For My Brother by Natasha Rao
“Whenever / heads touched, our / dreams were related / by blood. / It all was a kind of magic / then.” — Natasha Rao
Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road? by Robert Hershon
“I sometimes start to reach / for his hand” — Robert Hershon
Midsummer, Tobago by Derek Walcott
“Days I have held, / days I have lost, // days that outgrow, like daughters, / my harbouring arms.” — Derek Walcott
September a week in by Hala Alyan
"Nothing will wreck your life like wanting something / that isn’t in it." — Hala Alyan
The Attic and Its Nails by Naomi Shihab Nye
"It’s hard up there. You dig in a box for whatever the moment requires: sweater, wreath, the other half of the walky-talky, and find twelve things you forgot about
Since Nine— by C. P. Cavafy
"Half past twelve. How the time has passed. / Half past twelve. How the years have passed." — C. P. Cavafy
The Best Cigarette by Billy Collins
"I would be my own locomotive, / trailing behind me as I returned to work" — Billy Collins
To My Last Period by Lucille Clifton
"well, girl, goodbye, / after thirty-eight years." — Lucille Clifton
Nostos by Louise Glück
“We look at the world once, in childhood. / The rest is memory.” — Louise Glück