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Title Author Year
Einstein Defining Special Relativity A. Van Jordan 2007
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue] Claudia Rankine 2004
The First Marriage Peter Meinke 1996
Love in a Life Robert Browning 1855
Poem at Thirty Michael Ryan 2004
Safe Sex Donald Hall 2006
Drunken Winter Joseph Ceravolo 1994
Change in the Grove of Chickadees Lesle Lewis 2006
Infidelity Stanley Plumly 1989
Pigeons at Dawn Charles Simic 2005
Tomorrow David Budbill 2005
Outside Michael Ryan 2004
The Orchid Flower Sam Hamill 2002
Spring Snow Arthur Sze 1998
The Blue Stairs Barbara Guest 2003
My Aunts Adam Zagajewski 2002
In Memoriam Mae Noblitt A. R. Ammons 1981
What the Girl Wore Kathleen Driskell 2016
[To love two people is to have it] Ulayya bint al-Mahdi 2026
Very Long Marriage at Bedtime Elizabeth Jacobson 2025

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