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Throwing Children Ross Gay 2023
[The cry of the cicada] Matsuo Basho 1690
At the Zoo William Makepeace Thackeray 1863
Leda and the Swan W. B. Yeats 1923
The Tyger William Blake 1794
Epitaph to a Dog George Gordon Byron 1808
A Blessing James Wright 2005
The Fish Elizabeth Bishop 2011
Moonlily Marilyn Nelson 2017
Chickens Kate Gale 2022
Improvisational Score Sawako Nakayasu 2014
Battery Sawako Nakayasu 2014
Ant as a glass of water Sawako Nakayasu 2023
The Systemic J. Estanislao Lopez 2023
The warble of melting snow is the river Emily Lee Luan 2023
She Passed This Way Djuna Barnes 1923
Let No Charitable Hope Elinor Wylie 2023
[horses mules and hogs] David Drake 1836
Fugal Santee Frazier 2023
I Have No Answer But Stones Julia Bouwsma 2018

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