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It was a hard thing to undo this knot Gerard Manley Hopkins 2013
Aunt Helen T. S. Eliot 1915
Variation on a Theme W. S. Merwin 2013
Muffin of Sunsets Elaine Equi 2013
Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet III Mary Robinson 1796
The Wound-Dresser Walt Whitman 1891
Self-Portrait Ira Sadoff 2012
Civilization Carl Phillips 2011
9773 Comanche Ave. David Trinidad 2010
Where I Live Maxine Kumin 2010
Demeter to Persephone Alicia Ostriker 2009
Adjectives of Order Alexandra Teague 2010
The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi) Marvin Bell 2009
Caboose Thoughts Carl Sandburg 1918
Unfolded Out of the Folds Walt Whitman 1891
Syntax Reginald Shepherd 2003
Lovers' Infiniteness John Donne 1633
Regarding Chainsaws Hayden Carruth 2006
Red Slippers Amy Lowell 1916
Quatrains Gwendolyn Bennett 1927

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