Night Journal by Charles Wright
“Abstracted as water glints, / The fields lion-colored and rope-colored, / As in a picture of Paradise,” — Charles Wright
Endings by Derek Walcott
"even love’s lightning flash / has no thunderous end, // it dies with the sound / of flowers fading like the flesh"
Words From A Totem Animal by W. S. Merwin
"I know your silence / and the repetition / like that of a word in the ear of death" — W. S. Merwin
How to Be A Poet by Wendell Berry
"There are no unsacred places; / there are only sacred places / and desecrated places." — Wendell Berry
Some Trees by John Ashbery
"That their merely being there / Means something; that soon / We may touch, love, explain" — John Ashbery
Talking in Bed by Philip Larkin
"Outside the wind's incomplete unrest / builds and disperses clouds about the sky." — Philip Larkin
Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda
"For once on earth / let's not speak in any language, / let's stop for one second, / and not move our arms so much." — Pablo Neruda