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Always on the Train Ruth Stone 2003
Shedding Skin Harryette Mullen 1981
Late Bird Angela Narciso Torres 2026
From “Puella Mea” [Through the young and awkward hours] E. E. Cummings 1923
1943 Nicholas Christopher 2025
Prose in a Small Space Rita Dove 2021
[You were so small in my hands] Mosab Abu Toha 2025
Gitanjali 4 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Carbon Dating Billy Collins 2022
Country of Water Mahogany L. Browne 2022
Shadow River Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
The Feet of Judas George Marion McClellan 1922
Long Trip Langston Hughes 1926
What Comes Carolyn Forché 2020
Cassette County David Berman 2003
My Father. A Tree. Tina Chang 2020
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Seven of the ten things] Terrance Hayes 2019
From “Nox” [Herodotos tells us ...] Anne Carson 2010
River to River Hai-Dang Phan 2019
Model-Train Display at Christmas in a Shopping Mall Food Court James Arthur 2019

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