Did We Meet Too Early? I Wish We Met Earlier

Mary Oliver, from "Peonies"

Jennifer Chang, "The World", Some Say the Lark

Kaveh Akbar, from “ Pilgrim Bell”, Pilgrim Bell

“APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain.”

— T. S. Eliot, from “The Wasteland,” in Selected Poems

the worst part of "you'll understand when you're older" is that you really do understand when you're older

You are forever one decision away from an entirely different life.

you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

Clint Smith

Joanna Klink, from “Night Sky”, The Nightfields