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Title Author Year
Vaccinated Jericho Brown 2021
Heartbeats Melvin Dixon 2017
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down. Andrea Gibson 2023
Sick Shel Silverstein 2003
Having it Out with Melancholy Jane Kenyon 1993
The Land of Counterpane Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
The Splendid Body Rebecca Lindenberg 2023
Vanitas Traci Brimhall 2025
Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic Grisel Y. Acosta 2025
My Father Teaches Me to Play Solitaire Donna Masini 2025
For Brendan Stephen Cramer 2004
sueño convulso (seizure dream) Urayoán Noel 2024
Neon Green Instructions From My Home Dialysis Machine Peter J. Harris 2024
A Brief History of E. A. Robinson and the Train Station in Gardiner, Maine Abbie Kiefer 2024
In This Light the Junk Undergoes a Transfiguration; It Shines Cynthia Cruz 2024
Lithopedion Katy Lederer 2024
To Bear the Ruse Cindy Juyoung Ok 2024
The Alphabet Debra Weinstein 1996
Ostrich Woman Nandi Comer 2018
Joy Is Earned Charlotte Pence 2020

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