What If I Never Fell in Love With The World? by Leah Umansky
“If you look and see nothing, you must simply look harder. / Everything is a miracle if we’re open to receiving it.” — Leah Umansky
Airport Prayer by Esther Sadoff
“Sometimes life feels conspiratorial. // Like we are conspiring to help each other despite the noise.” — Esther Sadoff
Animal by travis tate
“Isn’t it a blessing? Not to be hungry, venomous, / for something more? Ha! I don’t understand // that blessing.” — travis tate
False Poetics by Gretchen Filart
“When I see humans / I am crushed at how much / plastic makes walking stars.” — Gretchen Filart
Godzilla in Mexico by Roberto Bolaño
"We’re human beings, my son, almost birds, / public heroes and secrets." — Roberto Bolaño
Celebration of the Marriage of Heart and Mind by Eduardo Galeano
"From the moment we enter school or church, education chops us into pieces:" — Eduardo Galeano
Once by Sharon Olds
"He looked so unprotected, / so seamless, and shy, like a girl on a toilet," — Sharon Olds
A Man Said to the Universe by Stephen Crane
"The fact has not created in me / A sense of obligation." — Stephen Crane