Certain Outlines Can Only Be Imagined by Asa Drake
“Honestly, it's the wrong year / to write a love poem.” — Asa Drake
#38 [I have observed pink monks eating blue raisins] by José García Villa
“Indeed I have observed and myself have partaken / of blue and pink raisins. But my joy was different: / My joy was to see the blue and the pink counterpointing.” — José García Villa
San Maló by Luisa A. Igloria
“Never mind / that the bruise from such a severance / might not heal.” — Luisa A. Igloria
In the Tradition of Women Who’ve Blessed Me to Transfer Their Virtues by Asa Drake
“One year / in the middle of my life // I asked how full do I want to be.” — Asa Drake
Pleasure by Rick Barot
“On fewer days I agree / with the poet’s dread of being / the wrong person in the right world” — Rick Barot
Instead, I’m Here to Tell You Very Softly by Oliver de la Paz
“it's summer again and the undulant rows / of banners break my heart every time” — Oliver de la Paz
Suppose You Were A Moray Eel by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
“Let us wait here in this coral cave and count the number of smelt that swim / by. Let them go, all of them.” — Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Naming the Trees by Eric Gamalinda
“home is that place / you are continually born into, / that you leave with no regret, / that grows smaller each time you return.” — Eric Gamalinda
Naming the Heartbeats by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
"When you / get a group of heartbeats together you get names that call out / into the evening’s first radiance of planets"
Yevtushenko, On A Rainy Day by Benilda S. Santos
"He is saying between quotation marks / that look like droplets of rain / suspended near the edge / of my windowpane, / he is saying, // “And I run like mad / Never catching up with myself.”"