Vespers by Derrick Austin
"Like children who rub their grimy hands over everything, / they only want to touch and be touched by grass." — Derrick Austin
The Five-Thousand-Year-Old Heart I’ve Swallowed by Jeongrye Choi
“Do the flowers bloom and fall and bloom and fall without knowing the endless loneliness of my bare feet?” — Jeongrye Choi
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian by Ross Gay
“we are feeding each other / from a tree” — Ross Gay
Dorothy Wordsworth by Jennifer Chang
“I, too, have a big messy head / on a fragile stalk.” — Jennifer Chang