Potential Titles: Fig

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Under an evil-eyed fig tree - Zaina Alsous "Universe in which My Father Is a Poet"

And the fig tree will ache with sweetness - Ruth Awad "Reasons to Live"

A fig leaf against a smashed wall - Peter Balakian "Day of the Dead"

A pickled fig left to dry in the sun - Ana Castillo "These Times"

Making hammocks out of figs and accidents - Jennifer Chang "Freedom in Ohio"

And figs grew upon the thorn - G.K. Chesterton "The Donkey"

Malformed figs taste of sand - Roger Dutcher & Joanne Merriam "Heatwave"

A fig for the Philistine slander - William Hodgson Ellis "The Lyric League"

Popcorn and figs in the lobby - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"

The proper way to eat a fig - D.H. Lawrence "Figs"

The archaic power of his figs - Philip Levine "The Whole Soul"

A fig for him who frets - Robert Loveman "It's Raining Violet"

Grapes do not come of thorns nor figs of thistles - Amy Lowell "The Boston Athenaeum"

Contracts scribbled in fig sap - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"

The honey-birds pipe to the budding figs - Sarojini Naidu "Spring"

In the arms of her favorite fig tree - Caroline Harper New "Searching for Amelia [My grandpa was loyal]"

That feed on the vast fig of evening - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

A torn fig eaten straight from the tree - Ellen Rowland "The Way the Sky Might Taste"

Bear witness to the absent fig leaves - Jay Wright "Kumu"

Soft as August's livid purple figs - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

Who loves a life among fig roots - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


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