Potential Titles: Sour

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Let something sour drip into your dreams - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

A warm chat with friends gone sour - Willis Barnstone "At My Funeral"

And sour in oblivion - Lucie Brock-Broido "Almost a Conjuror"

Stop my sleeping and sour my mind - Stephanie Burt "Hank McCoy's Complaint Against the Danger Room"

Blossoms of sweet and sour light - Sarah Cannavo "Lemon Drop"

Smiles as sour as brine - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

Which turn my sweets to sours - William Drummond "Sonnet"

sour heat of the taxicab - Safia Elhillo "Transport"

Crows hold their sour conversation - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The River"

Turned sour by sun's neglect - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"

Sour disintegrations of Love's power - Robert Graves "Cynics and Romantics"

Where flows the whiskey sour or the russet bock - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

That sours the Milk of Life and blasts the nascent Flowers - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

All their sour history turned to rot - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

Makes my daily soup taste sour - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"

The souring of flat champagne - Hailey Leithauser "Apologia"

Sapped in sour water of the bogs - Valzhyna Mort "Singer"

Where soured sugar flows - Simone Muench "Wolf Centos"

Replacing the sour with sweet - Simone Person "Awkwafina Clarifies That She's Appreciating, Not Appropriating (in Black American Sentences)"

The sweetest vintage at last turns sour - Po-Chu-i "Children" (translated by Arthur Waley)

A world of sweets and sours - Edgar A. Poe "Israfel"

Drinking fouled water and sour wines - Lola Ridge "Firehead part VIII: The Bondman 1: Mid-Afternoon"

With ancient grievances and souring schemes - Philip Schultz "Sadness"

Sour leisure gave sweet leave - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIX"

Gushes sour light across the sheets - Betsy Sharp "Alarm"

Gone sour in the sun - Brenda Shaughnessy "Artless"

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

Sour with the reek of the years - Arthur Stringer "Hill-Top Hours"

Then song turns sour on my lips - Arthur Stringer "The Question"

Sour the boiling honey - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

But never enough of sour or sweet - "The Three Little Pigs" [On the Tree Top 1881, Project Gutenberg]

Sour and shrivelled to stardust - Dorothy Tse "Cloth Birds"

The painted woods are laughing at the faces sour and sad - John Greenleaf Whittier (uncredited) "Cobbler Keezar's Vision" [The Atlantic Monthly v.07 no.40, Feb. 1861]

The souring flowers of the bedraggled poplars - William Carlos Williams "Smell!"

Clouds upholding the sour light of heaven - Charles Wright "Time Is a Child-Biting Dog"

Of a song gone sour - Jay Wright "Imule"


Sweet-sour fruit under the moon's regard - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"


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