This Must Be That Place

For Tim Cohen

Pewter night
with vertical clouds

Mind’s on Albion
and Atlantis

as if our destruction
came before our being

A Dadaist friend
never forgets the vibration

Invisibility comes in
many forms, but smallness

is the most concrete

Notes:

Copyright: reprint “This Must Be That Place” from Sunnylyn Thibodeaux’s Lucky Charms: New and Selected Poems, 2000–2025. Copyright © 2026 by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux. Reprinted with the permission of City Lights Books. www.citylights.com

Source: Poetry (January/February 2026)