Potential Titles: Fruit [category]

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Apples

Apricot.

Banana:
Banana ghosts and handsome monkey kings - May Chong "Kamcia"

Beneath a banana tree at noon - Joy Harjo "The Real Revolution is Love,"

The bananas flow like wine - Nicholas Johnson "One of the Monkeys"

Bergamot.

Berry.

Bilberry:
Shares its weather with asphodel and bilberry - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "heather"

Black Cherry:
Remember the black cherries' gleam - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

Blackberry.

Blueberry:
Folded into the violence of blueberries - Tara Betts "Untitled for a Reason"

They walk between blueberries and ferns - Tomaž Šalamun "Young Cops"

Sour blueberries from the farmer's market - Richard Solomon "Ann Arbor Art Fair 2005"

Nestled in a bowl of basalt and blueberries - Keith Taylor "Let Them Be Left"

Breadfruit:
Find clues in the taste of breadfruit - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

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

No nitrogen cycle or atmosphere or cantaloupe - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]

Cherry.

Chokecherries:
On the chokesome cherry bent - Henry A. Beers "Ye Laye of ye Woodpeckore"

Picking chokecherries in the marsh - Chris Dombrowski "A History of Barbed Wire"

Citron:
Exhaled from rose and citron bower - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"

Ripe juices of citron and grape - James Whitcombe Riley "Dolores"

With citrons yellow and tangerines still green - Su Tung-p'o "Presented to Liu Ching-wen" transl. by Burton Watson

Citrus.

Cranberry:
Cranberries strewn like unholy rosaries - Edwina Stanton Babcock "Coast Yarn"

With a surplus of cranberry wine - Dorsey Craft "The women my husband ought to love"

Made her a necklace of cranberries - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman "The Out-Doors Girl"

The marshes where cranberries grow - William Walker, Jr. "The Wyandot's Farewell"

Currant:
That made a nest upon a currant bush - John R. Bolles "Lullaby [There, lullaby, and I will sing to you]"

With a pocket full of currants - T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land III: The Fire Sermon"

Growing cabbages or currant bushes - Helen Hoyt "Cheap"

More than all my currant wine - Philip Lybbe Powys Lybbe "The Lay of the Sheriff"

Damson:
Till damsons dropped from the branches sere - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Shaking of the Pear Tree"

Date.

Elderberry:
Opens inwards to a dark elderberry place - Seamus Heaney "The Grauballe Man"

Grinding a path through elderberries and laurel - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

Like the blood of elderberries - Lola Ridge "Iron Wine"

Figs.

Fruit.

Gooseberry:
In the thicket of gooseberries hung their lanterns - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

Grape.

Grapefruit:
And enter honeyed grapefruit time - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"

Honeydew:
The glimmer of the honey dew - Joseph Campbell writing as Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "Cherry Valley"

Drunk on honey-dew and violet's breath - Vachel Lindsay "The Tiger on Parade"

Jackfruit:
The heavy jackfruit bent with the weight of gravity - James F. Yockey "What If"

Juniper.

Key Lime:
Underneath a key lime moon - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #69"

Lemon.

Lime.

Mango.

Melon.

Mulberry.

Nectarine:
Bruised tomatoes, nectarines so soft they're left for free - Ari Banias "Curriculum"

Opulent boughs that dropped with nectarines - Rufus Dawes "Marriage" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Orange (color and fruit).

Orchard.

Papaya:
Getting lost among mangoes and papayas - Francisco X. Alarcon "Earthly Paradise"

Peach.

Pear.

Persimmon.

Plum.

Pomegranate.

Pomelo:
Reached on tiptoe to pull ripe pomelos from the dark - Edgar Kunz "Fixer"

Quince:
Groves of mango, quince and lime - Robert Graves "It's a Queer Time"

Among the wind-felled bodies of my quince trees - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"

Eye acrid as a quince - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Leaves fall from the quince tree - Wang Yu-ch'eng "Journey to a Village" transl. by Burton Watson

Raisin:
Of the raisins of wrath - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "Americus, Book I [excerpt]"

In the grape turning raisin - D.H. Lawrence "Medlars and Sorb-Apples"

They feed on the sacred raisins - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

Raisins of honey and salt - Pablo Neruda "Stones for Maria" transl. by Dennis Maloney

Raspberry:
Raspberries ripened into jam - Nathalie F. Anderson "Shirt of Nettles, House of Thorns"

Raspberries of the glowing amber kind - Louise Morey Bowman "Amber Raspberries"

Taken in by the netted branches of raspberries - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

We are fed impossible raspberries by a goldfinch - Keith Taylor "Details from the Garden of Delights"

Strawberries.

Tamarind:
Tamarind bushes welcomed them - Abdurehim Abdullah "Oh, Fathers!" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

A patter shaking the tamarind pod - Ira Sadoff "Once I Could Say"

Tangerine.

Watermelon:
Calmed by our watermelon sun - Ada Limon "Territory"


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