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“I didn’t want // forever forever” — Andrea Cohen . . . This poem appeared in Everything by Andrea Cohen, published by Four Way Books, 2021. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“The dead will wake up, not comprehending. / Till everything that happened has unhappened.” — Czesław Miłosz . . . This poem appeared in Selected and Last Poems, 1931-2004, published by Ecco, 2011. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“Dreams and more dreams kisses and more kisses” — Braulio Arenas . . . This poem appeared in Surrealist Poetry: An Anthology by Willard Bohn, published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“I suppose you’re right / this was a failure: to stand there / so still, waiting for—what?” — Meghan O’Rourke . . . This poem appeared in Sun in Days by Meghan O'Rourke, published by W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“You don’t believe in God? And I said, / No. I believe in this connection we all have / to nature, to each other, to the universe.” — Ada Limón . . . This poem appeared in Poecology, Issue 1, 2011. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“I just wanna know, when you hold the sacred sounds / on your tongue, do you feel less holy?” — Ariana Brown . . . This poem appeared in The Acentos Review, 2019. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“I would make for you / the barest of sounds, wing against wing, / there, at the point of articulation.” — Donika Kelly . . . This poem appeared in Bestiary: Poems by Donika Kelly, published by Graywolf Press, 2016. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“Lift to the vacant air / some sigh, some sign / I’m still inside.”  — Robert Creeley . . . This poem appeared in Windows by Robert Creeley, published by New Directions, 1990. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“I want to travel away from the dictionary / And to leave my lips / I am tired of my mouth / I want a different one” — Nizar Qabbani . . . This poem appeared in Arabian Love Poems by Nizar Kabbani, published by Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“It’s quiet now, / the storm splits open like sacramental bread, / and I love you I love you. Can you hear me?” — Todd Dillard . . . This poem appeared in the Waxwing Literary Journal, Summer 2022. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“Let birds, let birds. / Let leaf be passion. / Let jaw, let teeth, let tongue be / between us. Let joy.” — Linda Gregg . . . This poem appeared in the All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems by Linda Gregg, published by Graywolf Press, 2009. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“There is a life which / if I could have it / I would have chosen for myself from the beginning.” — Franz Wright . . . This poem appeared in Walking to Marthas Vineyard by Franz Wright, published by Ballantine Books, 2005. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“I miss your underwear, soft from a thousand / washings, the socks you still wear from a store / out of business thirty years.” — Barbara Crooker . . . This poem appeared in the Radience by Barbara Crooker, published by Word Press, 2005. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“And when he falls asleep on my shoulder, / I thank the world for staying soft for him.”  — Allison Mei-Li . . . This poem appeared in the Rust & Moth, Spring 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“I still feel like / the world / is a piece / of bread” — Eileen Myles . . . This poem appeared in School of Fish by Eileen Myles, published by Black Sparrow Press, 1997. Shared here with profound gratitude.

“Isn’t that / like us, going from place to / place, looking to be alive?”  — Victoria Chang . . . This poem appeared in The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang, published by Copper Canyon Press, 2022. Shared here with profound gratitude.

“You will love again the stranger who was your self.”  — Derek Walcott . . . This poem appeared in Collected Poems 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. Shared here with profound gratitude.

“Hold Me, Lord, O, Hold Me // Accountable, Lord. I Am / Accountable. Lord.” — Olena Kalytiak Davis . . . This poem appeared in The Antioch Review, vol. 59, no. 2, spring 2001. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“Mother I never knew, / everytime I see the ocean, / every time—” — Kobayashi Issa . . . This poem appeared in The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa by Robert Hass, published by Ecco, 1995. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“It's relentless, the way it keeps trying / to return.” — Jenny George . . . This poem appeared in The Dream of Reason by Jenny George, published by Copper Canyon Press, 2018. Shared here with deep gratitude.