I Am Not Ready To Die Yet by Aracelis Girmay
"I want to live longer. / I want to love you longer, say it again, / I want to love you longer / & sing that song / again."
The Round by Stanley Kunitz
"this morning I saw light kiss / the silk of the roses / A curious gladness shook me"
Yevtushenko, On A Rainy Day by Benilda S. Santos
"He is saying between quotation marks / that look like droplets of rain / suspended near the edge / of my windowpane, / he is saying, // “And I run like mad / Never catching up with myself.”"