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Title Author Year
The Dumb Soldier Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Iris David St. John 1991
A Way to Love God Robert Penn Warren 1985
Water Picture May Swenson 1994
Metamorphosis VIII, 611–724 Ovid 1683
[A long time ago] Tao Yuanming 1918
Salt Song Arthur Sze 2021
Precious Kira Tucker 2026
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
Daughter Danusha Laméris 2024
Fate Ralph Waldo Emerson 1900
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
Truth Victor Hugo 2025
[You were so small in my hands] Mosab Abu Toha 2025
The Creek in Shirley Canyon Robert Hass 2025
Poem in Which My Mother Snapped Denise Duhamel 2025
Coming Out of the Shower Armen Davoudian 2024
Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku Tony Medina 2024
Anthropocenic Jake Skeets 2023
Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode Airea D. Matthews 2019

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