wonder
— Two ekphrastic poems respond to paintings: one explores faceless figures and their mysteries, the other imagines a giantess holding sheep above the earth.
— A young poet explores cosmic scale through parallel structures, contrasting the singular (one mind, one world) with the multiple (thousand eyes, thousand hearts).
— A young poet stands with open hands, waiting to receive rain, life, and all the world's green until only she remains in eternal readiness.
— A child observes others who seem to contain multitudes while affirming her own singular self—one soul, one mind, one heart against the night's thousand stars.
— A child chasing fireflies discovers a magical tree hollow that transports her to space, where she collects gold to help her friend who fears darkness.
— After hitting his first double, a boy finds a rare goldfinch feather, loses it, then recovers it days later for his collection.
— A child's vision of a starlit doorway where wonder transforms darkness into clarity, eyes become windows to the soul, and grass appears dreamlike.
— A young poet's repetitive meditation on the strangeness and nothingness of cactuses, built through simple observations and circular phrasing.
— A peacock appears on a suburban Virginia roof, struts like it owns the place, calls to another peacock in the yard, then flies away.
— A sunset transforms into dragon fire and shattering colors, with the speaker urging readers to catch the pieces before everything ends in stars.