Joseph Stroud

The Nightingales of Andalucía

From Of This World

Faith Shearin

Not Knowing

From Moving the Piano

Kristine O'Connell George

Nest Construction

From Hummingbird Nest

Joyce Sutphen

Off Line

From Naming the Stars

E.B. White

Natural History

The spider, dropping down from twig
Unwinds a thread of her devising:
A thin, premeditated rig
To use in rising.

And all the journey down through space,
In cool descent, and loyal-hearted,
She builds a ladder to the place
From which she started.

This I, gone forth, as spiders do,
In spider’s web a truth discerning,
Attach one silken strand to you
For my returning.

From Poems & Sketches of E. B. White

Catherine E. Berry

Old Garden

From Who Tells the Crocuses It's Spring?

Charles Simic

My Shoes

From New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

Kahlil Gibran

On Children

From The Prophet

Faith Shearin

My Mother's Lost Keys

From Telling the Bees

Rebecca Perry

Open for the Strangest Adventures

From Bookshop Book

Jane Shore

Monday

From Music Minus One

Wayne Miller

Post-Elegy

From Post-:

William Kloefkorn

Mowing the Lawn for the Last Time

From A Song for Occupations 

Jeffrey McDaniel

The Quiet World

From Forgiveness Parade

William Baer

Motes

From Ploughshares, Spring 2008

Gretchen Marquette

Prologue

From May Day

May Swenson

Question

From Essential Pleasures