Brian Andreas

Slapping Sharks

From Mostly True

C.J. Hanzlicek

Egg

From Against Dreaming

Aileen Fisher

Snowy Benches

From Knock at a Star

Richard Brautigan

Surprise

From Knock at a Star

Lucille Clifton

My Mama Moved

From Good Woman

Annie Lighthart

White Barn

From Iron String

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Cleaning Up

From The New Territory Magazine, Issue 3

Brian Andreas

Empty Space

From Mostly True

Bao Phi

The Reveal

From Thousand Star Hotel

Charles Simic

Prodigy

From New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

Linda Pastan

Time Travel

From The Gettysburg Review, Summer 2010

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

The Ostrich Is a Silly Bird

From Knock at a Star

John Caddy

October 12

From Morning Earth

Anne Porter

On a Maine Island

From Living Things

Brian Andreas

Waiting for Signs

From Mostly True

Frances Cornford

Childhood

From Knock at a Star

Elizabeth Gold

Wild Turkey

From The Gettysburg Review, Summer 2010

Emily Dickinson

A word is dead

From Knock at a Star

Carol Murray

Just Jumping, Spider!

From Cricket in the Thicket

Linda Pastan

Late September Song

From Traveling Light

Charles Simic

Stone

From New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

John Caddy

September 24

From Morning Earth

Ellery Akers

In the Blaze

From The Sun, September 2016

Anne Porter

Summer Cottage

From Living Things

Tadeusz Rozewicz

Grass

From Sobbing Superpower

Dion O'Reilly

Ghost Dogs

From The Sun, May 2017

Carl Sandburg

Prairie Barn

From Wind Song

Betty Adcock

Roustabout

From Ploughshares, Spring 2008

Charles Simic

Fork

From New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

Fremont Rider

"M.D." of the "D.C."

From Melvil Dewey

Cynthia Zarin

Flowers

From Orbit

Anne Porter

Attic Windows

From Living Things

Melanie McCabe

Opened Houses

From What the Neighbors Know

Mark Halliday

Chicken Salad

From The Gettysburg Review, Winter 2007

Carl Sandburg

Bluebird, What Do You Feed On?

From Wind Song

Charles Simic

Watermelons

From New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

Michael Blumenthal

A Marriage

From The Sun, September 2016

Marjorie Saiser

Weekends, Sleeping In

From Beside You at the Stoplight

Anne Porter

A Famine Child

From Living Things

Joseph Stroud

Night in Day

From Of This World

Tom Hennen

From a Country Overlooked

From Darkness Sticks to Everything

Scott Edward Anderson

Owl in the Gloaming

From American Poetry Review, January/February

James Scruton

Local Honey

From Southern Poetry Review, 54:2

Linda Pastan

PM

From PM/AM

Marge Piercy

My time in better dresses

From Made in Detroit

Mark Soto-Smith

Reflection: Them, Me

From The Sun, January 2017

Cheryl Dumesnil

Revolution

From Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes

Emily Benson-Scott

Motel Six

From Southern Poetry Review, 54:2

James Tate

The Florist

From Return to the City of White Donkeys

James Scruton

Skunk

From Southern Poetry Review, 54:2