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"I wish I could remember that first day"
By Christina Rossetti
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1926
By Weldon Kees
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from Doctor Drink, #1
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A Blind Woman
By Ted Kooser
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A Cave of Angelfish Huddle Against the Moon
By Ron de Maris
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A Cedary Fragrance
By Jane Hirshfield
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A Child's Christmas in Georgia, 1953
By Wyatt Prunty
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A Computerized Jet Fountain in the Detroit Metro Airport
By Sidney Wade
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A Day on the Big Branch
By Howard Nemerov
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A Display of Mackerel
By Mark Doty
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A Flute Overheard
By Marianne Burke
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A Hermit Thrush
By Amy Clampitt
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A Hundred Bolts of Satin
By Kay Ryan
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A Hymn to Childhood
Li-Young Lee
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A Man in Blue
By James Schuyler
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A Message from the Wanderer
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A Negative of Snow
By Chase Twichell
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A Passage to India
By Walt Whitman
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A Pedestrian
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A Poet's Death
by David Trinidad
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A Prior Despair
By Scott Cairns
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A Rainy Country
By Linda Pastan
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A Regret
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A Room in the Past
By Ted Kooser
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A Short History of the Shadow
by Charles Wright
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A Sunset of the City
By Gwendolyn Brooks
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A Tale
By Louise Bogan (read by Barbara Rosenblatt)
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A Worldly Country
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Advice to a Prophet
By Richard Wilbur
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After Thanksgiving
By Sandra M. Gilbert
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After The Pillow Book
By Peter Pereira
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After the Pillow Book
By Peter Pereira
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Alone with the Goddess
By Linda Gregg
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Amorous Friendship
By Belle Randall
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An Arundel Tomb
By Philip Larkin
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An Epiphany
By Ted Kooser
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An Instrument Also
by Donald Revell
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Anagrammer
By Peter Pereira
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And Day Brought Back My Night
By Geoffrey Brock
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Animal Caution
By Chase Twichell
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Anniversary
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Another Insane Devotion
by Gerald Stern
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Another Story with a Burning Barn in It
By Lisa Olstein
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Anticipated Stranger
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Aperture
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Apollo
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Applesauce
By Ted Kooser
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Appointment
By Jean Burden
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April 5th, 1968
By Alan Williamson
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Ararat
By Mark Doty
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Arion
By David Wojahn
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Articulation
By Rae Armantrout
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At Eighty-three She Lives Alone
By Ruth Stone
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At Night the States
By Alice Notely
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At Pegasus
By Terrance Hayes
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At the Un-national Monument along the Canadian Border
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Athena
By Amy Clampitt
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Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face
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Before the Wind
By Kathleen Jamie
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Benediction
By Stanley Kunitz
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Benzene
By Donald Revell
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Big Snow
By Philip Gross
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Big Wind
By Theodore Roethke
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Bird Brain
By Ronald Wallace
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Birth Order
By Rae Armantrout
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Blackbirds
By Greg Rappleye
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Blandeur
By Kay Ryan
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Blues for Dante Alighieri
By Kim Addonizio
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Boil
By Alicia Ostriker
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Bolero
By Gerald Stern
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Box of Cigars
By Gerald Stern
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Branch Library
By Edward Hirsch
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Brick
By Robert Creeley
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Busman's Honeymoon
By A. F. Moritz
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Buying the King-Sized Bed
By Fleda Brown
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Calendar
By Talvikki Ansel
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Calm Down
By Gregory Orr
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Canada Anemone
By Fleda Brown
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Chain of Women
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Chant
By Tom Sleigh
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Child on top of a Greenhouse
By Theodore Roethke
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Children in a Field
By Angela Shaw
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Christmas Eve in Whitneyville
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Cinderblock
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Clear Night
By Charles Wright
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Coda
By Fred Muratori
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Congratulating Wedge
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Consolation
By Wislawa Szymborska
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continental divide
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Corpus Medicum
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Correspondance
By Jacques Réda
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corydon & alexis, redux
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Courtship
By Talvikki Ansel
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Crown
By Kay Ryan
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Crush
By Conor O'Callaghan
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Cusp
By Larry Bradley
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Customs of the Barbarians
By Alan Williamson
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Daffodils
By Alicia Ostriker
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Daytime
By David Mason
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Dead
By Sarah C. Harwell
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Dear One Absent This Long While
d
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Depression Glass
By Ted Kooser
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Descending Theology: Christ Human
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Dismantling the House
By Stephen Dunn
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Disown
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Do Words Outlast
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Do You Love Me?
By Robert Wrigley
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Dog Biscuits
By Chase Twichell
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Done
By Michelle Boisseau
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Door in the Mountain
By Jean Valentine
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Drift-Raft
By Atsuro Riley
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During the War
By Philip Levine
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Duties of the Spirit
By Patricia Fargnoli
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Dyslexic
By Winifred Hughes
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Easy Sermon
By Mark Jarman
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Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room
By Thomas Lux
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Elegance
By Linda Gregg
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Elegy
By Rick Barot
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Elegy a Little
By Donald Revell
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Elegy for Jane
By Theodore Roethke
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Elegy for the Parents
By Lynne Knight
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Eleven Addresses to the Lord
By Mark Jarman
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Emergency Haying
By Hayden Carruth
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Euthanasia: A Geography
By Mary Makofske
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Everything Good Between Men and Women
By C. D. Wright
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Evidence
By Averill Curdy
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Eyes Like Leeks
By Linda Gregerson
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Fable
By Tom Sleigh
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Facing It
By Yusef Komounyakaa
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Faint Music
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Falling From Us, Vanishings
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Family
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Felix Crow
By Kay Ryan
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Fever
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Fever 103°
By Sylvia Plath
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Final Autumn
By Annie Finch
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fire
By Nick Flynn
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First Thanksgiving
By Sharon Olds
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Flame
By C.D. Wright
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Flamingo Watching
By Kay Ryan
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Flesh of John Brown’s Flesh: 2 December 1859
by Geoffrey Brock
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Fog Horns
By David Mason
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Food
By John Updike
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Foodcourt
By Tony Hoagland
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For My Daughter, In Reply to a Question
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For Piano and Strings
By Jody Gladding
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For the Inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1997
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For the Taking
By Sophie Cabot Black
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Fork
By Charles Simic
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Fra Lippo Lippi
by Robert Browning (read by Paul Giamatti)
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Freely Espousing
By James Schuyler
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From a Daybook
By David St. John
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Frozen Draught
By Peter Davison
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Fugue
By Peter Pereira
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Funny Strange
By Jennifer Michael Hecht
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Generation
By Rae Armantrout
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Gospel
By Fleda Brown
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Guess
By Rae Armantrout
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Half Circle
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Hand Defined
By Cole Swensen
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Hand-Embroidered Mourning Piece for Clara Elisabeth Kriebel, 1779
By Nance Van Winckel
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Handle
By J. Allyn Rosser
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Happiness
By Jane Kenyon
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Hard Rain
By Tony Hoagland
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Have You Prayed
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He Lit a Fire with Icicles
by Kay Ryan
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Head Wrapped in Flowers
by Thylias Moss
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Heart's Needle (pt 5)
by W.D. Snodgrass
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Heat
By Jane Hirshfield
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Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty
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Her Garden
By Donald Hall
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Her Name is Rose
By Peter Pereira
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Heroic Simile
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History Lessons
By Sidney Wade
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Hold That Thought
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Holidays
By Dara Wier
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Holy Shit
By Peter Pereira
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Home at Thirty
By Ed Skoog
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Homecoming
By A.E. Stallings
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Homeland Security
By Geoffrey Brock
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Horseflies
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Hostess
By Tony Hoagland
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Hotel Lautreamont
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Houdini
By Kay Ryan
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Hour
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How to Continue
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Human Beauty
By Albert Goldbarth
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Hymn
By A. R. Ammons
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Hymn to Life
By James Schuyler
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I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You
by Hayden Carruth
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I Remember Galileo
By Gerald Stern
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I started Early – Took my Dog – (656)
By Emily Dickinson
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I'm a Fool to Love You
By Cornelius Eady
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If For Each of Us
By James Ragan
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If We Were Honest
By Albert Goldbarth
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If You Said You Would Come with Me
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Imagined Room
By Barbara Guest
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Immigrant Blues
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Impossible Dream
By Tony Hoagland
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In Kona, Thinking of the Elements
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
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In Love with You
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In the Meantime
By Lisa Olstein
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Inkwell daybreak
By Jean Valentine
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Instructions for Building Straw Huts
By Yusef Komunyakaa
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Interesting Times
By Mark Jarman
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Io
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It Was Like This
By Jane Hirshfield
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James Schuyler
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January in Paris
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jesus knew
By Nick Flynn
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John Sutter
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Kindness
By Yusef Komunyakaa
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Korean mums
By James Schuyler
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Last Century
By Wyatt Prunty
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Late March
By Edward Hirsch
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Learning the Bicycle
By Wyatt Prunty
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Letter
by Jean Valentine
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Letter of Recommendation
By Yehuda Amichai
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Letter to a Young Poet
By Robert Wrigley
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Lies and Longing
By Linda Gregg
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Life Cycle of Common Man
By Howard Nemerov
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Life on Sundays
By Rodney Jones
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Light
by C.K. Williams
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Light Thickens
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
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Line
By Matt Donovan
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Lines Written in the Fannie Farmer Cookbook
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Lissadell
By Wendy Cope
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Litany
By Billy Collins
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Little Exercise
By Elizabeth Bishop
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Little God Origami
By Stefi Weisburd
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Liu Yung
By Billy Collins
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Lonely Eagles
By Marilyn Nelson
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Lullaby
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Lyre
by Donald Revell
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Manufacturing
By Rae Armantrout
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Mapping the Genome
By Michael Symmons Roberts
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Marriage in a Rented House
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Matisse, Too
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Measure
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meditating upon the meaning of the line "clams on the halfshell and rollerskates" in the song "good times" by chic
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Meditation on Statistical Method
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Mediterranean
By Rosanna Warren
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Memory of Summer
By Bruce Murphy
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Mine eyes have seen the glory of...
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Minor Miracle
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Misery and Splendor
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Misgivings
By William Matthews
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Montana Pastoral
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More Blues and the Abstract Truth
By C. D. Wright
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Mosquito Music
By Philip Gross
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Mother Carey's Hen
By David Yezzi
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Mother/Child: Coda
By Alicia Ostriker
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Mouth
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Much in Little
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My Fathers, Coming and Going
By George Szirtes
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My Last Duchess
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My Papa's Waltz
by Theodore Roethke
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My Shoes
By Charles Simic
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Myth
By Natash Trethewey
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Night Music
By Linda Gregg
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Nights of 1964-1966: The Old Reliable
by Marilyn Hacker
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Nina's Blues
By Cornelius Eady
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No Comfort to Be Had
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No Postmortems
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No River Road
By Ralph Sneeden
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Notes on a Blizzard
By Maxine W. Kumin
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Notes on Poverty
by Carruth Hayden
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Nothing
By Connie Wanek
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November
By Samuel Menashe
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Now and then
By James Schuyler
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Nude Descending
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Nullaby
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Of DeWitt Williams on his way to the Lincoln Cemetery
By Gwendolyn Brooks
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Of: An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield
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Old Toys Come Back
By Alan Williamson
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On Leaving the Bachelorette Brunch
By Rachel Wetzsteon
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On New Year's Day
By Marge Piercy
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On Pickiness
by Rodney Jones
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On the Great Atlantic Rainway
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On the Metro
By C. K. Williams
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On the Screened Porch
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
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On the Subject of Doctors
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One Afternoon
By Joanie V. Mackowski
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One Home
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Oratoria for the Unbecoming
By Mary Karr
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Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief
By Maxine W. Kumin
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Outcome
By Anne Rouse
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Paired Things
By Kay Ryan
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Palms
By Gustaf Sobin
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Pamet Harbor
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Parchment
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Parts of a Story
By Mary Walker Graham
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Pedestrian
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Pentecost
By David Wojahn
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Permanent Press
By Alice Friman
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Perseid
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman
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Photograph from September 11
By Wislawa Szymborska
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Poem About People
by Robert Pinsky
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Portrait of an Old Woman on the College Tavern Wall
By Anne Sexton
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praise song
By Lucille Clifton
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Prelude
By A.E. Stallings
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Privacy
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Private and Profane
By Marie Ponsot
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Prodigy
By Charles Simic
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Pronouns
By Cole Swensen
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Provinces
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Psalm (3)
By Mark Jarman
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Pumpernickel
By Philip Schultz
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Radio Crackling, Radio Gone
By Lisa Olstein
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Rain on Tin
By Rodney Jones
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Rapture
By Galway Kinnell
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Regarding Chainsaws
By Hayden Carruth
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Relating to Robinson
By Weldon Kees
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Report to Crazy Horse
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Requiem for the First Half of Split
By Alice Notley
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Responsibility in Metaphor
By Tony Hoagland
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Reunion
By Charles Wright
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Revelations in the Key of K
By Mary Karr
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Reverie in Open Air
By Rita Dove
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Rhapsody
By David St. John
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Riches
By Amit Majmudar
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Robinson
By Weldon Kees
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Robinson at Home
By Weldon Kees
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Romantic Moment
By Tony Hoagland
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Rue
By Samuel Menashe
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Salvation
By Stephen Dunn
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San Zeno
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Scary Movies
By Kim Addonizio
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Scissors
By Samuel Menashe
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Scrabble with Matthews
By David Wojahn
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Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey
by Hayden Carruth
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Scumble
By Rae Armantrout
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Sea Urchin
By J. Allyn Rosser
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Second Witness
By Pattiann Rogers
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Seeing It Through
By Alice Friman
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Self Portrait
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self-exam (my body is a cage)
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Self-Portrait at 38
By Jennifer Tonge
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SFO
By Peter Campion
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Shadow Play
By Ralph Angel
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Shell
By Harriet Brown
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Shopping for One
By Neal Bowers
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Should Our Undoing Come Down Upon Us White
By Jill Osier
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Silence
By Billy Collins
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Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight
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Sitting with Others
by Rodney Jones
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Sleep
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Sleepers Awake
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Slow Dreams
By Robert Wrigley
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Smackdown
By Ronald Wallace
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Snow flakes. (45)
By Emily Dickinson
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Snow-flakes
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So This Is Nebraska
By Ted Kooser
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Some Words Inside of Words
By Richard Wilbur
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Song Beside the Barn Wall
By Alice Templeton
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Song for the Last Act
By Louise Bogan
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Sonnet
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Sotto Voce
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Space Station
By Tom Sleigh
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Sparrow Trapped in the Airport
By Averil Curdy
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Splits
By Connie Wanek
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Sprung
By Charlie Smith
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Stars
By Louise Glück
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Statue and Birds
By Louise Bogan
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Staying Power
By Jeanne Murray Walker
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Still Life
By Sharon Olds
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Still Water
By Patricia Fargnoli
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Stolen Moments
By Kim Addonizio
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Storm Windows
By Howard Nemerov
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Subway Seethe
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Suzanna Socked Me Sunday
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Swan
By Albert Goldbarth
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Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy
By Thomas Lux
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Thai Silk
By Alexander Theroux
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That Magnificent Part the Chorus Does About Tragedy
By Lisa Olstein
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That Too
By Lawrence Joseph
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The Avenues
By David St. John
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The Beach in August
By Weldon Kees
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The Blue Booby
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The Blue Terrance
By Terrance Hayes
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The Bluet
By James Schuyler
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The Brassiere Factory
By Kenneth Koch
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The Burial of the Dead
By Sidney Wade
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The Cadillac of the Dead
By Debora Greger
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The Carolers
By Ed Skoog
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The China Painters
By Ted Kooser
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The Circus
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The Comb-Bearers
By Daniel Mark Epstein
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The Dipper
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The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz
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The Doors
By David St. John
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The Double Image
By Anne Sexton
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The Drowning Man
By Roddy Lumsden
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The Egyptians Had It All Wrong
By Anne Coray
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The Envoy
By Jane Hirshfield
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The Evening Star
By Louise Glück
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The Expatriates
By Anne Sexton
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The Fall
By Catherine Carter
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The Farm on the Great Plain
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The Gift
By Dara Wier
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The God of Inattention
By Averill Curdy
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The Good
By Michelle Boisseau
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The Goose Fish
By Howard Nemerov
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The Hand Photographed
By Cole Swensen
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The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats
By John Surowiecki
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The History of Jazz
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The Horses Run Back to Their Stalls
By Linda Gregerson
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The House Gift
By Joanie V. Mackowski
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The house was just twinkling in the moon light
Gertrude Stein (read by Barbara Rosenblatt)
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The Hypnotist's Daughter
By Lisa Olstein
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The Icehouse in Summer
By Howard Nemerov
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The Illiterate
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The Jew and the Rooster Are One
by Gerald Stern
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The Journey
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The Lake
By Sophie Cabot Black
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The Leaf on the Floor
By J.T. Barbarese
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The Little Flowers
By W. S. Di Piero
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The Lost Pilot
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The Lovers of the Poor
By Gwendolyn Brooks
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The Man in the Dead Machine
By Donald Hall
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The Metaphysical Amorist
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The Mosquito
By Rodney Jones
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the mother
by Gwendolyn Brooks
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The Murder of William Remington
By Howard Nemerov
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The Nights
By Geoffrey Brock
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The Nineteenth Century as a Song
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The One Remaining Star
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The Operation
By Anne Sexton
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The Paperweight
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The Paris Mouse
by Sandra Gilbert
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The Passing
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The Pieces That Fall to Earth
by Kay Ryan
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The Piercing
By Christine Garren
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The Plain Sense of Things
By Wallace Stevens
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The Pumpkin Tree
By Robert Wrigley
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The Rain
By Robert Creeley
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The Real Prayers Are Not the Words, But the Attention that Comes First
By Mary Oliver
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The River at Wolf
By Jean Valentine
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The Room
By Elliot Figman
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The Same City
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The Seekonk Woods
By Galway Kinnell
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The Sheets
By Anonymous
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The Sloth
By Theodore Roethke
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The Snow
By Donald Hall
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The Snow Man
By Wallace Stevens
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The Subject
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The Sun Rising
John Donne (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
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The Teacher
By Billy Collins
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The Third Hour of the Night
By Frank Bidart
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The Tomb of Edgar Poe
By Stéphane Mallarmé
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The Town Dump
By Howard Nemerov
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The Tree Frogs
By William Logan
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The Undeniable Pressure of Existence
By Patricia Fargnoli
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The Wasp Nest
By Christine Garren
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The Weight
By Linda Gregg
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The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
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The Window, at the Moment of Flame
By Alicia Ostriker
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The Woodpecker Keeps Returning
By Jane Hirshfield
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Then too there is this
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There She Is
By Linda Gregg
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Thinking and Feeling
By Cole Swensen
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This
By Ralph Angel
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This Room
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Time and the Garden
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Time Done Is Dark
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Time's Train
By Wyatt Prunty
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To a Poor Old Woman
By William Carlos Williams
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To Autumn
John Keats (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
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To Be Alive
By Gregory Orr
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To Bessie Drennan
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To Have a Friend
By Tomaz Salamun
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To Help the Monkey Cross the River
By Thomas Lux
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To Judgment: An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield
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To My Legs
By W. S. Merwin
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To the Ancient Order of Legs
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To You
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Togetherness
By Yusef Komunyakaa
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Tonight
Agha Shahid Ali (read by Michael Stuhlbarg)
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Tracking
By Eleanor Wilner
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Transit
By Maura Dooley
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Traveling Light
By Dabney Stuart
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Tree
By Jane Hirshfield
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Trip to Delphi
By Alice Friman
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Tritina for Susannah
By David Yezzi
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Turkish Bath
By Sidney Wade
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Understanding the Past, Present, and Future
By Cole Swensen
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Unromantic Love
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Valentine's
By Talvikki Ansel
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Venus and the Ark
By Anne Sexton
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Verities
By Kim Addonizio
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Vestibule
By Chase Twichell
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Walking on Tiptoe
By Ted Kooser
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Wanting Sumptuous Heavens
by Robert Bly
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Waving Goodbye
By Gerald Stern
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Weighing Light
By Geoffrey Brock
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Westward
By Amy Clampitt
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What He Thought
By Heather McHugh
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What Is Life
By Gregory Orr
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What's Written on the Body
By Peter Pereira
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When I Am With You
By Robert Bly
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When Sappho Wrote
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White Apples
By Donald Hall
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White Bridge Road
By Joan Murray
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Winter
By Marie Ponsot
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Winter Solstice Chant
By Annie Finch
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Winter Stars
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Woman Reading
By Kathleen Flenniken
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Women
By Louise Bogan
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won't you celebrate with me
By Lucille Clifton
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Working in Winter
By Keith Althaus
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Worth
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Written with a Pencil Found in Lorine Niedecker's Front Yard
By David Trinidad
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Xylem
By Talvikki Ansel
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Year's End
By Richard Wilbur
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Yellow Dress
By Amy Beeder
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You Can't Buy Shoes in a Painting
By Jill Osier
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You Know It As Spring
By Jill Osier
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Zone
By Louise Bogan
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[listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying]
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