somethingdarker | Potential Titles: Choose/Chose

Swallowed the item you chose to mark the start - Brooke Abbey "How to Adult"

When even our retreats choose sides - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Even retreats choose sides - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Yet I refuse to choose destruction - Mary Alexandra Agner "Be True"

The one whose kiss she chose to return - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"

Never chose the language we spoke - Hala Alyan "Object Permanence"

The whitest no eye could choose - Sir Edwin Arnold "He and She"

The birds are busy choosing trees - Julie Babcock "Preparedness"

The wilder ways of chance they choose - Elizabeth Bartlett "Self-Evident"

That a moment chooses you to remember it - Laure-Anne Bosselaar "Lately,"

Carries the weight he chose - Jericho Brown "Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park"

Choosing a prince of fortune - Tommaso Campanella "XXXI. To Poland" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Rooms we did not choose - Chen Chen "Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest"

Chose for me auspicious names - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

another star chooses - Lucille Clifton "leda 2"

who knew the truth but didn't always choose it - Lucille Clifton "lee"

Tired of choosing desire - Leonard Cohen "Crazy to Love You"

Chose hunger over thirst - Diane DeCillis "Reconsidering Yellow"

Seemed to choose my door - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Life XXXI"

The name you chose is etched into air - Cass Donish "You, Emblazoned"

Lovelier assassin none could choose - Edward Dowden "Imitated from J. Soulary's 'Le Fossoyeur'"

One bird sang the song I chose - Edward Dowden "In the Mountains"

Chooses Athens in his riper age - John Dryden "Prologue: To the University of Oxford"

For a threefold term to choose - William Hodgson Ellis "Horace, Odes I. i."

The names of the gods who chose to ignore us - Kendall Evans "Now We Must Speak in the Shadows of Silence"

With an April gesture chose - Louis Golding "Silver-Badged Waiter"

Flames choose what feeds them - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

I chose solitude for a career - John Grey "Distant People Gravitate to Distant Worlds"

Why some choose solitude - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

Could not choose but shine - Jean Ingelow "The Star's Monument"

That choosing genres is a luxury - K. Iver "Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco"

Choosing far stars to check near objects by - Robinson Jeffers "The Truce and the Peace"

A summons he'd choose to ignore - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"

Choose to love the dawn - Christopher Kondrich "Asylum"

You had to choose between smart and beautiful - Danusha Laméris "Service Station"

Chose the solemn paths of Hell - Vachel Lindsay "The Last Song of Lucifer"

Choose the wheat, incurious of the chaff - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

For this comet's path I chose - Toby MacNutt "Perihelion"

Renouncing whatever they chose - Anthony Madrid "Injured Bone"

We chose evolution in our own timeline - Nisa Malli "Autologous Transplant"

Choose a way to hear the world - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"

The palm trees chose victory or death - Nancy Mercado "I Come to See for Myself"

The bees chose their flowers - George Meredith "The Day of the Daughter of Hades"

The dreadful power to choose - Lewis Morris "Suffrages"

Choose between tearing and binding - Fred Moten "revision, impromptu"

By the escort that time chooses - Pablo Neruda "Animal of Light" transl. by William O'Daly

Choose the still universe of dust - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

The curious realm he chose to build - Alfred Noyes "Invitation to the Voyage"

Choose another grief - D. Nurkse "Letters from the Capital"

I could choose myself in all my shadow - Brandon O'Brien "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Is Your Father"

Choose sable day and flux night - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Language of resemblance choose - Ambrose Philips "To the Honourable Miss Carteret"

My heart they choose for home - James Jeffrey Roche "Three Doves"

I could not choose but wonder - Rennell Rodd "Long After"

Which cannot choose but weep - William Shakespeare "Sonnet LXIV"

Made useful by her choosing - Charif Shanahan "If I Am Alive To"

Choose, of all the old dreams, one - Francis Sherman "In Memorabilia Mortis"

Choose the same mistakes - Sue William Silverman "If the Girl Says the End Is Near"

Wisely one sweet instrument to choose - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets I: Chaucer" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

The starlings choose one piece of sky - Maggie Smith "Starling"

Nor choose 'twixt earth and sky - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"

And the parallels met whenever they chose - "Turvey Top"

Choose for your emblem the vulture - Henry van Dyke "Homeward Bound"

Ice caps don't choose to melt - Katie Willingham "Dear Charlie"

Chooses one direction only - Katie Willingham "Twitch (Disambiguation)"

Within the frame we've chosen - Diane Ackerman "Letter to Dr. B--"

This is my father's chosen country - Frank Bidart "California Plush"

Combine to form my chosen treasure - "The Chosen One" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no.377, June 27, 1829, credited London Magazine]

Some chosen detritus boiling in a poor man's pot - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"

Love bade me follow in his chosen train - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [In all the world is none so happy here]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)

Trace back the paths that I've chosen - Ashanti Files "Ripples"

Have chosen the strange garments of confusion - Tony Hoagland "No Thank You"

As if it were one you had chosen - Jane Hirshfield "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World"

Oppose the chosen number of my days - Amanda Jernigan "Years, Months, and Days"

Chosen rhyme and cunning phrase - Theodore Maynard "The Singer to His Lady"

Five chosen roots - Pablo Neruda "I Ask for Silence" transl. by Alastair Reid

The chosen word of a journey - Emilio Porta "Paradise"

Out only chosen future - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"

From the ways that our feet have chosen - Rennell Rodd "At Tiber Mouth"

Murmurs in the dreams of chosen daughters - Ann K. Schwader "Ammutseba Rising"

Chosen by an inquisitor of structures - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"

The chosen hearthstone of our dreams - Thomas Walsh "Coelo et in Terra"

The boulevards chosen out of ten years - William Carlos Williams "Berket and the Stars"

The moment just after one has chosen - Matthew Zapruder "Come On All You Ghosts"

A sly wander from the course unchosen - Edwin Torres "A Most Imperfect Start"

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