the mountain by Ambalila Hemsell
"inside of the ocean, / I am pushed to the brink, where I realize / that death is not what I want and divorce isn’t / either." — Ambalila Hemsell
Tell by January Gill O’Neil
“If you were to die tomorrow, I’d show up at your funeral wearing a red Microfiber dress.” — January Gill O'Neil
On watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel by Justin Lacour
“plot get harder the further out you go” — Justin Lacour
A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention by Yehuda Amichai
"They dismantled us / Each from the other." – Yehuda Amichai
A Married Man by Kate Clanchy
"a secret garden, high walled, locked, odd / velvet green. There, a window looked / towards the ocean." — Kate Clanchy
Habitation by Margaret Atwood
"where painfully and with wonder / at having survived even / this far // we are learning to make fire" — Margaret Atwood
My Husband Discovers Poetry by Diane Lockward
“But do you hear the strange sounds / that floated up the stairs that day, / the sounds of an animal, its paw caught / in one of those traps with teeth of steel?” – Diane Lockward
Early in the Morning by Li-Young Lee
"But I know / it is because of the way / my mother's hair falls / when he pulls the pins out." – Li-Young Lee