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
Letter by Joseph Fasano
“That new moon / you must have touched once / in the waters, / saying change me, change / me, change me. All I want / is to be more of what I am.” — Joseph Fasano
Act Now & Save by Kevin Young
“Whatever the well / you want me // To fall down I will—” — Kevin Young
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
To the New Year by W. S. Merwin
"so this is the sound of you / here and now whether or not / anyone hears it" — W. S. Merwin
How to Begin by Catherine Abbey Hodges
"Step into your ribcage. // Feel the draft of your heart's doors / as they open and close."
The Art of Fugue Part VI by Jan Zwicky
"The patterns of your life / repeat themselves until you listen. / Forgive this."
from East Coker by T.S. Eliot
"Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt / Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure"
Love: Beginnings by C. K. Williams
“every glance moving toward the sexual, every glance away soaring back in / flame into the sexual” — C. K. Williams