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.