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| Wild Geese | |
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| Poets on poetry | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Body and soul | |
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| Living | |
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| Orkney / This Life | |
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| A Northern Morning | |
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| Happiness | |
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| My Father's Irish Setters | |
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| Touch Me | |
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| Homage to my hips | |
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| Naked Vision | |
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| The Hug | |
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| The Hug | |
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| Chemin de Fer | |
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| He Sits Down on the Floor of a School for the Retarded | |
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| An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow | |
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| Some Questions You Might Ask | |
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| Encounter | |
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| from The Tenth Duino Elegy | |
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| Variation on a Theme by Rilke | |
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| from A Gilded Lapse of Time | |
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| Dark Angel | |
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| Temptation | |
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| Poppies in October | |
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| "Eyesight of Wasps" | |
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| The Wasps | |
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| The Old World | |
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| Watering the Horse | |
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| Saint Animal | |
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| Jarrow | |
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| Where We Are | |
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| Roads | |
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| The Road Not Taken | |
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| The Bay | |
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| Tyranny of Choice | |
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| Not Waving but Drowning | |
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| Poem | |
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| Choose | |
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| Meeting in a Lift | |
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| "i thank You God for most this amazing" | |
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| You | |
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| Begin | |
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| Entirely | |
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| Integrity | |
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| The Bear | |
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| The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me | |
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| from Dream Songs | |
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| from Some mangled Dream Songs for Henry ... | |
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| A Tale | |
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| The door | |
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| The door: anticipation of wisdom | |
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| Directive | |
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| The Road Home | |
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| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | |
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| Snow | |
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| History | |
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| History | |
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| Snow | |
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| That Silent Evening | |
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| Above Pate Valley | |
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| The Journey | |
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| When You've Got | |
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| Yes | |
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| Happiness | |
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| from Blossoms | |
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| Alone | |
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| Machines | |
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| Traveling through the Dark | |
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| Penitence | |
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| Slow Animals Crossing | |
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| The Moose | |
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| Wife Hits Moose | |
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| Dead or alive | |
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| "To eat a pie and to have it..." | |
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| Trillium | |
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| "I saw the daughter of the sun..." | |
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| Stonepicker | |
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| The arrow | |
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| Be Not Too Hard | |
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| Modern Sorcery | |
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| Tonight of Yesterday | |
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| Sonnet | |
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| Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm ... | |
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| Missing Dates | |
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| Villanelle | |
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| Signs | |
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| from When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone | |
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| My Dark Fathers | |
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| Hoping It Might Be So | |
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| In the Next Galaxy | |
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| Clear Night | |
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| Defeated | |
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| The Waking | |
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| Mirages | |
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| How to kill a living thing | |
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| from Sublimation | |
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| Hawk's Shadow | |
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| The Way | |
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| The way we live | |
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| Things | |
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| Warning | |
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| Thoughts After Ruskin | |
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| Themes for women | |
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| What Every Woman Should Carry | |
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| Handbag | |
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| In Your Mind | |
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| Dolor | |
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| One Art | |
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| Lamium | |
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| A Glass of Water | |
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| Sadness | |
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| Sweetness | |
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| The Execution | |
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| A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack | |
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| Epistle on suicide | |
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| Harold's Leap | |
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| Her Kind | |
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| Desdichada | |
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| Otherwise | |
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| My November Guest | |
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| She Dotes | |
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| The Cry | |
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| The Leaden-Eyed | |
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| And the Days Are Not Full Enough | |
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| A Removal from Terry Street | |
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| Bittersweet | |
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| from Ukulele Music | |
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| The One Twenty Pub | |
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| Luck in Sarajevo | |
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| All of These People | |
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| Shirt | |
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| Waking This Morning | |
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| I Am a Cameraman | |
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| from The Wasting Game | |
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| Brinkwomanship | |
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| Here | |
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| The Unprofessionals | |
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| Visiting Hour | |
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| from Changing the Subject | |
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| The Shade | |
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| Past-Lives Therapy | |
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| Diving into the Wreck | |
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| April 5, 1974 | |
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| Try to Praise the Mutilated World | |
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| Kissing | |
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| How my true love and I lay without touching | |
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| "You idiot!..." | |
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| 90 North | |
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| Watching for Dolphins | |
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| Goat | |
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| The Drainage | |
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| Three Ways of Recovering a Body | |
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| Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days | |
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| Mushrooms | |
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| A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford | |
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| Unwittingly | |
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| Growing up | |
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| Being the third song of Urias | |
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| White Asparagus | |
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| Ultrasound | |
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| It's Good To Be Here | |
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| Safe period | |
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| IVF | |
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| Miscarriage | |
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| Freight | |
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| First Birth | |
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| Her First Week | |
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| The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument | |
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| Sonnet: How Life Too Is Sentimental | |
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| Poem for a Daughter | |
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| Daughter | |
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| Beattie Is Three | |
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| from Heart's Needle | |
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| Supernatural Love | |
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| Poem from a Three Year Old | |
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| Cinders | |
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| A Sword in a Cloud of Light | |
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| On the Back of a Photograph | |
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| The Video | |
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| Young Girls | |
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| A Puppy Called Puberty | |
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| A Dog Called Elderly | |
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| Cuba | |
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| My Flu | |
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| "We were so poor..." | |
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| Those Winter Sundays | |
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| The Back Seat of My Mother's Car | |
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| Mirror Image | |
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| Mirror | |
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| Father's Old Blue Cardigan | |
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| This Be the Verse | |
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| Possession | |
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| A Night with Lions | |
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| from A Part of Speech | |
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| Old Man | |
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| Thinking of the Lost World | |
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| Springfield, Virginia | |
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| Forgetfulness | |
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| Forgetfulness | |
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| Unknown Forbear | |
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| Quoof | |
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| Man and beast | |
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| Pigs | |
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| Experimental Animals | |
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| Weakness | |
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| Spiritual Chickens | |
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| The Heaven of Animals | |
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| Sacrilege | |
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| Remembrance of Strange Hospitality | |
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| Federal Case | |
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| Animals | |
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| The stone curlew | |
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| My Life with Horses | |
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| Switch | |
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| A Blessing | |
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| Horse | |
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| The Horses | |
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| The Skunk | |
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| Considering the Snail | |
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| For a Five-Year-Old | |
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| Full Moon and Little Frieda | |
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| Birds | |
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| The Trout | |
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| Night Toad | |
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| A Bird | |
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| They Feed They Lion | |
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| The Thought-Fox | |
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| Swans Mating | |
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| The Strange Case | |
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| Cow | |
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| Lies | |
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| Glow Worm | |
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| Salmon | |
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| Ants on the Melon | |
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| A Mosquito | |
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| Octopus | |
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| Fable of the mermaid and the drunks | |
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| The Mermaid Tank | |
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| The Loch Ness Monster's Song | |
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| The Death of the Loch Ness Monster | |
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| Oysters | |
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| In and out of love | |
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| My Beloved Compares Herself to a Pint of Stout | |
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| Finney's Bar | |
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| Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes | |
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| Canadian Love Song | |
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| Bite | |
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| Desire's a Desire | |
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| Raisin Pumpernickel | |
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| Love: Beginnings | |
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| The Honeycomb | |
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| The Linen Industry | |
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| Last Night | |
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| Definition of Your Attraction | |
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| The Cinnamon Peeler | |
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| True Love | |
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| Lullaby | |
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| In Defence of Adultery | |
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| The Did-You-Come-Yets of the Western World | |
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| The Mistress | |
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| Ecstasy | |
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| Zoology Is Destiny | |
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| Only if Love Should Pierce You | |
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| Muse | |
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| Life | |
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| Distances | |
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| "As our bloods separate" | |
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| Woman to Man | |
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| Snow Melting | |
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| August | |
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| The Room | |
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| Don't Let's Talk About Being in Love | |
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| Being in Love | |
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| Poem about heartbreak that go on and on | |
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| Bitch | |
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| Bitcherel | |
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| This Dead Relationship | |
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| Each from Different Heights | |
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| Badly-Chosen Lover | |
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| After the End of It | |
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| Relationship | |
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| Hesitate to Call | |
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| Lady of Miracles | |
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| Advice to a Discarded Lover | |
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| The All Purpose Country and Western Self Pity Song | |
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| Because | |
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| Cross | |
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| The Quarrel | |
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| And they were both right | |
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| Between | |
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| When You Are Old | |
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| Spell | |
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| Conch | |
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| "O tell me the truth about love" | |
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| Lightness | |
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| In Paris with You | |
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| My people | |
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| "The East-West border..." | |
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| My People | |
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| Our Own Land | |
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| Countries and Explanations | |
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| A Summer Morning | |
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| The Heron | |
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| The Door | |
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| from Going On | |
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| In Britain | |
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| from Evagatory | |
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| Inniskeen Road: July Evening | |
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| The Toome Road | |
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| The Sightseers | |
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| Dream Avenue | |
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| Overheard in County Sligo | |
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| Sadie and Maud | |
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| from To Elsie | |
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| American Sketches | |
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| American Classic | |
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| Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio | |
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| The Idea of Ancestry | |
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| from Paragraphs | |
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| I, Too | |
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| Mississippi | |
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| from An Atlas of the Difficult World | |
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| The Blood Is Justified | |
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| The Path to the Milky Way Leads Through Los Angeles | |
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| The Dress | |
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| Reality U.S.A. | |
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| America | |
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| Making America Strong | |
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| "'Next to of course god america i'" | |
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| The Disappearances | |
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| They'll say, "She must be from another country" | |
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| In my country | |
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| Modern Secrets | |
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| Emigrants | |
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| from What the Light Teaches | |
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| My Faithful Mother Tongue | |
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| We Billion Cheered | |
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| Waiting for the Barbarians | |
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| Gare du Midi | |
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| The Coming of the Plague | |
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| War and peace | |
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| War Poetry | |
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| Grass | |
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| The fly | |
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| Anthem for Doomed Youth | |
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| For Wilfred Owen | |
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| Everyone Sang | |
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| Returning, we hear the Larks | |
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| As the team's head brass | |
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| Ceasefire | |
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| The Bloomsday Murders, 16 June 1997 | |
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| from The T.E. Lawrence Poems | |
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| Vergissmeinnicht | |
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| September Song | |
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| There is no greater crime than leaving | |
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| September 1, 1939 | |
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| On the Anniversary of Her Grace | |
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| Selective Service | |
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| Cambodia | |
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| Ode for the American Dead in Asia | |
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| Facing It | |
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| Phrase Book | |
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| The Persian Version | |
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| Every Day | |
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| from Spain, take away this cup from me | |
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| The End and the Beginning | |
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| The People of the Other Village | |
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| Disappearing acts | |
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| Rain--Birdoswald | |
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| Bjorn Olinder's Pictures | |
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| Now Light Congeals | |
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| Psalm | |
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| Someone | |
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| Aubade | |
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| "Death does not come from outside..." | |
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| "Good creatures..." | |
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| Thrall | |
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| Bookends (I) | |
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| For My Mother | |
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| Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | |
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| "Do not stand at my grave and weep" | |
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| Funeral Blues | |
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| Death of an Irishwoman | |
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| Water-burn | |
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| The dead | |
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| Death's Secret | |
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| "Pity the drunks" | |
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| The Gas-poker | |
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| On a Dark Night | |
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| Four Years | |
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| Poems | |
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| A Last Marriage | |
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| Curtains | |
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| Metamorphosis | |
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| Sorting Through | |
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| This Is What I Wanted to Sign Off With | |
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| Wake | |
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| About Death | |
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| The Vacuum | |
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| Inside Our Dreams | |
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| The Reassurance | |
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| She | |
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| A Glimpse of Starlings | |
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| Dead Woman | |
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| Yes | |
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| Close | |
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| Inscription | |
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| "Buffalo Bill's" | |
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| The Dead | |
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| Proofs | |
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| On Walking Backwards | |
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| Cemetery Nights | |
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| Father, Mother, Robert Henley who hanged himself in the ninth grade, et al | |
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| Resurrection | |
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| Eden Rock | |
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| When I Died | |
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| All Souls' | |
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| from Lessons | |
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| Where Souls Go | |
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| The Wild Iris | |
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| Ophelia's Confession | |
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| Antarctica | |
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| Why Brownlee Left | |
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| Robinson | |
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| Folderol | |
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| Tracks | |
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| Night and the House | |
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| I Know a Man | |
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| Distant howling | |
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| Me, the Earth, the Universe | |
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| Homage to Isaac Newton | |
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| New Gravity | |
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| Morning | |
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| Making for Planet Alice | |
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| Brief reflection on accuracy | |
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| Zoom! | |
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| from Lightenings | |
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| On the Uncountable Nature of Things | |
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| The Sun Underfoot among the Sundews | |
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| "I stretch my arms" | |
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| A Downward Look | |
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| I Am the Song | |
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| from Games | |
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| Earth | |
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| Waking | |
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| Places We Love | |
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| Moorland | |
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| Three Ways of Looking at God | |
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| The Avatar | |
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| Sacrament | |
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| Journey of the Magi | |
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| The Snow Man | |
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| Sanctity | |
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| Via Negativa | |
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| To the One Upstairs | |
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| Moment | |
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| El Hombre | |
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| Delay | |
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| Summer farm | |
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| Tinily a star goes down | |
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| Star Whisper | |
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| from Zero Gravity | |
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| Rent | |
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| Full Moon | |
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| Preparation for the Big Emptiness | |
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| The Shampoo | |
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| Mountains | |
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| The Other Side of the Mountain | |
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| The art of poetry | |
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| from Songs from Below | |
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| Ars Poetica | |
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| The Beast in the Space | |
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| An Exchange of Gifts | |
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| Note to the reader: this is not a poem | |
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| Meditation at Lagunitas | |
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| "Once I got a postcard..." | |
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| from March 1979 | |
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| Animal Languages | |
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| The story of a story | |
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| Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself | |
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| Detail | |
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| O | |
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| Eating Poetry | |
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| The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar's House | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Oatmeal | |
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| Consider the Grass Growing | |
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| Note | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Late Fragment | |
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| The Sound of Poetry | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index of writers | |
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| Index of titles & first lines | |