DPF / Meléndez

For sometimes when the world turns upside down, it’s a blessing, from Poetry, September 2017.

from Future Memories / by Mario Meléndez, translated from the Spanish by Eloisa Amezcua

My sister woke me very early
that morning and told me
‘Get up, you have to come see this
the ocean’s filled with stars’

DPF / Stevenson

For my sister says, it’s even hot in Malibu, from poetryfoundation.org.from At the Sea-Side / by Robert Louis StevensonWhen I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore.