Intelligence or emotion?     language.
- John Wieners
I missed the chance of my life

     when I gasped, when I got up and
        rushed out the room
          away from you.

John Wieners
It would be easy to forgive
- Leonora Speyer
I envy you, living with no God imposed on the disorder
Brionne Janae
enough of thus and prophecy
and the stoic farmer and faith and our father and 'tis
of thee, enough of bosom and bud, skin and god
not forgetting 

Ada Limón
What should we do with the soot
seeping into the porous pornography of my giving up?

Aaron Coleman
I look for a refrain
a place to hold meaning
a ritual to carry wreckage

Robert Balun
I can’t think of anything else Bakhtin would say
Let us for once mention a thing without unpacking it

Doug Paul Case
thank you for hearing me
thank you for listening

You know, every old person knows what it is to be young, but no young person can know what it is to be old. Thank you for listening.

The Pitt, S02E12 

I keep up the niceties of civilized society I’ve been taught.
To debate and face with reason.

- Shanekia McIntosh
Today, not only must I manage my own panic, I must somehow help
people with theirs.

Shanekia McIntosh
I looked in the mirror until I was finally seeing past myself
Shanekia McIntosh