The Man-Moth by Elizabeth Bishop
“But what the Man-Moth fears most he must do, although / he fails, of course, and falls back scared but quite unhurt.” — Elizabeth Bishop
Wish by Caitlin Doyle
“I told him I needed time— / he gave me a cuckoo clock // (I couldn’t work the winding key)” — Caitlin Doyle
Letter by Joseph Fasano
“That new moon / you must have touched once / in the waters, / saying change me, change / me, change me. All I want / is to be more of what I am.” — Joseph Fasano
i love you to the moon & by Chen Chen
“let’s not come back, let’s go by the speed of / queer zest & stay up / there” — Chen Chen
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning by Leila Chatti
"Enter any body / of water and you give yourself up / to be swallowed."
I Am Learning to Abandon the World by Linda Pastan
"And every night I give my body up / limb by limb, working upwards / across bone, towards the heart."
The Conditional by Ada Limón
"Say we spend our last moments staring / at each other, hands knotted together"
Leaf by Seán Hewitt
"For woods are forms of grief / grown from the earth. For they creak / with the weight of it."
Performance After the End of the World by Talin Tahajian
"I’ve never been good / at caring very much about language except / when it matters the most."