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Title Author Year
Vow of Extinction Mary Ruefle 2018
The Best Way I Can Describe It Dean Young 2018
Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs. Wallace Stevens 2017
[London, my beautiful] F. S. Flint 2017
The Captive Dove Anne Brontë 2017
Someone Joseph O. Legaspi 2016
The Unexplorer Edna St. Vincent Millay 2016
Blue Vase Cynthia Zarin 2016
Ceremonial Eduardo C. Corral 2015
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening] Claudia Rankine 2014
Aedh Tells of the Perfect Beauty W. B. Yeats 1899
The Thinker William Carlos Williams 2015
Loving Working Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
The Balloon of the Mind W. B. Yeats 1919
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot Jalal al-Din Rumi 1898
The Apparition John Donne 1633
Syntax Reginald Shepherd 2003
Elegy 5 Ovid 1870
Home to Roost Kay Ryan 2005

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