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Title Author Year
Gila Rigoberto González 2012
The Forest in the Axe André Breton 2003
The Outlet (162) Emily Dickinson 1860
Killing Flies Michael Dickman 2011
Dear Tiara Sean Thomas Dougherty 2011
What the Angels Left Marie Howe 1988
Japanese Lullaby Eugene Field 1892
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle Wallace Stevens 1918
I Love You Sara Teasdale 1911
Father’s Song Gregory Orr 2002
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Super Samson Simpson Jack Prelutsky 1990
Slim Greer in Hell Sterling A. Brown 1980
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow Robert Duncan 1960
Mirabeau Bridge Guillaume Apollinaire 1995
Ghost Of Diana Khoi Nguyen 2018
[Someone running with his head aflame …] Daniel Lipara 2026
Rumi Joseph Fasano
A dead whale can feed an entire ecosystem Rachel Dillon 2025
Self-Portrait 1 Tove Ditlevsen 2025

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