I Remember the Carrots by Ada Limón
"I loved them: my own bright dead things. / I’m thirty-five and remember all that I’ve done wrong."
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.”"
Rain by Carol Ann Duffy
"Then the rain came, like stammered kisses at first / on the back of my neck. I unfurled my fist / for the rain to caress with its lips."
I Am Dying by Leonard Cohen
"I don't want a purpose / in your life / I want to be lost among your thoughts" — Leonard Cohen
No. 658 by Ono no Komachi
“the sum of those trysts / is less than a single glimpse” — Ono no Komachi
The Partial Explanation by Charles Simic
"And you shudder / As you realize it's only you" — Charles Simic
Play by A.R. Ammons
"the grave accommodates / swell rambunctiousness & // ruin's not / compromised by magnificence:" – A.R. Ammons