Catherine Greenwood – Charity

“should it shame us to recall the stars
extinguished in the children we once were”

Margaret Atwood – I was reading a scientific article

“I touch you, I am created in you somewhere as a complex filament of light”

Stuart Kestenbaum – How to Start Over

“We knew that things were deteriorating. Gothic houses collapsing, sharks patrolling the lagoons”

Gerald Stern – Leaving Another Kingdom

“I think this year I’ll wait for the white lilacs before I get too sad”

Cheswayo Mphanza – Frame Six

“These days I wake in the used light of someone’s spent life.”

Monza Naff – Autumn

“Show me the way of dying in glorious boldness”

Adrienne Rich – If Your Name Is on the List

“Yes, I know a soul can be partitioned like a country”

Paul Celan – Corona

“It is time that the stone let itself break into flower, that the unresting heart beat. It is time there was time.”

N. Scott Momaday – The Hotel, 1929

“In a reflected arc the goat’s eyes, in the goat’s eyes a random will —and the late, faint shimmer on the sea.”

Alice Notley – “I’ve meant to tell you many things about my life, …”

“I’m strangely unhappy because the pattern of my life is complicated, because my nature is hopelessly complicated”

Jean Valentine – Sanctuary

“Not listening. Now. Not watching. Safe inside my own skin. To die, not having listened. Not having asked … To have scattered life.”ean

Sandra Beasley – The Piano Speaks

“For an hour I was a maple tree, and under the summer of his fingers the notes seeded and winged away in the clutch of small, elegant helicopters.”