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Title Author Year
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I] William Shakespeare 1623
Birch Cynthia Zarin 2011
9773 Comanche Ave. David Trinidad 2010
Images Richard Aldington 1916
Friend Jean Valentine 2004
Portrait d'une Femme Ezra Pound 1912
Caesarion C. P. Cavafy 2008
Epitaph on a Hare William Cowper 1783
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart] William Cowper 1779
The Maldive Shark Herman Melville 1888
What Do I Care Sara Teasdale 1920
An Ode to Himself Ben Jonson 1640
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window Ernesto Cardenal 2009
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon] Gertrude Stein 1914
Untitled [To see this evil from its core] Philip Lamantia 2008
The Widening Sky Edward Hirsch 2003
Language W. S. Merwin 2007
Darwin’s Finches Deborah Digges 1986
Credo Matthew Rohrer 2001
The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews Amy Clampitt 1997

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