Breaking Into Blossom

Introduction: Aesthetics and Ethics in Poetic Closure Edible, Danusha LamEris A Blessing, James Wright Author's Prayer, Ilya Kaminsky Lake Echo, Dear, C. D. Wright Meditations in an Emergency, Cam Awkward-Rich A Small Needful Fact, Ross Gay Black Site (Exhibit 1), Philip Metres Archaic Fragment, Louise GlUEck Door in the Mountain, Jean Valentine Upon Reading?? That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds, John Murillo The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart, Jack Gilbert Encounter, Czeslaw Milosz The Supple Deer, Jane Hirshfield Vixen, W.S. Merwin Nate Brown is Looking for a Moose, Matthew Olzmann Lost Body, Jordan Rice Conjoined Twins, Yehoshua November Song, Brigit Pegeen Kelly Ethics, Linda Pastan The Strength of Fields, James Dickey Relax, Ellen Bass love & the memory of it, Jay Hopler Broken Sestina Reaching for Black Joy, Tiana Clark From Blossoms, Li-Young Lee At Pegasus, Terrance Hayes Full Summer, Sharon Olds Men's Sexual-Trauma Support Group, JosE Antonio RodrIguez Theories of Revenge, Paul Guest My Faith Gets Grime Under Its Nails, Sarah Ghazal Ali As Our Bodies Rise, Our Names Turn into Light, Charles Wright Mummy of Lady, Thomas James The Jungle, Carrie Fountain Now, Denis Johnson Quae Nocent Saepe Docent, Ross White Stairs and Windows, Cole Swensen Sleeping with the Dictionary, Harryette Mullen The Language, Robert Creeley The Way, Rae Armantrout The Layers, Stanley Kunitz Willful, Cleopatra Mathis ICU, Spencer Reese 1994, Lucille Clifton The Gift, Sarah Holland-Batt Get Up, Please, David Kirby Good Bones, Maggie Smith Buen Esqueleto, Natalie Scenters-Zapico Trace Evidence, Charif Shanahan Threshold, R. S. Thomas Ode to Dalya's Bald Spot, Angel Nafis Ask Me, William Stafford Metamorphosis, Ruth Stone Canary, Rita Dove Meditation at Lagunitas, Robert Hass Beauty, B. H. Fairchild Winter Stars, Larry Levis Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden Taking it, Vievee Francis Incident, Natasha Trethewey In the War: You and Houses, Mosab Abu Toha Detail of the Rice Chest, Monica Youn The Burning of Giordano Bruno, Frank Paino Facing It, Yusuf Komunyakaa Grief Work, Natalie Diaz Etiology, Linda Gregg Psalm, Wislawa Szymborska Orchids are Sprouting from the Floorboards, Kaveh Akbar Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith Telemachus, Ocean Vuong Kingdom Animalia, Aracelis Girmay In a Low Voice, Slowly, Carl Phillips High Romance, Diane Seuss The Ferry, Nathan McClain enough food and a mom, francine j. harris To My Husband, Wendy Cope Farewell, Agha Shahid Ali Try to Praise the Mutilated World, Adam Zagajewski Search for the New Land, Morgan Parker And I Was Alive, Osip Mandelstam O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love, Anne Carson Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota, James Wright Love's Last, Christian Wiman Duplex, Jericho Brown Object Permanence, Nicole Sealey Provision, Morri Creech You Can Take Off Your Sweater, Paige Lewis Door in the Mountain, Jean Valentine Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay [2] (from The Book of Mercy), Leonard Cohen Mother and Child (The Road at the Edge of Field), Jorie Graham The Glory FaCade, Keith Flynn Acknowledgments & Permissions About the Editors