After Spending the Morning Baking Bread by Jack Ridl
“Say yes to wanting to be this cat.” — Jack Ridl
Blood Orange by Charles Simic
“Everything is teetering on the edge of everything / With a polite smile.” — Charles Simic
Fieldwork by Derek Chan
“A shadow cries out sharply. / The wind outside tries to tear / out the world, as red petals drip / open the sky.” — Derek Chan
Evening by Kuhu Joshi
“On the bridge, people are carried / in the body of a train, nodding like peonies.” — Kuhu Joshi
Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur by Ellen Bass
“Why did I think / it would be anything less than too much / of everything?” — Ellen Bass
I Imagine The Gods by Jack Gilbert
“Teach me mortality, frighten me / into the present. Help me to find / the heft of these days.” — Jack Gilbert
Postcard to Baudelaire by Thomas Lux
“There’s one good thing, / Charles: the few beautiful verses / granted you by God / sing.” — Thomas Lux
Riveted by Robyn Sarah
“It is possible that we have crossed the great water / without knowing it, and stand now on the other side.” — Robyn Sarah