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Title Author Year
The Shark’s Parlor James Dickey 1992
Plague of Dead Sharks Alan Dugan 2001
Ashore Ernest Hilbert 2009
Sharks’ Teeth Kay Ryan 2005
The Steel Rippers Patricia Carlin 2009
At Shark Reef Sanctuary Eva Alice Counsell 2003
Coffee and Oranges Joel Brouwer 2009
Shoal of Sharks Richard O'Connell 2001
Ants and Sharks Tomasz Rózycki 2008
The Ripple Effect Jamey Dunham 2009
Seal Lullaby Rudyard Kipling 1894
Song of the Paddlers [excerpt] Herman Melville 1849
The Shark Lord Alfred Douglas 1897
Untitled [There, by the crescent moon, the shark] Shido 1902
The City of God David Baker 2001
Wilderness Carl Sandburg 1918
Goldfish Are Ordinary Stacie Cassarino 2009
Ode on Dictionaries Barbara Hamby 2009
Hawk Daniel Waters 2009
[white spring] Lisa Olstein 2009

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