DPF / O’Rourke

For Cordelia, from The Academy of American Poets, Poem-A-Day today. The rest of the poem may be found here today:
http://www.poets.org/

from Ever / by Meghan O’Rourke, b. 1976

Even now I can’t grasp “nothing” or “never.”
They’re unholdable, unglobable, no map to nothing.
Never? Never ever again to see you?
An error, I aver. You’re never nothing

DPF / Zucker

For Earth, from american poets, The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Spring-Summer 2014. More about the poet here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/rachel-zucker#poet

from Wish You Were Here You Are / by Rachel Zucker b. 1971

he’s 11 & in between 2 kinds of time on the verge
of worlds