DAVID MASON
“I let myself be hanged, and learn / a new word whispered out of fear”
SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ
Translation by Rhina P. Espaillat
“Fantasy builds a cell you cannot cheat.”
X.J. KENNEDY
“Our stars today forecast / A doleful horoscope”
CHARLES RAFFERTY
“The moon has always fit as easily / into a puddle or the shoreless sea.”
