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Title Author Year
The Elephant is Slow to Mate D. H. Lawrence 1964
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922
To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell 1681
Howl, Parts I & II Allen Ginsberg 1984
Leda and the Swan W. B. Yeats 1923
From the Desire Field Natalie Diaz 2017
At the Touch of You Witter Bynner 2014
Fish Fucking Michael Blumenthal 1984
A Woman Waits for Me Walt Whitman 1891
9. E. E. Cummings 2010
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Spontaneous Me Walt Whitman 1891
A Book of Music Jack Spicer 1958
Zombie Hadara Bar-Nadav 2018
One Girl Sappho 1870
Kink Imani Davis 2023
On Desire Dujie Tahat 2022
Longing Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Elastic Love Contrapuntal Sarah Cooper 2023
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning Leila Chatti 2021

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