Hymn to All the Men I’ll Never Love by Julia Copus
"the sort of men / whose smiles I can endure without surrendering my all to them;" – Julia Copus
I am in love, hence free to live by Vera Pavlova
"I am in love, hence free to live / by heart, to ad lib as I caress." — Vera Pavlova
Get Drunk by Charles Baudelaire
"Don't be martyred slaves of Time, / Get drunk! / Stay drunk!" — Charles Baudelaire
The Jogger on Riverside Drive, 5:00 A.M. by Agha Shahid Ali
"he, now suddenly free, // from the air, from himself," — Agha Shahid Ali
What Do Women Want? by Kim Addonizio
"When I find it, I'll pull that garment / from its hanger like I'm choosing a body" — Kim Addonizio
Flying Inside Your Own Body by Margaret Atwood
"It's only in dreams you can do this. / Waking, your heart is a shaken fist," — Margaret Atwood
The Rider by Naomi Shihab Nye
“A victory! To leave your loneliness / panting behind you on some street corner” — Naomi Shihab Nye
Old Maid Walking on a City Street by Angela Manalang-Gloria
"Because her mind refused the heavy burden, / Her broad feet shovelled up the world." — Angela Manalang-Gloria
Day Dream by A.S.J. Tessimond
"And people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, / Unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, / Unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea," — A.S.J. Tessimond