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Break of Day John Donne 1612
Body Language Pramila Venkateswaran 2025
[You were so small in my hands] Mosab Abu Toha 2025
Ode to Aging Bodies Jan Mandell 2024
Loom Lee Trumpfheller 2024
Clarity Vievee Francis 2024
Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees Ansel Elkins 2023
Virginia, Autumn Molly McCully Brown 2023
Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Dakota Homecoming Gwen Westerman 2018
Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom Dorothy Parker 1926
My Memories Live in my Mother’s Phone Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
Young Prostitute Langston Hughes 1926
Caribbean Sunset Langston Hughes 1926
Cenzontle Marcelo Hernandez Castillo 2018
With the Lark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
A Painter’s Thoughts John Yau 2020
Monotone Carl Sandburg 1916
The Sound of Their Names Ellen Bass 2020
A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp Thomas Moore 2019

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