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Title Author Year
Disarming of Shadow, Arming of Light Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2015
Testimony Joseph Fasano 2014
Monna Innominata [I loved you first] Christina Rossetti 1881
Shirt Robert Pinsky 1990
Madam and Her Madam Langston Hughes 1994
Streets Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
The Letter Amy Lowell 1915
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–16 Homer 1975
[Farewell love and all thy laws forever] Thomas Wyatt 1557
Returning to Fields and Gardens (I) Tao Yuanming 2024
And We Live On ... Refaat Alareer 2024
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,] Christina Rossetti 1872
Sheep in Winter John Clare 1835
Alchemy Horse Natalie Diaz 2023
Aunt Sue’s Stories Langston Hughes 1926
testify Eve L. Ewing 2022
I Sing What You Loved Gabriela Mistral 2003
The Dawn’s Awake! Otto Leland Bohanan 1922
Family Reunion Rita Dove 2007

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