Mammoth by Jessica Hincapié
“To be alive you had to be some kind / of consequence.” — Jessica Hincapié
Sometimes It Happens by Brian Patten
“You wonder if these things matter and then / As soon you begin to wonder if these things matter / They cease to matter,” — Brian Patten
Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes
“They find peace / in the way they contain the wind / and are gone.” — Lorna Dee Cervantes
Rain Light by W.S. Merwin
“my mother said I am going now / when you are alone you will be all right / whether or not you know you will know” — W.S. Merwin
Lake Echo, Dear by C. D. Wright
“How summer’s children turn / into fish and rain softens men” — C. D. Wright
The Promise by Jane Hirshfield
“Stay, I said to my body. / It sat as a dog does, / obedient for a moment, / soon starting to tremble.” — Jane Hirshfield
The Naturalist’s Last Love Poem by Ashley Anna McHugh
"Nothing on earth / can last forever." – Ashley Anna McHugh
Sifting in the Afternoon by Malachi Black
"but now, to live, to sit somehow, to watch / a particle of thought dote on the dust" – Malachi Black
Our Valley by Philip Levine
"You have to remember this isn’t your land. / It belongs to no one, like the sea you once lived beside and thought was yours." – Philip Levine
My Son at the Seashore, Age Two by Don Coles
"a little breeze passing by / on its way to oblivion — / as this day is on its way there too," — Don Coles