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Title Author Year
Slowly in Prayer Matthew Lippman 2014
Life Edith Wharton 1894
Bread and Cake Kevin Prufer 2014
Rondeau Jessie Redmon Fauset 1912
The World Seems … Gregory Orr 2014
On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf Alexander Posey 1910
Holding Pattern Timothy Liu 2014
Amethyst Beads Eavan Boland 2013
Happy first anniversary (in anticipation of your thirty ninth) Bob Hicok 2013
Toad Diane Seuss 2013
Giraffes Kimiko Hahn 2013
Excelsior Walt Whitman 1891
From “The Princess” [Sweet and low, sweet and low] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2013
The High-School Lawn Thomas Hardy 1925
Summer in Winter in Summer Noah Eli Gordon 2013
Mimosa Mary Ruefle 2013
Rocket Fantastic [He’s really beautiful.] Gabrielle Calvocoressi 2013
On this Very Street in Belgrade Charles Simic 2013
far memory Lucille Clifton 1991
Self-Portrait as Mae West One-Liner Paisley Rekdal 2013

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