"I am amazed by peace
It is this possibility of you
asleep
and breathing in the quiet air"

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Poem for My Love by June Jordan from Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (2005) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49218/poem-for-my-love

"it comes from where
you - in the extended historical sense of being, naturally, where a person
isn't an individual but a composite made up of many generations, see,
nobody is themselves, nobody is anybody, nobody can be a unified
"___""

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from to be by Kaie Kellough from Interposition (2026 McClelland & Stewart) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/781050/interposition-by-kaie-kellough/9780771023729C

"the state of myself inside the
whiff of a smell intimate to feelings i
no longer contradict
no longer desert
no longer need to forget to remember to
recognize
heart beat"

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I Forgot to Remember by Jayne Cortez from Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez, edited by Margaret Busby (2025 Nightboat Books) https://blacksunlit.com/2025/08/four-poems-by-jayne-cortez/

"Hallways we travel night-blind
until, somehow, we know
the sky outside is dotted with grackles."

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Bitter Between Them Flies My Sorrow by Jim Zola (2026 Eunoia Review) https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/bitter-between-them-flies-my-sorrow/

"To be saved by ideas: a fantasy I harbored.
In those days, there was always something
from which I needed saving."

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Bildungssonnet by Billy-Ray Belcourt (2026 Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day) https://poets.org/poem/bildungssonnet

"Why in the dark dear heart
Have you come see me
Why in the world won't you save me
Why in the darkness do I see so clearly
You have not gone away"

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Dear Dark Heart by Mary Margaret O'Hara (1994) https://genius.com/Holly-cole-dark-dear-heart-lyrics