By: Zora Neale Hurston

“None may lag / When star dust hides the earth.”

By: Babette Deutsch

“His life was strangely hedged about / By three…”

By: E. E. Cummings

“having / thoroughly oiled the universal / joint tested my gas…”

By: Julia Boynton Green

“A distant humming in the sky…”

By: Evelyn Scott

“Something monstrous and horrible, / A passion without any master…”

By: William Stanley Braithwaite

“A breath of the infinite poise, where space and time are spun…”

By: Olaf Stapledon

“Justifying the cosmic enterprise for ever…”

By: Herbert Read

“shade yourself / against electric signs…”

By: Leland S. Copeland

“Smaller you grew and dimmer yet / As eons dawned and millennia set…”

By: Joaquín Pasos

“This is Norway / possessed of metal trees…”

By: H.D.

“We await great events. / We are spread through this earth.”

By: Georgia Douglas Johnson

“The world has its motion, all things pass away…”

By: William Empson

“Each point in one direction ends the world.”

By: Hirato Renkichi

“A GIANT MAGNETIC ENERGY SWALLOWED THEM WHOLE”

By: Lola Ridge

“A thin black piston flying, / One with her machine.”