DPF / Jackson

For some days we need angels more than others, from poetryfoundation.org.

from Angel / by Angela Jackson

              I am

the angel who sweeps air in and out my own

dancing body. 

DPF / Castillo

For the week that snuck up on us so stealthily, from poetryfoundation.org.

from Christmas, 1970 / by Sandra M. Castillo

We assemble the silver tree,

our translated lives,

its luminous branches,

numbered to fit into its body.