Tonight, I Hope All My Enemies Are Falling in Love by Matthew Olzmann
“Lord, let them know the kind of love that unhinges / the brain, blesses the air with the exuberant / stupidity of mourning doves” — Matthew Olzmann
Prayer for Our Daughters by Mark Jarman
“May they be themselves, long after we’ve stopped watching.” — Mark Jarman
A Poem for Someone Who is Juggling Her Life by Rose Cook
“Be still sometimes. / Be still sometimes.” — Rose Cook
Salt by Jacob Sheetz-Willard
“It’s like the place we never got to, to which I keep / arriving.” — Jacob Sheetz-Willard
Elegy for My Ninth Grade Natural Science Project by Sarah Brockhaus
“They didn’t know what their wings were / for. I’ve made my life an apology ever // since.” — Sarah Brockhaus
My Mother’s Hair by Nancy Holmes
“Two years after my mother’s death, I walk / in the soft, searing claws of the sun.” — Nancy Holmes
Meditation on a Grapefruit by Craig Arnold
“each year harder to live within / each year harder to live without” — Craig Arnold
Over and Over by Hiram Larew
“Over and over / even like ever / the thrives do” — Hiram Larew
Fossils by K.M. Hanslik
“For love to be born, a great many things // had to perish.” — K.M. Hanslik