Moving On in the Dark Like Loaded Boats at Night, Though There is No Course, There is Boundlessness by Lucie Brock-Broido
“Why would what died once keep on dying off / Over & over like a seam in an old velvet coat?” — Lucie Brock-Broido
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
Night, Death, Mississippi by Robert Hayden
“Time was. A cry? / A cry all right. / He hawks and spits, / fevered as by groinfire.” — Robert Hayden
Prayer Bones by Ian William Douglas
“The nights were fathomless; the wind, the low hills / Dwindling. The unforgiving light was your own.” — Ian William Douglas
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
The Courtesan’s Reply – Tambulasena by Shazea Quraishi
“Water drips down / my back. He grasps the rope / of my hair and climbs.”
Above the Dock by T. E. Hulme
“What seemed so far away / Is but a child's balloon, forgotten after play.” — T. E. Hulme
Querida by Angela Manalang-Gloria
“The door is closed, the curtains drawn within / One room, a brilliant question mark of light
Landscape II by Carlos A. Angeles
"And universal tenderness which drains / The sucked and golden breath of sky comes bare." – Carlos A. Angeles