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Title Author Year
The Life of Trees Dorianne Laux 2009
The First Night Billy Collins 2008
Stillbirth Laure-Anne Bosselaar 2007
Tithonus Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1860
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks Jane Kenyon 1986
It would be water Kathy Engel 2021
Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2020
Inscription Herman Melville 1864
Jakarta, January Sarah Kay 2019
The Christmas Wreath Anna de Brémont 2018
Now Close the Windows Robert Frost 1915
Nationhood Laura Da’ 2018
The School of Night & Hyphens Chen Chen 2017
Hallowe'en John Kendrick Bangs 2017
The Mystic Blue D. H. Lawrence 2017
Watershed Tracy K. Smith 2017
it was a dream Lucille Clifton 1992
Hades' Pitch Rita Dove 1980
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”] Alice Notley 1992
A Ditty Sir Philip Sidney 2012

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