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Above.

Abutt:
Cliffs abutting in shadow a drear grey sea - D.H. Lawrence "Ruination"

Across.

Adjacent:
All adjacent quantities bloom - Joshua Bennett "X"

Almost adjacent to being human - Cynthia Cruz "In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines"

Through the realm adjacent - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Bowling by chance in adjacent lanes - Idra Novey "Value City"

Ahead.

Along.

Altitude.

Amid.

Among.

Angle.

Apart.

Around.

Aside.

Back (all).

Backward.

Before.

Behind.

Below.

Beneath.

Beside/Besides.

Between.

Betwixt/'Twixt.

Beyond.

Bottom.

Circling.

Clockwise:
clockwise back to a better self - Nicole Callihan "Marriage"

Compass.

Coordinate:
Carefully calculate coordinates - Mary Soon Lee "Advice for Time Travelers"

Maps desire's coordinates - Shara McCallum "Fury"

Precision in every coordinate - Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers "Abandoned Block Factory, Arkansas"

Every coordinate a golden fiber - Hal Y. Zhang "Majorana, Back Again"

Counterclockwise:
Otherwise and likewise and counterclockwise - Dara Barrois/Dixon "We're All Ghosts Now"

Counterclockwise wind in their mouths - Alexis Pauline Gumbs "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

Diagonal:
Draws a diagonal across my floor - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Wonder"

A diagonal dismemberment of silk - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"

Direction.

Down.

Downhill:
Rolling a fog of ash downhill to sea - Mark Jarman "Dispatches from Devereux Slough"

Downward.

East.

Equator:
In the soul's own hot equators - Theodore Rand "Song-Waves"

Face to Face.

Forward.

Front.

Halfway.

Horizontal.

Inner.

Inside.

Inside Out.

Invert.

Inward.

Latitude.

Lee.

Left.

Longitude:
the longitude is a contested border - Asiya Wadud "attention as a form of ethics [excerpt]"

The long needles of latitude and longitude - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"

Meridian:
On bare stone with open meridians - Tania Chen "To a Dear Immortal in a Foreign Land"

Veils in clouds the sun's meridian beam - George Crabbe "The Library"

Sped on the Great Meridian for jetty pearls - Sir Ronald Ross "Ariel and the Hippopotamus: Dedicated to the Rural Magnates"

Middle.

North.

Northwest:
Retires on the breast of the northwest horizon - Lucy Griffith "Attention"

Oblique.

Opposite.

Orientation:
Inclined to landscape orientation - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"

Other Side.

Out.

Outer.

Outside.

Outward.

Overhead.

Periphery.

Precede.

Previous.

Right.

Side.

Side by Side.

Sideways:
Blown sideways in the sugar and ices night - Paul Cameron Brown "Highgate"

Fell sideways instead of down - Chris Dombrowski "Wintering"

With faces turn'd sideways - Walt Whitman "Starting from Paumanox"

South.

South-West:
Amid the kisses of the soft south-west - William Cullen Bryant "Autumn Woods"

Thence.

Thither.

Through.

To and Fro:
We view the world tost to and fro - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull

Shiver to and fro with dainty inward storm - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]

A yoke of oxen shaken to and fro - "The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus 26" [Project Gutenberg. The Wisdom of the Apocrypha. 1910. Ed. by L. Cranmer-Byng and S.A. Kapadia]

Top.

Under.

Underneath.

Up.

Up and Down.

Upside Down.

Upward.

West.

Yon.

Yonder.


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