Moving On in the Dark Like Loaded Boats at Night, Though There is No Course, There is Boundlessness by Lucie Brock-Broido
“Why would what died once keep on dying off / Over & over like a seam in an old velvet coat?” — Lucie Brock-Broido
San Maló by Luisa A. Igloria
“Never mind / that the bruise from such a severance / might not heal.” — Luisa A. Igloria
The Inventors by Arielle Hebert
“They eyed us dancing under June’s full moon / and said, They must be happy. / Who can blame them for believing / what they saw?” — Arielle Hebert
Letter by Joseph Fasano
“That new moon / you must have touched once / in the waters, / saying change me, change / me, change me. All I want / is to be more of what I am.” — Joseph Fasano
City Lake by Chelsea B. DesAutels
“What was I waiting for? Frogs to rain from the sky? / A great love?” — Chelsea B. DesAutels
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
The Five-Thousand-Year-Old Heart I’ve Swallowed by Jeongrye Choi
“Do the flowers bloom and fall and bloom and fall without knowing the endless loneliness of my bare feet?” — Jeongrye Choi
Dear Dangerous How Do You Explain It by Kazim Ali
“Dear unsettled evening, all the cold shadows, // how lucky we were to have lived / in the world—” — Kazim Ali
what the ocean said to the black boy by Clint Smith
“they call me blue because / they don't understand how the sky work / they call you black because / they don't understand how god work” — Clint Smith