For M by Mikko Harvey
“I / think I / get so / scared because / I’m greedy — / I want / to hold / onto everything, / the world / wants to / take it / away.” — Mikko Harvey
I Keep Trying to Leave but the Sex Just Gets Better and Better by Ali Shapiro
“But my body’s a bad / dog, all dumb tongue / and hunger, down / on all fours again, tied up / outside again, coming / when called but then always refusing / to stay.” — Ali Shapiro
The Promise by Jane Hirshfield
“Stay, I said to my body. / It sat as a dog does, / obedient for a moment, / soon starting to tremble.” — Jane Hirshfield
Unwritten Law by Louise Glück
"I ruled against the indefinite article. / And yet, the mistakes of my youth / made me hopeless" – Louise Glück