To Justify the Butterfly

Heikki Huotari is a retired professor of mathematics based in San Rafael, California. His poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry Northwest, The American Journal of Poetry, The Stockholm Review of Literature, Crazyhorse, Pleiades, Spillway, and Willow Springs. His latest collections are When Correlation Is Causation (Better than Starbucks Press, 2022), The Knowable Emotions (Lynx House Press, 2019), and Truth Table (Finishing Line Press, 2015). He won the 2016 Gambling the Aisle poetry chapbook prize and the 2020 Star 82 Press Book Award. This chapbook won James Tate Poetry Prize 2022.