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Title Author Year
For the Scribe Gar.Una of Uruk, 3,000 B. C. David Wojahn 2014
Station 40, Chiriu: the Poet Ariwara no Narihira at Eight Bridges Debora Greger 2014
The Prairie Town Helen Santmyer 1921
Upon Hearing the News You Buried Our Dog Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2014
Grief Puppet Sandra Beasley 2014
When They Die We Change Our Minds About Them Jennifer Michael Hecht 2014
The World Seems … Gregory Orr 2014
On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf Alexander Posey 1910
The Odyssey, Book 11: ll. 538-556 Rowan Ricardo Phillips 2013
from Oracles for Youth Caroline Gilman 1852
Given Joanna Klink 2013
Incomplete Lioness Linda Bierds 2013
Giraffes Kimiko Hahn 2013
Excelsior Walt Whitman 1891
Tang Bruce Cohen 2013
The High-School Lawn Thomas Hardy 1925
“I’m afraid of death” Kathleen Ossip 2013
Mimosa Mary Ruefle 2013
Rocket Fantastic [He’s really beautiful.] Gabrielle Calvocoressi 2013
far memory Lucille Clifton 1991

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