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The Bee James Dickey 1967
A January Dandelion George Marion McClellan 1916
Metamorphosis James Richardson 2013
Dear J. Kazim Ali 2013
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
Curtains Ruth Stone 1987
The Moment Marie Howe 2011
To George Sand: A Recognition Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1844
Days Ralph Waldo Emerson 1912
The Black Unicorn (audio only) Audre Lorde 1977
The Wild Iris (audio only) Louise Glück 1992
The Sick Child Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Watermelons Charles Simic 1974
In the Land of Words Eloise Greenfield 2004
Tours C. D. Wright 1982
The Plot Against the Giant Wallace Stevens 1923
I’m Dating a Man Who’s Married Aaron Smith 2025
Peter Quince at the Clavier Wallace Stevens 1923
Dream On James Tate 1997
Virginia, Autumn Molly McCully Brown 2023

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