Meditation on a Grapefruit by Craig Arnold
“each year harder to live within / each year harder to live without” — Craig Arnold
gather them & give them back to me by Renia White
“so your hand isn’t in mine, but I feel / it there—when I am asleep, awake, inside my mind room.” — Renia White
spell for reclaiming the moment by adrienne maree brown
“we could be another’s blessing / with our brief and epic lives” — adrienne maree brown
Grace by Cecilia Woloch
“when I think of how you stand / as if with nothing in your hands” — Cecilia Woloch
Dieter with the Tulips, Munich, 1984 (Nan Goldin) by Alisha Dietzman
“Most days, we are suspended / over a deep pool of silence.” — Alisha Dietzman
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
The Whole of It by Helen Meneilly
“You have come so far / to love your little life so much / that you would not trade a single scar.” — Helen Meneilly
On A Train by Wendy Cope
“Long radiant minutes, / your hand in my hand, / still warm, still warm.” – Wendy Cope
Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte
“Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the / conversation.” – David Whyte
The Conditional by Ada Limón
“Say you’d still want this: us alive, / right here, feeling lucky.” – Ada Limón