[M45] by Romalyn Ante
“a child told me he wanted to drink bleach; / certain he will never be healed.” — Romalyn Ante
I Have Always Confused Desire With Apocalypse by Daphne Gottlieb
“Now, my knees // shake whenever / you come around” — Daphne Gottlieb
Coping by Audre Lorde
“running the world is / a round puddle / of sunless water / where small islands / are only beginning / to cope” — Audre Lorde
I Knew an Eccentric by Helen Conkling
"Reading them was like riding a funnel-shaped wind inward." – Helen Conkling