Beth Ann Fennelly – Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding

Don’t make me warn you of stars, how they see us from that distance

E.E. Cummings – Love is a Place

yes is a world & in this world of yes live
(skilfully curled)
all worlds

Charles Baudelaire – Be Drunk

ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: “It is time to be drunk!

Wendell Berry – How long does it take to make the woods?

Why must the gate be narrow?
Because you cannot pass beyond it burdened

Li-Young Lee – Changing Places in the Fire

“And of all the things we’re dying from tonight, being alive is the strangest, surviving our histories is the saddest. Time leaves the smallest wounds, and your body, a mortal occasion
of timeless law, is all the word I know”