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My life had stood a loaded gun (143) Emily Dickinson 1929
[Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs] Pablo Neruda 2016
There’s a certain Slant of light (258) Emily Dickinson 1951
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young Wilfred Owen 2018
Passage to India Walt Whitman 1891
The Present Crisis James Russell Lowell 1845
October Sonnet Adrian Matejka 2023
History Linda Hogan 2016
Snake D. H. Lawrence
The Falling of the Leaves W. B. Yeats 2017
I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We’ve Done to the Earth Fatimah Asghar 2019
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IV [How all occasions do inform against me] William Shakespeare 1603
Miscarriage Gregory Fraser 2026
To —— Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Solitary Reaper William Wordsworth 1807
Bats Paisley Rekdal 2007
The Emperor of Ice-Cream Wallace Stevens 1922
Orchids Are Sprouting From the Floorboards Kaveh Akbar 2017
The Pumpkin John Greenleaf Whittier 1850
The Vampire Delmira Agustini 2003

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