Elegy for My Ninth Grade Natural Science Project by Sarah Brockhaus
“They didn’t know what their wings were / for. I’ve made my life an apology ever // since.” — Sarah Brockhaus
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
Finding is Losing Something Else by Richard Brautigan
"Finding is losing something else." – Richard Brautigan
Parting After a Quarrel by Eunice Tietjens
“And in my heart I heard the little click / Of a door that closes—quietly, forever.” – Eunice Tietjens
Locking Yourself Out, Then Trying to Get Back In by Raymond Carver
"To be there, inside, and not be there. / I don't even think I can talk about it." – Raymond Carver
Winding Up by Derek Walcott
"but we are what we have made. / We suffer, the years pass," – Derek Walcott
Wounds by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"one can be wounded even by a petal. // And I myself have wounded—quite unwittingly—" —Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Account by Czeslaw Milosz
"Others would deal with ways to silence anxiety, / The little whisper which, though it is a warning, is ignored." — Czeslaw Milosz