Heartbreak doesn’t look the same for everyone. Sometimes it’s sharp and sudden, like a door slamming shut. Other times, it’s a slow unraveling, a quiet aching. Often it’s hard to explain. No matter how it happens, one thing’s for sure: it leaves a mark. And that’s where poetry steps in. Poems for heartbreak help name the things we can’t say out loud. They can hold your hand through the grief, the fury, the blank space. Heartbreak doesn’t always come with closure. Bust sometimes all you need is a single line of poetry to offer a little understanding. Whether you’re in the thick of it or just feeling the aftershocks, these poems remind you that you’re not the only one trying to piece yourself back together. Calling Things What They Are, by Ada Limon I pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty! (I call the feeder the party and the seed on the ground the afterparty.) I am getting so good at watching that I’ve even dug out the binoculars an old poet gave me back when I was young and heading to the Cape with so much future ahead of