Subtitles Missing by Chris Tse
“A lesson, surely, given / we are prone to asking for what must be earned.” — Chris Tse
Seeing a Dog in the Rain by Laura Gilpin
“but as it is, the water is simply stroking / his fur.” — Laura Gilpin
At the Church Door by Louis Simpson
“So I opened the door, / and she said, “It jumped off.” / We stood looking around.” — Louis Simpson
A Portrait of the Reader with a Bowl of Cereal by Billy Collins
“Most days, we are suspended / over a deep pool of silence.” — Billy Collins
Little Ode to Taking the Dog Out by John Minczeski
“The day, having lost / its train of thought, / clung to twilight / like a lamprey.” — John Minczeski
Starved by Tara Bray
“In this world made up of hunger and of seeking / a quiet luck to see a bird for what it is.” — Tara Bray
Bun by Gillian Sze
"how lucky they are to witness / her miss the last tendril, / the one that sticks to her neck, / curled like a crescent moon." — Gillian Sze
Autumn by T. E. Hulme
“And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge / Like a red-faced farmer.” — T. E. Hulme