The Woman Who Could Not Live With Her Faulty Heart by Margaret Atwood
"One night I will say to it: / Heart, be still, / and it will." — Margaret Atwood
Song by Adrienne Rich
"If I'm lonely / it must be the loneliness / of waking first, of breathing / dawns' first cold breath on the city" — Adrienne Rich
Degrees of Gray In Phillipsburg by Richard Hugo
“Isn’t this your life? That ancient kiss / still burning out your eyes?” — Richard Hugo
Flying at Night by Ted Kooser
"Below us, / some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death," — Ted Kooser