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The Lyric

Poems

“Fragment 22” by Sappho

“Vertigo” by Anne Stevenson

“Love Songs (section III)” by Mina Loy

“At a Texas Wishing-Well” by James Merrill

“Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara

“Cage” by Josephine Miles