The Astronaut Explains Divorce to Me by Ash Bowen
“But at night, the frequency / of your grief keeps him homing through // our house.” — Ash Bowen
On Distance by Paige Lewis
“What I mean / is, this one light can reach as many people / as the sun, and you only have to reach me.” — Paige Lewis
Indigo Bunting by Robert Bly
“I love a firmness in you / that disdains the trivial / and regains the difficult.” — Robert Bly
Torn Map by Naomi Shihab Nye
“Wouldn’t it be nice / if that were true? / I’d tear a map / and be right next to you.” — Naomi Shihab Nye
To Be Elsewhere by Hsia Yü
“They fail to recognize themselves / as though meeting in another story / for an encounter.“ – Hsia Yü
Now That I am In Madrid I Can Think by Frank O’Hara
"seen through you the great works of death, you are greater // you are smiling, you are emptying the world so we can be alone." — Frank O'Hara
Sea Level by Kim Van Voorhees
“only the ocean knows how to spoon salt over a great distance / under any kind of light.” — Kim Van Voorhees
At North Farm by John Ashbery
"Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, / At incredible speed, traveling day and night" — John Ashbery