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Title Author Year
Notes for Canto CXX Ezra Pound 1956
Wait Until It Grows Roots Tarfia Faizullah 2025
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,] Christina Rossetti 1872
lake-loop Natalie Diaz 2020
Turtle Soup Marilyn Chin 1994
Firing Squad Ilya Kaminsky 2018
Strawberrying May Swenson 2016
Disarming of Shadow, Arming of Light Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2015
Sea Rose H.D. 1916
Cattails Nikky Finney 2011
Road Trip Kurt Brown 2010
Spring Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
Idyll Siegfried Sassoon 1920
My Wife Robert Louis Stevenson 1896
Dusting Marilyn Nelson 1994
Evening Hawk Robert Penn Warren 1985
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell 2000
All She Wrote Harryette Mullen 1997
Day of the Dead Peter Balakian 2025
The Heart is the capital (138) Emily Dickinson 1929

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