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“Lord, let them know the kind of love that unhinges / the brain, blesses the air with the exuberant / stupidity of mourning doves” — Matthew Olzmann

“May they be themselves, long after we’ve stopped watching.” — Mark Jarman

“It’s like the place we never got to, to which I keep / arriving.” — Jacob Sheetz-Willard

“They didn’t know what their wings were / for. I’ve made my life an apology ever // since.” — Sarah Brockhaus

“Two years after my mother’s death, I walk / in the soft, searing claws of the sun.” — Nancy Holmes

“each year harder to live within / each year harder to live without” — Craig Arnold

“Over and over / even like ever / the thrives do” — Hiram Larew

“For love to be born, a great many things // had to perish.” — K.M. Hanslik