My Father, the Astronaut by Warsan Shire
“you may / glimpse my father / hurtling through space” — Warsan Shire
One Year After My Dying Father and I Stop Speaking to Each Other Again By Eugenia Leigh
“No satisfactory rip. Too ready / to let go. I covet the reels of the lucky ones going on // about their dead. Everyone I have lost / I have lost before the end.” — Eugenia Leigh
Punctum/Metaphor by Carolina Ebeid
“Love remains a kind of present tense. This is how we describe the scenes in photographs—as though the actions in them were still happening.” — Carolina Ebeid
Starlight by Philip Levine
"We / are alone, and he asks me if I am happy. / "Are you happy?" I cannot answer." – Philip Levine