POETRY Magazine cover of August 2004 issue

August 2004

Keith Carter, "Levitation, 2001."
 
  • Eleanor Wilner
  • Geoffrey Brock
  • Neisha Tweed
  • Conor O'Callaghan
  • Dave Lucas
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Poem
When he had suckled there, he began   
to grow: first, he was an infant in her arms,   
but soon, drinking and drinking at the sweet   
milk she could not keep from filling her,   
from pouring into his ravenous mouth,   
and filling again, miraculous pitcher, mercy   
feeding...
Poem
Never mind thick night! Darkness move quick!
Madness engulf me like Jacob's coat;
colors tighten like sickness 'round me throat.
Wha it is do already can't tek back
but it still got me a wash me...
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