Potential Titles: Plum

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red as a ripe warm plum - Elizabeth Bartlett "time is a palette"

Whistling a tune between the plum and the cherry - Stephen Vincent Benet "Flood-Tide"

Fallen plum-bloom stars the green - Edmund Blunden "The Poor Man's Pig"

Brushed by a plum tree's wicked thorns - Oliver de la Paz "Autism Screening Questionnaire: Social Interaction Difficulties"

Tosses bounty to the cherries and the plums - John Drinkwater "Mamble"

Peach and plum in lacquered dyes - Edmund Gosse "A Dream of November"

Plum blossom riot moments - Brenda Hillman "The Hour Until We See You"

Picking a dish of sweet berries and plums - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"

Eying the spiral turn of the plum tree's gentle confetti - John James "time bending / tongue / entwine / the betwixt"

Invented plums and tissue paper - Laura Kasischke "The Pain"

Plum petals stuck on a withered twig - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Night comes and, drowsy with drink]" transl. by Burton Watson

The wasps poised at the yellow plums - John Masefield "The Return"

A mouse drunk on plum wine - Michael McGriff "Inversion"

A plum cake when she died - Diane Mehta "Plum Cake"

Plucks the purple plums and spills the cherries on the grass - Lloyd Roberts "The Fruit-Rancher"

The plums could have been less bitter - Elizabeth Shvarts "Nothing More to Say"

A thousand bees in the backyard plum - Richard Solomon "The Great Masturbator"

Shed plums and nuts into the lap of want - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"

A solace of ripe plums - William Carlos Williams "To a Poor Old Woman"

Plums lie open to the blackbird's beak - Elinor Wylie "Wild Peaches"

Cantaloupe and plum, eggplant and olive - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


Plum-cake, instead of bread - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"


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