-Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017
-Mahmoud Darwish, from "In the Presence of Absence," originally published in 2006
"Poetry. The weather. It's like a poem. Where each word is more than one thing at once and everything's a metaphor. The meaning condensed into rhythm and sound and the spaces between sentences. It's all intense and sharp, like the cold and the wind."
"You could just say it's cold out."
"I could."
The starless sea by Erin Morgenstern