In Laynie's book, Daily Sonnets, she has these alphabet poems
where you only write the poem using the letters-- you look
at a dictionary page, and you only
write the poem using the words on that page.
So this is "L Poem for Laynie."
I guess the page where your name would be if it
was in the dictionary, right?
"L Poem for Laynie"
"Light rises, an oily liquid, a kind of sedan chair
carried by wild plants, seating two persons vis-a-vis
volcanic rocks.
In the blood of white vowels is a drug,
knowledge of letters in the living body,
learning as a child elevator, a reception
of visitors unrising from bed.
A level tract of land, drift passage of Mediterranean faith
comparing up and lying down.
To be or to bolt a plumb line aimed at a microscopic mark."