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
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
not a perfect person by Kristin Lueke
“i’d like to be loved. / just not too much. lord, let me never / be needed.” — Kristin Lueke