Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem by Matthew Olzmann
“Because you memorize songs, even commercials / from thirty years back and sing them when vacuuming.” — Matthew Olzmann
you will dig me from the earth with your bare hands, in order to resurrect me by Paula Harris
“you will wipe the dirt, the decomposing / leaves, the insects / from my re-forming body / you will hold my almost-formed left hand / and beg me to return,” — Paula Harris
* * * by Rachel McKibbens
"Last Love, I am all that is left. Forgive me. / I did not see you coming. Forgive me. // Last Love, every day without you was a life / I crawled out of. Amen." — Rachel McKibbens
I am in love, hence free to live by Vera Pavlova
"I am in love, hence free to live / by heart, to ad lib as I caress." — Vera Pavlova
Love Letter by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
"Reasons can be removed, but love cannot." — Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Love by Billy Collins
"I saw him looking up at her and what she was doing / the way the eyes of saints are painted / when they are looking up at God" — Billy Collins
Lovely One by Pablo Neruda
"There are countries, there are rivers, / in your eyes, my country is your eyes," — Pablo Neruda