My Childhood Dog Jessie Once Ate A Box of 120-Count Crayolas and Shat Speckled Rainbows for a Week by Emilia Phillips
“I didn’t understand / delight // not shared. / Or pain. / Soon, the blister / melted back // into me.” — Emilia Phillips
For a Five-Year-Old by Fleur Adcock
“I see, then, that a kind of faith prevails: / your gentleness is moulded still by words” — Fleur Adcock
The Two-headed Calf by Laura Gilpin
“But tonight he is alive and in the north / field with his mother.” — Laura Gilpin
Children, Listen by Roger Reeves
“You must be the grass / You must grow wildly over the graves” — Roger Reeves
Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Ah! ás the heart grows older / It will come to such sights colder / By and by, nor spare a sigh” — Gerard Manley Hopkins
My Son is Undone By My Hair by Alice White
“Watch him lift it like a spider leg / mistaken for a string. See / the realization of what it is / creep across his gaze” — Alice White
Mimesis by Fady Joudah
“If you tear down the web I said / It will simply know / This isn’t a place to call home” — Fady Joudah
The Cows at Night by Hayden Carruth
"But I did not want to go, / not yet, nor knew what to do" – Hayden Carruth
Peas by Lorna Crozier
"They make you suffer for the sweet / burst of green in the mouth." – Lorna Crozier
Yellow Glove by Naomi Shihab Nye
“I knew my mother’s eyes had tears they had not cried yet, I didn’t want to be the one to make them flow.” — Naomi Shihab Nye