A Living by William Stafford
“Even pain you can take, in waves: / call the interval happiness.” — William Stafford
The Weighing by Jane Hirshfield
“The world asks of us / only the strength we have and we give it. / Then it asks more, and we give it.” — Jane Hirshfield
Walking, Blues by Jane Mead
"The voice / said walk or die, I / walked,—the train // and the voice all / blurry." — Jane Mead
Two Poems for T. by Cesare Pavese
"You also are love. / Made of blood and earth / like the others." — Cesare Pavese
Love is a Deep and a Dark and a Lonely by Carl Sandburg
"and you put it away for a keen keeping / and you find it to be a hoarding / and you give it away and yet it stays hoarded" — Carl Sandburg