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[You were so small in my hands] Mosab Abu Toha 2025
The Specious Present Catherine Barnett 2023
Mother Dear Claude McKay 1912
The Haunted House Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1834
Ballade at Thirty-five Dorothy Parker 1926
4. bell hooks 2012
[Oye! This is an apartment building ode.] Dimitri Reyes 2022
Incantation of the First Order Rita Dove 2021
The Maze Mary-Kim Arnold 2021
Ways to Disappear Camille Rankine 2021
Cassette County David Berman 2003
When Love Alicia Ostriker 2021
The Dance of Love Countee Cullen 1925
The Winter Bird Jones Very 1883
Everything is Different Paul Celan 2020
My Descendants W. B. Yeats 1970
My Hermitage Alexander Posey 1910
The Rainbow Effie Waller Smith 1909
The World-Soul Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Father replays the funeral in Dream #28 Margo Tamez 2019

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