POETRY Magazine cover of February 2007 issue, featuring illustration "My Heart"

February 2007

My Heart," 2006
 
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • Todd Boss
  • Talvikki Ansel
  • W. Di Piero
  • Joel Brouwer
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From this Issue

Poem
If they're right, the whizkid physicist-theorist thinktank guys,
suggesting that every acted-on decision of ours produces a brachiation
in the timestream (therefore, two simultaneous independent futures:
for example, one extending from my use of "brachiation,"
one extending from my almost-use...
Poem
Flames from the burn barrel
flicker orange against a stormy sky,
poppies' tenacious, red petals
tissue-thin
in the path of rubble and salt wind
a seaside garden someone's tended,
bricks scrounged for a border
a whistle away from the lighthouse...
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