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Title Author Year
Coffee and Oranges Joel Brouwer 2009
Shoal of Sharks Richard O'Connell 2001
Submarine Mountains Cale Young Rice 1921
Flying Fish: An Ode [excerpt] Charles Wharton Stork 1917
The Bluefish Isaac McLellan 1886
The Immanent God Cale Young Rice 1916
Song of the Paddlers [excerpt] Herman Melville 1849
After Reading "Antony and Cleopatra" Robert Louis Stevenson 1890
Summer [excerpt] James Thomson 1727
The Shark Isaac McLellan 1891
Upon Shark Robert Herrick 1823
Untitled [There, by the crescent moon, the shark] Shido 1902
The Shark William Henry Venable 1909
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old] Rudyard Kipling 1901
In a Breath Carl Sandburg 1916
I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned? Robert Graves 1918
The Drum Room Fred Marchant 2009
Bulb Planting Time Edgar Guest 1922
Meeting Again, After Heine Susan Wheeler 1998
Shanked on the Red Bed Susan Wheeler 1998

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