january by Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie
“I admire the grabbiness of lungs / I admire my thorough heart / I admire most that they are inseparable / what the lung grabs the heart uses” — Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie
Three Times My Life Has Opened by Jane Hirshfield
“There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of / light stays…” — Jane Hirshfield
Position without a Magnitude by Charles Simic
"And you shudder / As you realize it's only you" — Charles Simic