The B-Sides of the Golden Record, Track Seven: “Love Poem with Prosopopoeia” by Sumita Chakraborty
“It means something: / to know you are alone, / and then to learn / that you are wrong.” — Sumita Chakraborty
Hymn to Time by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Time is being and being / time, it is all one thing, / the shining, the seeing, / the dark abounding.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
False Poetics by Gretchen Filart
“When I see humans / I am crushed at how much / plastic makes walking stars.” — Gretchen Filart
Flying at Night by Ted Kooser
"Below us, / some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death," — Ted Kooser