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My spirit like a sail outspread - Charles Baudelaire "The Voyage" transl. not credited

Before whom the future outspreads - C. E. de la Poer Beresford "A Happy New Year"

The outspread plumes of the quetzal bird - "III: Occe al Mismo Tono Tlamelauhcayotl | Another Plain Song, to the Same Tune" transl. from Nahuatl by Daniel G. Brinton

On the Music's outspread wings - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: Sent to Heaven"

For thorns and roses there outspread - Friedrich Schiller "To the Fates"

The balance of the year on her outspread palms - Sonya Taaffe "Heyiya"


Out.


Spread.


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( Oyster )


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( Ox/Oxen )


End up with one ox-hair worth of gain - Po Chu'i "Better Come Drink Wine with Me" transl. by Burton Watson

With ox-teams great in the fall - Taras Shevchenko "Naimechka or The Servant" transl. by Alexander Jardine Hunter


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Disown.


( Own )


Though breath was all I owned - Elizabeth Bartlett "Time Will Tell"

Owned wealth in a measure supreme - Eleanor Farjeon "The Unspoken Word"

Against a spiral of owned objects - Ra Malika Imhotep "Hurstonian Mythos 0.2: Custodial Spirits"

Grown in gardens never owned - Carmen Tafolla "Marked"


Their owners who also disintegrate to dust - Jacie Ragan "The Secret Lives of Fingerprints"

As owner of the lightning and the sun - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

By no owner's hand disturbed - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)


Trace ownership in treaties and deeds - Kimberly Blaeser "Cadastre, Apostle Islands"

Who will contest the ownership of fire? - Kevin Goodan "Spot Weather Forecast"

Lips admit their ownership - Maxine Kumin "After Love"


Owning all their vastness - Naomi Shihab Nye "For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh"

Owning every foot on which we stand - Wanda Short "On Straight to Freedom"


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( Overwhelm )


In black Oblivion's waves should whelm his name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle


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To overlook what he had arranged to surpass - Brian Blanchfield "According to Herodotus"

woke up in the overlooked dark - Hoa Nguyen "Autumn Poem 2012"

Overlooking the broken cliffs of the moon - Wendy Rathbone "Grief"

The cost of a moment overlooked - Morris Rosenfeld "The Nightingale to the Workman" transl. by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank

A wraparound window overlooking the universe - Marge Simon "Sturgeon Crosses Over"

A glass palace overlooking an airport - Jackie Wang "Life is a Place Where it's Forbidden to Live"


Look.


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( Overflow )


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( Overhead )


Head.


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An ocean of grief pressed into ovals - Mary Jo Bang "This Morning"

To lift the oval of my soul - Maxwell Bodenheim "While Hearing a Little Song (Solveigs Lied)"

An oval that's a metaphor for life - Bob Hicok "Calling him back from layoff"

rendered as a grouping of ovals - Monica Youn "Study of Two Figures (Ignatz/Krazy)"


The last of the maroon crabapple ovates - Ada Limon "It's the Season I Often Mistake"


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( Outlaw )


Law.

Out.


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