In Winter by Michael Ryan
"are you smiling / at an idea met in a book / the way you smiled with your whole body / the first night we talked?"
Black Lead in a Nancy Meyers Film by Rio Cortez
"Aging, at all. I want that. And to fall / perhaps most honestly in love / beside the ocean"
Poem About Your Laugh by Susan Glickman
"When you laugh it is all the unsynchronized clocks / in the watchmaker's shop / striking their dissident hours"
untitled by Rachel McKibbens
"Last Love, I am all that is left. Forgive me. / I did not see you coming. Forgive me. // Last Love, every day without you was a life / I crawled out of. Amen."
Once by Eavan Boland
"I do not want us to be immortal or unlucky. / To listen for our own death in the distance."
I Am Not Ready To Die Yet by Aracelis Girmay
"I want to live longer. / I want to love you longer, say it again, / I want to love you longer / & sing that song / again."
There Comes the Strangest Moment by Kate Light
"Your heart’s in retrograde. You simply have no choice. / Things people told you turn out to be true."
After Opening The New York Times I Wonder How to Write a Poem about Love by Camille T. Dungy
"To love like God can love, sometimes. / Before the kettle boils to a whistle, quiet."