If porcelain, then only the kind by Stanisław Barańczak
“who told you that this or that would last forever?” — Stanisław Barańczak
Seeing a Dog in the Rain by Laura Gilpin
“but as it is, the water is simply stroking / his fur.” — Laura Gilpin
Other Lives And Dimensions And Finally A Love Poem by Bob Hicok
“Here, when I say I never want to be without you, / somewhere else I am saying / I never want to be without you again.” — Bob Hicok
At the Church Door by Louis Simpson
“So I opened the door, / and she said, “It jumped off.” / We stood looking around.” — Louis Simpson
Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes
“They find peace / in the way they contain the wind / and are gone.” — Lorna Dee Cervantes
Night Journal by Charles Wright
“Abstracted as water glints, / The fields lion-colored and rope-colored, / As in a picture of Paradise,” — Charles Wright
Poppies by Mary Oliver
“that happiness, // when it’s done right, / is a kind of holiness, / palpable and redemptive.” — Mary Oliver
And the days are not full enough by Ezra Pound
"And life slips by like a field mouse / Not shaking the grass" — Ezra Pound