The Orange by Wendy Cope
“Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park. / This is peace and contentment. It’s new.” — Wendy Cope
Telephone Booth (number 905 1/2) by Pedro Pietri
“I am feeling too good / to report to work today, / if I feel sick tomorrow / I will come in early” — Pedro Pietri
Coconut by Paul Hostovsky
“and what on earth / and where on earth / and this was happiness / this little ball / of interest beating / inside his chest” — Paul Hostovsky
Red Tulips, Then Asphodel by Brenda Shaughnessy
“Did I once / feel like a tulip // bending gracefully toward its own root, its own death” — Brenda Shaughnessy
Love Comes Quietly by Robert Creeley
“What did I know / thinking myself / able to go / alone all the way.” — Robert Creeley
On A Train by Wendy Cope
“Long radiant minutes, / your hand in my hand, / still warm, still warm.” — Wendy Cope
Egg by C.G. Hanzlicek
““Why are you always whistling?” she asks. / “Because I’m happy.” / And it’s true, / Though it stuns me to say it aloud”
Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro
"I worry I can no longer pretend / enough to get through another / year of pretending
In Winter by Michael Ryan
"are you smiling / at an idea met in a book / the way you smiled with your whole body / the first night we talked?"