Dorianne Laux

The Tooth Fairy

From Only As the Day is Long

Karin L. Frank

Eyes in the Sky

From Ekphrasis

Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Dragonfly

From The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury

Tony Hoagland

Nature is Strong

From The Sun, February 2019

Rumi

The Guest House

From Poetry Pharmacy

José Olivarez

My Therapist Says Make Friends with Your Monsters

From Citizen Illegal

Ellery Akers

My Sister Blazed Through Her Life

From The Sun, May 2018

A.R. Ammons

Mirrorment

From The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons

Wendell Berry

The Terrapin

From Terrapin

Paulann Petersen

Appetite

From Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Food

A.R. Ammons

Trigger

From The Really Short Poems of A.R. Ammons

Izumi Shikibu

'Although the wind'

From Poetry Pharmacy