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In Laynie's book, Daily Sonnets,
she has these alphabet poems

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where you only write the poem
using the letters-- you look

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at a dictionary
page, and you only

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write the poem using
the words on that page.

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So this is "L Poem for Laynie."

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I guess the page where
your name would be if it

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was in the dictionary, right?

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"L Poem for Laynie"

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"Light rises, an oily
liquid, a kind of sedan chair

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carried by wild plants,
seating two persons vis-a-vis

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volcanic rocks.

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In the blood of white
vowels is a drug,

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knowledge of letters
in the living body,

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learning as a child
elevator, a reception

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of visitors unrising from bed.

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A level tract of land, drift
passage of Mediterranean faith

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comparing up and lying down.

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To be or to bolt a plumb line
aimed at a microscopic mark."