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Title Author Year
Secret History Charles Simic 2008
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me John Rybicki 2008
Why Is the Color of Snow? Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Science Robert Kelly 2006
Day Job and Night Job Andrew Hudgins 2003
A Shropshire Lad, XXXVI A. E. Housman 1896
They that have power to hurt and will do none (Sonnet 94) William Shakespeare 1609
Envoi William Meredith 1997
Poem at Thirty Michael Ryan 2004
A Crosstown Breeze Henry Taylor 2006
Nothing Stays Put Amy Clampitt 1997
The Great Black Heron Denise Levertov 1996
why must itself up every of a park E. E. Cummings 1923
Then Spencer Reece 2004
Ponies Spencer Reece 2004
Dishwater Ted Kooser 2004
Real Life Lucie Brock-Broido 1988
Spring Snow Arthur Sze 1998
The Blue Stairs Barbara Guest 2003
A Hermit Thrush Amy Clampitt 1997

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