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Title Author Year
My Heart Leaps Up William Wordsworth 1807
i know the grandmother one had hands Jaki Shelton Green 2019
Being pregnant is a dream Nellie Wong 2023
Old Age Maxwell Bodenheim 1918
Abuelo’s Garden Joaquín Zihuatanejo 2022
Pedantic Literalist Marianne Moore 1924
The Poet as Eighty-Year-Old Sous-Chef Paul Mariani 2022
In Old Age the Poet Seeks the Ancient Wisdom of Lear Paul Mariani 2023
[The ringèd moon sits eerily] William Faulkner 1924
Devonport Chloe Honum 2023
The Fisherman Luis G. Dato 1926
Ol’ Doc’ Hyar James Edwin Campbell 1922
A Peasant's Song Ameen Rihani 1905
Caretaker Charleen McClure 2020
Now and Then Charles Bertram Johnson 1918
Local Boys and Girls Small Town Stuff Marsden Hartley 1920
On Retirement Philip Freneau 1786
This Morning Luci Tapahonso 2020
Now He’s an Etching Patricia Smith 2020
The 19th Amendment & My Mama Mahogany L. Browne 2020

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