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BY GILLIAN CLARKE

Think of it waiting three hundred million years,  

not a hare hiding in the last stand of wheat,

By Sonia Sanchez

(for Emmett Louis Till)

1.

Your limbs buried

in northern muscle carry

BY SYLVIA PLATH

All day she plays at chess with the bones of the world:

Favored (while suddenly the rains begin

BY FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA

BY OSCAR WILDE

BY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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