The Outer Rings of Saturn —Fady Joudah
Is disease a longing as acceleration is gravity?
This weekend the beaches are empty,
the weather perfect, you’re caught
between the pristine
and the poor having time to frolic.
Studies show that the jasmine
can’t let go of the rose bush
in your backyard but can do without the thorns.
Whatever your mourning, it’s an animal
not a constellation. If anything, you’re jubilee,
coffee in the morning, kids to school,
yoga, zumba, a paycheck sustained
on the rungs of payback. This afternoon,
you’d like to focus your gratitude
on the mailwoman who didn’t deliver
any news. And on the doctor
who complied with your demands.
Dan Beachy-Quick
Simeon Berry
Lauren Camp
Danielle Beazer Dubrasky
Denise Duhamel
Robert Gibb
Michael Hettich
Dennis Hinrichsen
Richard Jones
Andrew Joron
Fady Joudah
Frannie Lindsay
Randall Mann
Philip Metres
Matthew Murrey
Robin Myers
Craig Santos Perez
Carl Phillips
Boyer Rickel
Zach Savich
Eloise Schultz
James Scruton
Maureen Seaton
Rebecca Seiferle
G.C. Waldrep
Andy Young