Dear by Ace Chu
“If, on cold nights, / before bed, / I pray for something as simple as the warmth of my hands—” — Ace Chu
That Everything’s Inevitable by Katy Lederer
“I am waiting, like an animal, // For poetry.” — Katy Lederer
Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness by Franny Choi
“When the Bad Thing happened, I saw every blade / And every year I find out what they’ve done to us, I shed another skin.” — Franny Choi
[You darkness, that I come from,] by Rainer Maria Rilke
“But the darkness pulls in everything: / shapes and fires, animals and myself, / how easily it gathers them! — ” — Rainer Maria Rilke
“I reason, Earth is short…” (301) by Emily Dickinson
"I reason that in Heaven — / Somehow, it will be even — / Some new Equation, given — / But, what of that?" — Emily Dickinson
Admonitions To A Special Person by Anne Sexton
"To love another is something / like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall / into its arms."
Sea of Faith by John Brehm
"wished there really was a Sea of Faith / that you could wade out into, / dive under its blue and magic waters," — John Brehm
Horses by Arkaye Kierulf
“I believe behind every face is another face is another face. / I believe everything is open.” — Arkaye Kierulf