The Silver Lily by Louise Glück
“We have come too far together toward the end now / to fear the end.” — Louise Glück
Midsummer, Tobago by Derek Walcott
“Days I have held, / days I have lost, // days that outgrow, like daughters, / my harbouring arms.” — Derek Walcott
Braiding by Li-Young Lee
“Love, how the hours accumulate. Uncountable. / The trees grow tall, some people walk away / and diminish forever.” — Li-Young Lee
Hymn to Time by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Time is being and being / time, it is all one thing, / the shining, the seeing, / the dark abounding.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
As I Walked Out One Evening by W.H. Auden
"'O stand, stand at the window / As the tears scald and start; / You shall love your crooked neighbour / With your crooked heart.'" — W.H. Auden
Hurry by Marie Howe
“Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave? / To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown?” — Marie Howe
Wings of Return by Don Mee Choi
"In light, we all were ailing from separation and homesickness. In light, we had to find a way to settle down, as my mother said. In light, we lived like birds." — Don Mee Choi
Wish by Caitlin Doyle
“I told him I needed time— / he gave me a cuckoo clock // (I couldn’t work the winding key)” — Caitlin Doyle
That Are by Sandra Lim
“So when I say stupid, I simply offer meaninglessness. / And when I say trilling, I only mean a leaving off of past sound.“ — Sandra Lim
San Maló by Luisa A. Igloria
“Never mind / that the bruise from such a severance / might not heal.” — Luisa A. Igloria