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Daddy by Sylvia Plath You do not do, you do not do
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Daffy Duck In Hollywood by John Ashbery Something strange is creeping across me.
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Daily Life by Susan Wood A parrot of irritation sits
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Dangerous Astronomy by Sherman Alexie I wanted to walk outside and praise the stars,
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Dangerous for Girls by Connie Voisine It was the summer of Chandra Levy, disappearing
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Daniel Boone by Stephen Vincent Benét When Daniel Boone goes by, at night,
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Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams If when my wife is sleeping
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Daphnis and Chloe by Haniel Long You found it difficult to woo
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Dark Matter by Jack Myers I've lived my life as if I were my wife
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Darkness by George Gordon Byron I had a dream, which was not all a dream
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Darwin's Finches by Deborah Digges My mother always called it a nest
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Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta by Reetika Vazirani To replay errors
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Daughters, 1900 by Marilyn Nelson Five daughters, in the slant light on the porch,
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Dawn by George Hitchcock Clouds rise from their nests
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Dawn by James Laughlin Often now as an old man
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Dawn Dreams by Rachel Hadas Dreams draw near at dawn and then recede
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Day Job and Night Job by Andrew Hudgins After my night job, I sat in class
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Day Lilies by Rosanna Warren For six days, full-throated, they praised
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Day of the Refugios by Alberto Ríos I was born in Nogales, Arizona,
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Daybreak by Daniel Halpern
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Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days
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Days of Me by Stuart Dischell When people say they miss me,
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Days of Rome by Gerard Malanga Days of nothingness
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Dead Brother Super Hero by Michael Dickman You don't have to
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Dead Center by Rachel Contreni Flynn August in Indiana
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Dead Fires by Jessie Redmon Fauset If this is peace, this dead and leaden thing
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Dead Horse by Thomas Lux At the fence line, I was about to call him in when
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Dead Man, Thinking by Bruce Weigl Snow geese in the light of morning sky
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Dead Straight by Olive Senior I'm traveling back home to you but it's an omen
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Dear Empire [these are your temples] by Oliver de la Paz These are your temples
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Dear George Bush by Kristin Prevallet I am writing this letter just to inform you that the tide is turning.
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Dear Michael (2) by Mark McMorris The wound cannot close; language is a formal exit
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Dear Migraine, by Gail Mazur You're the shadow shadow lurking in me
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Dear Miss Emily by James Galvin Dear Miss Emily
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Dear Pretty Youth by Thomas Shadwell Dear pretty youth, unveil your eyes
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Dear Tiara by Sean Thomas Dougherty I dreamed I was a mannequin in the pawnshop window
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Dearest Reader by Michael Palmer He painted the mountain over and over again
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Death as a Way of Life [It began:] by Anna Moschovakis It began
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Death as a Way of Life [We wonder at our shifting capacities, keep] by Anna Moschovakis We wonder at our shifting capacities, keep
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Death Barged In by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno In his Russian greatcoat
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Death Fugue by Paul Celan Black milk of morning we drink you at dusktime
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Death in the Afternoon by Ángel González Of the hundreds of deaths that inhabit me
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Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10) by John Donne Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
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Death, Is All by Ana Božičević I woke up real early to write about death (the lake through the trees) from
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December 2, 2002 by Juliana Spahr As it happens every night
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December Moon by Brenda Hillman Oak moon, reed moon
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deer & salt block by Joshua Marie Wilkinson One boy is a liar & says there's a block of salt
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Deer Dancer by Joy Harjo Nearly everyone had left that bar in the middle of winter except the
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Deer Hit by Jon Loomis You're seventeen and tunnel-vision drunk,
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Deer, 6:00 AM by Sarah Getty The deer--neck not birch trunk, eyes
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Definitely by Mary Jo Bang What is desire
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Delicate Cluster by Walt Whitman Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life
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Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick A sweet disorder in the dresse
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Delta Flight 659 by Denise Duhamel I'm writing this on a plane, Sean Penn
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Demeter to Persephone by Alicia Suskin Ostriker I watched you walking up out of that hole
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Demolition Derby by Mónica de la Torre Sonya's so good that all the guys
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Demon and The Dove by Miguel Murphy The psychotherapist has a sad dove
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Dependants by Paul Farley How good we are for each other, walking through
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Derrick Poem (The Lost World) by Terrance Hayes I take my $, buy a pair of very bright kicks for the game
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Descriptions of Heaven and Hell by Mark Jarman The wave breaks
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Design by Robert Frost I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
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Design for a Silver Box in the Shape of a Melon, 1918 by Jonathan Thirkield In sheet metal or silver shallows
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Designer Kisses by Major Jackson I'm glum about your sportive flesh in the empire of blab
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Desolation of the Chimera by Luis Cernuda The whole day's heat, distilled
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Detail of My Sort of Light by Ander Monson Now I know that everything is a body
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Detail of Paradise by Jean Gallagher Particularity evidently survives in paradise
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Detail of the Woods by Richard Siken I looked at all the trees and didn't know what to do
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Details for Paterson by William Carlos Williams I just saw two boys
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Dialect of a Skirt by Erica Miriam Fabri The young girl wanted a new voice. After all, people got
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Diamonds by Kathryn Stripling Byer This, he said, giving the hickory leaf
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Diary by Deborah Bernhardt The opposite of striking him
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Diary [Surface] by Rachel Zucker Spring is not so very promising as it is the thing
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Did Not Come Back by Lucie Brock-Broido In the roan hour between then & then again, the now, in the Babel
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Die Muhle Brennt--Richard by Richard Matthews When the red chair suspended in air
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Difficult Body by Mark Wunderlich A story: There was a cow in the road, struck by a semi--
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Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine by Amy E. King Summer squash and snap-beans gushed
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Dignity in the Home by Betsy Brown All the chairs and the long brown couch just lay
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Directions for Lines that will Remain Unfinished by Sarah Messer Line to be sewn into a skirt hem
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Directive by Robert Frost Back out of all this now too much for us
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Directory of Obsolete Securities by Michael Teig I could stay here humming
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Dirge by Thomas Lovell Beddoes We do lie beneath the grass
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Discordants [Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket] by Conrad Aiken Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket
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Discourse by Forrest Hamer And I said to him, we are continuous
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Disgust by Liam Rector I was well towards the end
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Dishwater by Ted Kooser Slap of the screen door, flat knock
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Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock by Wallace Stevens The houses are haunted
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Dispatches from Devereux Slough by Mark Jarman Highwayman of the air, coal-headed, darting
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Distance by John Boyle O'Reilly The world is large, when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide;
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Distinction by Claire Bateman CONGRATULATIONS!
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Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich First having read the book of myths,
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Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night,
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Dolphin by Robert Lowell My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise,
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Domestic Mysticism by Lucie Brock-Broido In thrice 10,000 seasons, I will come back to this world
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Donal Óg by Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory It is late last night the dog was speaking of you
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Done With by Ann Stanford My house is torn down--
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Donkey Carts and Desolation by Matthew Shenoda Dilapidated clapboard shacks
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Dora Diller by Jack Prelutsky "My stomach's full of butterflies!"
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Dot by Clayton Eshleman Unicellular sac pressed
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Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold The sea is calm tonight,
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Drawing from Life by Reginald Shepherd Look: I am building absence
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Dream In Which I Meet Myself by Lynn Emanuel Even the butter's a block of sleazy light. I see that first
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Dream of the Evil Servant by Reetika Vazirani We kept war in the kitchen.
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Dream Song 1 by John Berryman Huffy Henry hid the day,
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Dream Song 29 by John Berryman There sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heart
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Dream Song 4 by John Berryman Filling her compact & delicious body
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Dream Variations by Langston Hughes To fling my arms wide
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Dream-Land by Edgar Allan Poe By a route obscure and lonely
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Dreams by Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams
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Dregs by César Vallejo This afternoon it is raining, as never before; and I
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Drench by Anne Stevenson You sleep with a dream of summer weather
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Dressmaker by Éireann Lorsung Nothing touches like tan velvet touches
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Driven across many nations (101) by Gaius Valerius Catullus Driven across many nations, across many oceans,
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Driven by a Strange Desire by Mónica de la Torre When the sun turns gray and I become tired
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Driving in Circles with the Blind by Sandra McPherson I have enough retablos of visions, ex-votos of rescues,
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driving to Vegas by Kirk Robertson Tonopah's / the only place
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Drowsing over The Arabian Nights by Thomas Kinsella I nodded. The books agree
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Drum by Philip Levine In the early morning before the shop
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Drunken Winter by Joseph Ceravolo Oak oak! like like
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Duality by Tina Chang Perhaps I hold people to impossible ideals
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Duende by Tracy K. Smith The earth is dry and they live wanting
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Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks
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Dung Beetle by Doreen Gildroy Be kind to me, a mess. I represent
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During Wind and Rain by Thomas Hardy They sing their dearest songs
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Dust of Snow by Robert Frost The way a crow
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Dusting by Marilyn Nelson Thank you for these tiny
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Dutch Interiors by Jane Kenyon Christ has been done to death
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