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Aisle.
Alcove.
Altar.
Anteroom:
Dusted the anteroom with alibi gray - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"
Arch.
Architect/Architecture.
Archway:
Each step circled into tight archways - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"
Archways lined with faded saints - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"
Attic.
Auditorium:
Filling the auditoriums with empty skulls - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
Balcony.
Ballroom:
Extending into a glittering muted ballroom - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"
Left a chortling hyena in her ballroom clothes - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
In the vast ballroom of the universe - Russ Bickerstaff "Why Norm Jones Never Feels Like He Gets Anything Done in a Day"
Balustrade:
Brushes the blossoms against the balustrade - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Descend over the flaking balustrades - Grace Nichols "Nuptial on Brighton Beach"
The balustrade's tipped ladder tracking infinity - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Banister:
The meek hand on a banister - Mary Jo Bang "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be"
Basement.
Bath/Bathe.
Bathroom:
Chiron in broken bathroom light - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Water slouching through a bathroom ceiling - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"
leaving sigils in lipstick on the bathroom mirrors - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
Bathtub.
Battlement.
Bedroom:
Become manifest in abandoned bedrooms or kitchens - Bruce Boston "Ghost People"
A goose arrives at his bedroom window - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"
Baboon rattling the bedroom door - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Belfry:
Far away the solemn belfries toll - Maurice Baring "Beethoven"
The swallow's eggs are laid along the belfry walls - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"
The hushed belfry of the heart - William H.C. Hosmer "My Study"
That my ribs might make a belfry - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks XI: Cathexis"
Berth:
Shaking you free from your perilous berth - Amy Redpath Roddick "A Scientific Puzzle"
Blackboard.
Bleachers:
Brachiosauruses by the bleachers - Haley Bossé "When the Time Comes to Split the Gym"
Blueprint.
Boiler Room:
Boiler rooms hum with the tooth and nail - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"
Bolt.
Breakfast Nook;
Mistress of the breakfast nook - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"
Buttress:
A dim fear passed through buttress, and roof, and beam - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: II. The Summons"
Buttressed with unnumbered tiers of ruddy rock - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"
Cabinet.
Cafeteria:
Set up exhibits in the cafeteria - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"
Carrel:
Scholarly spiders relax in their carrels - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"
Casement:
The casements hold essential day above each sill - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"
The marigold unbarred her casement bright - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
Waking breezes round the casement pipe - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"
Ceiling.
Cellar.
Chamber.
Chandelier.
Chimney.
Cistern:
Into the deeper cistern of his soul - Julia Alvarez "Regreso"
Drowsy heart stirs from the cistern - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
Closet.
Colonnade:
Girt by a colonnade of crysolite - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Column.
Corner.
Cornerstone:
From the foundations to the last edge of the cornerstone - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Jesus leaned on the cornerstone - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"
The cornerstone in Truth is laid - Henry van Dyke "For the Friends at Hurstmont"
Corridor.
Counter/Countertop.
Crenelation:
Flamboyant crenelations of glory - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Foliage, crenelated, dark at the root - Janet Kauffman "Upended By Error"
Cubicle:
Away from this year's cubicle to night class - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
Cupboard.
Cupola:
In spheres and cupolas it moved through empty spaces - Harry Martinson "Aniara 4" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Deadbolt:
Eyes lock in deadbolt time - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Den.
Dome.
Door.
Doorbell:
Ringing the doorbell for one more party for two - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"
Doorknob.
Doorsill:
The doorsill where two worlds touch - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks
Doorstep.
Doorway.
Drain.
Drawbridge:
Let portcullis and drawbridge fall - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Above the darkening drawbridge - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Sinking of the Titanic"
Drywall:
Pain coiled in the drywall - Kiki Petrosino "Farm Book"
Dungeon.
Eaves/Eavesdrop.
Elevator:
A broken elevator trying to contain its freefall - Alise Alousi "Skip"
take elevators and stairs to more deserted spaces - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"
An elevator hauled by golden chains - Marge Simon "Sightings: Algis Budrys"
Entrance.
Escalator:
The escalator, rolling ever down - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Watch the escalator's endless crawl - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"
Take the palace escalator heavenward - Jackie Wang "Life is a Place Where it's Forbidden to Live"
Faucet:
Orchids are gushing out from the faucets - Kaveh Akbar "Orchids Are Sprouting from the Floorboards"
The kitchen with its ticking faucet - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"
Don't take faucets for fountainheads - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"
Fence.
Fireplace:
Kneels before an empty fireplace - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
The pocketed dark behind fireplace brick - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
Floor.
Floorboards:
Orchids are sprouting from the floorboards - Kaveh Akbar "Orchids Are Sprouting from the Floorboards"
The nose-down fly on my floorboards - Ari Banias "Tribute"
Beneath the floorboards of my thought - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
Between the floorboards seedlings rise - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
Foundation.
Fountain.
Furnace.
Gable:
Wind across the gable roofs singing sad - Miriam Clark Potter "Lady Mother"
Gallery.
Garret:
A glee among the garrets - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity V: Ending"
With nooks and garrets and stairs - Sandy Florian "House"
Littered with memories like ancient garrets - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
In a garret where cobwebs hang thick - "The Young Author's Dream" [The Continental Monthly, v.5 no.4, April 1864]
Gate.
Grate.
Greenroom:
Toward the greenroom of John Wilkes Booth - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"
Gutter.
Hall.
Hallway.
Hearth.
Hearthstone.
Hinge.
Hospital Room:
Martyrdom in the far Canada of a hospital room - Thom Gunn "Lament"
Keyhole.
Kitchen.
Laboratory:
In this most awful secret laboratory - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
A Dr. Frankenstein in the lab with herself - Elizabeth Knapp "Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman's Instagram Account"
Caught in a laboratory without a science - Adrienne Rich "Letters to a Young Poet"
Larder:
Feeding the partisans from frugal larders - Adrienne Rich "Char"
Latch.
Laundry Room:
The brew in the alchemist's laundry room - Rober Frazier "Primer to Impractical Magic"
Lecture Hall:
Folklore filling the desolate lecture halls - Joshua Bennett "Summer Job"
Library.
Lift Shaft:
In a lift shaft on the other side of the night - Emily Berry "Ghosts (Homage to Burial)"
Lightning Rod:
My spine a lightning rod for shudders - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Lightning-rods for plumes - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"
Linoleum:
Linoleum's absurd and personal mystique - Boris Dralyuk "Notation"
Lintel:
The lintel black with absence and size - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"
And a lintel of honeysuckle - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer
The lucid moment and the shadow across the lintel - Arthur Stringer "The Question"
Living Room:
The terror reaches its red claws into back ward and living room - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
If you see me praying in the living room - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"
Prowling the living room for the lightning - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"
Loading Bay:
A baggage of stars thudded on the loading bay - Stephen Oliver "An Actual Encounter With The Sun On My Balcony At France Street"
Lobby:
Popcorn and figs in the lobby - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
A lobby of the skyscraper museum - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Lock.
Lounge:
Lounges in an abstract of boxwood and holly - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"
Lych-Gate:
Where the lych-gate casts its cool dark shadow - G.S. "Butterflies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 30 March 1878]
Marquee:
Across the marquees of legions of subway cars - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Mezzanine:
Used to chainsmoke on the mezzanine - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"
Minaret:
The minarets of an organic metropolis - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Torches on each minaret's height - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Hanging thick round empty tower and broken minaret - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Rose like minarets of dream - George Sterling "Then and Now"
Morgue:
I lay in the morgue of darkness, hyper-alone - Taylor Byas "I begin the day thinking"
Ascended into heaven's oxygen-deprived morgue - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Nave:
In naves of a deconsecrated church - Brandon Som "Resistors"
And from the nave build haunted heaven - Wallace Stevens "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman"
Niche:
A seaside saint in her clifftop niches - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
The leafy scrolls and fretted niches - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
A Fairy Temple with one niche empty - Po-Chu-i "Taoism and Buddhism" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Nook.
Nurse/Nursery.
Office.
Palisade:
Ten poles before their palisades - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"
Palisade wrenched gold of Nineveh - Hart Crane "Recitative"
The troops o'er slanting palisades escape - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Stretching above the silent palisade - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
Pane/Windowpane.
Pantry:
The pantry full of lilies - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"
Of raids on the pantry and hen-coop - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
Intimate tenant of pantries - Hailey Leithauser "Jiminy"
Line their pantry shelves with the antioxidant beads - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Parapet.
Parlor:
Phantom tendrils through parlor air - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Science, art, and parlor games - Dorothy Parker "Neither Bloody Nor Bowed"
Orchards alive in the parlor - Kiki Petrosino "Monticello House Tour"
The ice cream parlor Osiris - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
Passage/Passenger.
Penthouse:
The ethereal execs in the celestial penthouse - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"
Peristyle:
A peristyle of pines sings requiem - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Pillar.
Plaster.
Porch.
Portal.
Portcullis:
Let portcullis and drawbridge fall - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Down the thundering portcullis fell - Delta "The Dark Waggon [sic]" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXI, v.LXVII, Jan. 1850]
Portico:
Empty porticoes that led to nowhere - Deborah L. Davitt "Drowning in this Sunken City"
The portico hung o'er a flight of alabaster - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
A splendid dome with royal porticos and blazoned roofs - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Twine in the kingdom's portico - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
Densities of opal within sleep's portico - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill
Pulpit:
From their pulpits sealed with dust - Francis Beaumont "On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey"
Rafter.
Rampart.
Roof.
Room.
Sacristy:
Into the sacristies of treason - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1936)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Scullery:
Lined with the forgotten ashes of scullery maids - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Shelf.
Shower.
Shutter.
Sill.
Smokestack.
Spire.
Stage.
Stair.
Staircase.
Stairway.
Stairwell.
Steeple.
Step.
Stoop.
Storefront:
Storefront merchants hawking our wares - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"
Spray paint odes for boarded up storefronts - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
Studio:
In that studio full of my own silence - Wayne Miller "Theological"
Study.
Thatch:
Sparrows fighting on the thatch - John Clare "Summer Evening"
But she only thatched it with straw - "The Fox and the Geese"
behind our walls of thatch and moss and tin - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"
Theater.
Thermostat:
Our thermostat dreams - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Threshold.
Trellis.
Tunnel.
Turret.
Vane/Weathervane.
Vault.
Veranda:
A fierce macaw on the verandah - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"
Through the veranda's black iron bars - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"
Vestibule.
Vestry:
washing their marbles in the vestry - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
Wainscot:
Even the mouse in the wainscot - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Chimney Swallow"
Wall.
Waiting Room:
Waiting room made out of marzipan - Ana Bozicevic "Paris Pride Parade"
The universal ballad of the waiting room - Gregory Pardlo "Epistemology of the Phone Booth"
Wallpaper.
Weathervane: See Vane/Weathervane.
Well.
Widow's Walk:
Watched from widow's walks worn thin - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"
Window.
Windowpane.
Windowsill/Sill.
Wire.
Workshop.
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Aisle.
Alcove.
Altar.
Anteroom:
Dusted the anteroom with alibi gray - Mary Jo Bang "Lydia's Suite: One without Has Two or Three Within"
Arch.
Architect/Architecture.
Archway:
Each step circled into tight archways - Mouna Ammar "In a Moroccan Riad"
Archways lined with faded saints - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"
Attic.
Auditorium:
Filling the auditoriums with empty skulls - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"
Balcony.
Ballroom:
Extending into a glittering muted ballroom - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"
Left a chortling hyena in her ballroom clothes - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
In the vast ballroom of the universe - Russ Bickerstaff "Why Norm Jones Never Feels Like He Gets Anything Done in a Day"
Balustrade:
Brushes the blossoms against the balustrade - Li Bai "Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: 'Peaceful Brightness'" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Descend over the flaking balustrades - Grace Nichols "Nuptial on Brighton Beach"
The balustrade's tipped ladder tracking infinity - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Banister:
The meek hand on a banister - Mary Jo Bang "Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be"
Basement.
Bath/Bathe.
Bathroom:
Chiron in broken bathroom light - Beasa A. Dukes "After Watching 'Moonlight'"
Water slouching through a bathroom ceiling - Kay Gabriel "Like, Comma, Like"
leaving sigils in lipstick on the bathroom mirrors - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
Bathtub.
Battlement.
Bedroom:
Become manifest in abandoned bedrooms or kitchens - Bruce Boston "Ghost People"
A goose arrives at his bedroom window - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"
Baboon rattling the bedroom door - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Belfry:
Far away the solemn belfries toll - Maurice Baring "Beethoven"
The swallow's eggs are laid along the belfry walls - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"
The hushed belfry of the heart - William H.C. Hosmer "My Study"
That my ribs might make a belfry - Cynthia Zarin "Metaphysicks XI: Cathexis"
Berth:
Shaking you free from your perilous berth - Amy Redpath Roddick "A Scientific Puzzle"
Blackboard.
Bleachers:
Brachiosauruses by the bleachers - Haley Bossé "When the Time Comes to Split the Gym"
Blueprint.
Boiler Room:
Boiler rooms hum with the tooth and nail - Paul Cameron Brown "The Poetry Pond"
Bolt.
Breakfast Nook;
Mistress of the breakfast nook - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"
Buttress:
A dim fear passed through buttress, and roof, and beam - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: II. The Summons"
Buttressed with unnumbered tiers of ruddy rock - Henry van Dyke "The Grand Canyon: Daybreak"
Cabinet.
Cafeteria:
Set up exhibits in the cafeteria - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"
Carrel:
Scholarly spiders relax in their carrels - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"
Casement:
The casements hold essential day above each sill - Léonie Adams "Early Waking"
The marigold unbarred her casement bright - Louise Imogen Guiney "The White Sail"
Waking breezes round the casement pipe - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "Closed"
Ceiling.
Cellar.
Chamber.
Chandelier.
Chimney.
Cistern:
Into the deeper cistern of his soul - Julia Alvarez "Regreso"
Drowsy heart stirs from the cistern - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land V: What the Thunder Said"
Closet.
Colonnade:
Girt by a colonnade of crysolite - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Column.
Corner.
Cornerstone:
From the foundations to the last edge of the cornerstone - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Jesus leaned on the cornerstone - Brandon O'Brian "Population Changes"
The cornerstone in Truth is laid - Henry van Dyke "For the Friends at Hurstmont"
Corridor.
Counter/Countertop.
Crenelation:
Flamboyant crenelations of glory - John Gould Fletcher "Green Symphony"
Foliage, crenelated, dark at the root - Janet Kauffman "Upended By Error"
Cubicle:
Away from this year's cubicle to night class - Carlie Hoffman "After Morlot Avenue"
Cupboard.
Cupola:
In spheres and cupolas it moved through empty spaces - Harry Martinson "Aniara 4" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Deadbolt:
Eyes lock in deadbolt time - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"
Den.
Dome.
Door.
Doorbell:
Ringing the doorbell for one more party for two - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"
Doorknob.
Doorsill:
The doorsill where two worlds touch - Rumi "Quatrains" transl. by Coleman Barks
Doorstep.
Doorway.
Drain.
Drawbridge:
Let portcullis and drawbridge fall - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Above the darkening drawbridge - Clarence Victor Stahl "The Sinking of the Titanic"
Drywall:
Pain coiled in the drywall - Kiki Petrosino "Farm Book"
Dungeon.
Eaves/Eavesdrop.
Elevator:
A broken elevator trying to contain its freefall - Alise Alousi "Skip"
take elevators and stairs to more deserted spaces - Katrine Øgaard Jensen "Playing Myst with a Ghost One Week in Spring"
An elevator hauled by golden chains - Marge Simon "Sightings: Algis Budrys"
Entrance.
Escalator:
The escalator, rolling ever down - Mike Allen "Ascending"
Watch the escalator's endless crawl - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"
Take the palace escalator heavenward - Jackie Wang "Life is a Place Where it's Forbidden to Live"
Faucet:
Orchids are gushing out from the faucets - Kaveh Akbar "Orchids Are Sprouting from the Floorboards"
The kitchen with its ticking faucet - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"
Don't take faucets for fountainheads - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"
Fence.
Fireplace:
Kneels before an empty fireplace - Ansel Elkins "Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees"
The pocketed dark behind fireplace brick - Pamela Gross "The Hive"
Floor.
Floorboards:
Orchids are sprouting from the floorboards - Kaveh Akbar "Orchids Are Sprouting from the Floorboards"
The nose-down fly on my floorboards - Ari Banias "Tribute"
Beneath the floorboards of my thought - Michael McGriff "Inversion"
Between the floorboards seedlings rise - Lynette Mejía "Abandon"
Foundation.
Fountain.
Furnace.
Gable:
Wind across the gable roofs singing sad - Miriam Clark Potter "Lady Mother"
Gallery.
Garret:
A glee among the garrets - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Time and Eternity V: Ending"
With nooks and garrets and stairs - Sandy Florian "House"
Littered with memories like ancient garrets - Lola Ridge "Manhattan Lights"
In a garret where cobwebs hang thick - "The Young Author's Dream" [The Continental Monthly, v.5 no.4, April 1864]
Gate.
Grate.
Greenroom:
Toward the greenroom of John Wilkes Booth - Paul Gregory Nauert "Leaping Through the Centuries"
Gutter.
Hall.
Hallway.
Hearth.
Hearthstone.
Hinge.
Hospital Room:
Martyrdom in the far Canada of a hospital room - Thom Gunn "Lament"
Keyhole.
Kitchen.
Laboratory:
In this most awful secret laboratory - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
A Dr. Frankenstein in the lab with herself - Elizabeth Knapp "Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman's Instagram Account"
Caught in a laboratory without a science - Adrienne Rich "Letters to a Young Poet"
Larder:
Feeding the partisans from frugal larders - Adrienne Rich "Char"
Latch.
Laundry Room:
The brew in the alchemist's laundry room - Rober Frazier "Primer to Impractical Magic"
Lecture Hall:
Folklore filling the desolate lecture halls - Joshua Bennett "Summer Job"
Library.
Lift Shaft:
In a lift shaft on the other side of the night - Emily Berry "Ghosts (Homage to Burial)"
Lightning Rod:
My spine a lightning rod for shudders - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Lightning-rods for plumes - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"
Linoleum:
Linoleum's absurd and personal mystique - Boris Dralyuk "Notation"
Lintel:
The lintel black with absence and size - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"
And a lintel of honeysuckle - "King and Hermit" transl. by Kuno Meyer
The lucid moment and the shadow across the lintel - Arthur Stringer "The Question"
Living Room:
The terror reaches its red claws into back ward and living room - Patricia Goedicke "The Reading Club"
If you see me praying in the living room - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"
Prowling the living room for the lightning - Brenda Shaughnessy "Me in Paradise"
Loading Bay:
A baggage of stars thudded on the loading bay - Stephen Oliver "An Actual Encounter With The Sun On My Balcony At France Street"
Lobby:
Popcorn and figs in the lobby - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
A lobby of the skyscraper museum - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Lock.
Lounge:
Lounges in an abstract of boxwood and holly - Sonya Taaffe "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun"
Lych-Gate:
Where the lych-gate casts its cool dark shadow - G.S. "Butterflies" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, 30 March 1878]
Marquee:
Across the marquees of legions of subway cars - David Henderson "Blues Franchise"
Mezzanine:
Used to chainsmoke on the mezzanine - Patrick Phillips "Galleria Ode"
Minaret:
The minarets of an organic metropolis - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
Torches on each minaret's height - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto III"
Hanging thick round empty tower and broken minaret - Claude McKay "Desolate" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Rose like minarets of dream - George Sterling "Then and Now"
Morgue:
I lay in the morgue of darkness, hyper-alone - Taylor Byas "I begin the day thinking"
Ascended into heaven's oxygen-deprived morgue - Tory Dent "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Nave:
In naves of a deconsecrated church - Brandon Som "Resistors"
And from the nave build haunted heaven - Wallace Stevens "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman"
Niche:
A seaside saint in her clifftop niches - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "thrift"
The leafy scrolls and fretted niches - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)
A Fairy Temple with one niche empty - Po-Chu-i "Taoism and Buddhism" (translated by Arthur Waley)
Nook.
Nurse/Nursery.
Office.
Palisade:
Ten poles before their palisades - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book V. Ethandune: The First Stroke"
Palisade wrenched gold of Nineveh - Hart Crane "Recitative"
The troops o'er slanting palisades escape - Euripedes "Rhesus" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Stretching above the silent palisade - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
Pane/Windowpane.
Pantry:
The pantry full of lilies - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"
Of raids on the pantry and hen-coop - Lucy Larcom "The Cat's Questions" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
Intimate tenant of pantries - Hailey Leithauser "Jiminy"
Line their pantry shelves with the antioxidant beads - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"
Parapet.
Parlor:
Phantom tendrils through parlor air - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Science, art, and parlor games - Dorothy Parker "Neither Bloody Nor Bowed"
Orchards alive in the parlor - Kiki Petrosino "Monticello House Tour"
The ice cream parlor Osiris - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
Passage/Passenger.
Penthouse:
The ethereal execs in the celestial penthouse - Mike Allen and Ian Watson "Seventh Coming"
Peristyle:
A peristyle of pines sings requiem - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"
Pillar.
Plaster.
Porch.
Portal.
Portcullis:
Let portcullis and drawbridge fall - Brinhild "The Rime of Sir Lionne" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.32-v.I, 9 Aug. 1884]
Down the thundering portcullis fell - Delta "The Dark Waggon [sic]" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXI, v.LXVII, Jan. 1850]
Portico:
Empty porticoes that led to nowhere - Deborah L. Davitt "Drowning in this Sunken City"
The portico hung o'er a flight of alabaster - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
A splendid dome with royal porticos and blazoned roofs - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Twine in the kingdom's portico - Ted Mathys "Key to the Kingdom"
Densities of opal within sleep's portico - Cecilia Meireles "The Dead Horse" transl. by James Merrill
Pulpit:
From their pulpits sealed with dust - Francis Beaumont "On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey"
Rafter.
Rampart.
Roof.
Room.
Sacristy:
Into the sacristies of treason - Pablo Neruda "Madrid (1936)" translated by Richard Schaaf
Scullery:
Lined with the forgotten ashes of scullery maids - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Shelf.
Shower.
Shutter.
Sill.
Smokestack.
Spire.
Stage.
Stair.
Staircase.
Stairway.
Stairwell.
Steeple.
Step.
Stoop.
Storefront:
Storefront merchants hawking our wares - Jennifer G. Lai "In My Mind's Coral, Mother Still Calls Us from Inside"
Spray paint odes for boarded up storefronts - Barbara Jane Reyes "Downtown Oakland Poem"
Studio:
In that studio full of my own silence - Wayne Miller "Theological"
Study.
Thatch:
Sparrows fighting on the thatch - John Clare "Summer Evening"
But she only thatched it with straw - "The Fox and the Geese"
behind our walls of thatch and moss and tin - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "The Death of Olympia after Edouard Manet's Olympia, oil on canvas"
Theater.
Thermostat:
Our thermostat dreams - Joy Harjo "Grace"
Threshold.
Trellis.
Tunnel.
Turret.
Vane/Weathervane.
Vault.
Veranda:
A fierce macaw on the verandah - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"
Through the veranda's black iron bars - Tarfia Faizullah "The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief"
Vestibule.
Vestry:
washing their marbles in the vestry - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges
Wainscot:
Even the mouse in the wainscot - Julia C.R. Dorr "The Chimney Swallow"
Wall.
Waiting Room:
Waiting room made out of marzipan - Ana Bozicevic "Paris Pride Parade"
The universal ballad of the waiting room - Gregory Pardlo "Epistemology of the Phone Booth"
Wallpaper.
Weathervane: See Vane/Weathervane.
Well.
Widow's Walk:
Watched from widow's walks worn thin - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Iron"
Window.
Windowpane.
Windowsill/Sill.
Wire.
Workshop.
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