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Title Author Year
Blue with Collapse Thomas Lux 2016
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
Of Many Worlds in this World Margaret Cavendish 1653
Life in a Love Robert Browning 1855
Listen, Lord: A Prayer James Weldon Johnson 1927
They Flee from Me Thomas Wyatt 1557
there aren’t enough idioms about the stars Keith S. Wilson 2025
The Sea / Is Sacred Still Andrew Calis 2025
Overtakelessness Daniel Moysaenko 2025
Cat Josephine Miles 1983
The Cloisters Jorge Luis Borges 1999
Ode to People Who Hate Me Carmen Giménez 2023
Skull Song Genevieve Taggard 1923
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922
Sea Calm Langston Hughes 1926
The Humble-Bee Ralph Waldo Emerson
Notes on the Below Ada Limón 2016
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver Geffrey Davis 2016
Lament for the Makaris William Dunbar 1460
Endings Mona Van Duyn 1992

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