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Constancy Elsa Gidlow 1923
Sudden Friendship Elsa Gidlow 1923
[The sun is lord of life and colour] Iris Tree 1919
Epitaph Dorothy Parker 1926
Fighting Words Dorothy Parker 1926
What She Said Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
4. bell hooks 2012
To My Friends Countee Cullen 1925
the shoes Wo Chan 2021
Like, Comma, Like Kay Gabriel 2020
The Teller of Tales Gabriela Mistral 2003
The Tired Worker Claude McKay 1922
Self James Oppenheim 1916
Spring Thunder Mark Van Doren 1924
The Aged Pilot Man Mark Twain 1872
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor) Tara Hardy 2020
Music Alice Cary 1903
Females Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1898
Driving to Santa Fe Paisley Rekdal 2019
On the Hill-Side Radclyffe Hall 1910

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