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Title Author Year
Why I Don’t Mention Flowers When Conversations with My Brother Reach Uncomfortable Silences Natalie Diaz 2016
The River Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath’s Braid Diane Seuss 2015
The Everyday Enchantment of Music Mark Strand 2012
The Forest in the Axe André Breton 2003
from The Vision of Sir Launfal James Russell Lowell 1848
Dear Tiara Sean Thomas Dougherty 2011
the lost women Lucille Clifton 1989
On Halloween Janet Little 1792
Upon Julia's Clothes Robert Herrick 1670
Brad Pitt Aaron Smith 2005
O Little Root of a Dream Paul Celan 2000
The World George Herbert 1633
Star Quilt Roberta Hill Whiteman 1984
When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation Kyle Tran Myhre 2024
black love Evie Shockley 2023
Love in a Time of Covid-19 Craig Santos Perez 2022
Much Later Gertrude Stein 1926
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1926
This Island on Which I Love You Brandy Nālani McDougall 2020

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