Like a Small Café, That’s Love by Mahmoud Darwish
“It is raining now. / It is raining more than ever, / and you do not come in.” — Mahmoud Darwish
I Wonder If I Need the Rapture or If I Could Just Swallow A Catastrophe and Call It Good by Kelli Russell Agodon
“In a perfect world, we would slow dance / with someone we love” — Kelli Russell Agodon
Summer by Robin Coste Lewis
"I peeled / a banana. And cursed God—His arrogance, / His gall—to still expect our devotion / after creating love."
Egg by C.G. Hanzlicek
““Why are you always whistling?” she asks. / “Because I’m happy.” / And it’s true, / Though it stuns me to say it aloud”
Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro
“I love you. I want us both to eat well.”
In Winter by Michael Ryan
"are you smiling / at an idea met in a book / the way you smiled with your whole body / the first night we talked?"
The Conditional by Ada Limón
"Say we spend our last moments staring / at each other, hands knotted together"