Patrick Phillips was awarded the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his first book, Chattahoochee, and his second, Boy, was published in the VQR Poetry Series in 2008. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, New England Review, and The Nation. His awards in the last year include a Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Emily Clark Balch Prize from VQR.
Also By This Author
for Deborah Digges
All I can do
to keep from believing
where, in truth, your last steps led,
is think of the story
you told us, of Procne,
and how she was saved
by the merciful Gods:
my vision of you
on the shimmering ledge
turning, in mid-air,
to a sparrow,
your voice to its sweet vesper call,
as you left the meaningless
body below you,
falling its meaningless fall.
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