Date: 1995

But the Nudes are still as clear in my mind / as pieces of laundry that froze on the clothesline overnight."

— Carson, Anne (b. 1951)

Date: 1995

"She has reversed the roles of thou and Thou / not as a display of power but to force out of herself some pity / for this soul trapped in glass, / which is her true creation."

— Carson, Anne (b. 1951)

Date: 1995

"Inside the dark sky of his mind / Isaac could hear God / moving down a country road bordered by trees."

— Carson, Anne (b. 1951)

Date: 1996

"The general was busy with the ant farm in his head."

— Simic, Charles (b. 1938)

Date: 1996

"Each one of my thoughts was being ghostwritten / By anonymous authors."

— Simic, Charles (b. 1938)

Date: 1999

"The insomniac's brain is a choo-choo train."

— Simic, Charles (b. 1938)

Date: 2000

"I go back / to the world where your brain flooded suddenly though your heart / and lungs lived three more days."

— Sagaser, Elizabeth Harris

Date: 2000

"After // my girls are in bed or while / they play in the sandbox and / my husband gardens, I rush / down the winding stairs of / relative mental health where / we live, where I talk, deny, / or compose poems."

— Sagaser, Elizabeth Harris

Date: 2000

"And the end of your pleasure: / elegant neurons switching in a blink, / lighting your brain like a great city."

— Sagaser, Elizabeth Harris

Date: 2000

"It's the death of your memory I still / cannot fathom: never in such small space / such wealth."

— Sagaser, Elizabeth Harris