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Poem Title   Author
 
What Work Is
Sep. 9, 1994
 
What You Cannot Remember, What You Cannot Know
Apr. 11, 2005
 
What You Realize When Cancer Comes
Oct. 22, 2006
 
What's for Dreamer
May. 23, 2000
 
What's in My Journal
Jan. 17, 2005
Jan. 31, 2014
 
What's in My Journal
Jan. 17, 2007
 
What's in My Journal
Jan. 17, 2008
 
What's That Smell in the Kitchen
Mar. 31, 1994
 
Wheelchairs
Jul. 21, 2012
 
Wheels
Oct. 24, 2008
 
 
When Adam Was Created
May. 3, 1994
 
When Dead
Jun. 2, 2011
 
When Death Comes
Apr. 5, 2004
Aug. 25, 1993
 
When Earth's Last Picture is Painted
Jul. 24, 1999
 
When God Lets My Body Be
Oct. 14, 1994
Oct. 14, 1995
Oct. 14, 1997
 
When I Am Among the Trees
Jun. 23, 2012
 
When I Am Asked
May. 22, 1997
May. 22, 1998
 
When I Am Away From My Children
Aug. 17, 1999
 
When I am gone, recall my hair
Feb. 25, 2006
 
When I Am Old
Nov. 21, 2007
 
When I Am Old
Nov. 14, 2014
 
When I Call
Sep. 25, 2008
 
When I First Saw Snow
Dec. 16, 2009
 

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