I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone by Stephen Dunn
"everything, everyone is intelligible / in the language of touch" — Stephen Dunn
The Portrait by Stanley Kunitz
"She locked his name / in her deepest cabinet / and would not let him out, / though I could hear him thumping." — Stanley Kunitz
Retriever by Faith Shearin
"She is his responsible soul / broken free. She is the children he couldn't / come home to made young again." – Faith Shearin