There Comes the Strangest Moment by Kate Light
"Your heart’s in retrograde. You simply have no choice. / Things people told you turn out to be true."
I’ll Write the Girl by Jan Beatty
"& knows her life will always / be this biting open one thing / to leave another
Rain by Carol Ann Duffy
"Then the rain came, like stammered kisses at first / on the back of my neck. I unfurled my fist / for the rain to caress with its lips."
Eros by Louise Glück
"I wanted only this: / the room, the chair, the sound of the rain falling, / hour after hour, in the warmth of the spring night."