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Lemons from my neighbors' yard - Aria Aber "Waiting for Your Call"

Imprisoned in the crowded quarters of front yards - Duane Ackerson "The Great Gnome Escape"

In the yard the bittersweet is drying up - Peter Balakian "Little Richard"

In the yard the lindens moan - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

In the void and dismal yard - F.N.W. Bateson "Trespassers"

All the yards torn by their green rust beings - Russell Brakefield "Effigy"

We'll take a yard since you gave us an inch - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

Her glory lay in cotton bales and yards of flimsy ware - "The Clearing of the Glens" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]

The clearing yard loaded with empty freight cars - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

Tracing the backslopes of deer in the yard - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"

The long yard clotted with ivy and vasevine - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"

Went leaping on a hundred yards before - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"

When I have grown a yard or so - Miriam Clark Potter "A Plaint"

My own voice frozen in the yard - Paisley Rekdal "The Cry"

Bright lyrics at a cent a yard - George Santayana "The Poetic Medium"

A formula in yards not meters - Ann K. Schwader "Minions of the Moon"

Kicking stones across the temple yard - Keith Taylor "Aegina: After School"

Watching electrical arcs illuminating the yard - Keith Taylor "The Day After an Ice Storm"

A yard or two nearer the living air - Edward Thomas "Digging"

From the dry yard of my mind - Derek Walcott "The Lighthouse"

Sorrow is my own yard - William Carlos Williams "The Widow's Lament in Springtime"

Seven yards short of immortality - Charles Wright "Road Warriors"


Backyard.


The boat-yard of the last gondola maker - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"


The curiosity of ghosts relating boneyard tales - Tobias Seamon "Near Life Experience"


Courtyard.


As lilacs in the dooryard once bound me - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"


In fable and folklore from farmyard to seashore - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"


Graveyard.


Its rusted ribs were stolen from the junkyard - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

A junkyard of church bells - Gregory Pardlo "Atlantic City Sunday Morning"


Prowl round the stackyards with tinder and match - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]


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