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Title Author Year
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,] Christina Rossetti 1872
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés 1922
Love Sleep Elsa Gidlow 1923
From “The Trees Witness Everything” Victoria Chang 2021
Map Linda Hogan 2014
Pictures of Memory Alice Cary 1903
I wanted to be surprised. Jane Hirshfield 2020
Underbelly Nicole Homer
Hurricane Yona Harvey 2017
Self-Portrait as Artemis Tarfia Faizullah 2015
Taking Down the Tree Jane Kenyon 2005
Rambling Afaa Michael Weaver 2007
The Apple Trees at Olema Robert Hass 2010
A Ditty Sir Philip Sidney 2012
Evening Hawk Robert Penn Warren 1985
Shirt Robert Pinsky 1990
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998
Ode on Periods Bernadette Mayer 1998
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026

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