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The Gargoyle.  Oliver Herford.  1912.

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Fog.  Amy Clampitt.  1983.

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Photo by Benjamin Torelle.

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“Down the Swift Dark Stream You Go” from The Hobbit.  J. R. R. Tolkien.  1937.

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Bright Star!  would I were steadfast as thou art.  John Keats.  1884.

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Photo by Justin Kern.

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Personal Helicon.  Seamus Heaney.  1966.

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The Eel-Trap.  Michael Longley.  1994.

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The Whirlpool.  Edward Plunkett, 18th Lord Dunsany.  1908.

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Welcome to all the Pleasures.  Ernest Hilbert.  2009.

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Photo by Micah A. Ponce

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Questions in the Vestibule.  Rachel Hadas.  2011.

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Photograph by Eadweard James Muybridge.

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After Filing.  Chelsea Rathburn.  2011.

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Muse, Maybe.  Eamon Grennan.  1987.

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Totem.  Eamon Grennan.  1987.

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The Cats.  H. P. Lovecraft.  Published 1977.

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The Insect God.  Edward Gorey.  1963.

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Ghost.  Mary O’Malley.  1993.

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