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Title Author Year
Throwing Children Ross Gay 2023
[The cry of the cicada] Matsuo Bashō 1899
At the Zoo William Makepeace Thackeray 1863
Leda and the Swan W. B. Yeats 1923
The Tyger William Blake 1794
Epitaph to a Dog George Gordon Byron 1808
A Blessing James Wright 2005
The Fish Elizabeth Bishop 2011
Moonlily Marilyn Nelson 2017
Chickens Kate Gale 2022
Nothing Promised Avia Tadmor 2025
The Dance of the Lambs and the Birds Ameen Animashaun 2025
Conflation Matthew Gellman 2025
Wolf Moon Susan Mitchell 2025
Confluence Teresa Dzieglewicz 2025
From “The Loving Shepherdess” [Unhappy shepherdess,] Robinson Jeffers 2025
This Is Not a Horse Blas Falconer 2025
The Boxwood Sketches Yaxkin Melchy Ramos 2025
Poetry in Small Language Damir Šodan 2025
Somber Bull Andrea Cote 2025

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