Being in This World Makes Me Feel Like a Time Traveler by Kaveh Akbar
"One day I stopped in a lobby for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres / and ever since, the life of this world has seemed still."
Conversation by Ai
"and you realize how that image / is simply the extension of another image, / that your own life / is a chain of words / that one day will snap"
The Leash by Ada Limón
"But sometimes, I swear I hear it, the wound closing / like a rusted-over garage door, and I can still move / my living limbs into the world without too much / pain
Notebook Fragments by Ocean Vuong
"Woke up screaming with no sound. The room filling with a bluish water / called dawn."
Autobiographia Literaria by Frank O’Hara
"And here I am, the / center of all beauty! / writing these poems! / Imagine!"
