Pleasure by Rick Barot
“On fewer days I agree / with the poet’s dread of being / the wrong person in the right world” — Rick Barot
The World Has Need of You by Ellen Bass
“What if you felt the invisible / tug between you and everything?” — Ellen Bass
Lines Composed While Watching My Mother Buy Tomatoes by Bee Morris
“the sky is blue because. / The plants are watered green because. / That silver hair on your head, / so many impossible strands!” — Bee Morris
Some Nights the Entire Gravel Driveway by Alice White
“It's easy to kill without meaning to, / as easy as it is to die” — Alice White
A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring by Erika L. Sánchez
“Aren't we all boundless / though? The way a dream / secretes the morning after” — Erika L. Sánchez
absence. displacement. by Etel Adnan
“I love the rain when it / wraps me like a / river” — Etel Adnan
Leaf by Seán Hewitt
"For woods are forms of grief / grown from the earth. For they creak / with the weight of it."
Performance After the End of the World by Talin Tahajian
"I’ve never been good / at caring very much about language except / when it matters the most."
I Am Not Ready To Die Yet by Aracelis Girmay
"I want to live longer. / I want to love you longer, say it again, / I want to love you longer / & sing that song / again."