"Hymn to Time," by Ursula K. Le Guin
"A Quiet Life," by Baron Wormser
"when god decided to invent," by E. E. Cummings
"The Raincoat," by Ada Limón
"Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks," by Jane Kenyon
"What We Need is Here," by Wendell Berry
"What I Have Learned So Far," by Mary Oliver
"What Is the Grass?" by Walt Whitman (from "Song of Myself")
"Different Ways to Pray," by Naomi Shihab Nye
"Kindness," by Naomi Shihab Nye
"The Ice Cream Man," by Michael Longley
"The Peace of Wild Things," by Wendell Berry
"Achieving Perspective," by Pattiann Rogers; read by David Byrne
"White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field," by Mary Oliver
"Cynthia in the Snow," by Gwendolyn Brooks
"Miracles," by Walt Whitman
"The Work of Christmas," by Howard Thurman
"Christmas Poem," by E. E. Cummings
"Black Rook in Rainy Weather," by Sylvia Plath
"john," "a song of mary," and "mary's dream," by Lucille Clifton
