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Title Author Year
What I Would Like to Grow in My Garden Katherine Riegel 2018
Self-Portrait as a Body, a Sea Donika Kelly 2017
Time-Lapse Video of Trans Woman Collapsing Inward Like a Dying Star Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2020
A Painter’s Thoughts John Yau 2020
From “Grandmother’s Garden” Meena Alexander 2020
Ashore Ernest Hilbert 2009
Sunset Effie Lee Newsome 1923
Autumn Alexander Posey 1910
The Mystic Blue D. H. Lawrence 2017
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024
In Summer Twilight Joshua Henry Jones Jr. 1919
Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs. Wallace Stevens 2017
Ordinary Time Jay Parini 2016
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
Willow, Stop Weeping Sally Wen Mao 2025
Wetland francine j. harris 2023
Four Poems for Robin Gary Snyder 1968
His Favorite Color Is Green Martha Silano 2006
Story—Late Summer or Early Fall Yoo Heekyung , Stine An 2024
The warble of melting snow is the river Emily Lee Luan 2023

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