Waiting for Happiness by Nomi Stone
“It means I miss you / O I miss you, how hard it is to wait / for my happiness, and how good when / it arrives.” — Nomi Stone
Heaven Be A Xanax by Morgan Parker
“And I will kneel to pray / And I will address the prayer to myself / And I will be allowed” — Morgan Parker
Suppose You Were A Moray Eel by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
“Let us wait here in this coral cave and count the number of smelt that swim / by. Let them go, all of them.” — Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Today Everything is Connected by Tung-Hui Hu
“The only animal you can trust is the woodpecker / Who points repeatedly to its tree and says / Each time You are here. My love, you are here.” — Tung-Hui Hu
absence. displacement. by Etel Adnan
“I love the rain when it / wraps me like a / river” — Etel Adnan
In the Meantime by Lisa Olstein
"What seemed a hot wind, a not quite enough, / a forgive me, it has flown away, is in fact." — Lisa Olstein
The Partial Explanation by Charles Simic
"And you shudder / As you realize it's only you" — Charles Simic