POETRY Magazine cover of May 2004 issue

May 2004

Louis Faurer, "Social Patron, Dance with Pretty Girls, 1959."
 
  • W. Di Piero
  • Albert Goldbarth
  • Zach Finch
  • Moira Egan
  • Nance Van Winckel
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Human Beauty

If you write a poem about love ...
the love is a bird,

the poem is an origami bird.
If you write a poem about death ...

the death is a terrible fire,
the poem is an offering of paper cutout flames

you feed to the...
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