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somethingdarker ([personal profile] somethingdarker) wrote2011-03-17 03:47 am

Potential Titles: Opiate/Opiod/Opium

In opiate slumber furled - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Woke up from the opiate of empire - Martin Espada "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramon Emeterio Betances"

The scorched air breathes its opiate - Sophia Magaretta Hensley "Noon"

With opiates for idleness to quaff - Emily Pauline Johnson "Under Canvas"

Sleep softly waved her opiate rod - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

The opiate that fills you dream - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"


Fluttering skirts of opium poppies - Diane Seuss "I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise"

The breath of the opium dragon - Derek Walcott "Roseau Valley"


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