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Title Author Year
The Apparition John Donne 1633
Ghost Paul Mariani 1996
Take the I Out Sharon Olds 1999
[I seek and desire] Sappho 1907
Death of an Old Seaman Langston Hughes 1926
A Song of a Navajo Weaver Bertrand N. O. Walker 1906
The House of Ghosts Margaret Widdemer 2018
Cardiology Rafael Campo 2018
Hermes of the Ways H.D. 2016
Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard Patrick Rosal 2015
Kudzu Saeed Jones 2015
Because it looked hotter that way Camille T. Dungy 2014
Like Any Good American Brynn Saito 2013
Proem Octavio Paz 1986
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998
Love’s Language Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1901
[Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find] Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Memory of France Carlie Hoffman 2024
Love’s Growth John Donne 1633
Home Norma Elia Cantú 2019

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