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ADCOCK, Betty. "January."
ALEXANDER, Elizabeth. "Praise Song for the Day."
AMMONS, A. R. "Still," "Eyesight."
ANONYMOUS. "Samurai Song, 14th Century."
BACA, Jimmy Santiago. "This Day."
BALLA, Camille A. "Breaking Through."
BASS, Ellen. "The Thing Is," "If You Knew."
BERRY, Wendell. "The Watchers," "To Know the Dark."
BLY, Robert. "Watering the Horse."
BOOTH, Philip. "How to See Deer," "Talk about Walking."
BOSS, Todd. "This Morning in a Morning Voice."
BRANTINGHAM, John. "Putting in a Window."
BROUGHTON, James. "This is It," "Take the Whole Kit."
BROWN, Judy Sorum. "Wooden Boats," "Fire," "Trough."
BROWNE, Susan. "Buddha's Dogs."
BUDBILL, David. "Winter: Tonight: Sunset," "Tomorrow."
BUKOWSKI, Charles. "a song with no end."
CADWALLADER-STAUB, Julie. "Blackbirds."
CARLSEN, IOANNA. "Over and Over Tune."
CARVER, Raymond. "At Least."
COCKRELL, Doug. "Quiet Counsel."
COLLINS, Billy. "Shoveling Snow with the Buddha," "Japan."
CROOKER, Barbara. "Hope," "Sometimes, I Am Startled Out of Myself."
CUMMINGS, e.e. "Seeker of Truth," "let it go—the."
DENNIS, Carl. "String Quartet."
DIERKING, Kirsten. "In the Produce Aisle."
DOLCH, Jessie. "The Priest Writes His Desire."
DORFF, Francis, O. Praem. "Lightening the Load."
DOVE, Rita. "Testimonial," "Dawn Revisited."
FLYNN, Rachel Contreni. "The Yellow Bowl."
FRANCIS, Robert. "Summons."
FRIEND, Robert. "The Last Year."
GALLAGHER, Tess. "Choices."
GARCIA, Albert. "Ice."
GARCIA, Arnoldo. "A Meditation on Breath."
GROSSMAN, Dorothea. "I Have to Tell You."
HARDIE, Kerry. "What's Left."
HARJO, Joy. "Eagle Poem."
HART, Kevin John. "Snow."
HENNEN, Tom. "In the Late Season."
HIRSHFIELD, Jane. "Meeting the Light Completely," "Burlap Sack."
HOAGLAND, Tony. "The Word."
HOFF, Benjamin. "Piglet's Song."
HOWE, Marie. "Annunciation."
IANNONE, Don. "Losing Myself Inside a Japanese Wood Poppy."
JACOBSEN, Josephine. "you can take it with you."
JENKINS, Louis. "Diner."
JENSON, Ivan. "Hearing Things."
KAVANAUGH, James. "I Laugh and Cry with the Same Eyes."
KENYON, Jane. "Man Eating."
KINNELL, Galway. "Saint Francis and the Sow."
KOMUNYAKAA, Yusef. "Facing It."
KOOSER, Ted. "At the Cancer Clinic," "Mother."
KRYSL, Marilyn. "Saying Things."
LAWRENCE, D. H. "Escape."
LEE, Li-Young. "One Heart."
LEVERTOV, Denise. "Variation on a Theme by Rilke," "Witness," "Looking, Walking, Being."
LEVINE, Stephen. "An Echo of Wang Wei's Reply to Vice Magistrate Chang."
LEWIS, Janet Loxley. "The Wonder of the World."
LUTERMAN, Alison. "I Confess," "Because Even the Word Obstacle Is an Obstacle."
MARTIN, Lynn. "Under the Walnut Tree."
MAYER, Peter. "Holy Now."
MENASHE, Samuel. "Here Now."
MERWIN, W. S. "Thanks," "To Waiting."
MILOSZ, Czeslaw. "Love."
MITCHELL, Stephen. "Psalm 1."
MOFFITT, John. "To Look at Anything."
MOOSE, Ruth. "The Crossing."
MÖRLING, Malena. "Happiness," "Visiting."
MURRE, Ralph. "What Is Given."
NELSON, Marilyn. "Bali Hai Calls Mama," "Dusting," "The Lace-Maker."
NEPO, Mark. "Where Is God?", "The Appointment."
NERUDA, Pablo. "Sonnet XVII," "Keeping Still."
NGHIEM, Sr. Dang. "Feather at Midday."
NYE, Naomi Shihab. "Fresh," "The Traveling Onion," "Observer."
O'CONNOR, Mary. "Standing Up in the Boat."
OLDS, Sharon. "Looking at Them Asleep."
OLIVER, Mary. "Mornings at Blackwater," "I Worried," "Messenger."
ORR, Gregory. "Has the Moon Been Up There."
PENNA, Nick. "Waiting in Line."
PIERCY, Marge. "The Tao of Touch."
PIIRTO, Jane. "Tomorrow, Today, and Yesterday."
PSALMIST, The. "Psalm 1."
RILKE, Rainer Maria. "I, 1."
RUCKEYSER, Muriel. "A Little Stone in the Middle of the Road, in Florida."
RUMI, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad. "The Guesthouse," "Birdwings," "That Lives in Us."
SAKAKI, Nanao. "Just Enough."
SALINAS, Pedro. "Wake Up. Day Calls You."
SANDERS, Kay N. "Bath, in House Alone."
SARAH, Robyn. "On Closing the Apartment of My Grandparents of Blessed Memory."
SARTON, May. "New Year Resolve," "Snow Fall."
SCHIFFMAN, Richard. "Watching the Birdwatcher."
SCHNEIDER, Pat. "The Patience of Ordinary Things," "Lessons."
SCHOENFELD, Ellie. "Patriotism."
SCHUG, Larry. "Mending Mittens."
SCHWARTZ, Lynne Sharon. "Repotting."
SCHWARTZ, Ruth L. "Tangerine."
SHINDER, Jason. "Alone for the Fifth Day."
SMITH, R. T. "Hardware Sparrows."
SNYDER, Gary. "Prayer for the Great Family."
STAFFORD, William. "You Reading This, Be Ready," "Just Thinking."
STRAND, Mark. "Lines for Winter," "My Name."
STEVENS, Wallace. "The Snowman."
SUTPHEN, Joyce. "From Out the Cave."
SZE, Arthur. "Frost."
SZUBER, Janusz. "About a Boy Stirring Jam."
SZYMBORSKA, Wislawa. "Miracle Fair."
TROMMER, Rosemerry Wahtola. "Action Plan," "Before We Can Unlearn."
TZU, Chuang. "Poem of the Woodcarver."
UNGAR, Lynn. "Boundaries."
WALCOTT, Derek. "Love After Love."
WALTERS, Dorothy. "Taken," "Don't Make Lists."
WHYTE, David. "What to Remember When Waking."
WILCOX, Ella Wheeler. "Seeking for Happiness."
WILSON, Ruby R. "Birthday Sunrise."
WOOD, Susan. "Daily Life."
WRIGHT, James. "Today I Was So Happy, So I Made This Poem."
WU-MEN. "Ten Thousand Flowers in Spring."
YOST, Dana. "The Three Bridges Trail."
ZARZANA, Marianne Murphy. "Saying Our Names."
ZOLYNAS, Al. "The Zen of Housework."
