How to Listen by James A. Pearson
"I’m asking you / to open so wide / there’s room for all the ways / I come apart." — James A. Pearson
poets of distant planets by Ifeanyi Ogbo
“find out if they’ve ever knitted poems comprised only / of loose strands of sadness, / or painted ballads of overflowing joy” — Ifeanyi Ogbo
What birds plunge through is not the intimate space by Rainer Maria Rilke
"It has no limits. Not till it is held / in your renouncing is it truly there." — Rainer Maria Rilke
Skylab by Rolf Jacobsen
"we sicken with longing for a green stalk / or the heft of something in our hands. Lifting a stone." — Rolf Jacobsen
