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Title Author Year
The Difference between a Child and a Poem Michael Blumenthal 1992
Acrobat Elise Paschen 2010
Motherhood, 1951 Ai 2010
To My Mother Waiting on 10/01/54 Teresa Carson 2008
The Sick Child Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Morning Song Sylvia Plath 1966
Honey Arielle Greenberg 2005
Infant Joy William Blake 1789
Central Park, Carousel Meena Alexander 2004
Gods Michael Redhill 2001
Curriculum Vitae Lisel Mueller 1996
A Woman Waits for Me Walt Whitman 1891
Tract William Carlos Williams 1962
Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta Reetika Vazirani 1998
Lullaby of the Onion Miguel Hernández 1989
the mother Gwendolyn Brooks 1945

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