the numerous kinds of
asphalt Above all things, by 1
asphalt. Above all is spread 2
greater smoothness.
Asphalt, above all else 3
In summer it does not reflect heat
like stone
or asphalt. Above all 4
the numerous kinds of natural- asphalt.
Above all, 5 in the asphalt. Above all,
dusk falls so early 6
and I yearned for an escape from the tenements, the asphalt, above all from 7
stoppers embedded in the warm
asphalt. Above all it was 8
nature—
not concrete and asphalt. Above all 9
on the asphalt,
above all else.
We’re wearing the same clothes 10
- cross-column OCR misread, ex Dr. L. Meyn, “Asphalt: Its importance for streets in cities and towns” [continued from p. 106] in The Practical Magazine 2:9 (1873) : 192-200 (198)
- preview snippet only, ex Chambers’s Journal (1884)
- ex Thomas Conyngton, “Motor Carriages and Street Paving,” in Municiple Engineering 16:3 (March 1899) : 220-226 (224
- ex “The Silent Pavement,” an advertisement for U. S. Wood Block Pavement of the U. S. Wood Preserving Company, in Good Roads Magazine 6 (August 1905) : 561
- ex S. F. Peckham, “Some Recent Asphalt Literature” in The Chemical Engineer 5:6 (April 1907) : 182-194 (185)
- preview snippet, to Walther Benser, Better Colour (1970) : 167
- snippet only, to Ralda Meyerson Sullivan, Anzia Yezierska, an American Writer (UC Berkeley dissertation, 1975) : 24
- ex Michael Dibdin, Dirty Tricks (2012) : here
- ex Clemens G. Arvay, The Healing Code of Nature : Discovering the New Science of Eco-Psychosomatics (2018) : 122
- ex Simon Jacobs, Palaces (2018) : 52
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tags: asphalt; approximate poetry; enjambment; latihan; onsense; tercet; wearing the same clothes