To the Angelbeast by Eduardo C. Corral
“You said it was nothing / but a trick of the light. Gold / curves. Gold scarves. // Am I not your animal?” — Eduardo C. Corral
My Crow by Raymond Carver
“It sat there on the branch for a few minutes. / Then picked up and flew beautifully / out of my life.” — Raymond Carver
Invitation by Mary Oliver
"it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world." — Mary Oliver
An Indian Girl’s Guide To Driving by Urvashi Bahuguna
“Nothing makes me forgive people / like learning I have something to teach them.”
Postcards to the Other Brown Girl in My Weightlifting Class by Tarfia Faizullah
"I do not want / to give myself—I want to be stem, / stamen, petal, not blossom, not bloom—"
Sunflowers by Jenny George
"Having died / all the way back to the root, I grow again / into a version of the thing I love"
The Light Continues by Linda Gregg
"When the sun / is gone, the light continues / high up in the sky for a while. / When I return, the moon is there. / Like a changing of the guard." — Linda Gregg