Potential Titles: Fruit [category]
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somethingdarkerAlso check Flowers, Grain [category], Plants [category], and Trees [category] because I can be arbitrary and/or confused about things that fit in more than one 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.
Pippin:
The wasps the honeyed pippins try - Susan Hartley "October" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.12, Oct. 1886]
Plum.
Pomegranate.
Pomelo:
Reached on tiptoe to pull ripe pomelos from the dark - Edgar Kunz "Fixer"
Quince.
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.
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"
Wild Grape:
The air is drunk with wild grape and sweet clover - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Wolfberry:
Wolfberry and chrysanthemum dangle pearls - Fan Ch'eng-ta "Four Seasons Among Fields and Gardens: Autumn" transl. by David Hinton
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This message brought to you by almonds, amaranth, lemons, and many, many others.
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.
Pippin:
The wasps the honeyed pippins try - Susan Hartley "October" [St. Nicholas v.XIII no.12, Oct. 1886]
Plum.
Pomegranate.
Pomelo:
Reached on tiptoe to pull ripe pomelos from the dark - Edgar Kunz "Fixer"
Quince.
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.
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"
Wild Grape:
The air is drunk with wild grape and sweet clover - Helene Johnson "Summer Matures" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Wolfberry:
Wolfberry and chrysanthemum dangle pearls - Fan Ch'eng-ta "Four Seasons Among Fields and Gardens: Autumn" transl. by David Hinton
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
