Let Daylight Come (Little Rock, circa 2008)

By Antoinette Brim Let the moon untangle itself
from the clothesline, as coming daylight
diminishes its lamp to memory.

The Burn

By Naomi Shihab Nye Such a swift lump rises in the throat when
a uniformed woman spits Throw it away!
and you tremble to comply wondering why

By Jose Padua All the out of business auto body shops
on this slow highway, all the abandoned
buildings with peeling paint, the vacant

By Kim Roberts O augury seeker,
know and be aware...
In the book of divination,

By Alice Walker It moves my heart to see your awakened faces;
the look of "aha!"
shining, finally,

By Grace Cavalieri The child stands weeping.
She holds uncooked rice in one hand waiting.
She's idealized into a picture

By Kathleen Hellen I sit in the front row of
bleachers -- cheap seats for greater grief.
My son

By Kathleen O'Toole He arrived first as a student of geology
in the bicentennial year.
He witnessed

By Judith Arcana You read the tiny cardboard book before
you scratch the strip under Augie's New Pizza
on the back of MIA:We still don't know

By Penelope Scambly Schott Back when I used to march
in the noon of the green world,
I sang like a crow.