Circe’s Grief by Louise Glück
"This is how a god says goodbye: / If I am in her head forever / I am in your life forever." — Louise Glück
Sonnet 80 by William Shakespeare
“O, how I faint when I of you do write, / Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,” — William Shakespeare
My Husband Discovers Poetry by Diane Lockward
“But do you hear the strange sounds / that floated up the stairs that day, / the sounds of an animal, its paw caught / in one of those traps with teeth of steel?” – Diane Lockward