The Best Cigarette by Billy Collins
"I would be my own locomotive, / trailing behind me as I returned to work" — Billy Collins
Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles by Billy Collins
"Maybe it is autumn and he is looking at a sparrow. / Maybe it is snowing on a town with a beautiful name." — Billy Collins
Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda
"For once on earth / let's not speak in any language, / let's stop for one second, / and not move our arms so much." — Pablo Neruda
Self-Portrait by Adam Zagajewski
“I'm truly not a child of the ocean, / as Antonio Machado wrote about himself, / but a child of air, mint, and cello / and not all the ways of the high world / cross paths with the life