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Loses by refusing to play - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"

the ones you dream of losing - Alise Alousi "Bite It"

A coastline losing yourself in increments - Cameron Awkward-Rich "Thin"

Losing that forgetful sphere - Laurence Binyon "Psyche"

Losing isn't hard to master - Elizabeth Bishop "One Art"

Practice losing farther, losing faster - Elizabeth Bishop "One Art"

Lose to the sawdust floor - Terry Blackhawk "Out of the Labyrinth"

Nothing to lose by touching down - Terry Blackhawk "Query"

Lose the taste of stillness - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Horned Toad"

He never loses twice - Calef Brown "The Gambling Ghost"

Because here we lose our names - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

To lose the dogs of grief - Jim Daniels "On Tears"

Losing something new - Natalie Diaz "From the Desire Field"

Be humble or lose yourself - Mark Dimaisip "The Untaken"

On the brink of losing my form - Cheryl Dumesnil "Prayer for Beginning"

'Tis bitter thus to lose thee - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Farewell"

The air and the water lose their separateness - Katherine Edgren "Mornings and River Currents: Morning on Cass Lake"

To lose beauty in terror - T.S. Eliot "Gerontion"

Potential merits of losing track of the problem - Hannah Ensor "Agnes, a sleep"

And lose myself amid so many alike - Robert Frost "Waiting-- Afield at Dusk"

Look back or lose your way - Eric Gamalinda "Factory of Souls"

Losing sight of barren rewards - Leyla Guirand "The Abstract Maker"

Where exiles with dictionaries lose themselves - Marilyn Hacker "Interval"

The year we had nothing to lose - Joy Harjo "Grace"

Lose the concept of weather - Stephanie Heit "Forecast"

Lose the path and watch Orion rise - Conrad Hilberry "Virginia Night"

We lose the idea of the sky - June Jordan "Problems of Translation: Problems of Language"

Stout soldiers in a losing cause - Emily Lawless "Yet Wherefore"

How much I go on losing - Li-Young Lee "Spoken For"

Scorn loses sight of its prey - Tariq Luthun "Harb"

And orphaned planets lose the joy of motion - George Martin "Laleet"

Before losing love against itself - J. Michael Martinez "Death to Paint Us"

Losing the rest of the pieces on purpose - John McCarthy "Pickup Truck"

Lose them in the vivid air - Diane Mehta "Ode to Patrick Kearns, Funeral Director of the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home, in Queens"

Don't lose your arrogance yet - W.S. Merwin "Berryman"

Acquiring stars, losing vision - Tyler Mills "Zinnias"

Who felt the moon lose her grip on the tides - Caroline Harper New "Fieldnotes on Juniper"

An echo that loses her name - Hieu Minh Nguyen "Teacher's Pet"

And find when you lose your shadow - Hoa Nguyen "Haunted Sonnet"

Who loses these names - Alice Notley "At Night the States"

Chattering ducks who never lose hope - Naomi Shihab Nye "Big Songs"

To gather what we lose - Naomi Shihab Nye "Someone Is Standing on the Roof of the World"

In constant fear of losing ground to walrus - dg nanouk okpik "Twilight Pain"

Of soul and body lose the mastery - Po-Chu'i "The Harper of Chao" (translated by Arthur Waley)

Grudging to lose a pebble - Alan Porter "Life and Luxury"

Losing his shadow at night - John Prine

A path to lose our sense of others - Khadijah Queen "Epilogue for Personae"

Our intricate losing game - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"

Where all persuasions & equations lose their grip - Ann K. Schwader "Keziah V: Through Certain Angles"

The hardest knife ill-us'd doth lose his edge - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCV"

Mesquites with nothing to lose - Analicia Sotelo "Eating the Moon in Cotulla, TX"

Always losing the scent when it crosses the Styx - A.E. Stallings "The Dogdom of the Dead"

Where all must lose their way, however straight - Edward Thomas "Lights Out"

Lose every bit of my time - Edwin Torres "Temporality at 5 a.m."

when the sun loses its way - Évelyne Trouillot "A Rain of Stars" [excerpts] transl. by Danielle Legros Georges

Saw a T-Rex fight a comet and lose - Catherynne M. Valente "What the Dragon Said: A Love Story"

A loser on a winning streak - Ocean Vuong "Beautiful Short Loser"

Losing language in my sleep - Valerie Welaufer "I do not remember my own name"

In her courts Apollo lose the art of immortality - Humbert Wolfe "Cambridge"

Lose themselves mid groves and copses - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

Losing the red thread - Matthew Zapruder "Luna My Captive"


Loss.

Lost.


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