Talk by Noelle Kocot
“O little sea, // O my body, / Sit here with me / While I just talk.” — Noelle Kocot
The Man-Moth by Elizabeth Bishop
“But what the Man-Moth fears most he must do, although / he fails, of course, and falls back scared but quite unhurt.” — Elizabeth Bishop
Radio, Radio by Ben Doller
“She only / buries their bodies, their wings. / She packs the dirt tight around / their noodle necks & they shake / like long eyelashes in a hurricane.” — Ben Doller
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run by Matthea Harvey
"When I said did you want me / I meant me in the general sense." — Matthea Harvey
Shiver & You Have Weather by Matthea Harvey
“So what if I sat on the sectional? / As always I was beside myself.” — Matthea Harvey
Absence by Jeffrey McDaniel
"We’re both self-centered, / but the world revolves around us at the same speed." — Jeffrey McDaniel
We Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye by Anna Akhmatova
“You meant more than life to me. I lived through / you not knowing, not knowing I was living.” — Anna Akhmatova
The New Higher by John Ashbery
"Go presently you said. Go from my window. / I am in love with your window I cannot undermine / it, I said." — John Ashbery
