Poetry in Motion
New York
Heaven
Patrick Phillips
Heaven
It will be the past
and we’ll live there together.
Not as it was to live
But as it is remembered.
It will be the past.
We’ll all go back together.
Everyone we ever loved,
and lost, and must remember.
It will be the past.
And it will last forever.
From Boy © 2008 by Patrick Phillips. Reprinted with permission by University of Georgia Press.
Mary Temple, West Wall, East Light, Morning, 2011, NYCT Neck Road.
Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design.