luxure obsolete
from the whistling verb
float
rather the 1660s relay
reluctance lasting and
first attested sometime around
1661 lather reluctantly wrestle
stains see related lasciviousness
lust 1520 screams obsolescence
the verb first fury related
which attests sometime
in 1660 the king burns grace
which is reluctance latin relates
60 pounds of cake perhaps shake
shares a common origin with the greek lygos
pliant twig luxurie debauchery
dissoluteness lust 12c modern french
luxurie debauchery dislocated
arm relate the 1660s relate
14c lasciviousness leathered up
in reluctant magnificence
Excerpt from Kaveh Akbar’s “River of Milk” used without permission, but with unconditional love, from the Poetry Foundation.