Letter by Joseph Fasano
“That new moon / you must have touched once / in the waters, / saying change me, change / me, change me. All I want / is to be more of what I am.” — Joseph Fasano
Starlight, 1962 by Victoria Chang
“Suppose the stars are just our grief reflected back to us, proof that grief sometimes forgets its source, that it can find dead things no matter how distant.” — Victoria Chang
Lucky by Kirsten Dierking
"All this time, / the life you were / supposed to live / has been rising around you"
Imagine Sisyphus Happy by Nicole Sealey
"But birds / pluck their own feathers, dogs / lick themselves to wound. Allow me this / luxury. Give me tonight to cut / and salt the open."
Summer Stars by Carl Sandburg
“So near, a long-arm man can pick off stars, / Pick off what he wants in the sky bowl,” — Carl Sandburg