I Like For You to be Still by Pablo Neruda
“You are like the night / With its stillness and constellations” — Pablo Neruda
Starved by Tara Bray
“In this world made up of hunger and of seeking / a quiet luck to see a bird for what it is.” — Tara Bray
Slow Dance by the Ocean by Linda Gregg
"The world moves, my Lord, and I stay still, / yielding as it passes through." — Linda Gregg
Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain by Li Po
"We sit together, the mountain and me, / until only the mountain remains." — Li Po
Each Thing Measured by the Same Sun by Linda Gregg
"Nothing to tell. Nothing to desire. / A silence that is not unhappy." — Linda Gregg
This Morning by Charles Simic
"You visit the same tailors the mourners do, / Mr. Ant." — Charles Simic
Marengo by Mary Oliver
"When I have to die, I would like to die / on a day of rain— / long rain, slow rain, the kind you think will never end." — Mary Oliver
Above the Dock by T. E. Hulme
“What seemed so far away / Is but a child's balloon, forgotten after play.” — T. E. Hulme