POETRY Magazine cover of September 2004 issue

September 2004

Michael Kenna, "Les Livres, Paris, France, 1999."
 
  • Atsuro Riley
  • Victoria Chang
  • Rex Wilder
  • Renée Ashley
  • Michael Hofmann
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Poem
While the man is away   
telling his wife   
about the red-corseted woman,   
the woman waits   
on the queen-sized bed.   
You'd expect her quiet   
in the fist of a copper   
statue. Half her face,   
a shade of golden meringue,   
the other half, the dark   
of cattails. Her mouth even—   
too straight, as...
Poem
Naked for twenty-four of our last thirty-six
Hours together, and I mean museum-quality, sex-
Shop, God-riddling naked, sapping gold
Light from the windows of her hundred-year-old
Baltimore dorm, we were hungry for selling
Points, like...
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