Potential Titles: Smell

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Driven off by the smell of licorice gone bad - Duane Ackerson "At the Dump"

Rising at the smell of dawn - Conrad Aiken "Parasite"

Embrace a witch who smells of ginger - Mary Jo Bang "Pilgrimage"

Who smells of ginger and cinders - Mary Jo Bang "Pilgrimage"

The smell of holes burning pockets - Samiya Bashir "You're really faithful to your abusers, aren't you?"

The damp straw smell of darkness - Ellen Bass "Lighthouse"

The smells of the onions trooped up the stairs together - Stephen Vincent Benet "Boarding-House Hall"

The silvery smell of chlorine in his clothes - Laurel Blossom "Bonnie Blue"

The train smells like yesterday - Mahogany L. Browne "The 19th Amendment & My Mama"

The heart does smell thee sweet - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"

Once smelled a rose in sleep - Willa Cather "Thou Art the Pearl"

Lest the ghostly perfume smell too sweet - Eugene A. Davidson "The Swift and Sharp-tongued Flame of Death"

Every flower smells the song of memory - Asa Delaney "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Smelled of grass and gunsmoke - Kinsale Drake "(Re)location"

Smelled of earth and salt but no corruption - Denise Dumars "The Golem"

The smell of hyacinths across the garden - T.S. Eliot "Portrait of a Lady"

Beyond the smell of salt - Heid E. Erdich "Dancer Origin Story"

Smelling outrageously of hope - Mari Evans "Save One Bright Jonquil"

Smell of burning on every plume - Robert Frost "Bond and Free"

And the smell of fire drowned in rain - Robert Frost "The Kitchen Chimney"

The smells a ghost leaves behind - Hafizah Augustus Geter "Praise Song"

The smell of the wind stalks them - Louise Gluck "Before the Storm"

The smell of too many illusions - Louise Gluck "Sunrise"

Webbed with sweet-smelling herbs - Louise Gluck "Sunrise"

From which came the smell of oblivion - Louise Gluck "The Sword in the Stone"

A ghost with the smell of Sunday - Rigoberto Gonzalez "In the Village of Missing Fathers"

The smell of sagebrush after a thunderstorm - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"

Flowers I smelled in October - Carly Inghram "For a Moment, Everything Is Small and Familiar"

To smell the winter leaves - Allison Eir Jenks "Refugee"

To smother the smell of formaldehyde - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"

Learned the funereal smell of carnations - Judy Jordan "Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow"

Every song smells the song of memory - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Loves the juniper smell of gin - Rebecca Lindenberg "The Splendid Body"

Old pockets that smell of pennies - Angela Liu "The Final Trick"

The smell of salt and lavender - Emily O. Liu "[Time Wrinkles]"

Smell the first summer rose - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Summer"

Unless it smell of sulphur - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

A smell of woodland wine - George Meredith "Outer and Inner"

The kitchen smell of cinnamon and cayenne - Joanne Merriam "Cherries for Buttons"

Unless I smell the Carthaginian rose - Edna St Vincent Millay "To the Not Impossible Him"

And smells like the moon - Maggie Nelson "Eighteen Days Until Christmas"

The smoky smell of déjà vu - Lydia O'Donnell "Doppler Effect"

Smelled the sweat of their plans - Elizabeth Rees "Scorched Earth"

The welcoming smell of words - Jack Ridl "The Nonattachment of Buddhism"

One was the smell of cool wet moss - Elizabeth Madox Roberts "At the Water"

The colors came with the smell of burning - Tim Seibles "Vendetta, May 2006"

The sweet smell of weeds - Diane Seuss "Weeds"

Fox smell lying heavy on the wind - Tom Sleigh "The Fox"

Amongst the smells of mothballs and cigars - A.E. Stallings "The Doll House"

The foreign smell of plaster - Wallace Stevens "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside"

Where thoughts smell in the rain - Dylan Thomas "Light breaks where no sun shines"

The wound smells of silence and its blaring - Emma Trelles "How We Lived"

Refresh memory with their smell - Derek Walcott "Cul de Sac Valley"

Charcoal-smudged, smelling of smoke - Jessica P. Wick "How Wizards Duel"

Little loaves of sweet smells - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

Sweet smells from a white sky - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

The winter smell of carnations - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Sweet-smelling melons swelling on the ground - AE Hines "What Did You Imagine Would Grow?"


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