Da Capo by Jane Hirshfield
"Soon there is nothing left. / Soon the last ripple exhausts itself / in the weeds." - Jane Hirshfield
The Invention of Heaven by Dean Young
"The mind becomes a field of snow / but then the snow melts and the dandelions / blink on" — Dean Young
Marengo by Mary Oliver
"When I have to die, I would like to die / on a day of rain— / long rain, slow rain, the kind you think will never end." — Mary Oliver
How Could I Have Doubted by Leonard Cohen
“Tears run down my cheeks / I am in love again” — Leonard Cohen
The End and the Beginning by Wisława Szymborska
"After every war / someone has to clean up. / Things won't / straighten themselves up, after all." — Wisława Szymborska
Morning Poem by Mary Oliver
"there is still / somewhere deep within you / a beast shouting that the earth / is exactly what it wanted ---" — Mary Oliver
Memento by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“you entered into me on stockinged feet. / You entered—neither too late nor too early— / at exactly the right time, as my very own,” — Yevgeny Yevtushenko