Potential Titles: Lack

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For lack of bird and sunbeam - Ellen Tracy Alden "Princess Gerda"

The kind of beauty steel lines ought to lack - Witter Bynner "Train-Mates"

Sparkless for lack of knowing better - Jennifer Chang "Sonogram"

Very lacking in witches - Chen Chen "The School of Night & Hyphens"

Lack the rigor of a lightning bolt - Dan Chiasson "Thread"

Of freight trains lacking finesse - G. O. Clark "Sound Check"

I have a scheme which nothing lacks - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Snow Man"

Lacking the fabric of a cocktail - Diane DeCillis "Quiet Rooms"

And sigh for lack of heaven - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Love VI"

Down here in this lack of wind - Chris Dombrowski "Still Life with Starlight"

Lack of welcome for my kind - Peg Edera "Harbors of Miracle"

No joy but lacks salt - Robert Frost "To Earthward"

Dazed by the lack of gravity - Jeannine Hall Gailey "Epilogue: A Story for After"

All the March air lacks - Conrad Hilberry "Garlic Mustard"

The wind lacks even strength to sigh - Richard Hughes "Weald"

Black holes lack circumspection - Mary Soon Lee "I, Universe"

Our sudden lack of atmosphere - Ada Limon "The Barer the Bones"

Admiring the ocean's lack of attachment - Campbell McGrath "My Sadness"

Lacking both mass and magic - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"

Incompatible and lacked necessary verbs - Saretta Morgan 'from "Plan Upon Arrival"'

My customary lack of shadows - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Criticism" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

The statistics that pain still lacks - Pablo Neruda "The Watersong Ends" transl. by Alastair Reid

Languished by a lack of oxygen - Caroline Harper New "If We Move Back In Together"

A lack of oxygen in the news - Naomi Shihab Nye "Footfall"

Lacking the quickness of youth - Ron Padgett "Sideways Guy"

Into this all-consuming lack - Sasha Pimentel "Lament of Submerged Persons"

But all you feel is lack - Sina Queyras "Years"

My lack of apology for what I am bound to to do - Barbara Jane Reyes "[state of emergency]"

But lack tongues to praise - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CVI"

That lack the intelligence of trees - Wallace Stevens "The River of Rivers in Connecticut"

Lack the answer of one heart - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"


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