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Title Author Year
Time Passes Joy Ladin 2015
From “Fairies” Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2013
Water Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
Dear Tiara Sean Thomas Dougherty 2011
Suicide of a Moderate Dictator Elizabeth Bishop 2006
Honey Arielle Greenberg 2005
The One God Is Mysterious Frank X. Gaspar 2004
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
Gertrude Stein Mina Loy 1924
Dementia Is a New Way to Be Buddhist Kelli Russell Agodon 2025
To My Dead Child Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Cat Josephine Miles 1983
job prescription Evie Shockley 2024
Not Dead, but Sleeping Clara Ann Thompson 1908
Virginia, Autumn Molly McCully Brown 2023
The Night is Darkening Round Me Emily Brontë 1941
Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals Catherine Pierce 2020
Rainy Night Dorothy Parker 1926
Spring Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Gun Control Donika Kelly 2017

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