Potential Titles: Carnation

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Purple carnations dark as my heart - Camille T. Dungy "Daisy Cutter"

Sent me three red carnations - Nazim Hikmet "Thing I Didn't Know I Loved" transl. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk

Learned the funereal smell of carnations - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Red carnations burning in the sun - Charlotte Mew "Madeleine in Church"

Dressed in chains and carnations - Pablo Neruda "The Dawn's Debility" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Carnations' fiery freshness - Pablo Neruda "Midday XXXIX" transl. by Stephen Tapscott

The generosity of carnations - Pablo Neruda "To Envy" transl. by Alastair Reid

Turned into carnations for parade floats - Diane Seuss "Folk Song"

A fresh carnation to remember her perfume - Wan Ts'u "Floating Narcissus" transl. not credited [The Jade Flute, c.1960, Project Gutenberg]

Dark carnation's breath of clove - Francis Brett Young "Prothalamion"

The winter smell of carnations - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


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