DPF / Phillips

For light, from The Academy of American Poets, poets.org. Ms. Limon has already been posted once, now twice, and I’m still trying not to duplicate any names yet; so, here’s a new poet for today’s (other) post.

from Sunset Park / by Patrick Phillips

Something like sadness,
like joy, like a sudden
love for my life

DPF / Limón

A love poem for the end of the world, from poetryfoundation.org.

from The Conditional / by Ada Limón, b 1976

Say we never get to see it: bright
future, stuck like a bum star, never