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Index: By Word - X
Oct. 1st, 2012 06:52 pm19 Dec. 2011
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X-Ray.
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X-Ray.
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Index By Word - Z
Oct. 1st, 2012 11:51 am3 February 2012: Ze
Zeal.
Zenith.
Zephyr.
Zero.
Zest.
4 February 2012: Zi
Zigzag.
Zip/Zipper.
5 February 2012: Zo
Zodiac.
Zone.
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Zeal.
Zenith.
Zephyr.
Zero.
Zest.
4 February 2012: Zi
Zigzag.
Zip/Zipper.
5 February 2012: Zo
Zodiac.
Zone.
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Index: By Word - W
Oct. 1st, 2012 12:18 am2 November 2011: Wa
Wade.
Waft.
Wage.
Wager.
Wail.
Waist.
Wait.
Wake/Woke: See Awake/Awoke.
Walk.
Wall.
Wallet.
Wallpaper.
Walnut.
Waltz.
Wan.
Wand.
Wander.
Wane.
Want.
Wanton.
War.
Warble.
Ward/Warden/Warder.
Warehouse.
Warm.
Warn.
Warp.
Warrior.
Wary.
Wash.
Wasp.
Waste.
Wasteland.
Watch.
Watchman.
Water.
Waterfall.
Watt.
Wave.
Waver.
Wax.
Way.
Wayward.
3 November 2011: We
Weak.
Wealth.
Weapon.
Wear.
Wear Out/Worn Out/Outwear.
Weary.
Weasel.
Weather.
Weave/Wove.
Web.
Wed.
Wedge.
Weed.
Week.
Weep.
Weft.
Weigh.
Weight.
Weightless.
Weird.
Welcome
Weld.
Well.
Went.
West.
West Wind.
Wet.
4 November 2011: Wh
Whale.
Whatever.
Wheat.
Wheel.
Whenever.
Wherein.
Whereon.
Wherever.
Whet.
Whether.
Whim.
Whip.
Whippoorwill.
Whirl.
Whirlpool.
Whirlwind.
Whiskey.
Whisper.
Whistle.
White.
White-Hot.
Whittle.
Whole.
5 November 2011: Wi
Wick/Candlewick.
Wicked.
Wide.
Widow.
Wield.
Wife.
Wild.
Wildcat.
Wilderness.
Wildfire.
Wildflower.
Wildwood.
Wilful/Willful.
Will (noun, adjective).
Willing.
Willow.
Wilt.
Win/Won.
Wind (noun).
Wind (verb).
Wind-Blown.
Windless.
Windmill.
Window.
Windowsill/Sill.
Wind-Swept.
Windy.
Wine.
Wing.
Wink.
Winnow.
Winter.
Wipe.
Wire.
Wisdom.
Wise.
Wish.
Wisp.
Wisteria.
Wistful.
Wit/Outwit.
Witch.
Witchcraft.
Withdraw.
Wither.
Withhold.
Within.
Without.
Withstand/Withstood.
Witness.
Wizard.
6 November 2011: Wo
Woe.
Wolf.
Woman/Women.
Wonder.
Wondrous.
Woo.
Wood/Woods.
Wooden.
Woodland.
Woodpecker.
Woof.
Wool.
Word.
Wordless.
Wore/Worn.
Work.
World.
Worm.
Wormhole.
Wormwood.
Worn Out: See Wear Out/Worn Out/Outwear.
Worry.
Worse/Worst.
Worship.
Worth.
Worthless.
Worthy.
Wound (Injury).
7 November 2011: Wr
Wrack.
Wraith.
Wrangle.
Wrap.
Wrath.
Wreath.
Wreck.
Wreckage.
Wren.
Wrench.
Wrest.
Wrestle.
Wretch.
Wring/Wrung.
Wrinkle.
Wrist.
Write.
Writhe.
Wrong.
Wrought.
Wry.
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Wade.
Waft.
Wage.
Wager.
Wail.
Waist.
Wait.
Wake/Woke: See Awake/Awoke.
Walk.
Wall.
Wallet.
Wallpaper.
Walnut.
Waltz.
Wan.
Wand.
Wander.
Wane.
Want.
Wanton.
War.
Warble.
Ward/Warden/Warder.
Warehouse.
Warm.
Warn.
Warp.
Warrior.
Wary.
Wash.
Wasp.
Waste.
Wasteland.
Watch.
Watchman.
Water.
Waterfall.
Watt.
Wave.
Waver.
Wax.
Way.
Wayward.
3 November 2011: We
Weak.
Wealth.
Weapon.
Wear.
Wear Out/Worn Out/Outwear.
Weary.
Weasel.
Weather.
Weave/Wove.
Web.
Wed.
Wedge.
Weed.
Week.
Weep.
Weft.
Weigh.
Weight.
Weightless.
Weird.
Welcome
Weld.
Well.
Went.
West.
West Wind.
Wet.
4 November 2011: Wh
Whale.
Whatever.
Wheat.
Wheel.
Whenever.
Wherein.
Whereon.
Wherever.
Whet.
Whether.
Whim.
Whip.
Whippoorwill.
Whirl.
Whirlpool.
Whirlwind.
Whiskey.
Whisper.
Whistle.
White.
White-Hot.
Whittle.
Whole.
5 November 2011: Wi
Wick/Candlewick.
Wicked.
Wide.
Widow.
Wield.
Wife.
Wild.
Wildcat.
Wilderness.
Wildfire.
Wildflower.
Wildwood.
Wilful/Willful.
Will (noun, adjective).
Willing.
Willow.
Wilt.
Win/Won.
Wind (noun).
Wind (verb).
Wind-Blown.
Windless.
Windmill.
Window.
Windowsill/Sill.
Wind-Swept.
Windy.
Wine.
Wing.
Wink.
Winnow.
Winter.
Wipe.
Wire.
Wisdom.
Wise.
Wish.
Wisp.
Wisteria.
Wistful.
Wit/Outwit.
Witch.
Witchcraft.
Withdraw.
Wither.
Withhold.
Within.
Without.
Withstand/Withstood.
Witness.
Wizard.
6 November 2011: Wo
Woe.
Wolf.
Woman/Women.
Wonder.
Wondrous.
Woo.
Wood/Woods.
Wooden.
Woodland.
Woodpecker.
Woof.
Wool.
Word.
Wordless.
Wore/Worn.
Work.
World.
Worm.
Wormhole.
Wormwood.
Worn Out: See Wear Out/Worn Out/Outwear.
Worry.
Worse/Worst.
Worship.
Worth.
Worthless.
Worthy.
Wound (Injury).
7 November 2011: Wr
Wrack.
Wraith.
Wrangle.
Wrap.
Wrath.
Wreath.
Wreck.
Wreckage.
Wren.
Wrench.
Wrest.
Wrestle.
Wretch.
Wring/Wrung.
Wrinkle.
Wrist.
Write.
Writhe.
Wrong.
Wrought.
Wry.
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Index: By Word - V
Oct. 1st, 2012 12:16 am2 October 2011: Va
Vacancy.
Vacant/Vacate.
Vacuum.
Vagabond.
Vagrant.
Vague.
Vain.
Vale.
Valiant.
Valley.
Valor/Valour.
Value.
Vampire.
Van.
Vanish.
Vanity.
Vanquish.
Vapor.
Variation.
Variety.
Various.
Vary/Variable.
Vase.
Vassal.
Vast.
Vault.
3 October 2011: Ve
Vector.
Veer.
Vegetables.
Veil.
Vein.
Velocity.
Velvet.
Vengeance.
Vengful.
Venom.
Venture.
Venus.
Verb.
Verdant.
Verdict.
Verge.
Vermilion/Vermillion.
Vermin.
Verse.
Version.
Vertebrae.
Vertical.
Vesper.
Vessel.
Vest.
Vex.
4 October 2011: Vi
Vial.
Vibrant.
Vibrate.
Vibration.
Vice.
Vicious.
Victim.
Victor.
Victory.
View.
Vigil.
Vigilance/Vigilant.
Vile.
Village.
Villain.
Vindicate.
Vine.
Vinegar.
Vineyard.
Vintage.
Viol.
Violate.
Violence/Violent.
Violet (color and flower).
Violin.
Viper.
Virtue.
Visible.
Vision.
Visionary.
Visit.
Vista.
Vital.
Vivid.
5 October 2011: Vo
Vocabulary.
Vocal.
Vodka.
Voice.
Voiceless.
Void.
Volcano.
Volume.
Voluntary/Volunteer.
Vortex.
Vow.
Vowel.
Voyage.
6 October 2011: Vu
Vulgar.
Vulnerable/Invulnerable.
Vulture.
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Vacancy.
Vacant/Vacate.
Vacuum.
Vagabond.
Vagrant.
Vague.
Vain.
Vale.
Valiant.
Valley.
Valor/Valour.
Value.
Vampire.
Van.
Vanish.
Vanity.
Vanquish.
Vapor.
Variation.
Variety.
Various.
Vary/Variable.
Vase.
Vassal.
Vast.
Vault.
3 October 2011: Ve
Vector.
Veer.
Vegetables.
Veil.
Vein.
Velocity.
Velvet.
Vengeance.
Vengful.
Venom.
Venture.
Venus.
Verb.
Verdant.
Verdict.
Verge.
Vermilion/Vermillion.
Vermin.
Verse.
Version.
Vertebrae.
Vertical.
Vesper.
Vessel.
Vest.
Vex.
4 October 2011: Vi
Vial.
Vibrant.
Vibrate.
Vibration.
Vice.
Vicious.
Victim.
Victor.
Victory.
View.
Vigil.
Vigilance/Vigilant.
Vile.
Village.
Villain.
Vindicate.
Vine.
Vinegar.
Vineyard.
Vintage.
Viol.
Violate.
Violence/Violent.
Violet (color and flower).
Violin.
Viper.
Virtue.
Visible.
Vision.
Visionary.
Visit.
Vista.
Vital.
Vivid.
5 October 2011: Vo
Vocabulary.
Vocal.
Vodka.
Voice.
Voiceless.
Void.
Volcano.
Volume.
Voluntary/Volunteer.
Vortex.
Vow.
Vowel.
Voyage.
6 October 2011: Vu
Vulgar.
Vulnerable/Invulnerable.
Vulture.
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Index: By Word - U
Oct. 1st, 2012 12:13 am13 September 2011: Ul
Ultimate.
Ultraviolet.
14 September 2011: Um
Umber.
Umbrella.
15 September 2011: Un
Note: For words with the prefix 'un-', please also check the root word. I only split them when there are at least five snippets each. I am not consistent about the See: [other word] entries anywhere, but these are a particular tangle.
Unable.
Unafraid.
Unasked.
Unaware.
Unbearable.
Unbend/Unbent.
Unbidden.
Unblessed.
Unborn.
Unbound.
Unbroken.
Uncertain.
Unchanged/Changeless.
Uncharted.
Unclaimed: See Claim.
Unconquered/Unconquerable.
Unconscious.
Undaunted: See Daunt/Undaunted.
Undecided: See Decide.
Under.
Undercurrent: See Current.
Underfoot.
Underground.
Underneath.
Underside.
Understand/Understood.
Undertake/Undertaker.
Undertow.
Underwater.
Underworld.
Undisclosed: See Disclose.
Undo/Undone.
Undress.
Undulate/Undulant.
Undying.
Unearthly.
Unending/Unended.
Uneven.
Unexpected.
Unfaltering.
Unfamiliar.
Unfathomable/Unfathomed.
Unfinished.
Unfold.
Unforgotten/Unforgettable.
Unfulfilled.
Unfurl.
Unhappy/Unhappiness.
Unheard.
Unheeded/Unheeding.
Unholy.
Unicorn.
Unimaginable/Unimagined.
Union.
Unique.
Unison.
Unite/Unity.
Universal.
Universe.
Unkind.
Unknown.
Unleash.
Unless.
Unlike/Unlikely.
Unlit.
Unlock.
Unmade/Unmake.
Unmarked.
Unnamed.
Unnoticed.
Unnumbered.
Unquenchable/Unquenched.
Unquiet.
Unravel.
Unremembered/Unremembering.
Unrest.
Unroll.
Unruly.
Unsaid.
Unsatisfied.
Unscathed: See Scathe/Unscathed.
Unseeing/Unseen.
Unsought.
Unspent.
Unspoken.
Unstable.
Unsung.
Untamed.
Until/Till.
Untold.
Untouched.
Untroubled.
Unusual/Usual.
Unveil.
Unwearied.
Unwilling.
Unwind.
Unworthy.
Unwrap.
Unwritten.
Unyielding.
17 September 2011: Up
Up.
Uphold/Upheld.
Uplift.
Upon.
Upright.
Uprise.
Uproot.
Upside Down.
Upward.
19 September 2011: Ur
Urge.
Urgent/Urgency.
Urn.
20 September 2011: Us
Use.
Useful.
Useless.
Usual: See Unusual.
Usurp.
21 September 2011: Ut
Utmost/Uttermost.
Utter.
Utterance.
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Ultimate.
Ultraviolet.
14 September 2011: Um
Umber.
Umbrella.
15 September 2011: Un
Note: For words with the prefix 'un-', please also check the root word. I only split them when there are at least five snippets each. I am not consistent about the See: [other word] entries anywhere, but these are a particular tangle.
Unable.
Unafraid.
Unasked.
Unaware.
Unbearable.
Unbend/Unbent.
Unbidden.
Unblessed.
Unborn.
Unbound.
Unbroken.
Uncertain.
Unchanged/Changeless.
Uncharted.
Unclaimed: See Claim.
Unconquered/Unconquerable.
Unconscious.
Undaunted: See Daunt/Undaunted.
Undecided: See Decide.
Under.
Undercurrent: See Current.
Underfoot.
Underground.
Underneath.
Underside.
Understand/Understood.
Undertake/Undertaker.
Undertow.
Underwater.
Underworld.
Undisclosed: See Disclose.
Undo/Undone.
Undress.
Undulate/Undulant.
Undying.
Unearthly.
Unending/Unended.
Uneven.
Unexpected.
Unfaltering.
Unfamiliar.
Unfathomable/Unfathomed.
Unfinished.
Unfold.
Unforgotten/Unforgettable.
Unfulfilled.
Unfurl.
Unhappy/Unhappiness.
Unheard.
Unheeded/Unheeding.
Unholy.
Unicorn.
Unimaginable/Unimagined.
Union.
Unique.
Unison.
Unite/Unity.
Universal.
Universe.
Unkind.
Unknown.
Unleash.
Unless.
Unlike/Unlikely.
Unlit.
Unlock.
Unmade/Unmake.
Unmarked.
Unnamed.
Unnoticed.
Unnumbered.
Unquenchable/Unquenched.
Unquiet.
Unravel.
Unremembered/Unremembering.
Unrest.
Unroll.
Unruly.
Unsaid.
Unsatisfied.
Unscathed: See Scathe/Unscathed.
Unseeing/Unseen.
Unsought.
Unspent.
Unspoken.
Unstable.
Unsung.
Untamed.
Until/Till.
Untold.
Untouched.
Untroubled.
Unusual/Usual.
Unveil.
Unwearied.
Unwilling.
Unwind.
Unworthy.
Unwrap.
Unwritten.
Unyielding.
17 September 2011: Up
Up.
Uphold/Upheld.
Uplift.
Upon.
Upright.
Uprise.
Uproot.
Upside Down.
Upward.
19 September 2011: Ur
Urge.
Urgent/Urgency.
Urn.
20 September 2011: Us
Use.
Useful.
Useless.
Usual: See Unusual.
Usurp.
21 September 2011: Ut
Utmost/Uttermost.
Utter.
Utterance.
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Index: By Word - Y
Oct. 1st, 2012 12:08 am2 January 2012: Ya
Yard.
Yarn.
Yarrow.
Yawn.
3 January 2012: Ye
Year.
Yearn.
Yeast.
Yellow.
Yesterday.
Yet.
Yew.
4 January 2012: Yi
Yield.
5 January 2012: Yo
Yoke.
Yonder.
Young.
Yourself/Yourselves.
Youth.
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Yard.
Yarn.
Yarrow.
Yawn.
3 January 2012: Ye
Year.
Yearn.
Yeast.
Yellow.
Yesterday.
Yet.
Yew.
4 January 2012: Yi
Yield.
5 January 2012: Yo
Yoke.
Yonder.
Young.
Yourself/Yourselves.
Youth.
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Ammunition:
Dirt's ammunition against discipline - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"
Wrapped in ammunition staircases - Valzhyna Mort "Guest"
Armor.
Armory:
All the weapons of Hell's armoury - Maurice Baring "August, 1918"
Arrow.
Artillery:
Not all his dread artillery could breach - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
The tempest's artillery rolled - Hannah Flagg Gould "The Butterfly's Dream"
Axe.
Barb.
Battery:
Confront the battery's jaws of flame - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Bayonet.
Blade.
Bludgeon:
Bludgeons of light to force your seams - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"
Bomb.
Bomber:
Where the grey bombers loose their metal thunder - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Boomerang:
A boomerang flung from your throat - Lauren K. Alleyne "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"
Table tops zinging with boomerangs - Jenny Johnson "In the Dream"
Bow.
Bowstring:
Hangs by a bowstring from heaven's vault - Andy Miller "Diana"
Bullets.
Cannon.
Casque: see Helm/Helmet.
Catapult:
Fiery metamorphosed catapault - Daisy Aldan "Vertical Is Our New Sight"
The catapult from bad to everlasting - Carly Inghram "Last Night I Saw a Boat Just as it Was Exiting My Purview"
A child of some wild catapult - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
All of life catapulted into one day - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"
Club:
Club and shield eternally raised - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
Melt from clubs to hearts to doorsteps - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"
From clubs to hearts to doorsteps - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Corslet:
With lance, with corslet, casque and sword - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Prepare your corslet, spear and shield - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Crosshair:
how you hold a cottonmouth in a crosshair - C.T. Salazar "River"
Cutlass:
Under the cutlass of her tongue - Shivanee Ramlochan "Witch Hindu"
Dagger.
Dart.
Gauntlet.
Grenade:
Civilization's slow grenade - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Had turned into beds for grenades and shells and shrapnel - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"
In her nest a lone grenade - Safiya Sinclair "A Bell, Still Unrung"
Gun.
Gunpowder.
Haft:
A starbeam on the dagger's haft - Don Marquis "Sea Changes III: Moonset"
Hand Cannon:
Wild cat with a hand cannon - Andre F. Peltier "At the Grave of Little Sadie"
Harpoon:
Harpoon barbs and arrow points - Theo Nicole Lorenz "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn"
Hatchet.
Helm/Helmet.
Hilt:
My hilt lies broken in pieces three - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Crimson velvet and a diamond-hilted sword - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"
Javelin.
Knife/Knives.
Lance.
Landmines:
Through a tunnel of kid gloves and landmines - Fady Joudah "The Poem as Epiphyte"
Landmines in the garden bed - John McCarthy "Planting"
Mace:
Fate stuns as with a mace - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
Machete:
With sharp machete eyes - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"
Machine-Gun:
Playing cards with machine guns - Mary Jo Bang "Ghost and Grays"
Machine-guns, tapping a code in Morse - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Of the piano and machine gun - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
Missile:
When rain falls like cold missiles - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
A missile's flight away - Jess Hyslop "After"
a wire picking up missiles on the strip - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"
A missile from Orion's belt - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
Mushroom Cloud:
Mushroom clouds cluster along the crimson horizon - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
Musket:
Who bears the sword and handles the musket - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Muzzle:
Under the lightning's muzzle fire - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Pike:
Hung around with pikes and guns and bows - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
A field of spears, a lake of pikes, a sky of hawks, a hundred winters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
Pistol:
A pistol tucked into a stranger's belt - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"
From a seaborn eternity to a pistol crack - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Pocketknife:
The pocketknife seducing the orange - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Bordercrosser's Pillowbook"
Your pocketknife rage and love - Michael Lauchlan "Dad and I, in a Snap"
Rapier:
With a silver rapier by my side - anonymous? "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men"
To give that rapier lightning turn - Mona Gould "Sung in High Dudgeon!"
And the stars are rapier keen - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Rifle.
Rocket.
Saber/Sabre:
Flashed with a sabre's azure gleam - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"
The black iris with their sabered blooms - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
Of votive goods and sabred fugitives - Seamus Heaney "Kinship"
Hide the sabre's hideous glare - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Scabbard:
As the swords ran out of their scabbards - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Ribosomes in the scabbard of their maker - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"
A sword in a scabbard of meteors - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Scimitar:
A few stiff branches covered with scimitar thorns - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"
Scythe.
Sheath.
Shotgun:
Into chrome and sun and shotgun confection - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Electric fences and silos and shotguns - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"
kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"
Shrapnel.
Sling/Slung.
Spear.
Spike:
Spikes in the hostile night - Pablo Neruda "Commoners from Socorro (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Sten:
From gas and protest to gelignite and sten - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"
Stiletto:
The magnificent extravagance of my beloved stilettos - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Submarine:
Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Sword.
Target.
Throwing Star:
Throwing stars and fortune tellers - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"
Torpedo:
Torpedoes of disinterest - Kay Ryan "Don't Look Back"
Trident:
The trident-flame of the mind fails - Stephen Vincent Benet "Sir John Rimbeck to the Princess of Acre"
Trigger:
Allowing the thought to stray the trigger - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
concealing an infinity of hairtrigger malice - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"
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Dirt's ammunition against discipline - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"
Wrapped in ammunition staircases - Valzhyna Mort "Guest"
Armor.
Armory:
All the weapons of Hell's armoury - Maurice Baring "August, 1918"
Arrow.
Artillery:
Not all his dread artillery could breach - Flaccus "Religious Controversy" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)
The tempest's artillery rolled - Hannah Flagg Gould "The Butterfly's Dream"
Axe.
Barb.
Battery:
Confront the battery's jaws of flame - Sir Walter Scott "The Field of Waterloo"
Bayonet.
Blade.
Bludgeon:
Bludgeons of light to force your seams - May Swenson "After the Flight of Ranger 17"
Bomb.
Bomber:
Where the grey bombers loose their metal thunder - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Boomerang:
A boomerang flung from your throat - Lauren K. Alleyne "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"
Table tops zinging with boomerangs - Jenny Johnson "In the Dream"
Bow.
Bowstring:
Hangs by a bowstring from heaven's vault - Andy Miller "Diana"
Bullets.
Cannon.
Casque: see Helm/Helmet.
Catapult:
Fiery metamorphosed catapault - Daisy Aldan "Vertical Is Our New Sight"
The catapult from bad to everlasting - Carly Inghram "Last Night I Saw a Boat Just as it Was Exiting My Purview"
A child of some wild catapult - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
All of life catapulted into one day - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "A Light to Do Shellwork By"
Club:
Club and shield eternally raised - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
Melt from clubs to hearts to doorsteps - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"
From clubs to hearts to doorsteps - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Corslet:
With lance, with corslet, casque and sword - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
Prepare your corslet, spear and shield - Humphrey Gifford "For Soldiers"
Crosshair:
how you hold a cottonmouth in a crosshair - C.T. Salazar "River"
Cutlass:
Under the cutlass of her tongue - Shivanee Ramlochan "Witch Hindu"
Dagger.
Dart.
Gauntlet.
Grenade:
Civilization's slow grenade - Jesus Castillo "Untitled"
Had turned into beds for grenades and shells and shrapnel - Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto "In One Sentence"
In her nest a lone grenade - Safiya Sinclair "A Bell, Still Unrung"
Gun.
Gunpowder.
Haft:
A starbeam on the dagger's haft - Don Marquis "Sea Changes III: Moonset"
Hand Cannon:
Wild cat with a hand cannon - Andre F. Peltier "At the Grave of Little Sadie"
Harpoon:
Harpoon barbs and arrow points - Theo Nicole Lorenz "Steve Irwin and the Unicorn"
Hatchet.
Helm/Helmet.
Hilt:
My hilt lies broken in pieces three - "The Avenging Sword" transl. by E.M. Smith-Dampier
Crimson velvet and a diamond-hilted sword - John Masefield "The Tarry Buccaneer"
Javelin.
Knife/Knives.
Lance.
Landmines:
Through a tunnel of kid gloves and landmines - Fady Joudah "The Poem as Epiphyte"
Landmines in the garden bed - John McCarthy "Planting"
Mace:
Fate stuns as with a mace - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"
Machete:
With sharp machete eyes - Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie "Forced Entry"
Machine-Gun:
Playing cards with machine guns - Mary Jo Bang "Ghost and Grays"
Machine-guns, tapping a code in Morse - E.W. Hornung "The Ballad of Ensign Joy"
Of the piano and machine gun - Jack Ridl "American Suite for a Lost Daughter"
Missile:
When rain falls like cold missiles - Anthony Butts "The Landscape for Growth"
A missile's flight away - Jess Hyslop "After"
a wire picking up missiles on the strip - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"
A missile from Orion's belt - Herbert Randall "Plymouth Rock"
Mushroom Cloud:
Mushroom clouds cluster along the crimson horizon - S.R. Tombran "A Time Traveler's Field Notes"
Musket:
Who bears the sword and handles the musket - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Muzzle:
Under the lightning's muzzle fire - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Pike:
Hung around with pikes and guns and bows - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
A field of spears, a lake of pikes, a sky of hawks, a hundred winters - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "gorse"
Pistol:
A pistol tucked into a stranger's belt - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"
From a seaborn eternity to a pistol crack - Agnes Nemes Nagy "Storm" transl. by Laura Schiff
Pocketknife:
The pocketknife seducing the orange - Rigoberto Gonzalez "The Bordercrosser's Pillowbook"
Your pocketknife rage and love - Michael Lauchlan "Dad and I, in a Snap"
Rapier:
With a silver rapier by my side - anonymous? "The Famous Flower of Serving-Men"
To give that rapier lightning turn - Mona Gould "Sung in High Dudgeon!"
And the stars are rapier keen - Robert W. Service "The Atavist"
Rifle.
Rocket.
Saber/Sabre:
Flashed with a sabre's azure gleam - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips"
The black iris with their sabered blooms - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"
Of votive goods and sabred fugitives - Seamus Heaney "Kinship"
Hide the sabre's hideous glare - Helen Maria Williams "An Ode on the Peace"
Scabbard:
As the swords ran out of their scabbards - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Vision of Helen"
Ribosomes in the scabbard of their maker - Gospel Chinedu "In a Tissue Processing Class the Lecturer Tells the Biafra War Through the Lenses of a Microscope"
A sword in a scabbard of meteors - Pablo Neruda "From Air to Air" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Scimitar:
A few stiff branches covered with scimitar thorns - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"
Scythe.
Sheath.
Shotgun:
Into chrome and sun and shotgun confection - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Electric fences and silos and shotguns - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"
kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"
Shrapnel.
Sling/Slung.
Spear.
Spike:
Spikes in the hostile night - Pablo Neruda "Commoners from Socorro (1781)" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Sten:
From gas and protest to gelignite and sten - Seamus Heaney "Whatever You Say Say Nothing"
Stiletto:
The magnificent extravagance of my beloved stilettos - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Submarine:
Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Sword.
Target.
Throwing Star:
Throwing stars and fortune tellers - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"
Torpedo:
Torpedoes of disinterest - Kay Ryan "Don't Look Back"
Trident:
The trident-flame of the mind fails - Stephen Vincent Benet "Sir John Rimbeck to the Princess of Acre"
Trigger:
Allowing the thought to stray the trigger - Luisa A. Igloria "Custody"
concealing an infinity of hairtrigger malice - Monica Youn "A Guide to Usage: Mine"
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Aug. 23rd, 2012 03:47 amAcid Rain:
Elegant as marble in acid rain - Zaina Alsous "Reading Darwish in Vermont"
Acid rain from a sky the color of cinders - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"
Seeding our clouds with acid rain - Edgar Kunz "Squatters"
Effaced from marble by acid rain - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"
Aeolian:
Touched aeolian dulcimers - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Blizzard.
Bluster.
Boreal/Boreas.
Breeze.
Chinook:
Until February's first chinook - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"
Climate/Clime.
Cloud.
Cloudless.
Cumulous:
Piercing the flesh of cumulous dragons - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"
Domes of coral cumulus - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Our Homeland"
Cyclone.
Deluge.
Dew.
Downpour.
Drizzle.
Drought.
Dust Devil:
A sudden dust devil spirals in - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"
A dust devil gathering wind - Tyree Daye "The Death of Jimmy as the Dog He Always Was"
East Wind.
Flurry:
A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"
A flurry of notes from Mozart - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"
Fog.
Forecast:
A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"
Frost.
Gale.
Gust.
Hail.
Hailstorm:
Underneath a hailstorm of light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
Haze/Hazy.
Headwind:
A steady cold channel of headwind - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Heat Wave:
The apples that blossom during a February heat wave - Sarah Freligh "In this Poem, We Will Not Glorify Sunrise"
Hoarfrost:
Hoarfrost sliding its palms across fields - Judy Patterson Wenzel "School Nights at the Farm"
Humid:
Dragons breathing white-hot magnesium across humid skies - Ian Goh "Firework"
Sit in humid acknowledgment of rage - Carly Inghram "Disappearing into a Fiction"
Like death in humid air - Walter Dean Myers "Bill Cash, 30, Boxer"
Passing over humid continents - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Bees" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Hurricane.
Jet-Stream:
Jet-streams of oxygen spun like pinwheels - Ian Goh "Firework"
Levin:
The chariot wheels of burning levin - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'" ['Levin' is an archaic term for 'lightning']
Sharp levin leaping in the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
The levin's blighting fire comes - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"
The javelin of the far-ravening levin - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Lightning.
Low-Pressure System:
A low-pressure system in the abdomen - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"
Meteorology:
Looked to meteorologists for explanations - Stephen Dunn "Moon Song"
Mist.
Monsoon.
Muggy:
Muggy marshes & thick forests of the mind - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
Night-Wind.
North Wind.
Overcast.
Petrichor:
leaves petrichor as aftertaste - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"
Rain.
Rainbow.
Rainwater:
Fishing in a pool of rainwater - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"
Sandstorm:
A sandstorm whispering in the joints - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
Fleeing sandstorms, terror, and splendor - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
The shoreline baked in golden sandstorms - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
Sheet-Lightning:
Hail blazing in sheet-lightning - H.D. "Simaetha"
With your sheet-lightning apprehension - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"
Shower.
Sirocco:
These the Siroc could not melt - Ralph Waldo Emerson (uncredited) "The Test" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Sleet.
Smog:
A smog that becomes a wraith - Carmen Gimenez "Post-Identity"
Snow.
Snowfall:
Stepping light as snowfall - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"
Snowflake.
Snowstorm.
South Wind.
Squall:
End credits after the squall - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"
Among wild squalls of banded clouds - Georgia Heard "Room of Science"
The stronger for the squall - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"
Storm.
Storm-Cell:
Hunt a storm-cell's shifting edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
Stormcloud.
Temperature.
Tempest.
Thunder.
Thunderclap.
Thunderhead:
Thunderheads like doomed zeppelins - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"
Thunderstorm.
Tornado.
Torrid:
Where torrid suns the mountains burn - Lennox Amott "Ah, Hast Thou Gone?"
Tropic/Tropical.
Typhoon:
Hooked to a typhoon's tail - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Weather.
West Wind.
Whirlwind.
Whiteout:
The whiteout of a spring blizzard - J. Mae Barizo "Indeterminacy"
Whatever unannounced whiteout blizzard hits our blood - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"
A spark crystal in a whiteout - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Wind.
Windless.
Windsock:
A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Wind Storm:
Forests of wind storms newly risen - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"
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Elegant as marble in acid rain - Zaina Alsous "Reading Darwish in Vermont"
Acid rain from a sky the color of cinders - Brian Hugenbruch "Worlds I Didn't Hear"
Seeding our clouds with acid rain - Edgar Kunz "Squatters"
Effaced from marble by acid rain - Mark Wunderlich "My Local Dead"
Aeolian:
Touched aeolian dulcimers - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Blizzard.
Bluster.
Boreal/Boreas.
Breeze.
Chinook:
Until February's first chinook - Chris Dombrowski "Stubborn Poem"
Climate/Clime.
Cloud.
Cloudless.
Cumulous:
Piercing the flesh of cumulous dragons - Zilka Joseph "Three Notes to Blue Jays"
Domes of coral cumulus - Sidney Royse Lysaght "Our Homeland"
Cyclone.
Deluge.
Dew.
Downpour.
Drizzle.
Drought.
Dust Devil:
A sudden dust devil spirals in - Timothy Donnelly "The Night Ship"
A dust devil gathering wind - Tyree Daye "The Death of Jimmy as the Dog He Always Was"
East Wind.
Flurry:
A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"
A flurry of notes from Mozart - R.T. Smith "Hardware Sparrows"
Fog.
Forecast:
A flurry of coronaries in the overnight forecast - Mike Allen "Mrs. Rigsby's Fatecast"
Frost.
Gale.
Gust.
Hail.
Hailstorm:
Underneath a hailstorm of light - Charles Rafferty "After Hearing There Are Only 7,000 Stars Visible to the Naked Eye"
Haze/Hazy.
Headwind:
A steady cold channel of headwind - Anne Carson "Wife of Brain"
Heat Wave:
The apples that blossom during a February heat wave - Sarah Freligh "In this Poem, We Will Not Glorify Sunrise"
Hoarfrost:
Hoarfrost sliding its palms across fields - Judy Patterson Wenzel "School Nights at the Farm"
Humid:
Dragons breathing white-hot magnesium across humid skies - Ian Goh "Firework"
Sit in humid acknowledgment of rage - Carly Inghram "Disappearing into a Fiction"
Like death in humid air - Walter Dean Myers "Bill Cash, 30, Boxer"
Passing over humid continents - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Bees" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden
Hurricane.
Jet-Stream:
Jet-streams of oxygen spun like pinwheels - Ian Goh "Firework"
Levin:
The chariot wheels of burning levin - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'" ['Levin' is an archaic term for 'lightning']
Sharp levin leaping in the north - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
The levin's blighting fire comes - Miss L. Virginia Smith "The Reconciliation"
The javelin of the far-ravening levin - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Lightning.
Low-Pressure System:
A low-pressure system in the abdomen - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "LA Police Chief Daryl Gates Dead at 83"
Meteorology:
Looked to meteorologists for explanations - Stephen Dunn "Moon Song"
Mist.
Monsoon.
Muggy:
Muggy marshes & thick forests of the mind - Adrian Matejka "Central Avenue Beach"
Night-Wind.
North Wind.
Overcast.
Petrichor:
leaves petrichor as aftertaste - Nnadi Samuel "Someday, I Identify as a Prairie"
Rain.
Rainbow.
Rainwater:
Fishing in a pool of rainwater - R. Zamora Linmark "On Silence"
Sandstorm:
A sandstorm whispering in the joints - Samuel A. Adeyemi "Limbs"
Fleeing sandstorms, terror, and splendor - Enheduana "The Exaltation of Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
The shoreline baked in golden sandstorms - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
Sheet-Lightning:
Hail blazing in sheet-lightning - H.D. "Simaetha"
With your sheet-lightning apprehension - Adrienne Rich "Noctilucent Clouds"
Shower.
Sirocco:
These the Siroc could not melt - Ralph Waldo Emerson (uncredited) "The Test" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.39, Jan. 1861]
Sleet.
Smog:
A smog that becomes a wraith - Carmen Gimenez "Post-Identity"
Snow.
Snowfall:
Stepping light as snowfall - Emily van Kley "Ways to Hunt Deer"
Snowflake.
Snowstorm.
South Wind.
Squall:
End credits after the squall - Jaswinder Bolina "Municipal Vistas"
Among wild squalls of banded clouds - Georgia Heard "Room of Science"
The stronger for the squall - Charles Bertram Johnson "Serenity"
Storm.
Storm-Cell:
Hunt a storm-cell's shifting edge - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
Stormcloud.
Temperature.
Tempest.
Thunder.
Thunderclap.
Thunderhead:
Thunderheads like doomed zeppelins - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"
Thunderstorm.
Tornado.
Torrid:
Where torrid suns the mountains burn - Lennox Amott "Ah, Hast Thou Gone?"
Tropic/Tropical.
Typhoon:
Hooked to a typhoon's tail - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Weather.
West Wind.
Whirlwind.
Whiteout:
The whiteout of a spring blizzard - J. Mae Barizo "Indeterminacy"
Whatever unannounced whiteout blizzard hits our blood - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"
A spark crystal in a whiteout - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Wind.
Windless.
Windsock:
A silk windsock of snow blowing - Linda Pastan "Blizzard"
Wind Storm:
Forests of wind storms newly risen - tiana nobile "Moon Yeong Shin"
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Potential Titles: Vehicles [category]
Aug. 22nd, 2012 03:27 pmPotential Titles: Machine/Device Parts [category].
Airplane:
Five paper airplanes poking at turned dirt - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"
My thoughts catch rides with passing airplanes - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "My First Love"
Aeroplanes and paper darts - Furnley Maurice "The Shadow Show"
last sky will empty itself of airplanes - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
Airship:
The sky is waiting for an airship - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"
Watch the smooth airships of Zen - Tony Hoagland "Upward"
Ambulance:
Holding only the echoes of ambulance screams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Argosy:
Where shifting winds were driving his argosies - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"
Some outward voyaging argosy - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"
Argosies of earth their treasures bear - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"
Ark.
Armada.
Automobile:
Driving a cardboard automobile - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Far Rockaway of the Heart, 2"
Backhoe:
Of backhoes awakening each morning - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"
Balloon.
Barge.
Barque/Bark (boat).
Battle-Cruiser:
Ghosts of sleeping battle-cruisers - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
Battleship:
Rimmed round by steel-built battleships - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"
Bicycle:
Precarious choreography of bicycles - Safia Elhillo "Amsterdam"
Riding a bicycle towards the ceiling - John Yau "Music from Childhood"
Boat.
Bomber:
Where the grey bombers loose their metal thunder - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Bulldozer:
Past bulldozers and trucks pouring tarmac - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
Bus.
Cab: See Taxi/Taxicab.
Caboose:
Like cabooses ready to decouple - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"
Glide next to a forgotten caboose - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"
Canoe:
To canoe over Niagara Falls and live - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"
Finds in our canoe no room - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Across the crease of smooth canoes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
Car.
Caravan.
Caravel:
I would understand the caravel of my childhood - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Carousel.
Carriage:
Kites and owls screech at the carriage yoke - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
No carriage goes that does not follow the rut - Wang Seng-Ta "To Match the Prince of Lang-yeh's Poem in the Old Style" transl. by Burton Watson
Cart.
Chariot.
Coach:
Just departed in the sun's bright coach - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Convoy:
A convoy of suspended shadows - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Corsair:
Every lover is a corsair seeking glory - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
Dirigible:
Gilded aerialists in their giant dirigibles - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Dreadnought:
The foeman's dreadnoughts ride - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"
Old maid or dreadnought - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"
This dreadnought wreck cut loose - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Eighteen Wheeler:
The first one to an eighteen-wheeler accident - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: III"
Exit ramps lined with eighteen wheelers - Richard Jones "Rest"
Ferris wheel:
A Ferris Wheel in winter - Lou Barrett "Coney Island Afternoon"
Ferris wheel with tickets for sale - Stephanie Heit "Solar Eclipse"
Went down to the ferris wheel - Brenda Hillman "Sediments of Santa Monica"
Ferry.
Flatbed [Truck]:
A fast-driving diesel flatbed of felled trees - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Fleet.
Freight Train:
Of freight trains lacking finesse - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
And stars a freight train passing - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [This beauty that I see]"
Into the crease the freight train hits - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"
Frigate:
Deep in the bilges of frigates - David Tomas Martinez "The Mechanics of Men"
High carrion frigates - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"
Galleon:
A galleon on the caustic waters - William Brewer "Resolution"
Cloud-galleons with their sails of rose and snow - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"
Every galleon of the air - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"
Galley.
Go-Cart:
Their meteor go-cart running on a firecracker - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Gondola:
The boat-yard of the last gondola maker - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
My soul is a sleeping gondola - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"
Hearse:
Trailed a white hearse - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXII"
Hearses carrying the corpse of profit - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"
From our hearse of changing dust - Joshua Henry Jones "The Universe"
Helicopter:
When the helicopters shred the sky - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
The covert jackaling of helicopters and jets - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Hybrid.
Ice Cream Truck:
The ice cream truck's jingle warped and blaring - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
Jet.
Locomotive:
What fills a tunnel after a locomotive passes - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"
Locomotives and other forgettings - Sandy Florian "House"
With its alphabetical locomotives - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
Locomotive running off the rails - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"
Merry-Go-Round:
Somebody counts the merry-go-rounds inside - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"
On our spherical, miracle merry-go-round - Allan Wolf "The Sun Did Not Go Down Today"
Navy:
Where the gallant navy rides the deep - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Reckoning up their navies - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Pinnace:
Love's pinnace overfraught - John Donne "Air and Angels"
The pinnace needs a swifter sail - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"
Plague Ship:
Bring this plague ship to port - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Pushcart:
A pushcart heaped beyond possibility - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Raft.
Rail/Railroad.
Rocket.
Roller Coaster:
This forest of drowned roller coasters - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"
Rowboat:
A toy dog left on a rowboat adrift - Mary Jo Bang "Today You're the Still Photographer"
Ship.
Skiff:
a skiff of snow in the new week - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"
An exile in a self-made skiff - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"
Snowplow:
Snowplow pushes time across the prairie - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
Snowplows etch lines in the whiteness - Sue Budin "After the Blizzard"
Squadron.
Submarine:
Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Subway.
Taxi/Taxicab.
Tractor:
Beyond the knives of a tractor - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"
A tractor skirting a green triangle - Mary Jo Bang "Children Were Erasing Their Faces"
slung from tractor factories - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"
A rusty tractor sits fallow in the field - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
Train.
Tram:
Leave the tram-car's jarring jangle - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Trawler:
Fishnets trawling stars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7
Skirted the rocks and wrecked trawlers - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"
Truck.
Van.
Vehicle:
All the vehicles for imbibing - Brandon D. Johnson "Standing by a Shelf"
My body is just a vehicle to move me - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #39"
A cumbersome dream vehicle - Elizabeth Spires "The Snowy Day"
Vessel.
Warship:
His throne's the war-ship's lofty deck - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
The sun's great warship - A.E. Stallings "On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia"
Wheelbarrow:
When William Carlos' red wheelbarrow transforms - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [William Carlos Williams]
The wheelbarrow wept to the willows - Furnley Maurice "The Concert in the Garden"
A jar of coffee and a wheelbarrow - Frank Stanford "Sunday Flowers"
Zeppelin:
Thunderheads like doomed zeppelins - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"
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Airplane:
Five paper airplanes poking at turned dirt - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"
My thoughts catch rides with passing airplanes - Joshua Jennifer Espinoza "My First Love"
Aeroplanes and paper darts - Furnley Maurice "The Shadow Show"
last sky will empty itself of airplanes - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi "Last Sky World Burn"
Airship:
The sky is waiting for an airship - Monica de la Torre "Poem in Spanish"
Watch the smooth airships of Zen - Tony Hoagland "Upward"
Ambulance:
Holding only the echoes of ambulance screams - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Argosy:
Where shifting winds were driving his argosies - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Late Summer"
Some outward voyaging argosy - Oscar Wilde "Her Voice"
Argosies of earth their treasures bear - Huldah Lucile Winsted "North Dakota--Past and Present"
Ark.
Armada.
Automobile:
Driving a cardboard automobile - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Far Rockaway of the Heart, 2"
Backhoe:
Of backhoes awakening each morning - Colleen J. McElroy "The Lost Breath of Trees"
Balloon.
Barge.
Barque/Bark (boat).
Battle-Cruiser:
Ghosts of sleeping battle-cruisers - Max Eastman "Coming to Port"
Battleship:
Rimmed round by steel-built battleships - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"
Bicycle:
Precarious choreography of bicycles - Safia Elhillo "Amsterdam"
Riding a bicycle towards the ceiling - John Yau "Music from Childhood"
Boat.
Bomber:
Where the grey bombers loose their metal thunder - Ruth Lechlitner "Night in August"
Bulldozer:
Past bulldozers and trucks pouring tarmac - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"
Bus.
Cab: See Taxi/Taxicab.
Caboose:
Like cabooses ready to decouple - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"
Glide next to a forgotten caboose - Joseph Rios "For Henry's Bar"
Canoe:
To canoe over Niagara Falls and live - Denise Duhamel "Exquisite Candidate"
Finds in our canoe no room - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Across the crease of smooth canoes - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Tuccenen N"
Car.
Caravan.
Caravel:
I would understand the caravel of my childhood - William Archila "Three Minutes with Mingus"
Carousel.
Carriage:
Kites and owls screech at the carriage yoke - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson
No carriage goes that does not follow the rut - Wang Seng-Ta "To Match the Prince of Lang-yeh's Poem in the Old Style" transl. by Burton Watson
Cart.
Chariot.
Coach:
Just departed in the sun's bright coach - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Convoy:
A convoy of suspended shadows - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Corsair:
Every lover is a corsair seeking glory - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
Dirigible:
Gilded aerialists in their giant dirigibles - Caitriona O'Reilly "The Airship Era"
Dreadnought:
The foeman's dreadnoughts ride - Don Marquis "With the Submarines"
Old maid or dreadnought - Kiki Petrosino "Doubloon Oath"
This dreadnought wreck cut loose - Adrienne Rich "Midnight Salvage"
Eighteen Wheeler:
The first one to an eighteen-wheeler accident - John Gallaher "In a Landscape: III"
Exit ramps lined with eighteen wheelers - Richard Jones "Rest"
Ferris wheel:
A Ferris Wheel in winter - Lou Barrett "Coney Island Afternoon"
Ferris wheel with tickets for sale - Stephanie Heit "Solar Eclipse"
Went down to the ferris wheel - Brenda Hillman "Sediments of Santa Monica"
Ferry.
Flatbed [Truck]:
A fast-driving diesel flatbed of felled trees - Nickole Brown "Black bird, red wing"
Fleet.
Freight Train:
Of freight trains lacking finesse - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"
And stars a freight train passing - James Marcus Schuyler "Poem [This beauty that I see]"
Into the crease the freight train hits - Jake Adam York "Letter Already Broadcast into Space"
Frigate:
Deep in the bilges of frigates - David Tomas Martinez "The Mechanics of Men"
High carrion frigates - Derek Walcott "The Whelk Gatherers"
Galleon:
A galleon on the caustic waters - William Brewer "Resolution"
Cloud-galleons with their sails of rose and snow - Alfred Noyes "The Hill-Flowers"
Every galleon of the air - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Summer Rain"
Galley.
Go-Cart:
Their meteor go-cart running on a firecracker - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Gondola:
The boat-yard of the last gondola maker - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
My soul is a sleeping gondola - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"
Hearse:
Trailed a white hearse - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat LXII"
Hearses carrying the corpse of profit - Brenda Hillman "Lines for the 19th Amendment Centennial"
From our hearse of changing dust - Joshua Henry Jones "The Universe"
Helicopter:
When the helicopters shred the sky - Angela Liu "Dow Jones Dream"
The covert jackaling of helicopters and jets - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Hybrid.
Ice Cream Truck:
The ice cream truck's jingle warped and blaring - L.D. Lewis "Young Death Is in Love"
Jet.
Locomotive:
What fills a tunnel after a locomotive passes - Stephen Dunn "The Unsaid"
Locomotives and other forgettings - Sandy Florian "House"
With its alphabetical locomotives - Sandy Florian "Our Big City"
Locomotive running off the rails - Cynthia Zarin "Anxiety"
Merry-Go-Round:
Somebody counts the merry-go-rounds inside - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"
On our spherical, miracle merry-go-round - Allan Wolf "The Sun Did Not Go Down Today"
Navy:
Where the gallant navy rides the deep - James Beattie "The Triumph of Melancholy"
Reckoning up their navies - Emily Lawless "Wide Is the Shannon"
Pinnace:
Love's pinnace overfraught - John Donne "Air and Angels"
The pinnace needs a swifter sail - Margaret Widdemer "A New Spinning Song"
Plague Ship:
Bring this plague ship to port - Lisa M. Bradley "Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas Lost at Sea, 1527"
Pushcart:
A pushcart heaped beyond possibility - John Ciardi "Abundance"
Raft.
Rail/Railroad.
Rocket.
Roller Coaster:
This forest of drowned roller coasters - Terry Blackhawk "At the National Gallery of Art: Memorial View"
Rowboat:
A toy dog left on a rowboat adrift - Mary Jo Bang "Today You're the Still Photographer"
Ship.
Skiff:
a skiff of snow in the new week - Pattie McCarthy "outgoing tide--"
An exile in a self-made skiff - Diane Seuss "Nature, Which Cannot Be Driven To"
Snowplow:
Snowplow pushes time across the prairie - Mary Jo Bang "Four Boxes of Everything"
Snowplows etch lines in the whiteness - Sue Budin "After the Blizzard"
Squadron.
Submarine:
Khrushchev took a crystal submarine down - Catherynne M. Valente "Aquaman and the Duality of Self/Other, America, 1985"
Subway.
Taxi/Taxicab.
Tractor:
Beyond the knives of a tractor - Taneum Bambrick "Driving to Cadiz"
A tractor skirting a green triangle - Mary Jo Bang "Children Were Erasing Their Faces"
slung from tractor factories - Canisia Lubrin "The World After Rain"
A rusty tractor sits fallow in the field - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"
Train.
Tram:
Leave the tram-car's jarring jangle - William Hodgson Ellis "Maskinogewagaming"
Trawler:
Fishnets trawling stars - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 7
Skirted the rocks and wrecked trawlers - Patrick Philips "Elegy with Oil in the Bilge"
Truck.
Van.
Vehicle:
All the vehicles for imbibing - Brandon D. Johnson "Standing by a Shelf"
My body is just a vehicle to move me - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #39"
A cumbersome dream vehicle - Elizabeth Spires "The Snowy Day"
Vessel.
Warship:
His throne's the war-ship's lofty deck - Allan Cunningham "The British Sailor's Song" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.288, supplementary number, 1828]
The sun's great warship - A.E. Stallings "On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia"
Wheelbarrow:
When William Carlos' red wheelbarrow transforms - G. O. Clark "American Poetry 101 Mashup" [William Carlos Williams]
The wheelbarrow wept to the willows - Furnley Maurice "The Concert in the Garden"
A jar of coffee and a wheelbarrow - Frank Stanford "Sunday Flowers"
Zeppelin:
Thunderheads like doomed zeppelins - Carl Phillips "Character Being a Different Thing from Beauty, Describe the Difference"
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Autumn.
Fall (all versions).
Midsummer.
Months, days of the week, and holidays by name.
Solstice.
Spring.
Springtime.
Summer.
Winter.
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Fall (all versions).
Midsummer.
Months, days of the week, and holidays by name.
Solstice.
Spring.
Springtime.
Summer.
Winter.
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See Potential Titles: Rocks [category] for more normal rock adjacent words.
Agate.
Amber.
Amethyst.
Aquamarine:
Staring into aquamarine and amethyst - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Aquamarine Pisces gems for eyes - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
Angled slats of aquamarine - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Beryl.
Carbuncle:
Windows of agates, and gates of carbuncles - Frances E.W. Harper "The Building"
Carnelian:
A branch of carnelian to serve as food - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Lands of lapis and red carnelian - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
A lamina of coral and carnelian - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
Chalcedony:
Paved with copper and chalcedony - Richard Aldington "On a Motor-Bus at Night"
Burnished like chalcedony - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Scene"
Chrysolite:
Girt by a colonnade of crysolite - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Citrine:
Irradiated with citrine moonglow - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Crystal.
Diamond.
Emerald.
Garnet:
Unanswered red garnet - Hoa Nguyen "Overseas Vietnamese"
That dark garnet of a husband - Kiki Petrosino "Prospera"
each new days i show my garnet arms - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
A garnet stone to match my gift - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Gem.
Jade/Jaded.
Jasper.
Jet.
Jewel.
Lapis:
Concealing a lapiz lode of heart - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"
Lands of lapis and red carnelian - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
A mesh of moonrock's lapis soup - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
A sea-gull of lapis lazuli - Marianne Moore "Talisman"
Malachite.
Moonstone.
Obsidian.
Onyx.
Opal.
Peridot:
Dazzling as a piece of raw peridot - Richard Scott "Peridot"
Lime cordial, molten peridot - Richard Scott "Peridot"
To recover some peridot shard - Richard Scott "Peridot"
Quartz.
Rock.
Rhinestone:
A backdrop of black velvet and rhinestones - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"
Rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"
Good and bad like rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Rhodonite:
One flame in a glow of green-veined rhodonite - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
Ruby.
Sapphire.
Soapstone:
Uprooting soapstone and jade - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Stone.
Tigereye:
A tigereye banded five kinds of gold - Maggie Smith "Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
Topaz.
Tourmaline:
To lay tourmalines and tinted glass - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"
In an hour colored tourmaline - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"
Tourmaline to smooth my tongue - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Turquoise.
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Agate.
Amber.
Amethyst.
Aquamarine:
Staring into aquamarine and amethyst - Kinsale Drake "Rebuke//Spell"
Aquamarine Pisces gems for eyes - Denise Dumars "The Golem"
Angled slats of aquamarine - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
Beryl.
Carbuncle:
Windows of agates, and gates of carbuncles - Frances E.W. Harper "The Building"
Carnelian:
A branch of carnelian to serve as food - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Lands of lapis and red carnelian - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
A lamina of coral and carnelian - Jacqueline Osherow "Inspiration Point, Bryce Canyon, Utah"
Chalcedony:
Paved with copper and chalcedony - Richard Aldington "On a Motor-Bus at Night"
Burnished like chalcedony - Clinton Scollard "A Sea Scene"
Chrysolite:
Girt by a colonnade of crysolite - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]
Citrine:
Irradiated with citrine moonglow - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"
Crystal.
Diamond.
Emerald.
Garnet:
Unanswered red garnet - Hoa Nguyen "Overseas Vietnamese"
That dark garnet of a husband - Kiki Petrosino "Prospera"
each new days i show my garnet arms - Ojo Taiye "Elegiac: Unfinished Draft of Hauwa Liman's Humanitarian Work"
A garnet stone to match my gift - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson
Gem.
Jade/Jaded.
Jasper.
Jet.
Jewel.
Lapis:
Concealing a lapiz lode of heart - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"
Lands of lapis and red carnelian - Enheduana "The Hymn to Inana" transl. by Sophus Helle
A mesh of moonrock's lapis soup - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
A sea-gull of lapis lazuli - Marianne Moore "Talisman"
Malachite.
Moonstone.
Obsidian.
Onyx.
Opal.
Peridot:
Dazzling as a piece of raw peridot - Richard Scott "Peridot"
Lime cordial, molten peridot - Richard Scott "Peridot"
To recover some peridot shard - Richard Scott "Peridot"
Quartz.
Rock.
Rhinestone:
A backdrop of black velvet and rhinestones - John Gallaher "And the Moon on Its Stem Will Steal You Away"
Rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You A Good Witch"
Good and bad like rhinestones dressing up inevitability - Marisca Pichette "Are You a Good Witch"
Rhodonite:
One flame in a glow of green-veined rhodonite - Richard Butler Glaenzer "Star-Magic"
Ruby.
Sapphire.
Soapstone:
Uprooting soapstone and jade - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"
Stone.
Tigereye:
A tigereye banded five kinds of gold - Maggie Smith "Poem Beginning with a Line from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
Topaz.
Tourmaline:
To lay tourmalines and tinted glass - Leah Bobet "Full Fathom Five"
In an hour colored tourmaline - Saeed Jones "Hour Between Dog & Wolf"
Tourmaline to smooth my tongue - R.B. Lemberg "Long Shadow"
Turquoise.
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Potential Titles: Metals [Category]
Aug. 13th, 2012 10:47 pmSome 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.
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
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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.
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
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Anthem.
Antiphon:
In the antiphony of afterglow and rising full moon - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
Diverse as Hell's mad antiphone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Aria.
Ballad.
Birdsong.
Blues.
Canticle:
Can still evoke the canticles of rage - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"
The echo and whine of a canticle - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"
Uplifts their voice in canticle to moon and sun - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
My intimate canticles of praise - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"
Carol:
Where the gray linnets carol - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
Ascend in ceaseless carol - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LII"
The wren upon the tree-stump carolled - John Masefield "The Return"
Chant.
Chantey:
Our island sang four chanteys - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"
Concert:
As of dogs that howl in concert - Lewis Carroll "Hiawatha's Photographing"
In concerts of harmonious joy - William Somerville "The Chase"
Cryptic concert in their wake - May Swenson "Three Jet Planes"
Under the concerted stare of stars - Adolf Wolff "Byron"
Concerto:
A concerto's saddest oboe - Erin Belieu "As for the Heart"
Dirge.
Disco:
In the forgotten astronomies of disco - Adrian Matejka "Map to the Stars"
Duet:
Singing duets with the roses - Katherine Edgren "Unheard Melody"
A shadowy duet of parsimony and elegance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Etude:
From the solitary etudes of the soul - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
Fanfare.
Fugue.
Hip-Hop:
Street-smart hip-hop of starling song - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "starling"
Hornpipe:
With a hornpipe in its heels - Herbert Randall "Off"
Hosanna:
Reluctant hosannas - Patricia Smith "Building Nicole's Mama"
The willow's chartreuse hosannas - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"
Hymn.
Jazz.
Jig.
Jingle.
Knell.
Lament.
Litany.
Lullaby.
Lyric.
Madrigal:
Startling the wood bird's madrigal - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"
Spill mirth in tangled madrigals - Don Marquis "October"
Mambo:
My aunts danced the mambo - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman
Medley:
A dreary medley of weary days - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
In a medley of tongues - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: The Men-Made Gods"
Melody.
Muzak:
An untuned harmonium that Muzaks our nights and days - Charles Wright "Music for Midsummer's Eve"
Nocturne:
A nocturne of toxic manufacture - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Compose a nocturne of cinders - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Obbligato/Obligato:
Have heard the junkman's obbligato - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
A short obligato of curses - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
Ode:
Made grand odes of tempest - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"
Where the country has an ode's jagged edges - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"
Opera.
Overture:
Dreamed through half my overture - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Made to it an invertebrate overture - Aditi Machado "then"
Prelude:
The prelude of approaching storms - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Psalm.
Rag-Time:
Make our rag-time banjo hum - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
Whistling ragtime against the sunsets - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"
Recital:
Practicing our recitals of silence - Claire Millikin "Antique Doll"
Refrain.
Requiem.
Rhapsody:
The rhapsodic seep and spray of sea grasses - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
Sang rhapsodies on an old banjo - Richard Solomon "How Nightmares Began"
The scarlet rhapsodies and beryl-cold sonatas - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"
The wind a wordless rhapsody - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: The Gardens" transl. by Alma Strettell
Serenade:
Serenades us with explosive flares - Sue Budin "Totality"
As they serenade the ghosts of our adversaries - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
And serenade you at dawn and dusk - Aziz Isa Elkun "The Spring Bird" transl. by author
Solo:
Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
My heart does a solo - Willie Perdomo "Hustler's Song"
Who can play a solo symphony - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 33 1/3"
Sonata:
Sonatas from the throats of master birds - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
The scarlet rhapsodies and beryl-cold sonatas - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"
Turning bones into sonatas - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"
Song.
Soundtrack:
How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
Symphony.
Tango:
No tango in its Rorschach - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Self"
Tango in the hot, ochered light - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"
Te Deum:
Sing a blasphemous Te Deum - Iris Tree "[You pass as in a drugged delirium]"
Threnody:
Who march to a weird threnody - Ardelia Maria Barton "Life's Music"
Bridges without a trace of threnody - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Replied in threnodies through bones - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
Who wove their threnody with foot & flute - Ann K. Schwader "The Winds of Sesqua Valley"
Toccata:
Breaks into chaos toccatas & fugues - Richard Solomon "Writing Itself"
Tocsin:
Strokes of tocsin and assassin's knife - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Torch Song:
Singing the torch song of the amnesiac - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"
The glass key of a torch song - John Wieners "Forthcoming"
Tune.
Verse.
Waltz.
Work-Song:
The work-song of the early bees - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
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Antiphon:
In the antiphony of afterglow and rising full moon - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"
Diverse as Hell's mad antiphone - Clark Ashton Smith "The Star Treader"
Aria.
Ballad.
Birdsong.
Blues.
Canticle:
Can still evoke the canticles of rage - Bruce Boston "The Canticles of Rage"
The echo and whine of a canticle - Laura Cranehill "We Let You Live"
Uplifts their voice in canticle to moon and sun - Mary Soon Lee "Aubade from the After Days"
My intimate canticles of praise - Theodore Maynard "Gratitude"
Carol:
Where the gray linnets carol - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"
Ascend in ceaseless carol - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life LII"
The wren upon the tree-stump carolled - John Masefield "The Return"
Chant.
Chantey:
Our island sang four chanteys - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: Ebb"
Concert:
As of dogs that howl in concert - Lewis Carroll "Hiawatha's Photographing"
In concerts of harmonious joy - William Somerville "The Chase"
Cryptic concert in their wake - May Swenson "Three Jet Planes"
Under the concerted stare of stars - Adolf Wolff "Byron"
Concerto:
A concerto's saddest oboe - Erin Belieu "As for the Heart"
Dirge.
Disco:
In the forgotten astronomies of disco - Adrian Matejka "Map to the Stars"
Duet:
Singing duets with the roses - Katherine Edgren "Unheard Melody"
A shadowy duet of parsimony and elegance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Etude:
From the solitary etudes of the soul - Alberto Rios "On Gathering Artists"
Fanfare.
Fugue.
Hip-Hop:
Street-smart hip-hop of starling song - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "starling"
Hornpipe:
With a hornpipe in its heels - Herbert Randall "Off"
Hosanna:
Reluctant hosannas - Patricia Smith "Building Nicole's Mama"
The willow's chartreuse hosannas - Richard Solomon "After Reading the Love Songs of Vidyapati"
Hymn.
Jazz.
Jig.
Jingle.
Knell.
Lament.
Litany.
Lullaby.
Lyric.
Madrigal:
Startling the wood bird's madrigal - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"
Spill mirth in tangled madrigals - Don Marquis "October"
Mambo:
My aunts danced the mambo - Jaime Manrique "Mambo" transl. by Edith Grossman
Medley:
A dreary medley of weary days - Cora C. Bass "Thoughts of You"
In a medley of tongues - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: The Men-Made Gods"
Melody.
Muzak:
An untuned harmonium that Muzaks our nights and days - Charles Wright "Music for Midsummer's Eve"
Nocturne:
A nocturne of toxic manufacture - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Compose a nocturne of cinders - Jamaal May "A Brief History of Hostility"
Obbligato/Obligato:
Have heard the junkman's obbligato - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
A short obligato of curses - Frank E. Smedley "Maude Allinghame: A Legend of Hertforshire"
Ode:
Made grand odes of tempest - Louis Golding "The Singer of High State"
Where the country has an ode's jagged edges - J.D. McClatchy "A Winter Without Snow"
Opera.
Overture:
Dreamed through half my overture - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"
Made to it an invertebrate overture - Aditi Machado "then"
Prelude:
The prelude of approaching storms - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Psalm.
Rag-Time:
Make our rag-time banjo hum - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
Whistling ragtime against the sunsets - Carl Sandburg "The Windy City"
Recital:
Practicing our recitals of silence - Claire Millikin "Antique Doll"
Refrain.
Requiem.
Rhapsody:
The rhapsodic seep and spray of sea grasses - Philip Schultz "Luxury: One"
Sang rhapsodies on an old banjo - Richard Solomon "How Nightmares Began"
The scarlet rhapsodies and beryl-cold sonatas - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"
The wind a wordless rhapsody - Emile Verhaeren "Les Apparus dans mes Chemins: The Gardens" transl. by Alma Strettell
Serenade:
Serenades us with explosive flares - Sue Budin "Totality"
As they serenade the ghosts of our adversaries - Woody Dismukes "A Conversation Between the Embalmed Heads of Lampião and Maria Bonita on Public Display at the Baiano State Forensic Institute, Circa Mid-20th Century"
And serenade you at dawn and dusk - Aziz Isa Elkun "The Spring Bird" transl. by author
Solo:
Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
My heart does a solo - Willie Perdomo "Hustler's Song"
Who can play a solo symphony - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 33 1/3"
Sonata:
Sonatas from the throats of master birds - Lola Ridge "Under-Song"
The scarlet rhapsodies and beryl-cold sonatas - Iris Tree "[O faces that look so coldly at me]"
Turning bones into sonatas - Ocean Vuong "Queen Under the Hill"
Song.
Soundtrack:
How it needs a good soundtrack - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"
Symphony.
Tango:
No tango in its Rorschach - Jaswinder Bolina "Portrait of the Self"
Tango in the hot, ochered light - Hailey Leithauser "O, She Says"
Te Deum:
Sing a blasphemous Te Deum - Iris Tree "[You pass as in a drugged delirium]"
Threnody:
Who march to a weird threnody - Ardelia Maria Barton "Life's Music"
Bridges without a trace of threnody - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"
Replied in threnodies through bones - Ann K. Schwader "Finale, Act Two"
Who wove their threnody with foot & flute - Ann K. Schwader "The Winds of Sesqua Valley"
Toccata:
Breaks into chaos toccatas & fugues - Richard Solomon "Writing Itself"
Tocsin:
Strokes of tocsin and assassin's knife - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Rope-Maker" transl. by Alma Strettell
Torch Song:
Singing the torch song of the amnesiac - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"
The glass key of a torch song - John Wieners "Forthcoming"
Tune.
Verse.
Waltz.
Work-Song:
The work-song of the early bees - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"
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Adagio:
The adagio echoes in that whitewashed cave - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
Amplify:
Insistence, amplification of - Douglas Kearney "The Irregular and/or Anti- and Ante- Regulative"
Arpeggio:
Wading love's amber arpeggios - Terry Blackhawk "Sonny Rollins and the redemptive handrail"
An arpeggio climbing the ladder of sky - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
The invisible arpeggio of a hummingbird's wing - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
Arrhythmic:
While one temple pulses an arrhythmic lament - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Backbeat:
The backbeat of a world of great machines - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"
Cadence.
Cassette:
Suitcases full of spices and cassettes - Hala Alyan "The Female of the Species"
Chord.
Crescendo.
Croon.
Dance.
Descant:
Their amorous descant join - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"
To drink in all thy bold descant - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Diapason.
Discord.
Dissonance:
The dissonance of unbridled wind - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Three"
E-Flat:
The e-flat clarinet chases time - Joan Larkin "The Combo"
Encore:
Still he writes an encore - Cintia Santana "apocalyptic lyric"
The floating notes of festival encores - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Glissando:
That otherworldly moaning glissando - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"
Half-note:
Half-note in the flood - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 1"
Harmonics:
The witchcraft of harmonic sound - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
Plucked entirely in harmonics - Hoa Nguyen "Learning the Dan Bau"
Harmony.
Jingle.
Major:
Danced into your warm major chords and velvet vibrato - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
Metronome.
Minor.
Minor-key:
Lost and missed in minor-key pentameter - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"
Music.
Note.
Octave.
Off-Key:
Played the makings of a masterpiece off-key - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"
Percussion:
Whistle a melody against the percussion - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"
Playlist:
A playlist that unfolded across her decades - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"
Quarter Note:
All burning in the quarter notes - Stephen Kuusisto "Essay on November"
Rhyme.
Rhythm.
Riff:
Another riff about the now of then - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Sing/Sang/Sung.
Sound.
Staccato:
Repeat their joyous, staccato syllables - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Singing"
Piping in silvery thin sweet staccato - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Strum.
Tempo:
Over the dream of a collective tempo - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"
Thrum:
Thrumming in spacious forever - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
The thrumming wilderness of self - Donika Kelly "Out West"
A resonance of thrumming spruce - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"
Timbre:
The hollow timbre of any submerged god - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew
Treble:
Treble circumstance must confirm the verdict - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"
The treble of the rills - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"
Nets a flustered treble note - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Trill.
Tune.
Vibrato:
Danced into your warm major chords and velvet vibrato - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
A unanimous vibrato of frogs - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Warble.
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The adagio echoes in that whitewashed cave - Alexandra Lytton Regalado "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
Amplify:
Insistence, amplification of - Douglas Kearney "The Irregular and/or Anti- and Ante- Regulative"
Arpeggio:
Wading love's amber arpeggios - Terry Blackhawk "Sonny Rollins and the redemptive handrail"
An arpeggio climbing the ladder of sky - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
The invisible arpeggio of a hummingbird's wing - Kiki Petrosino "The Wish"
Arrhythmic:
While one temple pulses an arrhythmic lament - Teri Ellen Cross Davis "Migraines have their say"
Backbeat:
The backbeat of a world of great machines - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"
Cadence.
Cassette:
Suitcases full of spices and cassettes - Hala Alyan "The Female of the Species"
Chord.
Crescendo.
Croon.
Dance.
Descant:
Their amorous descant join - Thomas Gray "On the Death of Richard West"
To drink in all thy bold descant - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"
Diapason.
Discord.
Dissonance:
The dissonance of unbridled wind - Philip Schultz "Luxury: Three"
E-Flat:
The e-flat clarinet chases time - Joan Larkin "The Combo"
Encore:
Still he writes an encore - Cintia Santana "apocalyptic lyric"
The floating notes of festival encores - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"
Glissando:
That otherworldly moaning glissando - Daniel Zeiders "Tornado Sirens"
Half-note:
Half-note in the flood - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Hvmken 1"
Harmonics:
The witchcraft of harmonic sound - W.H.C. Hosmer "The Might of Song"
Plucked entirely in harmonics - Hoa Nguyen "Learning the Dan Bau"
Harmony.
Jingle.
Major:
Danced into your warm major chords and velvet vibrato - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
Metronome.
Minor.
Minor-key:
Lost and missed in minor-key pentameter - Debra Allbery "Sidereal"
Music.
Note.
Octave.
Off-Key:
Played the makings of a masterpiece off-key - Emily Ruth Verona "A Shiva"
Percussion:
Whistle a melody against the percussion - Rachelle Cruz "Aswang Paces Outside of Kaiser Permanente Hospital"
Playlist:
A playlist that unfolded across her decades - Yee Heng Yeh "Song"
Quarter Note:
All burning in the quarter notes - Stephen Kuusisto "Essay on November"
Rhyme.
Rhythm.
Riff:
Another riff about the now of then - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Sing/Sang/Sung.
Sound.
Staccato:
Repeat their joyous, staccato syllables - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Singing"
Piping in silvery thin sweet staccato - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Strum.
Tempo:
Over the dream of a collective tempo - Diane Mehta "Gala Noise"
Thrum:
Thrumming in spacious forever - Adam Fell "Sorry I Don't Feel Like Talking About Golf Today"
The thrumming wilderness of self - Donika Kelly "Out West"
A resonance of thrumming spruce - Kiki Petrosino "Vigil"
Timbre:
The hollow timbre of any submerged god - Jamaal May "Letter to Matthew
Treble:
Treble circumstance must confirm the verdict - Countee Cullen "To My Fairer Brethren"
The treble of the rills - John Greenleaf Whittier "The Pipes at Lucknow"
Nets a flustered treble note - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"
Trill.
Tune.
Vibrato:
Danced into your warm major chords and velvet vibrato - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "Ave Maria"
A unanimous vibrato of frogs - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Warble.
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As always, broadly defined.
Alto:
One alto note of joy is gone - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"
Bagpipe:
Who pours out his soul through the bagpipes - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
And omened bagpipe screaming - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Band.
Banjo:
Make our rag-time banjo hum - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
Sang rhapsodies on an old banjo - Richard Solomon "How Nightmares Began"
Bard.
Baritone:
Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
Remember the ram's horn baritone - Brandon Som "Resistors"
Bass:
Distorted trumpet, torn bass line - Carl Adamshick "New year's morning"
Bass tremors of a memory - Julie Babcock "Bright Light"
The fly's bass turned a lion's roar - John Clare "I Hid My Love"
Bassoon:
noon the implacable bassoon - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
With his deep bassoon chimes in the frog - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Bell.
Big Band:
In the mote that made the big band bang - Mike Allen "Pulse"
Bugle.
Calliope:
The gaudy calliope of the mind - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"
Blowing a calliope of promises - Conrad Hilberry "Four Kentucky Poems: Rivers"
To keep the calliope of dreams from sounding - Kiki Petrosino "Young"
Castanet:
Castanets from a jukebox we couldn't see - Edgar Kunz "Tuning"
Cello:
The song of a cello played by flame - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
A cello forgiving one note as it goes - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"
When cellos shoulder the tune - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Chime.
Choir/Chorus.
Clarinet:
The last note of a clarinet - fahima ife "means of evasion"
The e-flat clarinet chases time - Joan Larkin "The Combo"
The music of rum and a sad clarinet - Alden Nowlen "The Last Waltz"
Clarion.
Contralto:
Vibrating like a dusty contralto - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
A hundred thousand pure contraltos - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Cymbal:
The shallow sound of cymbal-stroke - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
In the wild thyme crash cymbals - Louis Golding "Shepherd Singing Ragtime"
Drum.
Dulcimer:
Touched aeolian dulcimers - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Jealous of that dulcimer - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"
Fiddle.
Flute.
French Horn:
Through the spiral of a French horn - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"
Gong:
The cuckoos beat their brazen gongs - John Davidson "Down-a-down"
The echoing song of a coppery gong - Edward Lear "The Jumblies"
And smite horizons like a gong - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Grand Piano:
A grand piano balancing on the tip of a fishhook - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Guitar.
Harmonica:
Informed by a faint harmonica grieving - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Poetry housed in a harmonica - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"
Harmonium:
An untuned harmonium that Muzaks our nights and days - Charles Wright "Music for Midsummer's Eve"
Harp.
Harpsicord:
the harpsichord of dead lovers - Frank Stanford "The Mind Reader"
Horn.
Hornpipe:
With a hornpipe in its heels - Herbert Randall "Off"
Instrument.
Jukebox:
Punched the saddest numbers on the jukebox - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"
Castanets from a jukebox we couldn't see - Edgar Kunz "Tuning"
Watch your heart like a jukebox - Frank Stanford "The Visitors of Night"
Need a jukebox for a throat - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Kazoo:
Covering Beowulf's greatest hits on your tin kazoo - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Kettle-Drum:
We shall know by the kettle-drums - R.L. Gales "Waiting for the Kings"
All the merry kettle-drums - John Masefield "Cavalier"
Lute.
Lyre.
Mandolin:
Lulled by a jester's mandolin - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"
Minstrel.
Oboe:
A concerto's saddest oboe - Erin Belieu "As for the Heart"
As the oboe lights the pure torch - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Orchestra/Orchestrate.
Organ.
Pan-Pipe:
My own bouts of pan-pipe sickness - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"
Pennywhistle:
A siren song turned pennywhistle - Cynthia Zarin "Ouija Board"
Piano.
Pipe.
Saxophone.
Siren.
Sleigh-Bell:
Ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"
Soprano:
Her soprano spare and sharp in the night air - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
A line of melody sings soprano - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"
Tambourine.
Tenor:
Accompany the sympathy with a tenor of all tomorrows - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
The waters boom like tenor bells - Theodore Maynard "Blindness"
Heard the tenor voice of grief - Thomas O'Hagan "The Song My Mother Sings"
The particular nature and tenor of the energy - Diane Seuss "Poetry"
Timbale:
Loud timbales and drums blasting down - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"
Trombone:
They play a trombone in my heart - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
In the trombone slide of history - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"
memories tromboned in a confluence of breaths - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"
Like a flute among trombones - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Troubadour:
A troubadour upon the elm - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
The Troubadour's wild song is waking - Felicia Hemans "The Troubadour and Richard Coeur de Lion"
The beauty of clashing troubadours - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
From the mouth of a wax museum troubadour - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"
Trumpet.
Tuba:
Our tubas concerned with what's original - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
Ukulele:
A chorus of trumpets and ukuleles - John McCarthy "On the Day I Left Town"
Torches at the kingdom's ukelele gate - Carol Muske-Dukes "After Skate"
Viol.
Viola:
To revel in the viola and violin - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"
Violin.
Voice.
Whistle.
Wind Chime:
With the trellis heavied by wind chimes - Janine Joseph "The Persistence of Symptoms"
Woodwind:
A woodwind inside the empire of still people - fahima ife "means of evasion"
Xylophone:
A xylophone jingle of the ice - Jaswinder Bolina "Make Believe"
Play a tune on xylophonic ribs - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 8"
Zither:
Zither of chromatic scale - A.E. Stallings "Momentary"
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Alto:
One alto note of joy is gone - Annie Fellows Johnston "October"
Bagpipe:
Who pours out his soul through the bagpipes - Oliver Herford "An Alphabet of Celebrities"
And omened bagpipe screaming - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"
Band.
Banjo:
Make our rag-time banjo hum - George Reginald Margetson "Stanzas from The Fledgling Bard and The Poetry Society"
Sang rhapsodies on an old banjo - Richard Solomon "How Nightmares Began"
Bard.
Baritone:
Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
Remember the ram's horn baritone - Brandon Som "Resistors"
Bass:
Distorted trumpet, torn bass line - Carl Adamshick "New year's morning"
Bass tremors of a memory - Julie Babcock "Bright Light"
The fly's bass turned a lion's roar - John Clare "I Hid My Love"
Bassoon:
noon the implacable bassoon - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"
With his deep bassoon chimes in the frog - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]
Bell.
Big Band:
In the mote that made the big band bang - Mike Allen "Pulse"
Bugle.
Calliope:
The gaudy calliope of the mind - Anthony Butts "All Saints' Day"
Blowing a calliope of promises - Conrad Hilberry "Four Kentucky Poems: Rivers"
To keep the calliope of dreams from sounding - Kiki Petrosino "Young"
Castanet:
Castanets from a jukebox we couldn't see - Edgar Kunz "Tuning"
Cello:
The song of a cello played by flame - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"
A cello forgiving one note as it goes - Jane Hirshfield "Zero Plus Anything Is a World"
When cellos shoulder the tune - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Chime.
Choir/Chorus.
Clarinet:
The last note of a clarinet - fahima ife "means of evasion"
The e-flat clarinet chases time - Joan Larkin "The Combo"
The music of rum and a sad clarinet - Alden Nowlen "The Last Waltz"
Clarion.
Contralto:
Vibrating like a dusty contralto - Linda Susan Jackson "Nailing Things Down"
A hundred thousand pure contraltos - Mary Oliver "Stars"
Cymbal:
The shallow sound of cymbal-stroke - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
In the wild thyme crash cymbals - Louis Golding "Shepherd Singing Ragtime"
Drum.
Dulcimer:
Touched aeolian dulcimers - Sidney Royse Lysaght "The Forest"
Jealous of that dulcimer - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"
Fiddle.
Flute.
French Horn:
Through the spiral of a French horn - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"
Gong:
The cuckoos beat their brazen gongs - John Davidson "Down-a-down"
The echoing song of a coppery gong - Edward Lear "The Jumblies"
And smite horizons like a gong - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"
Grand Piano:
A grand piano balancing on the tip of a fishhook - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"
Guitar.
Harmonica:
Informed by a faint harmonica grieving - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"
Poetry housed in a harmonica - Joseph O. Legaspi "Whom You Love"
Harmonium:
An untuned harmonium that Muzaks our nights and days - Charles Wright "Music for Midsummer's Eve"
Harp.
Harpsicord:
the harpsichord of dead lovers - Frank Stanford "The Mind Reader"
Horn.
Hornpipe:
With a hornpipe in its heels - Herbert Randall "Off"
Instrument.
Jukebox:
Punched the saddest numbers on the jukebox - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"
Castanets from a jukebox we couldn't see - Edgar Kunz "Tuning"
Watch your heart like a jukebox - Frank Stanford "The Visitors of Night"
Need a jukebox for a throat - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Kazoo:
Covering Beowulf's greatest hits on your tin kazoo - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"
Kettle-Drum:
We shall know by the kettle-drums - R.L. Gales "Waiting for the Kings"
All the merry kettle-drums - John Masefield "Cavalier"
Lute.
Lyre.
Mandolin:
Lulled by a jester's mandolin - Iris Tree "[I should like to say to the world]"
Minstrel.
Oboe:
A concerto's saddest oboe - Erin Belieu "As for the Heart"
As the oboe lights the pure torch - A.E. Stallings "Prelude"
Orchestra/Orchestrate.
Organ.
Pan-Pipe:
My own bouts of pan-pipe sickness - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"
Pennywhistle:
A siren song turned pennywhistle - Cynthia Zarin "Ouija Board"
Piano.
Pipe.
Saxophone.
Siren.
Sleigh-Bell:
Ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow - Robert Frost "Hyla Brook"
Soprano:
Her soprano spare and sharp in the night air - Danusha Laméris "Bonfire Opera"
A line of melody sings soprano - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Brussels"
Tambourine.
Tenor:
Accompany the sympathy with a tenor of all tomorrows - Sandy Florian "Phonograph"
The waters boom like tenor bells - Theodore Maynard "Blindness"
Heard the tenor voice of grief - Thomas O'Hagan "The Song My Mother Sings"
The particular nature and tenor of the energy - Diane Seuss "Poetry"
Timbale:
Loud timbales and drums blasting down - Major Jackson "Mighty Pawns"
Trombone:
They play a trombone in my heart - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"
In the trombone slide of history - Kimberly Blaeser "A Quest for Universal Suffrage"
memories tromboned in a confluence of breaths - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"
Like a flute among trombones - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"
Troubadour:
A troubadour upon the elm - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature I"
The Troubadour's wild song is waking - Felicia Hemans "The Troubadour and Richard Coeur de Lion"
The beauty of clashing troubadours - Mari Ness "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon"
From the mouth of a wax museum troubadour - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"
Trumpet.
Tuba:
Our tubas concerned with what's original - Vickie Vertiz "Under the Spell of Conjunto"
Ukulele:
A chorus of trumpets and ukuleles - John McCarthy "On the Day I Left Town"
Torches at the kingdom's ukelele gate - Carol Muske-Dukes "After Skate"
Viol.
Viola:
To revel in the viola and violin - Clive Bell "Letter to a Lady II"
Violin.
Voice.
Whistle.
Wind Chime:
With the trellis heavied by wind chimes - Janine Joseph "The Persistence of Symptoms"
Woodwind:
A woodwind inside the empire of still people - fahima ife "means of evasion"
Xylophone:
A xylophone jingle of the ice - Jaswinder Bolina "Make Believe"
Play a tune on xylophonic ribs - Drew Pisarra "Sonnet 8"
Zither:
Zither of chromatic scale - A.E. Stallings "Momentary"
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Aug. 6th, 2012 03:00 amFood - Herbs & Spices [category].
Almond.
Apple.
Applesauce:
Bargain for a keg of apple-sauce - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Apricot.
Artichoke:
A mortgage statement wrapped around an artichoke - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
The artichoke watches the train - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"
To dig the homely artichoke - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"
An artichoke in six varieties of blue - Marianne Moore "When I Buy Pictures"
Asparagus:
Wander among the silver asparagus - Kiki Petrosino "Afterlife"
Avocado:
Saw my entire history in an avocado seed - Mary Karr "For My Children"
Her forest of planted avocado jars - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
Bacon:
Bring us in no bacon - "Bring Us in Good Ale"
Baklava:
As Twinkies are to baklava - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"
Bean.
Beet:
Beets made into involuntary supports - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
Four beets in a bag - Susan Landers "Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention"
To starve the soil as beets do - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
A bitter taste of beetroot - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"
Biscuit:
Like biscuits in the wind - Calef Brown "Biscuits in the Wind"
Bread.
Breadcrumb:
Feeding breadcrumbs to geese - John James "Sonata"
Broth:
Until the fear was a thin broth you could swallow - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
The ingredients of a witches' broth - Robert Frost "Design"
Dispensing with justice the broth and the bread - A.D.T. Whitney "The Big Shoe"
Brown Sugar:
Brown sugar waves dance through - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"
Bun:
A kiss of mayo & mustard on a whole wheat bun - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Butter.
Butter Beans:
Butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds - Mahogany L. Browne "When Fannie Lou Hamer Said"
Butter Cookie:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Butterscotch:
Unwrapping golden butterscotches - Maggie Smith "Accidental Pastoral"
Cabbage:
The fiery tombstone of a cabbage - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"
Growing cabbages or currant bushes - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"
Cake.
Candy.
Candy Bar:
Got caught stealing a candy bar - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"
Know where candy bars come from - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"
Caramel:
The brown caramel days of youth - Maya Angelou "Faces"
Caramels you pick like berries - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
The dragon orders an iced caramel mocha - Cislyn Smith "Hot"
Carrot:
Two black cats and a beaver who eats carrots all day - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
White crickets and bouquets of wild carrot - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Chess"
Wild carrot taking the field by force - William Carlos Williams "Queen-Ann's-Lace"
Celery:
A city of swamps and celery - Conrad Hilberry "Causation"
Cheese:
Familiar as his cheese and ale - Theodore Maynard "Sight and Insight"
Full of mirth and cheese - "Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House"
Chickpea:
Wide open with chickpeas and ivy - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Chocolate.
Coconut:
Captive of the coconut glade - Angela Manalang-Gloria "Yellow Moon"
Confection:
Into chrome and sun and shotgun confection - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Cookie:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Corn.
Cotton Candy:
Suck cotton candy nebulae through his teeth - Mike Allen "Deluge"
The sky sells cotton candy - Ralph James Savarese "The Bearing Edge"
Cream.
Cress:
In the aftermath of purple cress - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"
In a carpet of starwort and cress - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Crumbs.
Cucumber:
Planted eggplant too close to the cucumbers - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Guess the number of seeds in a cucumber - Dorothy Parker "Parties: A Hymn of Hate"
Dessert:
Two bites of the same dessert - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Address Book of a Lonely Man"
Her theater of absurd desserts - Philip Schultz "Cakes"
Dough:
Filthy hands kneading dough under the cosmos - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"
Egg/Eggshell.
Eggplant:
Planted eggplant too close to the cucumbers - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Cantaloupe and plum, eggplant and olive - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Fast Food:
Born in this cold fast food of a mall of a country - Carmen Bardeguez-Brown "Rican Issues"
Filbert:
A filbert hedge with wild briar overtwined - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Rag-edged as a contorted filbert - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"
Flour.
Food.
Fruit.
Fruit [Category].
Gelatin:
The gelatinous mass controlling this machine - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"
Who plays the gelatin piano - Carsten Rene Nielsen "Night"
Grain/Granary.
Grain [Category].
Grape.
Gumdrop:
The gum-drops grow like cherries - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
A baby lizard gumdrop green - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"
Hard Candy:
mouths like hard candy spitting - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
Horse droppings and hard candy - Maggie Smith "Accidental Pastoral"
Hardtack:
Hardtack and dried lime - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #9"
Hazel-Nut:
Bearing pleasant mead of hazel-nuts - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Honey.
Honeycomb.
Hotdogs:
Between hotdog stands and hallelujahs - Matthew Olzmann "My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency"
Ice Cream.
Icing:
the icing on this flaming trash cake - Eve L. Ewing "eschatology"
Jam:
Raspberries ripened into jam - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
And such sweet jams meticulously jarred - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Jam jars to can this summer sky - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"
Jelly:
Jelly jars tinted with homemade whiskey - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"
Leftover.
Legume:
An ocean of green legumes joining hands - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"
Lemon.
Lentil:
Learned accounting to sort lentils - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"
Better things than picking lentils out of the hearth - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Lettuce:
little lines run crazy across the lettuce - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
The lettuce has grown too bitter to eat - January Gill O'Neil "Sunday"
A bully pushing lettuce around - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"
A career of washing lettuce - John Wieners "Charity Balls"
Loaf.
Manna.
Marmalade:
Baskets of bright berries and red marmalade - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
Step-sister of To-morrow's marmalade - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"
Marzipan:
Waiting room made out of marzipan - Ana Bozicevic "Paris Pride Parade"
Meat.
Molasses:
Past the thick memory of molasses - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Absorbing molasses air - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Despojo"
Molasses threads descending toward devotion - Ocean Vuong "Devotion"
Morsel.
Nopal:
Nopales as second line of home defense - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Nut.
Nutrient:
I need all the nutrients I can get - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
Oatmeal:
Eat cod liver oil and oatmeal - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"
Oil.
Okra:
Their okra bore an essence of perfection - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
Olive.
Onion.
Onion Soup:
Some small magic to make onion soup - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Orange.
Pancake:
The management of pancakes and preserves - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"
The promise of pancakes - DJ Savarese "The Caseworker Speaks of a Good Fit"
Pastry:
With pastries and the charge of regret - Tina Chang "Sugar"
Spread the pastry with sweet cream - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Peas.
Pecan:
Filled me with pine needles & pecan halves - Tyree Daye "Dream Book"
Peppermint Candy:
The music of so many peppermint candies - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
Pickle:
Outside the old pickle shop - Diane Seuss "Curl"
Pie:
Craving fresh pie and hot toddies - Elizabeth Bradfield "Why They Went"
A pie gets one chance - Alberto Rios "Perfect for Any Occasion"
Bees' quaint seduction of apple pie - Richard Solomon "Young Virgin Autosodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity"
Pizza:
Between the pizza and the death ray - Leah Bobet "Her Hero"
Plants [Category].
Plum Cake:
Plum-cake, instead of bread - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"
A plum cake when she died - Diane Mehta "Plum Cake"
Pop-Tart:
The Pop-Tart lottery - John F. Buckley "Left Behind"
Popcorn:
Popcorn and figs in the lobby - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
The megaplex of popcorn-scented tranquility - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Popcorn and the buzz of circus music - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"
Porridge:
Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"
Potato:
Butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds - Mahogany L. Browne "When Fannie Lou Hamer Said"
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Too cold and dry for spiritual small potatoes - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
A dress of potato peels, a gown of garlic cloves - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"
Potato Salad:
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Preserves:
The management of pancakes and preserves - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"
Pretzel:
Jostling the salt from a pretzel - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Produce/Product.
Radish:
Summon a minion made of radishes - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"
Eating nothing but radishes and lime leaf tea - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Rapunzel: I Like the Quiet"
Rhubarb:
Between the rhubarb & riverine - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
Rhubarb sings in dark gardens - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"
Roux:
A sigh seasons the roux - Donte Collins "they need some of us to die"
Salad:
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Old greens not crisp enough for salad - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"
Have a salad dressed with moonbeams - Tim Pratt "Wolfways"
Once could be charmed with our salads - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
Sausage:
Sausage cackling char on the grill - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Scallion:
White scallions with frost on their spines - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Spring scallions cut in night rain - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson
Scone:
Starting a brawl over scone crumbs - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"
Sheet Cake:
fresh as an uncut sheet cake - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."
Snap-Bean:
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Snow Peas: See Peas.
Souffle:
A souffle of angles - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
Soup.
Squash:
Place squash blossoms and nasturtium on the plate - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Inside the shade of a squash flower - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Starch:
Having psychoanalysis with a starch, a sugar, or a fat - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"
Stew:
To stretch the stew to the end of the month - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
A stew full of murder - Nicholas Johnson "One of the Monkeys"
Sage leaves stripped, stirred into stew - Susan Landgraf "What's Left"
Stewed it with sugar and lemon peel - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Strudel:
Making a strudel of bluebirds - Mary Jo Bang "The Numbers"
Sub Sandwich:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Sugar.
Summer Squash:
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Sunflower Seeds:
Chew the baby stars inside like sunflower seeds - Mike Allen "Deluge"
Sweet Potato:
Sweet potatoes root for their own harvest - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"
Syrup.
Taffy:
And taffy's thick as peas - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
The acrobat's taffy of satin - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"
Take-Out:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Tart:
Mixing a magic with your cakes and tarts - John Freeman "The Chair"
Toast.
Tomato.
Turnip:
A subway tunnel through the turnips - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"
And gnaw the frozen turnip - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"
A line of turnips where the seed ran out - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"
Amidst onions, and turnips, and tape - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Twinkie:
As Twinkies are to baklava - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"
Vegetable.
Venison:
Fish and venison and badger's fat - "Deirdre's Farewell to Scotland" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Waffle:
Take my conscience out for waffles - Kristen Tracy "Urban Animals"
Walnut.
Water-Chestnut:
Water-chestnut and lotus for a coat - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Wheat.
Whole Wheat:
A kiss of mayo & mustard on a whole wheat bun - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Yolk:
Creatures came coated with yolks of myth - Sheikha A. "Nesters"
Yolks needed to bind portraits to walls - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"
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Almond.
Apple.
Applesauce:
Bargain for a keg of apple-sauce - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Apricot.
Artichoke:
A mortgage statement wrapped around an artichoke - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
The artichoke watches the train - Mary Jo Bang "T Equals Time to be Tamed"
To dig the homely artichoke - Jane Gay "Our Childhood"
An artichoke in six varieties of blue - Marianne Moore "When I Buy Pictures"
Asparagus:
Wander among the silver asparagus - Kiki Petrosino "Afterlife"
Avocado:
Saw my entire history in an avocado seed - Mary Karr "For My Children"
Her forest of planted avocado jars - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Silhouette"
Bacon:
Bring us in no bacon - "Bring Us in Good Ale"
Baklava:
As Twinkies are to baklava - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"
Bean.
Beet:
Beets made into involuntary supports - Mary Jo LoBello Jerome "Tomato Intuition"
Four beets in a bag - Susan Landers "Holly Says Sobriety Is Paying Attention"
To starve the soil as beets do - Brenda Shaughnessy "Last Sleep, Best Sleep"
A bitter taste of beetroot - Lynne Thompson "St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni, probably beheaded, was also the patron saint of asthma, beekeepers, and epilepsy, so he might have said"
Biscuit:
Like biscuits in the wind - Calef Brown "Biscuits in the Wind"
Bread.
Breadcrumb:
Feeding breadcrumbs to geese - John James "Sonata"
Broth:
Until the fear was a thin broth you could swallow - Leslie J. Anderson "Supergirl's Last Will and Testament"
The ingredients of a witches' broth - Robert Frost "Design"
Dispensing with justice the broth and the bread - A.D.T. Whitney "The Big Shoe"
Brown Sugar:
Brown sugar waves dance through - Caleb Edmondson "In 2025, His Rings Will Disappear"
Bun:
A kiss of mayo & mustard on a whole wheat bun - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Butter.
Butter Beans:
Butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds - Mahogany L. Browne "When Fannie Lou Hamer Said"
Butter Cookie:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Butterscotch:
Unwrapping golden butterscotches - Maggie Smith "Accidental Pastoral"
Cabbage:
The fiery tombstone of a cabbage - Bishop Corbet (17th century) "Like to the Thundering Tone"
Growing cabbages or currant bushes - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"
Cake.
Candy.
Candy Bar:
Got caught stealing a candy bar - Sally Wen Mao "Inauguration Poem"
Know where candy bars come from - Frank O'Hara "Ave Maria"
Caramel:
The brown caramel days of youth - Maya Angelou "Faces"
Caramels you pick like berries - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
The dragon orders an iced caramel mocha - Cislyn Smith "Hot"
Carrot:
Two black cats and a beaver who eats carrots all day - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
White crickets and bouquets of wild carrot - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Chess"
Wild carrot taking the field by force - William Carlos Williams "Queen-Ann's-Lace"
Celery:
A city of swamps and celery - Conrad Hilberry "Causation"
Cheese:
Familiar as his cheese and ale - Theodore Maynard "Sight and Insight"
Full of mirth and cheese - "Sonnet Found in a Deserted Mad House"
Chickpea:
Wide open with chickpeas and ivy - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Chocolate.
Coconut:
Captive of the coconut glade - Angela Manalang-Gloria "Yellow Moon"
Confection:
Into chrome and sun and shotgun confection - Catherine Bowman "Heart"
Cookie:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Corn.
Cotton Candy:
Suck cotton candy nebulae through his teeth - Mike Allen "Deluge"
The sky sells cotton candy - Ralph James Savarese "The Bearing Edge"
Cream.
Cress:
In the aftermath of purple cress - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"
In a carpet of starwort and cress - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."
Crumbs.
Cucumber:
Planted eggplant too close to the cucumbers - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Guess the number of seeds in a cucumber - Dorothy Parker "Parties: A Hymn of Hate"
Dessert:
Two bites of the same dessert - Naomi Shihab Nye "The Address Book of a Lonely Man"
Her theater of absurd desserts - Philip Schultz "Cakes"
Dough:
Filthy hands kneading dough under the cosmos - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"
Egg/Eggshell.
Eggplant:
Planted eggplant too close to the cucumbers - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Cantaloupe and plum, eggplant and olive - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Fast Food:
Born in this cold fast food of a mall of a country - Carmen Bardeguez-Brown "Rican Issues"
Filbert:
A filbert hedge with wild briar overtwined - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"
Rag-edged as a contorted filbert - Diane Raptosh "Ours Is the Age of Pre-Post-Hope"
Flour.
Food.
Fruit.
Fruit [Category].
Gelatin:
The gelatinous mass controlling this machine - Myronn Hardy "Mosquito"
Who plays the gelatin piano - Carsten Rene Nielsen "Night"
Grain/Granary.
Grain [Category].
Grape.
Gumdrop:
The gum-drops grow like cherries - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
A baby lizard gumdrop green - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"
Hard Candy:
mouths like hard candy spitting - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
Horse droppings and hard candy - Maggie Smith "Accidental Pastoral"
Hardtack:
Hardtack and dried lime - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #9"
Hazel-Nut:
Bearing pleasant mead of hazel-nuts - "The Great Lamentation of Deirdre for the Sons of Usna" transl. by Eleanor Hull
Honey.
Honeycomb.
Hotdogs:
Between hotdog stands and hallelujahs - Matthew Olzmann "My Invisible Horse and the Speed of Human Decency"
Ice Cream.
Icing:
the icing on this flaming trash cake - Eve L. Ewing "eschatology"
Jam:
Raspberries ripened into jam - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"
And such sweet jams meticulously jarred - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"
Jam jars to can this summer sky - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"
Jelly:
Jelly jars tinted with homemade whiskey - Parneshia Jones "Congregation"
Leftover.
Legume:
An ocean of green legumes joining hands - Duane Ackerson "Picturing World Peace on Earth Day"
Lemon.
Lentil:
Learned accounting to sort lentils - Leah Bobet "Psyche and Eros"
Better things than picking lentils out of the hearth - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"
Lettuce:
little lines run crazy across the lettuce - Lee Ballentine "Cryogenica"
The lettuce has grown too bitter to eat - January Gill O'Neil "Sunday"
A bully pushing lettuce around - Brenda Shaughnessy "Never Ever"
A career of washing lettuce - John Wieners "Charity Balls"
Loaf.
Manna.
Marmalade:
Baskets of bright berries and red marmalade - Cynthia Cruz "Hotel Berlin"
Step-sister of To-morrow's marmalade - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Titania"
Marzipan:
Waiting room made out of marzipan - Ana Bozicevic "Paris Pride Parade"
Meat.
Molasses:
Past the thick memory of molasses - Brandy Nālani McDougall "This Island on Which I Love You"
Absorbing molasses air - Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez "Despojo"
Molasses threads descending toward devotion - Ocean Vuong "Devotion"
Morsel.
Nopal:
Nopales as second line of home defense - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Nut.
Nutrient:
I need all the nutrients I can get - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
Oatmeal:
Eat cod liver oil and oatmeal - Lou Barrett "Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932"
Oil.
Okra:
Their okra bore an essence of perfection - Naomi Shihab Nye "Little Farmer"
Olive.
Onion.
Onion Soup:
Some small magic to make onion soup - Oliver Smith "Witch Trails"
Orange.
Pancake:
The management of pancakes and preserves - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"
The promise of pancakes - DJ Savarese "The Caseworker Speaks of a Good Fit"
Pastry:
With pastries and the charge of regret - Tina Chang "Sugar"
Spread the pastry with sweet cream - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Peas.
Pecan:
Filled me with pine needles & pecan halves - Tyree Daye "Dream Book"
Peppermint Candy:
The music of so many peppermint candies - Alberto Ríos "Christmas on the Border, 1929"
Pickle:
Outside the old pickle shop - Diane Seuss "Curl"
Pie:
Craving fresh pie and hot toddies - Elizabeth Bradfield "Why They Went"
A pie gets one chance - Alberto Rios "Perfect for Any Occasion"
Bees' quaint seduction of apple pie - Richard Solomon "Young Virgin Autosodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity"
Pizza:
Between the pizza and the death ray - Leah Bobet "Her Hero"
Plants [Category].
Plum Cake:
Plum-cake, instead of bread - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"
A plum cake when she died - Diane Mehta "Plum Cake"
Pop-Tart:
The Pop-Tart lottery - John F. Buckley "Left Behind"
Popcorn:
Popcorn and figs in the lobby - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
The megaplex of popcorn-scented tranquility - Laura Mullen "White Box (notes)"
Popcorn and the buzz of circus music - Emma E. Murray "Drowning Machine"
Porridge:
Six warm bowls of porridge and a broken mug or two - Lloyd Roberts "Husbands Over Seas"
Potato:
Butter beans, potatoes & cotton seeds - Mahogany L. Browne "When Fannie Lou Hamer Said"
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Too cold and dry for spiritual small potatoes - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"
A dress of potato peels, a gown of garlic cloves - Molly Raynor "A Dressed Up Potato Is Still a Potato (Yiddish Proverb)"
Potato Salad:
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Preserves:
The management of pancakes and preserves - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"
Pretzel:
Jostling the salt from a pretzel - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"
Produce/Product.
Radish:
Summon a minion made of radishes - Dorsey Craft "The Pirate Anne Bonny and I Play Video Games"
Eating nothing but radishes and lime leaf tea - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Rapunzel: I Like the Quiet"
Rhubarb:
Between the rhubarb & riverine - Adam J. Gellings "Somewhere Else"
Rhubarb sings in dark gardens - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Heliophilia"
Roux:
A sigh seasons the roux - Donte Collins "they need some of us to die"
Salad:
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
Old greens not crisp enough for salad - Donna Hilbert "Ribollita"
Have a salad dressed with moonbeams - Tim Pratt "Wolfways"
Once could be charmed with our salads - "You'll Come to Our Ball" [Mirror of Literature v.13 issue 358, Feb. 1829. Credited to London Magazine]
Sausage:
Sausage cackling char on the grill - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Scallion:
White scallions with frost on their spines - P'an Yueh "Rhyme-Prose on the Idle Life" transl. by Burton Watson
Spring scallions cut in night rain - Tu Fu "Presented to Wei Pa, Gentleman in Retirement" transl. by Burton Watson
Scone:
Starting a brawl over scone crumbs - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for My Father's Pet Goose, Pigeon Wars, and Daddy Issues"
Sheet Cake:
fresh as an uncut sheet cake - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."
Snap-Bean:
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Snow Peas: See Peas.
Souffle:
A souffle of angles - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"
Soup.
Squash:
Place squash blossoms and nasturtium on the plate - Rage Hezekiah "Layers"
Inside the shade of a squash flower - Luisa A. Igloria "Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on their Butts"
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Starch:
Having psychoanalysis with a starch, a sugar, or a fat - Tan Lin "RPT MC-60 00.27 8"
Stew:
To stretch the stew to the end of the month - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"
A stew full of murder - Nicholas Johnson "One of the Monkeys"
Sage leaves stripped, stirred into stew - Susan Landgraf "What's Left"
Stewed it with sugar and lemon peel - Paisley Rekdal "Psalm"
Strudel:
Making a strudel of bluebirds - Mary Jo Bang "The Numbers"
Sub Sandwich:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Sugar.
Summer Squash:
Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Sunflower Seeds:
Chew the baby stars inside like sunflower seeds - Mike Allen "Deluge"
Sweet Potato:
Sweet potatoes root for their own harvest - Camille T. Dungy "Frequently Asked Questions: #4"
Syrup.
Taffy:
And taffy's thick as peas - Eugene Field "The Dinkey-Bird"
The acrobat's taffy of satin - David Tomas Martinez "Calaveras Section 2"
Take-Out:
Take-out subs and tins of butter cookies - Caroline Harper New "Patients Regain Song Before Speech"
Tart:
Mixing a magic with your cakes and tarts - John Freeman "The Chair"
Toast.
Tomato.
Turnip:
A subway tunnel through the turnips - Duane Ackerson "Poultry"
And gnaw the frozen turnip - John Clare "Sheep in Winter"
A line of turnips where the seed ran out - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 2. A Constable Calls"
Amidst onions, and turnips, and tape - Alfred B. Street "The Song of the Axe"
Twinkie:
As Twinkies are to baklava - Diane DeCillis "As Pressing Is to Flowers"
Vegetable.
Venison:
Fish and venison and badger's fat - "Deirdre's Farewell to Scotland" transl. by Kuno Meyer
Waffle:
Take my conscience out for waffles - Kristen Tracy "Urban Animals"
Walnut.
Water-Chestnut:
Water-chestnut and lotus for a coat - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson
Wheat.
Whole Wheat:
A kiss of mayo & mustard on a whole wheat bun - Regie Cabico "A Carpapalooza: An American Anthem"
Yolk:
Creatures came coated with yolks of myth - Sheikha A. "Nesters"
Yolks needed to bind portraits to walls - R.A. Villanueva "When Doves"
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Banquet.
Breakfast.
Dessert:
Her theater of absurd desserts - Philip Schultz "Cakes"
Diet.
Dinner.
Feast.
Lunch.
Picnic:
In the glorious picnics of the past - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
In the quiet picnic of consciousness - Billy Collins "Going Out for Cigarettes"
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
I don't picnic on Sundays - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Supper:
A supper that wants a grace - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"
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Breakfast.
Dessert:
Her theater of absurd desserts - Philip Schultz "Cakes"
Diet.
Dinner.
Feast.
Lunch.
Picnic:
In the glorious picnics of the past - Josh Bell "Our Bed Is Also Green"
In the quiet picnic of consciousness - Billy Collins "Going Out for Cigarettes"
Potato salad and dandelions at anarchist picnics - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Autobiography"
I don't picnic on Sundays - Yi Lei "A Single Woman's Bedroom" transl. by Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi
Supper:
A supper that wants a grace - George MacDonald "Within and Without"
Fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"
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Basin.
Bowl.
Cask:
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"
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"
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"
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:
In a flask of fire - Lucie Brock-Broido "Girl at the Border of Her Own Allegory"
The bribery of coffee poured from flasks - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"
His flasks and alembics proposing a toast - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"
Found a little whisky-flask of Irony - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
Fork.
Goblet.
Grill:
Grilling ink into the blue thaw - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"
Sausage cackling char on the grill - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Jar.
Jug:
Cement burst jugs and make them healthy - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"
A jug of cider on the board - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Joys of the Road"
A leaky jug of lust and worry - Ted Kooser "In the Hall of Bones"
A jug of bloody milk, poured - Aimee Le "My Winter of Acid"
Keg:
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.
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"
Mortar.
Mug:
Pull a ribbon of honey into handmade mugs - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"
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:
Unfolded trust from its cloth napkin - Christopher Kondrich "Trust"
Oven.
Pan:
Salute us back with empty kitchen pans - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Panned the contents for every nugget of twinkling hope - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"
The quiver of oil in a hot pan - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"
With a pan of coals on either hand - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Pitcher:
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"
Spoon.
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"
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!"
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
Wok:
Sharp singing aromas from scarred woks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
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Bowl.
Cask:
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"
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"
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"
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:
In a flask of fire - Lucie Brock-Broido "Girl at the Border of Her Own Allegory"
The bribery of coffee poured from flasks - Grace Nichols "Lost in Translation"
His flasks and alembics proposing a toast - Sonya Taaffe "The Chymical Marriage"
Found a little whisky-flask of Irony - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"
Fork.
Goblet.
Grill:
Grilling ink into the blue thaw - Megan Fernandes "The Jungle"
Sausage cackling char on the grill - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Jar.
Jug:
Cement burst jugs and make them healthy - Stephen Vincent Benet "Les Cruches Cassees"
A jug of cider on the board - Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey "The Joys of the Road"
A leaky jug of lust and worry - Ted Kooser "In the Hall of Bones"
A jug of bloody milk, poured - Aimee Le "My Winter of Acid"
Keg:
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.
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"
Mortar.
Mug:
Pull a ribbon of honey into handmade mugs - Rage Hezekiah "Lake Sunapee"
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:
Unfolded trust from its cloth napkin - Christopher Kondrich "Trust"
Oven.
Pan:
Salute us back with empty kitchen pans - Duane Ackerson "Trawling for Trolls"
Panned the contents for every nugget of twinkling hope - Mike Allen "The Strip Search"
The quiver of oil in a hot pan - January Gill O'Neil "How to Make a Crab Cake"
With a pan of coals on either hand - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]
Pitcher:
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"
Spoon.
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"
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!"
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
Wok:
Sharp singing aromas from scarred woks - Mouna Ammar "Vermont Ave."
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Bake.
Barbecue:
The beer and barbecue footnote - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Blanche:
The blanched eye of our grief - Aracelis Girmay "Ceremony for Remembering the Doorless World"
Holy horror blanch each brow - Frances E.W. Harper "The Martyr of Alabama"
A blanched moon full of fear - Iris Tree "Bahama Islands I"
Boil.
Brew.
Brine.
Cater:
How we cater to loneliness - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
Churn.
Cook.
Curdle:
Black, curdling fog climbing into their nostrils - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Sap that curdles milk - D.H. Lawrence "Figs"
To curdle dawns uneaten skin - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"
Crossed and curdled wells and streams - Algernon Swinburne "A Ninth Birthday. February 4, 1883"
Decant:
Decanting these omens - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"
Distill.
Ferment.
Fry:
Careful chemistry of fried egg - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Root Systems"
Curled ribbons of fried light - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Steeped in sodium and stir-fry - Wo Chan "[What makes you possible?]"
Kitchen.
Knead:
Filthy hands kneading dough under the cosmos - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"
Of bread kneaded on the moon - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Kneaded out of the formless clay - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
Leaven.
Mince:
Fed them platters of minced scandal - Maxwell Bodenheim "Captain Simmons' Wife"
Mull:
Songs like old mulled wine - John Masefield "The Golden City of St. Mary"
Pare:
The blade that pares and cleaves me - Jade Cho "Three Months Since"
Pared until only the edge remained - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"
Peel.
Percolate:
Of percolation and policy - Erin Belieu "Field"
Dawn oversees percolating coffee - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
Pickling:
A pickled fig left to dry in the sun - Ana Castillo "These Times"
Pickled in a jar of ink - Angel Garcia "Vestiges"
Outside the old pickle shop - Diane Seuss "Curl"
Pickled in a vat of tears - A.E. Stallings "Olives"
Roast:
Rage roasting me tender - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"
Roasted & packed like a warm thought - Kiki Petrosino "Post-Apocalyptical"
Seasoning:
Seasoned with need - jayy dodd "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"
Hear eclipses' seasoning - Elaine Equi "After and in Keeping with H.D."
Seasoned with sorrows and blasted hopes - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
Simmer:
Inside your simmering year - Joyelle McSweeney "Simon the Good"
Tomatoes simmered on the summer vines - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Sizzle.
Stir.
Stir-Fry:
Steeped in sodium and stir-fry - Wo Chan "[What makes you possible?]"
Toast.
Whisk:
The sun whisking your deepest marrow - Erika L. Sanchez "Portrait of a Wetback"
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Barbecue:
The beer and barbecue footnote - Janice Lobo Sapigao "Uncles"
Blanche:
The blanched eye of our grief - Aracelis Girmay "Ceremony for Remembering the Doorless World"
Holy horror blanch each brow - Frances E.W. Harper "The Martyr of Alabama"
A blanched moon full of fear - Iris Tree "Bahama Islands I"
Boil.
Brew.
Brine.
Cater:
How we cater to loneliness - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
Churn.
Cook.
Curdle:
Black, curdling fog climbing into their nostrils - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Sap that curdles milk - D.H. Lawrence "Figs"
To curdle dawns uneaten skin - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"
Crossed and curdled wells and streams - Algernon Swinburne "A Ninth Birthday. February 4, 1883"
Decant:
Decanting these omens - Jordan Zandi "The Circus in Winter"
Distill.
Ferment.
Fry:
Careful chemistry of fried egg - Kay Ulanday Barrett "Root Systems"
Curled ribbons of fried light - Natalie Diaz "Duned"
Steeped in sodium and stir-fry - Wo Chan "[What makes you possible?]"
Kitchen.
Knead:
Filthy hands kneading dough under the cosmos - Ryan Naamdhew "Curry-Leaf Dragon"
Of bread kneaded on the moon - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti
Kneaded out of the formless clay - Alfred Noyes "Darwin III: The Testimony of the Rocks"
Leaven.
Mince:
Fed them platters of minced scandal - Maxwell Bodenheim "Captain Simmons' Wife"
Mull:
Songs like old mulled wine - John Masefield "The Golden City of St. Mary"
Pare:
The blade that pares and cleaves me - Jade Cho "Three Months Since"
Pared until only the edge remained - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"
Peel.
Percolate:
Of percolation and policy - Erin Belieu "Field"
Dawn oversees percolating coffee - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
Pickling:
A pickled fig left to dry in the sun - Ana Castillo "These Times"
Pickled in a jar of ink - Angel Garcia "Vestiges"
Outside the old pickle shop - Diane Seuss "Curl"
Pickled in a vat of tears - A.E. Stallings "Olives"
Roast:
Rage roasting me tender - Leena Aboutaleb "Hijacked Interiors"
Roasted & packed like a warm thought - Kiki Petrosino "Post-Apocalyptical"
Seasoning:
Seasoned with need - jayy dodd "I Have a New Obsession with Bones"
Hear eclipses' seasoning - Elaine Equi "After and in Keeping with H.D."
Seasoned with sorrows and blasted hopes - Lewis McKenzie Turner "Quartz from the Uplands"
Simmer:
Inside your simmering year - Joyelle McSweeney "Simon the Good"
Tomatoes simmered on the summer vines - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"
Sizzle.
Stir.
Stir-Fry:
Steeped in sodium and stir-fry - Wo Chan "[What makes you possible?]"
Toast.
Whisk:
The sun whisking your deepest marrow - Erika L. Sanchez "Portrait of a Wetback"
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Appetite.
Bread-Breaking:
Satisfied before bread-breaking - Mina Loy "The Dead"
Calorie:
The calorie content of the Diet of Worms - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
Chew.
Devour.
Diet.
Digest.
Dine.
Drink/Drank.
Drunk.
Eat.
Famish.
Fed/Feed.
Gnaw.
Gobble:
Russia gobbling your world half in - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Graze.
Gulp:
Wolf dark matter gulfs in gassy gulps - Mike Allen "Deluge"
Vast dragon-gulps of steam - Harriet Monroe "In the Yellowstone"
Hunger/Hungry.
Imbibe:
Imbibes a tone of nature-nurtured truth - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"
All the vehicles for imbibing - Brandon D. Johnson "Standing by a Shelf"
All of joy imbibe the dew - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Ingest:
Ingested by terror - C. K. Williams "And Fear"
Masticate:
Masticate the ash of witness - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"
Meal.
Nibble.
Nourish.
Quaff.
Savor.
Sip.
Slake.
Starve.
Sup:
They that supped with War - George Sterling "Tidal, King of Nations"
Swig:
Another stolen swig of whiskey - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"
Thirst.
Toast.
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Bread-Breaking:
Satisfied before bread-breaking - Mina Loy "The Dead"
Calorie:
The calorie content of the Diet of Worms - Howard Nemerov "To David, About His Education"
Chew.
Devour.
Diet.
Digest.
Dine.
Drink/Drank.
Drunk.
Eat.
Famish.
Fed/Feed.
Gnaw.
Gobble:
Russia gobbling your world half in - "Intervention" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Graze.
Gulp:
Wolf dark matter gulfs in gassy gulps - Mike Allen "Deluge"
Vast dragon-gulps of steam - Harriet Monroe "In the Yellowstone"
Hunger/Hungry.
Imbibe:
Imbibes a tone of nature-nurtured truth - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.XIII--Moonlight on Land"
All the vehicles for imbibing - Brandon D. Johnson "Standing by a Shelf"
All of joy imbibe the dew - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited
Ingest:
Ingested by terror - C. K. Williams "And Fear"
Masticate:
Masticate the ash of witness - Aria Aber "Can You Describe Your Years in Prison"
Meal.
Nibble.
Nourish.
Quaff.
Savor.
Sip.
Slake.
Starve.
Sup:
They that supped with War - George Sterling "Tidal, King of Nations"
Swig:
Another stolen swig of whiskey - Chris Dombrowski "Comes to Worse"
Thirst.
Toast.
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