Turing Test by Franny Choi
"in order to contemplate lineage / you start with what you know / hands, hair, bones, sweat"
On the Motion of Animals by Camille Rankine
"I could / love you like you / probably should / be loved but my love / is a fish / in the wrong / kind of water"
Wild Oats by W.S. Merwin
"September when the wind / drops and to us it seems / that the days are waiting / I needed my mistakes / in their own order / to get me here"
Conversation by Ai
"and you realize how that image / is simply the extension of another image, / that your own life / is a chain of words / that one day will snap"
from East Coker by T.S. Eliot
"Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt / Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure"
Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda
"For once on earth / let’s not speak in any language, / let’s stop for one second, / and not move our arms so much."