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In a crib of black twigs and moss - Seth Abramson "The Woods in Concord"

Holed and cribbed with light - Joan Houllihan "RAG SMELL. FIRE"

The earth a broken crib - Maureen N. McLane "From A Book of Hours"

Weaves a crib for my heart - Naomi Shihab Nye "No One Thinks of Tegucigalpa"

From the dark cribs of doorways - Derek Walcott "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Part II"


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2 March 2010: Ca
Cabinet.

Cackle.

Cacophony.

Cactus.

Cadence.

Caesar.

Cage.

Cain.

Cake.

Calamity.

Calculate.

Calculus.

Calendar.

Call.

Calligraphy.

Callus.

Calm.

Camel.

Camera.

Camouflage.

Camp.

Campfire.

Can (noun).

Cancel.

Candid.

Candle.

Candlelight.

Candy.

Canker.

Cannon.

Canopy.

Canvas.

Canyon.

Cap.

Capable.

Capacity.

Caprice/Capricious.

Captain.

Captive/Capture/Captivate.

Car.

Caravan.

Carbon.

Card.

Cardamom.

Cardboard.

Care.

Career.

Careful.

Careless.

Caress.

Cargo.

Carnation.

Carnival.

Carousel.

Carp.

Carpet.

Carrion.

Carry.

Cart.

Carve.

Cascade.

Case.

Casket.

Cast.

Castle.

Casual.

Cat.

Catacomb.

Catalogue.

Catalyst.

Cataract.

Catastrophe.

Catch/Caught.

Cathedral.

Cattle.

Cauldron.

Cause.

Caution.

Cave/Cavern.

Caw.

3 March 2010: Ce
Cease.

Ceaseless/Unceasing.

Cedar.

Ceiling.

Celebrate.

Celestial.

Cell.

Cellar.

Cement.

Centaur.

Center/Central.

Century.

Ceremony.

Certain.

4 March 2010: Ch
Chafe.

Chaff.

Chain.

Chair.

Chalice.

Chalk.

Challenge.

Chamber.

Champagne.

Champion.

Chance.

Chandelier.

Change/Changeful.

Changeling.

Channel.

Chant.

Chaos.

Chaplet.

Char.

Character.

Charcoal.

Charge.

Chariot.

Charity.

Charm.

Charnel.

Charon.

Chart.

Chase.

Chasm.

Chaste/Chasten/Chastity.

Chat/Chatter.

Cheap.

Cheat.

Check.

Checker/Chequer.

Cheek.

Cheer.

Chemical/Chemistry.

Cherish.

Cherry.

Cherub/Cherubim.

Chess.

Chest.

Chestnut.

Chew.

Chicken.

Child/Children.

Childhood.

Chill.

Chime.

Chimera.

Chimney.

Chip.

Chirp.

Chisel.

Chocolate.

Choice.

Choir/Chorus.

Choke.

Choose/Chose.

Chord.

Chromatic.

Chrome.

Chrysalis.

Chrysanthemum.

Church.

Churn.

5 March 2010: Ci
Cicada.

Cigarette.

Cinder.

Cinema.

Cinnamon.

Cipher/Cypher.

Circe.

Circle.

Circuit.

Circumference.

Circumstance.

Circus.

Citadel.

Citizen.

Citrus.

City.

Civil/Civil War.

Civilization.

6 March 2010: Cl
Clad.

Claim/Unclaimed.

Clamor/Clamour.

Clang/Clangor.

Clank.

Clap/Clapper.

Clarify/Clarity.

Clarion.

Clash.

Clasp.

Classic.

Clatter.

Claw.

Clay.

Clean.

Cleanse.

Clear.

Cleave/Cleft/Cloven.

Clench.

Clever.

Click.

Cliff.

Climate/Clime.

Climb.

Cling/Clung.

Clip.

Cloak.

Clock.

Clockwork.

Clod.

Clog.

Cloister.

Close.

Closet.

Clot.

Cloth/Clothes/Clothing.

Cloud.

Cloudless/Unclouded.

Clove.

Clover.

Clown.

Clue.

Clump.

Cluster.

Clutch.

Clutter.

7 March 2010: Co
Coal.

Coast.

Coastline.

Coat.

Coax.

Cobalt.

Cobble/Cobblestone.

Cobra.

Cobweb.

Cocoon.

Code.

Coffee.

Coffer.

Coffin.

Coil.

Coin.

Coincidence.

Cold.

Collapse.

Collect.

Collective.

Collision.

Colony.

Color/Colour.

Colorless.

Colossal.

Column.

Comb.

Combat.

Combination/Combine.

Come/Came.

Comet.

Comfort/Discomfort.

Command.

Commerce/Commercial.

Commit.

Common.

Commonplace.

Commotion.

Commune/Communion.

Communicate.

Companion.

Company.

Compare.

Compass.

Compassion.

Compel.

Compete.

Complain.

Complete.

Complex.

Complicate.

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Compute/Computer.

Comrade.

Conceal.

Conceit.

Conceive.

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Concept.

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Concrete.

Condemn.

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Condition

Condor.

Conduct.

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Confess.

Confetti.

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Confidence/Confident.

Confine.

Confirm.

Conflict.

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Confuse.

Confusion.

Conflagration.

Congeal.

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Conjure.

Connect.

Conquer/Conquest.

Conscience.

Conscious.

Consecrate.

Consent.

Consequence.

Consider/Inconsiderate.

Console.

Conspire.

Constant.

Constellation.

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Construct.

Consume.

Contact.

Contagion/Contagious.

Contain.

Contemplate.

Contempt

Contend.

Content.

Contest.

Context.

Continent.

Continue.

Continuum.

Contort.

Contour.

Contract.

Contradiction.

Contrive.

Control.

Converge.

Converse/Conversation.

Convert.

Convey.

Conviction.

Convince.

Convulse.

Cook.

Cool.

Copper.

Coral.

Cord.

Core.

Cormorant.

Corn.

Corner.

Corpse.

Correct.

Corridor.

Corrode/Corrosive.

Corrupt.

Cosmic.

Cosmos.

Cost.

Cottage.

Cotton.

Cottonwood.

Couch.

Counsel.

Count.

Counter/Countertop.

Countless.

Counterfeit.

Country.

Courage.

Course.

Court/Courtship.

Courtesy/Discourtesy.

Courtyard.

Cousin.

Cover.

Covert.

Covet.

Cow.

Coward.

Cower.

Cowslip.

Coyote.

8 March 2010: Cr
Crab.

Crack.

Crackle.

Cradle.

Craft.

Crag.

Cramp.

Crane.

Crash.

Crater.

Crave.

Crawl.

Craze/Crazy.

Creak.

Cream.

Crease.

Create.

Creation.

Creature.

Credit/Discredit.

Creed.

Creek.

Creep.

Crescendo.

Crescent.

Crest.

Crevasse/Crevice.

Crew.

Crib.

Cricket.

Crime.

Crimson.

Crisp.

Critic/Critique.

Crocodile.

Crocuses.

Crook/Crooked.

Croon.

Crop.

Cross.

Crossroad.

Crouch.

Crow.

Crowd.

Crown.

Crucible.

Cruel.

Crumbs.

Crumble.

Crumple.

Crush.

Crust/Encrust.

Cry/Cries.

Crypt.

Cryptic.

Crystal.

9 March 2010: Cu
Cuckoo.

Cull.

Cultivate.

Culture.

Cunning.

Cup.

Cupboard.

Cupid.

Curb.

Cure.

Curfew.

Curious/Curiosity.

Curl.

Curlew.

Currency.

Current.

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Curtain.

Curve/Curvature.

Cusp.

Custom.

Cut.

10 March 2010: Cy
Cyborg/Cybernetics.

Cycle.

Cyclone.

Cynic.

Cypher: See Cipher/Cypher.

Cypress.


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Who confin'd the rage of civil flame - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

Carved myself into the civil shape of a knife - Nora Hikari "Imago Dei"

The civil sun drying earth's tears - Henry David Thoreau "The Thaw"


Undrown from the incivility of this world - Niki Herd "The Stuff of Hollywood"


The hissing flames of civil war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

The noble civil war of sleep - Fady Joudah "Libra"

Such civil war is in my love and hate - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXV"


War.


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All chrome and cybernetics - Alison Hawthorne Deming "Science"


Muddled portals in cyberspace - Angela Liu "Dark Patterns"


A seven-foot cyborg on a quest - Adam Ford "Arrival!"

How he signed up for the cyborg army - Adam Ford "Arrival!"

The fantasy of cyborgs and androids - Elizabeth Kestrel Rogers "Spare Parts"

The cyborg lifestyle has its thrills - Ann K. Schwader "It Wears You"


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Laugh in cynic vein - Joshua Henry Jones "To a Skull"

In a cynic age of crumbling faiths - Emma Lazarus "The New Year"

Colder than the cynical snarl of Nero - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

Cynical, moon-scarred and old - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"

Of cynic ice and sudden white blasts - Mark Van Doren "The Rivals"


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A guide to curb the fiery will - Michelangelo Buonarroti "XVIII. Beauty and the Artist" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Rain making rivers by the curb - Natalie Goldberg "Home"

The touch of my curbing rein - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Autumn Ride: Malvern"

Against the boundless curb of light - Keith S. Wilson "Heliocentric"


Dynamo of strength uncurbed - Christopher Morley "America, 1917"


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And the curfew's pensive tone - Reginald Augustine "Dreams" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no 372, May 30 1829]

As the sad curfew sounds - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part First"

The crickets have curfews - Chris Dombrowski "Midwesterly"

Curfew's tolling requiems of the dying world - S.S. Hornor "Stanzas" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Messenger, trickster, curfew-maker - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "red fox"

Curfew for the long departed - George Santayana "Avila"


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Under the microscope of cultural critics - Stephanie Heit "The Murderer: Primetime"


weaving disparate cultures into harmony - Davian Aw "Those Who Tell the Stories"

The balance of culture and matter - Ana Bozicevic "Poem"

Their negotiations with consumer culture - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"


Uncultured bloom thy fairy bowers - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"


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By cultivating his own woe - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

Cultivating a deliberate recklessness - Deborah Landau "Skeleton"

Cultivates the rough and barren regions - George Martin "Superstition"

We cultivated the debris field - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"

The garden's cultivated grace - V. "The First Morning of 1860" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no. 1)


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Cup )


Cup-bearer at feasts of God - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"


Rusty cup-stains on the tables - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ballad of Lager Bier"


Wrought dice-cups in Pagan temples - Amy Lowell "Solitaire"


With an emperor's skull for a drinking-cup - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"


This stirrup-cup of stars - Louis Untermeyer "The Wine of Night"


Teacup.


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While pale Medea culled her deadly flowers - Maurice Baring "Le Prince Errant"

Culled from out Life's forest - Ardelia Maria Barton "Autumn"

Cull the various sweet songs - "I: Cuicapeuhcayotl | Song at the Beginning" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

Cull time's sweet first-fruits - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

As she culls the blood red rose - E.M. "Part II. The Garden of Sleep"


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Curl )


The sky uncurling to the light - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

The salt-chased seas uncurled - Edith Wyatt "Sympathy"


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Cut )


Clear-cut and certain they rise - Margaret Widdemer "Winter Branches"


Don't miss the cut-off out of here - Janet Kauffman "The Hand of the Sassafras"


Quest of the cut-throat sons of Cain - John Masefield "Lyrics from 'The Buccaneer'"

Of all the cutthroat combat sports - Lynn Melnick "Landscape with Clinic and Oracle"


Where the deep-cut leaves of the liverwort grow - E.W.C. "The Wild Azalea" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]


The glasscut-moon healing into midday sky - Chris Dombrowski "Some Nights the River"


Bad haircuts and sloppy tailors - G. O. Clark "Mary Has a Prophetic Vision"


Lace-cut flame green filament - Dorothea Tanning "Sequestrienne"


Replaced by lasercut urns and polished stones - Sandra J. Lindow "Tombstone Tapestries"


From the slim-cut decanters of death - Iris Tree "[Ah! you, from the small high-walled acre]"


The mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"

Scaling the mountain's time-cut teeth - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Pilot"


A book with half the pages still uncut - Mona Gould "This Was My Brother (For Lt.-Col. Howard McTavish, killed in action at Dieppe)"

fresh as an uncut sheet cake - David Trinidad "9773 Comanche Ave."


A wrecking ball swung an uppercut - Martin Espada "The Trouble Ball [excerpt]"


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Into the smooth curvatures of faith - Max Bodenheim "Three Portraits"

Reveal an order within the curvature to chaos - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

Its glittering mound of curvatures - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"


Curve )


A curve-ball made of shelter - Elaine Equi "After and in Keeping with H.D."


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