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Title Author Year
Scaffolding Seamus Heaney 2016
The Listeners Walter de la Mare 1912
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 William Wordsworth 1807
In the House with No Doors Sarah Kay 2023
The Plain Sense of Things Wallace Stevens 2011
Block City Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window W. B. Yeats 1924
Abandoned Joseph Auslander 2016
Five Directions to My House Juan Felipe Herrera 2008
Broadway Mark Doty 1993
Old South Meeting House January Gill O’Neil 2016
“Uvalde Shooting Highlights Role of Doors in Security Plans” Deborah Paredez 2022
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
Ode on an Abandoned House Hayan Charara 2021
Tenebris Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
Prison Reginald Dwayne Betts 2016
Water Picture May Swenson 1994
Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees Ansel Elkins 2023
The Haunted House Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1834
Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode Airea D. Matthews 2019

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