“Heads,” by Chloe Martinez (Poetry ’09)

Poetry alum Chloe Martinez was recently featured in Couplet Poetry. Read an excerpt of “Heads” below:

Heads

We are walking and he stops, then with

 

excruciating care and barely-balance bends

 

down—suspense is about time, suspension

 

is about space—and turns a fallen penny from tails

 

 

to heads. He is leaving some

 

luck for a stranger. He is leaving. 

 

Some luck…

 

 

Read the rest of this poem, as well as another, here. (And also check out “Mira’s Colors,” another poem by Martinez, at the Poetry Foundation.)