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Title Author Year
Silences John Montague 2012
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them Naomi Shihab Nye 2011
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at] Tada Chimako 2010
Moonlight Monologue for the New Kitten Péter Kántor 2010
For Some Slight I Can’t Quite Recall Ross Gay 2011
Rime Riche Monica Ferrell 2010
Emily Dickinson to the Rescue Michael Dickman 2010
Queen-Anne's-Lace William Carlos Williams 1921
Reminiscence Stéphane Mallarmé 1994
Adjectives of Order Alexandra Teague 2010
Spring in New Hampshire Claude McKay 1920
Epitaph on a Hare William Cowper 1783
World Below the Brine Walt Whitman 1891
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch 2003
Mother Night James Weldon Johnson 1922
Hospital: strange lights Jean Valentine 2008
Secret History Charles Simic 2008
Letter [Persephone to Demeter] Rachel Zucker 2003
Regarding Chainsaws Hayden Carruth 2006
Couture Mark Doty 1995

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