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
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
Breaking Up by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"I won’t say “forgive me” because I have left you; / I ask pardon for one thing: I loved you before." — Yevgeny Yevtushenko