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Basin.
Bottle.
Bowl.
Carafe:
Instead of an entire carafe of coffee - Sandra Simonds "It's Going to Hurt" [Poetry May 2017]
Cask:
A cup too I have brought as well as a cask - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Spent casks of wind - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XVI"
In casks safe from time and tears - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"
Cauldron.
Churn.
Colander:
More colander than container - Stephanie Heit "Waiting Bay"
Cooking-Pot:
Spin wet clay to shape a cooking-pot - "The Way of Virtue: Non-Being" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Corkscrew:
A mauve vine corkscrewed up from the deep oblivion - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
With its buried corkscrew of hate - Kiki Petrosino "Young"
Crock:
A crock of gold inside a hollow tree - James Stephens "Behind the Hill"
Cup.
Cutlery:
Rattling cutlery with our absence - Jamaal May "Love Poem Moving Back and Forth Across Glass"
In the cutlery of lightning - Pablo Neruda "Death" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Decanter:
From the slim-cut decanters of death - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"
Dipper:
The dipper spills its emptiness into my cup - Conrad Hilberry "Virginia Night"
Dish.
Dishsoap:
Joy, which is also a dishsoap - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"
Getting stuck in a puddle of dish soap - Dean Young "Colophon"
Altered its taste to bitter dishsoap - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"
Drinking-Cup:
With an emperor's skull for a drinking-cup - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"
Flagon.
Flask.
Fork.
Frying-Pan:
March with a steady toe out of the frying-pan - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Goblet.
Grill:
Grilling ink into the blue thaw - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"
Sausage cackling char on the grill - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Jar.
Jug.
Keg:
Both by the keg and by the pound - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Celebration"
Bargain for a keg of apple-sauce - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Old liqueurs in leather kegs - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"
Kettle.
Kitchen.
Knife/Knives.
Ladle:
Reaching tiptoe to ladle sips from waterfalls - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Following Axe-Bamboo Stream, I Cross Over a Ridge and Hike on Along the River" transl. by David Hinton
Dip contempt's broad ladle for a measure - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"
We'll ladle out clouds together here at their source - Wang An-Shih "Wandering Out with a Full Moon to Eightfold-Integrity River" transl. by David Hinton
Mason Jar:
A recurring nightmare about being trapped in a Mason jar - Bruce Boston "Signs You Could Be a Clone"
Your brains puddled in a brass-capped mason jar - Emma Trelles "Florida Poem"
Menu:
Enticing maps and menus of easily affordable adventures - Dana Gioia "Travel"
A dropdown menu of dreams - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"
Processing the infinite through drop-down menus of possibility - Dana Wall "Customer Service Representative's Nots on Soul Processing" [Strange Horizons 2 June 2025]
Microwave:
hydroelectric plants to fry your eggs in the microwave - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
Mortar.
Mug:
Pull a ribbon of honey into handmade mugs - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"
Ruining your heart over mug after mug of bitter coffee - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"
Gave you a mug of warm wine - Richard Scott "dem bones"
Napkin:
Unloads clean, bone-colored napkins - Christian Gullette "The Fish"
Unfolded trust from its cloth napkin - Christopher Kondrich "Trust"
Oven.
Pan (used for cooking).
Pestle:
If he'd borrow a touch of my pestle and mortar - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]
Pitcher:
Then drain a pitcher of milk, and emulate the thunder's sound - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Like empty pitchers to a full fountain - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"
Plate.
Platter:
Fed them platters of minced scandal - Maxwell Bodenheim "Captain Simmons' Wife"
Platters of fungus climbing like stepping stones - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"
Pot.
Pressure-Cooker:
Diamonds in a pressure-cooker sky - Allan Wolf "Uranus: The Planet Behind the Blue-Green Mask"
Punch Bowl:
Gymnosperms by the punch bowl - Haley Bossé "When the Time Comes to Split the Gym"
Recipe.
Salver:
Pearls on silver salver rattling - Count Tolstoi "The Scolding" transl. by John Pollen
Samovar:
Made salt tea in a coral samovar - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Saucer:
Pottery saucers with wicks and butter - Ava Leavell Haymon "Festival of Lights"
Skillet:
My skillet has gone to war - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"
Onions sizzling in a cast iron skillet - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"
the skillet heat of black asphalt - Maria Zoccola "Dry Land"
Snack-Bag:
Pack a snack-bag with the Kraft food groups - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"
Spice-Box:
My rhymes I pick out from the spice-box - Hugh Lofting "The Porridge Poet"
Spoon.
Stew Pot:
Hot enough to boil a stew pot - Tommye Blount "Karl Lagerfeld's line of beauty"
Stove:
Sweets for the stove god - May Chong "Catering"
Sizzles a sermon from the stove - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"
The stove is cold so salt won't burn - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
Teacup.
Teapot:
Ocean's teapot of eroding waves - Mary Jo Bang "Real Time"
A teapot pouring into the black cup of a summer night - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
Teaspoon:
Plus a teaspoon-taste of history - Chen Chen "First Light"
Just a teaspoon of you - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"
Thermos:
Liquid hydrogen filled a thermos - Tyler Mills "'Mike' Test"
Tin Can.
Vat:
Where poppies heap the marble vats - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Prepared in wicker vats the cheeses - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Pickled in a vat of tears - A.E. Stallings "Olives"
Vial.
Whiskey-Flask:
Found a little whisky-flask of Irony - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
Wine-Cup:
To beware of the wine-cup's demon lure - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"
Wineglass:
bring me wineglasses of miracles - Michael Leong "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"
Like a wineglass of hatred - Pablo Neruda "Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The wineglass of hereafter - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly
The little red jewel at the bottom of your wineglass - Kevin Prufer "After You Have Vanished"
Winejar:
My empty winejar shamed by a dusty cup - T'ao Chien "An Idle 9/9 at Home" transl. by David Hinton
Wine-Press:
The wine-press of the Wrath of God - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"
Wok:
Sharp singing aromas from scarred woks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
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Basin.
Bottle.
Bowl.
Carafe:
Instead of an entire carafe of coffee - Sandra Simonds "It's Going to Hurt" [Poetry May 2017]
Cask:
A cup too I have brought as well as a cask - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Spent casks of wind - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Osten XVI"
In casks safe from time and tears - Naomi Long Madgett "Old Wine"
Cauldron.
Churn.
Colander:
More colander than container - Stephanie Heit "Waiting Bay"
Cooking-Pot:
Spin wet clay to shape a cooking-pot - "The Way of Virtue: Non-Being" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]
Corkscrew:
A mauve vine corkscrewed up from the deep oblivion - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"
With its buried corkscrew of hate - Kiki Petrosino "Young"
Crock:
A crock of gold inside a hollow tree - James Stephens "Behind the Hill"
Cup.
Cutlery:
Rattling cutlery with our absence - Jamaal May "Love Poem Moving Back and Forth Across Glass"
In the cutlery of lightning - Pablo Neruda "Death" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Decanter:
From the slim-cut decanters of death - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"
Dipper:
The dipper spills its emptiness into my cup - Conrad Hilberry "Virginia Night"
Dish.
Dishsoap:
Joy, which is also a dishsoap - Diane Seuss "There is a force that breaks the body"
Getting stuck in a puddle of dish soap - Dean Young "Colophon"
Altered its taste to bitter dishsoap - Ray Young Bear "The Aura of the Blue Flower That is a Goddess"
Drinking-Cup:
With an emperor's skull for a drinking-cup - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"
Flagon.
Flask.
Fork.
Frying-Pan:
March with a steady toe out of the frying-pan - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Goblet.
Grill:
Grilling ink into the blue thaw - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"
Sausage cackling char on the grill - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Jar.
Jug.
Keg:
Both by the keg and by the pound - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Celebration"
Bargain for a keg of apple-sauce - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Old liqueurs in leather kegs - Iris Tree "[Many things I'd find to charm you]"
Kettle.
Kitchen.
Knife/Knives.
Ladle:
Reaching tiptoe to ladle sips from waterfalls - Hsieh Ling-Yun "Following Axe-Bamboo Stream, I Cross Over a Ridge and Hike on Along the River" transl. by David Hinton
Dip contempt's broad ladle for a measure - Vita Sackville-West "Insurrection"
We'll ladle out clouds together here at their source - Wang An-Shih "Wandering Out with a Full Moon to Eightfold-Integrity River" transl. by David Hinton
Mason Jar:
A recurring nightmare about being trapped in a Mason jar - Bruce Boston "Signs You Could Be a Clone"
Your brains puddled in a brass-capped mason jar - Emma Trelles "Florida Poem"
Menu:
Enticing maps and menus of easily affordable adventures - Dana Gioia "Travel"
A dropdown menu of dreams - Angela Liu "An Interrogation About a Monster During Sleep Paralysis"
Processing the infinite through drop-down menus of possibility - Dana Wall "Customer Service Representative's Nots on Soul Processing" [Strange Horizons 2 June 2025]
Microwave:
hydroelectric plants to fry your eggs in the microwave - Angélica Freitas "microwave" [Poetry Jan. 2016] transl. by Tiffany Higgins
Mortar.
Mug:
Pull a ribbon of honey into handmade mugs - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"
Ruining your heart over mug after mug of bitter coffee - Edward Hirsch "The Task"
Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"
Gave you a mug of warm wine - Richard Scott "dem bones"
Napkin:
Unloads clean, bone-colored napkins - Christian Gullette "The Fish"
Unfolded trust from its cloth napkin - Christopher Kondrich "Trust"
Oven.
Pan (used for cooking).
Pestle:
If he'd borrow a touch of my pestle and mortar - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]
Pitcher:
Then drain a pitcher of milk, and emulate the thunder's sound - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Like empty pitchers to a full fountain - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"
Plate.
Platter:
Fed them platters of minced scandal - Maxwell Bodenheim "Captain Simmons' Wife"
Platters of fungus climbing like stepping stones - Dorianne Laux "Redwoods"
Pot.
Pressure-Cooker:
Diamonds in a pressure-cooker sky - Allan Wolf "Uranus: The Planet Behind the Blue-Green Mask"
Punch Bowl:
Gymnosperms by the punch bowl - Haley Bossé "When the Time Comes to Split the Gym"
Recipe.
Salver:
Pearls on silver salver rattling - Count Tolstoi "The Scolding" transl. by John Pollen
Samovar:
Made salt tea in a coral samovar - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Saucer:
Pottery saucers with wicks and butter - Ava Leavell Haymon "Festival of Lights"
Skillet:
My skillet has gone to war - Allison Albino "Cast Iron"
Onions sizzling in a cast iron skillet - Sue Ann Gleason "Ask Me"
the skillet heat of black asphalt - Maria Zoccola "Dry Land"
Snack-Bag:
Pack a snack-bag with the Kraft food groups - Geoffrey Brock "Trip Hop"
Spice-Box:
My rhymes I pick out from the spice-box - Hugh Lofting "The Porridge Poet"
Spoon.
Stew Pot:
Hot enough to boil a stew pot - Tommye Blount "Karl Lagerfeld's line of beauty"
Stove:
Sweets for the stove god - May Chong "Catering"
Sizzles a sermon from the stove - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"
The stove is cold so salt won't burn - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"
Teacup.
Teapot:
Ocean's teapot of eroding waves - Mary Jo Bang "Real Time"
A teapot pouring into the black cup of a summer night - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"
Teaspoon:
Plus a teaspoon-taste of history - Chen Chen "First Light"
Just a teaspoon of you - Grace Nichols "Tea with Demerara Sugar"
Thermos:
Liquid hydrogen filled a thermos - Tyler Mills "'Mike' Test"
Tin Can.
Vat:
Where poppies heap the marble vats - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun"
Prepared in wicker vats the cheeses - Euripedes "The Cyclops" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Pickled in a vat of tears - A.E. Stallings "Olives"
Vial.
Whiskey-Flask:
Found a little whisky-flask of Irony - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
Wine-Cup:
To beware of the wine-cup's demon lure - George M. Baker "An Old Man's Prayer"
Wineglass:
bring me wineglasses of miracles - Michael Leong "For My Cats Gaspara & Alfonsina"
Like a wineglass of hatred - Pablo Neruda "Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1949)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
The wineglass of hereafter - Pablo Neruda "Love Song" transl. by William O'Daly
The little red jewel at the bottom of your wineglass - Kevin Prufer "After You Have Vanished"
Winejar:
My empty winejar shamed by a dusty cup - T'ao Chien "An Idle 9/9 at Home" transl. by David Hinton
Wine-Press:
The wine-press of the Wrath of God - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"
Wok:
Sharp singing aromas from scarred woks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
