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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-03-19 12:55 am

Potential Titles: Orchid

Darwin dreams of orchids - Mary Jo Bang "The Expression of Emotions"

Orchids curling outward beyond grief - Tina Chang "Color"

Twisting autumn orchids for a belt - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Planted nine acres of orchids - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Pepper and orchid behaving thus - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Our limbs transforming into ferns and orchids - Desdamona "Once and Future"

All his orchids are crooked - Megan Fernandes "In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife"

The orchids, posing like eavesdroppers - Megan Fernandes "Quentin Compson at the Natural History Museum, Harvard University"

Mugwort and orchid alike wither - Han Yu "Autumn Thoughts" transl. by Burton Watson

The flowers, orchids, all made of silk - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"

The orchid dying bloom by bloom - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

In deserted gardens fading orchids grieve - Li Ho "For the Examination at Ho-nan-fu: Songs of the Twelve Months (with Intercalary Month)" transl. by Burton Watson

And orchids deck the tree tops - Dorothea Mackellar "My Country"

An orchid doubled-over with white blooms - Joanie Mackowski "View from a Temporary Window"

Foam like thousands of orchids - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

A circuit of white orchids ringing - Achy Obejas "Volver"

Eating orchids for lunch - Frank O'Hara "To the Film Industry in Crisis"

Got my first orchid at fifty - Cherise Pollard "Nodes of Growth"

To the swamp where the orchid glows - Robert W. Service "The Lone Trail"

Of that wan orchid of despair - George Sterling "The Sibyl of Dreams"

Time is a green orchid - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"


Amble by orchid-grown marshes - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson


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