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The Paper Nautilus Marianne Moore 1961
Skunk Hour Robert Lowell 1976
27,000 Miles Albert Goldbarth 2007
The Return Frances Richey 2004
It Happens Like This James Tate 2003
The Black Bass David Dodd Lee 2002
The White Horse D. H. Lawrence 1964
The Moose Elizabeth Bishop 1979
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry] Christopher Smart 1939
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
The Armadillo Elizabeth Bishop 1979

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