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Title Author Year
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks Jane Kenyon 1986
Wait Until It Grows Roots Tarfia Faizullah 2025
Dirtbag Leigh Lucas 2023
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés 1922
Moon Over Gaza Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Ode to Sudanese-Americans Safia Elhillo 2021
Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2020
brd Anthony Cody 2020
This Morning Luci Tapahonso 2020
Why I Love Thee? Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Jakarta, January Sarah Kay 2019
Christmas in the Heart Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades June Jordan 2017
The Mystic Blue D. H. Lawrence 2017
Mist Henry David Thoreau 2015
Hoar-Frost Amy Lowell 2015
Song of the Deathless Voice Abram Joseph Ryan 1880
sorrows Lucille Clifton 2009
In the Library Charles Simic 2008
Hades' Pitch Rita Dove 1980

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