How to Listen by James A. Pearson
"I’m asking you / to open so wide / there’s room for all the ways / I come apart." — James A. Pearson
Seeing a Dog in the Rain by Laura Gilpin
“but as it is, the water is simply stroking / his fur.” — Laura Gilpin
For a Five-Year-Old by Fleur Adcock
“I see, then, that a kind of faith prevails: / your gentleness is moulded still by words” — Fleur Adcock
The Word That Is A Prayer by Ellery Akers
“Please: a word so short / it could get lost in the air” — Ellery Akers
Kinder than Man by Althea Davis
“If I am killed / for simply living, / let death be kinder / than man.” — Althea Davis
Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich
“There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind.” — Cameron Awkward-Rich
Not Horses by Natalie Shapero
“I know how it feels, born as I’ve been / into these rotting times, as into sin. Everybody’s / busy, so distraught they forget to kill me, / and even that won’t keep me alive.” — Nathalie Shapero
Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich
“There’s a dream I have in which I love the world.” — Cameron Awkward-Rich