Potential Titles: Choke

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The spell will only work if you don't choke - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

A grapestone choked Anacreon and hushed his song - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

Anguish choked with cotton - James Baldwin "Staggerlee wonders"

A bad dream's ice to choke you - Stephen Vincent Benet "Come Back!"

Thunder to smoke and choke the sun - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"

Choke the gaping mouth of want - R.S. Chilton "Lines on Seeing My Sister Fill a Little Beggar-Boy's Basket with Cold Victuals"

Tight enough to choke back tears - Jim Daniels "Church Reform"

Throats choking with conclusions - Martins Deep "The Cyborg's Side of the Story"

Heavy rains choking in the roof-drains - John Freeman "The Chair"

Choke down snake of shame - Tara Hardy "Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor)"

And choke the fountains of the heart - S.S. Hornor "The Broken Reed"

Flame that twists choking through the ravines - Mario Luzi "Las Animas" transl. by Dana Gioia

The lees and chokings of the drain - John Masefield "King Cole"

choked under a pillow of clouds - Valzhyna Mort "Guest"

Here choking on acidic air - dg nanouk okpik "Anthropocene Years"

The deadly layer of choking dust - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Finis"

Dying curse and choking prayer - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"

The pearly choker of innocence around my throat - Adrienne Rich "Grating"

Staring as through a choked glass - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

Plagues to choke me with sand - Arthur Rimbaud "A Season in Hell" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

Quarrel of yesterday choked off - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter

Through the choking channels of our lungs - Amber Tamblyn "To a New Dawning"

Choke the deserts with her tides - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

The light of this pale choked day - Edward Thomas "After Rain"

Choked with weeds of car - Charles West Thomson "Sighs for the Unattainable"

Their piecemeal, choked descent - John Updike "Americana"

Your fist choking the dark - Ocean Vuong "Anaphora as Coping Mechanism"

Choking tight fists of air - Jamie Wasserman "German Man Found Dead in Home 5 Years After He Died"

Beyond the brick toward choked stars - Adam Wiedewitsch "If Night You Were a City"


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


Wind and mere are phantom-choked with voices - Harriet Monroe "With a Copy of Shelley"


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