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  • She felt that there is a huge difference between "blue-black" and "blueblack" - it calls up a different response in the reader - and Hopkins 'stuff to me seems equally as individual.

    The Sheila Variations 2010

  • Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze.

    robert hayden | those winter sundays « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze.

    Father’s Day musings and poetry 2010

  • The panels looked like most solar panels I'd seen: round blueblack circles of photovoltaic cells in a flat white rectangular board.

    Christian Beckwith: Greening the Barrio: Part 4 2009

  • Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze.

    John Lundberg: Poems About Family 2009

  • Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze.

    Archive 2007-11-01 tanita davis 2007

  • Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze.

    What I Learned from Reading Slush jimvanpelt 2007

  • Beautifully shot in black and white (more like blueblack and white) with great juxtapositions of height as the woman is about a foot taller than the man, and oh so exotic looking.

    THE 2007 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. A PROFOUND JOURNEY ON THE BIG SCREEN. 2007

  • Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze.

    The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: A Cold Day in Fatherland tanita davis 2007

  • Nine hundred and ninetynine million pound sterling in the blueblack bowels of the bank of Ulster.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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  • Found twice in Mark Doty's poem 'Days of 1981', from his collection 'My Alexandria'

    September 19, 2011

  • Nice! I'm really fond of his Atlantis, too.

    September 19, 2011