Vespers by Derrick Austin
"Like children who rub their grimy hands over everything, / they only want to touch and be touched by grass." — Derrick Austin
I Was Told the Sunlight Was a Cure by Hanif Abdurraqib
"on the days I want to be alive I tell myself I deserve a marching band / or at least a string section to announce my arrival
The Round by Stanley Kunitz
"this morning I saw light kiss / the silk of the roses / A curious gladness shook me"