not back, let’s not come back, let’s go by the speed of  
queer zest & stay up  
there & get ourselves a little  
moon cottage (so pretty), then start a moon garden  
with lots of moon veggies (so healthy), i mean  
i was already moonlighting  
as an online moonologist  
most weekends, so this is the immensely  
logical next step, are you  
packing your bags yet, don’t forget your  
sailor moon jean jacket, let’s wear  
our sailor moon jean jackets while twirling in that lighter,  
queerer moon gravity, let’s love each other  
(so good) on the moon, let’s love  
the moon        
on the moon 
Copyright © 2021 by Chen Chen. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on May 31, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.
I like being with you all night with closed eyes.
What luck—here you are
coming
along the stars!
I did a road trip
all over my mind and heart
and
there you were
kneeling by the roadside
with your little toolkit
fixing something.
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
Copyright © 2020 by Anne Carson. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on December 10, 2020, by the Academy of American Poets.