Kitchen, West-Facing Window by Jackie Sherbow
To be happy / is an effort—you know this / about me.” — Jackie Sherbow
I Have This Way of Being by Jamaal May
“This is little more than a way / to kneel and fill gloves with sweat,” — Jamaal May
In the Garden by Christiana Castillo
“I sometimes start to reach / for his hand” — Christiana Castillo
The Moon Days by Dorothea Lasky
“Blow your seeds / Directly / To me // Blow your soul / Directly to me / I’ll save you” — Dorothea Lasky
Headwaters by Ellen Bryant Voigt
“but don’t you think I’m doing better in this regard I try to do better” — Ellen Bryant Voigt
Coping by Audre Lorde
“running the world is / a round puddle / of sunless water / where small islands / are only beginning / to cope” — Audre Lorde
An Indian Girl’s Guide To Driving by Urvashi Bahuguna
“Nothing makes me forgive people / like learning I have something to teach them.”
