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Title Author Year
Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet III Mary Robinson 1796
Twenty Questions Jim Moore 2012
The Wound-Dresser Walt Whitman 1891
Birch Cynthia Zarin 2011
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall] Harryette Mullen 2010
9773 Comanche Ave. David Trinidad 2010
Demeter to Persephone Alicia Ostriker 2009
The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi) Marvin Bell 2009
Caboose Thoughts Carl Sandburg 1918
Ode to Spring Frederick Seidel 2009
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair] Jenny Boully 2008
Lovers' Infiniteness John Donne 1633
Thanksgiving Letter from Harry Carl Dennis 2007
Bucolics [LIX] Maurice Manning 2007
Shawl Albert Goldbarth 2007
Like Brooms of Steel (1252) Emily Dickinson 1890
San Sepolcro Jorie Graham 1995
My Friends W. S. Merwin 1963
Nothing Stays Put Amy Clampitt 1997
Of Memory and Distance Russell Edson 2005

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