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Title Author Year
The Bear Galway Kinnell 2000
The Forest Susan Stewart 1995
Mermaid Song Kim Addonizio 2000
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks Jane Kenyon 1986
Tender Buttons [Breakfast] Gertrude Stein 1914
Incurable Dorothy Parker 1928
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,] Christina Rossetti 1872
The Aim Was Song Robert Frost 1921
Day-Dreams Dorothy Parker 1926
Observation Dorothy Parker 1926
How to Apologize Ellen Bass 2021
23 Reasons Why Mexicanos Can Still Be Found in a Walmart Alessandra Narváez Varela 2021
Together Carrie Williams Clifford 1922
In-between the sun and moon Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
My love is as a fever, longing still (Sonnet 147) William Shakespeare 1904
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75) William Shakespeare 1904
Adore Li-Young Lee 2018
Not Doing Something Wrong Isn't the Same as Doing Something Right Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz 2017
Pokeberries Ruth Stone 2017
Hamlet, Act III, Scene II [Nay, do not think I flatter] William Shakespeare 2016

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