"Come friend, neighbor,
you, come set the garden on fire
with all our hard-earned years, tender labor
of being here, ceaseless & volcanic
making of being here, together."

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Set the Garden on Fire by Chen Chen (2014 Split This Rock) https://www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-database/poem/set-the-garden-on-fire

"Did
the world exist before I was born?
Or am I just a character
in your imagination, you whose
birthday marks the beginning
of the world?"

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Delmore Schwartz by Stuart Ross (2026 Newpoetry.ca) https://newpoetry.ca/2026/03/23/delmore-schwartz/

"The sparks made no attempt to be the moon.
They were content to figure in the trees
As Leo, Orion, and the Pleiades.
And that was what the boughs were full of soon."

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Evening in a Sugar Orchard by Robert Frost from New Hampshire (1923) https://www.poetryverse.com/robert-frost-poems/evening-in-a-sugar-orchard

"There is no bird half so harmless,
None so sweetly rude as you,
None so common and so charmless,
None of virtues nude as you."

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To a Sparrow by Francis Ledwidge (1916) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/28/poem-of-the-week-to-a-sparrow-by-francis-ledwidge

"The late sun burning close and slow waves coming in -
the sea's mysterious lit wine of touch
on the sand, slipping away glittering
in scattered glasslike grains for an instant,
and returning again; if we belong
to each other, we belong to that touch."

#SundaySentence (and bonus #TodaysPoem)
The Beginnings of Stars by Russell Thornton from Two Songs (2026 Harbour Publishing) https://harbourpublishing.com/collections/russell-thornton/products/9781998526574

"Suppose we could iridesce,

like these, and lose ourselves
entirely in the universe
of shimmer -- would you want

to be yourself only,
unduplicatable, doomed
to be lost?"

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A Display of Mackerel by Mark Doty from Atlantis: Poems (1995, HarperPerennial) https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/display-mackerel