Natalie Novak
“Oh no. The sadness is intensifying. How rude.”
— — Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser,” Time Is a Mother
“The rain, the lightning. The river town, the fireworks off the dock. Someone will run through a lawn sprinkler, someone else open a hydrant. Someone will pull you from the fire, someone else wrap you in flames.”
— Kim Addonizio, ‘The Givens’, Wild Nights: New and Selected Poems
