by Nora Jay

“I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for continuing to participate
in the strange human beauty that is this art form.”
—Email from Timothy Green, editor of Rattle

How strange the human beauty
That writing poems is:
Not narwhalesque or newty,
But strangely human beauty;
Let’s voice in accents fluty
Our recognition, viz:
How strange the human beauty
That writing poems is!