this is a poem.

Vietnam, Wisława Szymborska

At Night the States, Alice Notley

What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t, Anne Boyer

Tincture, Andrea Gibson

Song, Adrienne Rich

American Smooth, Rita Dove

When They Say You Have Maybe Three Months to Live, Sharon Olds

News Item, Dorothy Parker

Song for One of the Girls, Dorothy Parker

Symptom Recital, Dorothy Parker

My Mother, p. hodges adams

There Were No New Colors for Years, Patricia Lockwood 

Tell all the truth but tell it slant, Emily Dickinson

There is a solitude of space, Emily Dickinson

Stolen Moments, Kim Addonizio

To the woman crying uncontrollably in the next stall, Kim Addonizio

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Walt Whitman

Coming, Philip Larkin

Dirge Without Music, Edna. St. Vincent Millay

First Fig, Edna. St. Vincent Millay

A Supermarket in California, Allen Ginsberg

Vapor Wake, Mary Ruefle

Déjeuner Sur l’Herbe, Carolyn Kizer

Homosexuality, Frank O’Hara

Ave Maria, Frank O’Hara

The Lives of the Saints, Charles Wright

You Take My Hand, Margaret Atwood

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay

The Windhover, Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Cremation of Sam McGee, Robert W Service 

Meditation at Lagunitas, Robert Hass

The Cinnamon Peeler, Michael Ondaatje

Spring Drawing 2, Robert Hass

Compline, W H Auden

Reasons to Survive November, Tony Hoagland