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( Lull )


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( Long )


( Longer )


Conjure the potent sky of the longest day - Tamiko Beyer "February"

And hang the longest feathers in my hair - Gordon Bottomley "King Lear's Wife"

Marks the longest separation - Cristina Rivera Garza "Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:49" transl. by Ilana Luna and Cheyla Samuelson


Its billion-mile-long pocket comb - Chris Dombrowski "February Sidereal with Backyard Doe"


Headlong.


Pity's long-broken urn - Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"


Long-Dead.


To reanimate the long-inert pendulum - Timothy Donnelly "Globus Hystericus"


Long-term resident predator of outer sheds - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"


As the long-toiling light fades - Edward Burrough Brownlow "The Death of the Laureate"


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Stargrit. Heartlocked. Vowstrung - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"


Interlock.


Landlocked behind the barbed wire - Sheila Maldonado "herederos de cero"


Nailed in lockers sealed with beeswax - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"

storage locker of unpaid bills and auctioned objects - Asiya Wadud "number four"


The roaches march in lockstep - Mike Allen "Ascending"


Dry snow under the storm-locked sills - Ruth Lechlitner "Elegy"


Unlock.


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( Loiter )


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An owl came to my lodge - Chia Yi "Rhyme-Prose on the Owl" transl. by Burton Watson

Within myself is lodged the key - Countee Cullen "Harsh World That Lashest Me"

Lodged among mortal deer - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"

The questions where promises lodge - Jen Hofer "future somatics to-do list"

Lodged beneath your mourning - Kamilah Aisha Moon "#17"


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( Lonesome )


Alone.


Lone.


Lonely/Loneliness.


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What loons could be trying to say - Monica de la Torre "The Script"

Where the loon's loud laugh rings wild and clear - William Hodgson Ellis "Little White Crow"

The querulous outcry of the loon - Archibald Lampman "Comfort of the Fields"

Thus sailed the brindled loon - Alfred B. Street "The Loon: Tupper's Lake"

The loon's weird laughter far away - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"


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A short-term loan of agate - Mary Jo Bang "U Is for United"

The canvas on loan from Gabriel - Chris Dombrowski "See that my grave is swept clean"

Will make you a special loan called Time - Tony Hoagland "Marriage Song"

Loaned surnames to stars - Akilah Oliver "In Aporia"

Live with their life on loan - Tim Seibles "All the Time Blues Villanelle"

Those that pay the willing loan - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VI"


Lend/Lent.

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Unaccountable acorns, midnight loam, overgrown meadows - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"

Crimson tracks in the blackened loam - Robert E. Howard "Shadows on the Road"

Throws white fingers up out of loam - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"

Old wisdoms of the loam - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 2: The Man from Joppa"

Slow tread of barley in loam - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"


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( Lose )


Loss.

Lost.


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