
Bookstore:
Standing hushed in the aisles of bookstores - Allison Joseph "Notebooks"
Booth:
The window inside of a confessional booth - Aaron Tyler Hand "Self-Portrait as Combinations Taco Bell/Pizza Hut/KFC"
The Fair of Vanity has many a Booth - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."
Double rows of bartering booths - Amy Lowell "Market Day"
Bridge.
Brothel:
Cries in a haunted brothel - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
Brownstone:
A brownstone for hummingbirds - francine j. harris "Wetland"
Bungalow:
The red sun eats the bungalows - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"
Cabin:
Cabins on either side of an hour - Mary Jo Bang "In November We Inched Closer"
Cannery:
Double agents in the cannery - Jaswinder Bolina "Stump Speech"
Casino:
In an abandoned casino - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Castle.
Cathedral.
Chapel:
The silent chapel of a pine forest in winter - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
The basilisk of the Steadfast Chapel - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 16. E-Ana, the Temple of Inana in Uruk" transl. by Sophus Helle
While she dreams of chapel bells - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"
Near its stones and chapel doors - Jon Pineda "Cinque Terre"
Chateau:
Chateaus where mammoth Queens once ruled - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"
Church.
Cinema.
Citadel.
City Hall:
My birthday went up in smoke in a fire at City Hall - Stanley Kunitz "Passing Through"
Clock Tower:
Whirling high, from the Clock Tower to the sky - William Manning "A Child's Dream of the Zoo"
Cloister.
Convent:
Within the Convent of the Past - Annie Fellows Johnston "Retrospection"
Coop:
Of raids on the pantry and hen-coop - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
Cot:
Pauper's cot and hall of kings - Ceiriog "Daybreak" transl. by Edmund O. Jones
From gloomy cot to sparkling palace - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "On Lomonossoef" transl. by John Pollen
If you'll share there my ivy-crowned cot - Charles E. Trail "They May Tell of a Clime. To -- --" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Cottage.
Den.
Department Store:
Boxes bearing the names of lost department stores - Nancy Ellis Taylor "Voodoo Corner Bus Stop"
Depot:
The dock and depot waiting - Conrad Hilberry "Quatrain"
Dimestore:
A dimestore magic trick in legendary light - Regie Cabico "In a Legendary Light"
The dime store flower fields - francine j. harris "i used to write"
Stolen dime-store moments - Philip Levine "Magic"
Diner:
In the harsh inner light of an all-night diner - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
Distillery:
A distillery of virtue & fiction - Faylita Hicks "Letter to Black Girls"
Dollar Store:
Lay dollar store boats in the gutters - Eve L. Ewing "I come from the fire city"
Dwelling.
Edifice:
Up on a midtown metropolis edifice - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
An edifice of temporal flame - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"
Embassy:
This joyous embassy convey - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
The secrets of your lunar embassy - Dana Gioia "Pardon Me, Pilgrim"
In tender embassy of love - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XLV"
In one rich embassy of gold - "The Summer"
Buzzing private embassies were sped - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Blameless Prince"
Establishment.
Factory.
Fallout Shelter:
Hunkered down in the old fallout shelter - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"
Fane:
Nor see the ivy clasp the fane - J.D. "To a Blind Girl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
A guard behind the massive columns in the fane - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Beneath Apollo's unpolluted fane - Euripedes "Andromache" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Through every fane harmonious numbers sound - Euripedes "The Children of Hercules" transl. by Michael Wodhull
On whose steep promontory stands Minerva's fane - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Who guard the portals of Minerva's fane - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Ruthless hands to rend the fairy fane - William Mountain "Dies Irae"
In some gazette obtain alike an apotheosis and fane - T.W.P. "Letter Second: To Thomas Carlyle, Esquire, London" [The Knickerbocker v.22, no.1, July 1843]
Dark fanes where truth has ceased to dwell - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Infant's Burial" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
Finishing School:
No finishing school's velvet etiquette - Stephanie Burt "Frostina"
Fort.
Fortress.
Fruit Stand:
Silos and farmsteads, fruit stands and hogs - Kurt Brown "Road Trip"
Gallery.
Gazebo:
The private gazebo of their youth - Solmaz Sharif "Patronage"
Generator Station:
A generator station opens its eye - Jake Skeets "Let There Be Coal"
Granary.
Grocery:
The grocer of despair - Leonard Cohen "Field Commander Cohen"
Pushing a grocery cart of empty beer cans - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"
Scanning the cans on the grocery store shelf - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"
A trip to the grocery store at the end of the world - Meep Matsushima "The Believers"
Habitation:
The crowded habitation of the mind - N. Scott Momaday "The Essence of Belonging"
Halfway House:
The halfway houses where I met my kind dreaming - Vijay Seshadri "The Descent of Man"
halfway house for broken history - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "Abstrack Africana"
Hall.
Hen Coop:
Of raids on the pantry and hen-coop - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
Hermitage:
Some hermitage of flutes and fibers - Conrad Hilberry "Open"
Hideout:
To bed me down among my love's hideouts - Seamus Heaney "The Betrothal of Cavehill"
High Rise:
Your subdivisions and high rises - John Yau "Charles Baudelaire and I Meet in the Oval Garden"
Home.
Hospice:
The far-famed Hospice crowns the heights - "The Brave Dog of St. Bernard" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]
Hospice of memory & malice - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
Hospital:
Martyrdom in the far Canada of a hospital room - Thom Gunn "Lament"
Hotel.
Hothouse:
Pining in vain some hothouse plant to meet - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"
Hot-house deep in the forest's heart - Maurice Maeterlinck "The Hot-House" transl. by Bernard Miall
House
Hut.
Hydroelectric Plant:
hydroelectric plants to fry your eggs in the microwave - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
Igloo:
Cutting out blocks of ice and fashioning another igloo - Robin Coste Lewis "Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson"
Inn.
Jail.
Kennel:
No more shall I kennel with pain - Arthur Stringer "Hill-Top Hours"
Kiosk:
The kiosk shutters crash down - Elizabeth Bishop "Suicide of a Moderate Dictator"
Lean-To:
A lean to in a starved storm - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Library.
Lighthouse.
Lodge.
Mall.
Mansion.
Mart.
Meeting-House:
A meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted - Adrienne Rich "What Kind of Times Are These"
Megaplex:
The megaplex of popcorn-scented tranquility - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Menagerie:
His menagerie lined up close behind - Alise Alousi "Back to School"
Mill.
Monolith:
Pylons and monoliths went on by ages - Gordon Bottomley "Babel: The Gate of the God"
The monoliths tell me everything - Gwynne Garfinkle "Scenes from a Marriage"
No monoliths inscribed with ancient rites - David Salisbury "On Mars"
Monument/Monumental.
Motel:
Such lit vacancy as interstate motels announce - Scott Cairns "A Lot"
A sparrow on the motel bed - Matthew Thorburn "An Annunciation"
Museum.
Observatory:
Drones sent from an alien observatory - Martins Deep "On a Dreamscape Where My Father Is a Spaceship Pirate"
Outhouse:
Outhouse meant a ravine brimmed with spiders - Lillian-Yvonne Bertram "Black Pastoral"
Palace.
Pavilion.
Pawnshop.
Penitentiary:
The penitentiary of free speech - Denise Duhamel "Delta Flight 656"
Plantation:
Between plantation memory and cosmic impulse - fahima ife "porous aftermath"
Used-up plantations worn and dry - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Round a plantation of Old Nick's - Charles G. Leland "The Last Ditch" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.2, March 1862]
Prison is a plantation made of stone & steel - Danez Smith "C.R.E.A.M."
Prison.
Pyramid.
Railway Station:
Liquid ticking in a petrified railway station - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"
Restaurant:
The restaurant no one goes to anymore - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"
Saloon:
Each raw saloon was raising Cain - Vachel Lindsay "John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston"
Standing in the dust of saloons and public squares - José Martí "Love in the City" transl. by Esther Allen
Sidewinders in the saloons of fools - Ishmael Reed "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
Sawmill.
School/Scholar.
Schoolhouse:
A schoolhouse filled with dust - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Low"
Shack:
Foreman's shack at the mining pool's edge - Jack Kin Lim "Kuala Lumpur Urban Legends"
Shed.
Shelter.
Shop.
Shopping Mall:
A little space between shopping malls - Scott Cairns "A Lot"
Shrine.
Silo:
An elegy with silo and fever - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"
Silos and farmsteads, fruit stands and hogs - Kurt Brown "Road Trip"
Electric fences and silos and shotguns - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"
Even the silos' shadows freeze - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"
Skyscraper.
Slaughterhouse:
That slaughterhouse of light - William Brewer "The Messenger of Oxyana"
Stable:
Stable your six dragon-steeds - Li Po "The Sun" transl. by Arthur Waley
Grass grows in a stable - Adil Tunyaz "But a Thorn Was Left in Our Tongues..." transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
A colt come from heaven's stable - Wang An-Shih "Death of My Horse" transl. by David Hinton
Stockade:
The stockade and the bastioned gate - Laura Da' "The Honest Tongue"
Store.
Storehouse:
Merely chaff from life's storehouse - Fenton Johnson "Harlem: The Black City"
In Time's storehouse lie days, hours, and moments - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Say thou not sadly, "never," and "no more,"]"
Filling up the vast storehouses of his mind - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"
Strip Mall:
Scenes from a strip mall childhood - Feliz Lucia Molina "Paról"
An orchard behind the strip mall - Patrick Phillips "Matinee"
Stronghold:
To strongholds in the thickest woods - William Hodgson Ellis "The Skunk Cabbage"
In the assaulted stronghold of his will - Alice Meynell "The Unknown God"
This unbarred stronghold of sweet gold - Leonora Speyer "Fiddler's Farewell"
Structure.
Supermarket:
Supermarkets and malls, the altars of money - Joy Harjo "A Map to the Next World"
Tavern:
In the tavern bear the golden cup - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry LIII: Mine Everywhere" transl. by Sir John Bowring
Whispers in a ghostly tavern - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
Teahouse:
In a teahouse of the mind - Elizabeth Spires "Tea"
Temple
Tenement.
Tent.
Theater.
Tower.
Warehouse.
Watchtower.
Way Station:
A little way station just beyond silence - Charles Wright "Future Tense"
Windmill.
Workhouse:
To the workhouse let them gather - "The Penitent Free-Trader" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no. CCCXV, v.LXVII, May 1850]
Workshop.
Ziggurat:
Waves as high as ziggurats - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
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