Dylan, I haven't seen your return, but may have missed it. I think probably now I can give the full letter counts : 4,4,2,3,2,1,5. The poem's title is indeed prefaced by 'The' and the other word has already been heralded on this board.
Highlighting of one geographical name coincides with the "appropriate outline", of the other, I think, by 2 cells.
The "two words touching at a corner" is deliberately ambiguous. The corner isn't the corner of the puzzle, but the corner of a cell. I think in most cases a bore is one wave, so I question that the outline is "appropriate."
But, to keep in context, I guess any rubbish is okay.