lifeinpoetry:

I find that they have inherited only my deep unrequited longing to hear a voice gently calling Wake up, love. We all want it more than anything, the calling.

— Ginger Ko, from “Interval: Another War Against Species,” published in Court Green

lifeinpoetry:

We are all
so lost & no naming of blank
spaces can save us. & what
is a map but the delusion of
safety?

— Yesenia Montilla, from “Maps,” published in Poem-a-Day