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Title Author Year
Japanese Lullaby Eugene Field 1892
Six Words Lloyd Schwartz 2003
Apples Grace Schulman 2007
Tubes Donald Hall 2006
Super Samson Simpson Jack Prelutsky 1990
To the Moon [fragment] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear David Wright 2005
My Father’s Hats Mark Irwin 2004
Audience Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2003
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
The Fountain of Blood Charles Baudelaire 1994
The Death of Eve Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
ghost ranch Kristin Lueke 2026
From “Puella Mea” [Through the young and awkward hours] E. E. Cummings 1923
The Globe Michael Collier 2025
Bird Tomás Q. Morín 2025
U-Pick Orchards Danusha Laméris 2025
Ode to Aging Bodies Jan Mandell 2024
Slow through the Dark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
Against Despair: The Kid Goat Nickole Brown 2018

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