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Title Author Year
I think I should have loved you presently (Sonnet IX) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Ode to My Hands Tim Seibles 2010
Languages Carl Sandburg 1916
Wild Gratitude Edward Hirsch 1986
The Sick Child Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
The Alien Greg Delanty 2007
Just One of Those Things Cole Porter 1935
Hap Thomas Hardy 1898
Love for This Book Pablo Neruda 1966
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
The Spirit of Air Walter de la Mare 1921
People and a Heron Robinson Jeffers 1925
Fate Ralph Waldo Emerson 1900
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
La Guerre (II) E. E. Cummings 2025
Night’s Edge / La orilla de la noche Octavio Quintanilla 2025
Cat Josephine Miles 1983
Christmas on the Border, 1929 Alberto Ríos 2024
Wooden Window Frames Luci Tapahonso 2024
Faceless Tongo Eisen-Martin 2017

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