Academy of American Poets: Celebrating Poets and Poetry for 75 Years | 
When the newest US poet laureate was announced, I realized it was a name unfamiliar to me. This realization became a prompt to read something by each laureate (though it has taken me awhile to start.) First up is Joseph Auslander, from "I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come":
Twilight will drift in large and leave me numb
With nearness to the last tranquility;
And then the slow and languorous tyranny
Of orange moon, pale night, and cricket hum.
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