Subtitles Missing by Chris Tse
“A lesson, surely, given / we are prone to asking for what must be earned.” — Chris Tse
[M45] by Romalyn Ante
“a child told me he wanted to drink bleach; / certain he will never be healed.” — Romalyn Ante
Four in the Morning by Wislawa Szymborska
“The hour of and-what-if-nothing-remains-after-us.” — Wislawa Szymborska
True Love by Wisława Szymborska
"Let the people who never find true love / keep saying that there's no such thing. // Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die." – Wisława Szymborska
Walking, Blues by Jane Mead
"The voice / said walk or die, I / walked,—the train // and the voice all / blurry." — Jane Mead
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
"I was much too far out all my life / And not waving but drowning." — Stevie Smith
I Say I Say I Say by Simon Armitage
"Come clean, come good, / repeat with me the punch line 'Just like blood'" — Simon Armitage
The Flower by Robert Creeley
"Each wound is perfect, / encloses itself in a tiny / imperceptible blossom, / making pain." — Robert Creeley