I begin the day thinking by Taylor Byas
Some / days, I lay in the morgue / of darkness“ — Taylor Byas
In the Desert by Stephen Crane
““But I like it / “Because it is bitter, / “And because it is my heart.”” — Stephen Crane
While I Wash My Face I Ask Impossible Questions of Myself and Those Who Love Me by Charif Shanahan
“I look into the glass as I look through it. // When the new beginning comes, what then?” — Charif Shanahan
Headwaters by Ellen Bryant Voigt
“but don’t you think I’m doing better in this regard I try to do better” — Ellen Bryant Voigt
The One Thing by Pádraig Ó Tuama
“And he must have found a little window, / opened it – and shouted through it – / that saving sound that saved me.” — Pádraig Ó Tuama
Reflective by A. R. Ammons
“looked in at / a mirror / in / me that / had a / weed in it” — A. R. Ammons