The Five-Thousand-Year-Old Heart I’ve Swallowed by Jeongrye Choi
“Do the flowers bloom and fall and bloom and fall without knowing the endless loneliness of my bare feet?” — Jeongrye Choi
To Myself by Franz Wright
"I will whisper. / It won’t always be like this. / I am going to buy you a sandwich." — Franz Wright
From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand
"We begin to believe // the night would not end." – Mark Strand
The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students by Galway Kinnell
"at the end I could feel only pity / for that urge toward more life" – Galway Kinnell
The Secret Of Poetry by Jon Anderson
"I suppose you are secretly lonely, / Thinking of death, thinking of love." – Jon Anderson
Perfect Reader by Mary Ruefle
"I go home at the end and watch / the news about the homeless couple who met in the park, / and then the weather, to see how they will feel tomorrow." — Mary Ruefle
Dear Man Whose Marriage I Wrecked by Jeffrey McDaniel
"What I'm really trying to say is I tumbled into her / arms like a thousand reluctant dominoes." – Jeffrey McDaniel
Celibacy at Twenty by Sharon Olds
"Each time, / I wanted to be coming home / to stay." — Sharon Olds
I Wonder How Many People in This City by Leonard Cohen
"I swear I see a face in every window / looking back at me" — Leonard Cohen