What’s Broken by Dorianne Laux
"Last summer’s / pot of parsley and mint, white root / shooting like streamers through the cracks."
Happiness by Raymond Carver
"Such beauty that for a minute / death and ambition, even love, / doesn't enter into this."
Addendum by Diane Ackerman
"I've got lots of sensibility and no common sense; / isn't it better to lie low while the universe bombards