For the Dogs who Barked at Me on the Sidewalks in Connecticut

Hanif Abdurraqib

Decisions

Boris Novak

Between two words
choose the quieter one.
Between word and silence
choose listening.
Between…

God Should Have Made Girls Lethal

Elisabeth Hewer

The Quiet World

Jeffrey McDaniel

January

Charles Simic

Children’s fingerprints
On a frozen window
Of a small schoolhouse.

Love after Love

Derek Walcott

The time will come 
when, with elation 
you will greet yourself arriving 
at your…

Those of Us Who Think We Know

Stephen Dunn

Identification

Wislawa Szymborska

Wild Geese

Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through…