Elegy for My Ninth Grade Natural Science Project by Sarah Brockhaus
“They didn’t know what their wings were / for. I’ve made my life an apology ever // since.” — Sarah Brockhaus
As Though I Was Waiting For That by W.S. Merwin
“for no reason / hearing no voice / with no promise / praying to myself / be clear” — W.S. Merwin
Endings by Aldo Amparán
“I want. A different ending. / Or rather. A thing that doesn’t end.” — Aldo Amparán
When I Hear People Talk in the Past Tense About Their Dead by Todd Dillard
“I call my dead mom, and she is never / too busy to answer.” — Todd Dillard
a person in my grief group shares about hummingbirds by Mikey Jones
“do you think they were searching / for my father?” — Mikey Jones
Granada by M. Cynthia Cheung
“What I imagine / is vanishing—language / you will take beyond the peaks.” — M. Cynthia Cheung
Love by Katy Lederer
“We were waiting for our recompense. / But everyone knows love is bankrupt.” — Katy Lederer
My Father, the Astronaut by Warsan Shire
“you may / glimpse my father / hurtling through space” — Warsan Shire