Telephone Booth (number 905 1/2) by Pedro Pietri
“I am feeling too good / to report to work today, / if I feel sick tomorrow / I will come in early” — Pedro Pietri
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
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
“What did I know, what did I know / of love’s austere and lonely offices?” — Robert Hayden
At Least by Raymond Carver
“I hate to seem greedy—I have so much / to be thankful for already.” — Raymond Carver
Egg by C.G. Hanzlicek
““Why are you always whistling?” she asks. / “Because I’m happy.” / And it’s true, / Though it stuns me to say it aloud”
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."
Happiness by Raymond Carver
"Such beauty that for a minute / death and ambition, even love, / doesn't enter into this."