For the Anniversary of My Death by W.S. Merwin
"Tireless traveler / Like the beam of a lightless star // Then I will no longer / Find myself in life as in a strange garment" — W. S. Merwin
Late Ripeness by Czeslaw Milosz
"Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, / I felt a door opening in me and I entered / the clarity of early morning." — Czesław Miłosz
Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound by Anne Sexton
"although everything has happened, / nothing has happened." — Anne Sexton
Love Itself by Leonard Cohen
"The light came through the window now / straight from the sun above," — Leonard Cohen
The City Limits by A. R. Ammons
“each is accepted into as much light as it will take, then / the heart moves roomier, the man stands and looks about,” — A. R. Ammons
So Much Happiness by Naomi Shihab Nye
“You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit, / for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it, / and in that way, be known.” — Naomi Shihab Nye