POETRY Magazine cover of April 2014 issue

April 2004

Lisette Model, "Singer at the Café Metrople, New York City."
 
  • Christian Wiman
  • A. Stallings
  • Kay Ryan
  • Bruce Smith
  • Campbell McGrath
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Poem
Everything contains some   
silence. Noise gets
its zest from the
small shark's-tooth
shaped fragments
of rest angled
in it. An hour   
of city holds maybe   
a minute of these   
remnants of a time   
when silence reigned,   
compact and dangerous   
as a shark. Sometimes   
a bit of a tail   
or fin can still   
be sensed in...
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