MICHAEL BATTRAM
“More heifer than a deer, a craftsman’s failure”
DAVID W. LANDRUM
“Here, it is said, Aegeas flung his old, / tired body to the endless breakers’ roll”
ANNA EVANS
“I cast you as the main romantic lead / in what I always knew was just a play”
JAMES J. BARNES
“We learn our grief like any human art”
R.S. GWYNN
“Here is a life to clear away.”
MARK JARMAN
“She clung to him. It hurt to think she loved him”
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.”
