I begin the day thinking by Taylor Byas
Some / days, I lay in the morgue / of darkness“ — Taylor Byas
The Coming of Light by Mark Strand
“Even this late the bones of the body shine / and tomorrow’s dust flares into breath.” — Mark Strand
All That Wanting, Right? by Devin Kelly
“When I wanted unknowing, / I was given certainty, & when I wanted the hard / & fixed line, I was given mystery.” — Devin Kelly
i ask the sun too much by Kristin Lueke
“what i want? is a room where the light finds me / easy & all that we need, we have.” — Kristin Lueke
Breaklight by Lucille Clifton
“light keeps on breaking. / i keep knowing / the language of other nations.” — Lucille Clifton
[You darkness, that I come from,] by Rainer Maria Rilke
“But the darkness pulls in everything: / shapes and fires, animals and myself, / how easily it gathers them! — ” — Rainer Maria Rilke
The World Has Need of You by Ellen Bass
“What if you felt the invisible / tug between you and everything?” — Ellen Bass
Some Nights the Entire Gravel Driveway by Alice White
“It's easy to kill without meaning to, / as easy as it is to die” — Alice White
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian by Ross Gay
“we are feeding each other / from a tree” — Ross Gay