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Civilization Carl Phillips 2011
Images Richard Aldington 1916
Queen-Anne's-Lace William Carlos Williams 1921
World Below the Brine Walt Whitman 1891
A Noun Sentence Mahmoud Darwish 2007
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair] Jenny Boully 2008
Further Notice Philip Whalen 2008
Regarding Chainsaws Hayden Carruth 2006
Couture Mark Doty 1995
Quatrains Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Blueprint Tom Sleigh 2007
They that have power to hurt and will do none (Sonnet 94) William Shakespeare 1609
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run Matthea Harvey 2006
Country Fair Charles Simic 1991
In the Greenhouse Eugenio Montale 2004
December 2, 2002 Juliana Spahr 2005
Last Supper Charles Wright 2005
Of Memory and Distance Russell Edson 2005
Dishwater Ted Kooser 2004
The Odyssey, Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree] Homer 1961

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