“A Blessing” by Matthew Thorburn

Bigger Than They AppearWhether it was your sister or your girlfriend
doesn’t matter. We got her.
I’m writing this to say peanut butter
makes great bait. Dear mouse
behind my bookshelf, a cockroach can live
for nine days without its head
before it starves to death.
May you be so lucky.

-Matthew Thorburn, 

“What a cache of treasures this collection is, what a cache of jewels. […] All are reminders of what the best, briefest poems can do: give back the world to us, as it passes, in the mirror of a few well-chosen words.”

-Cecilia Woloch

Other poems from Bigger Than They Appear:

Matthew Thorburn is the author of Subject to Change (New Issues, 2004) and Every Possible Blue (CW Books, forthcoming 2012).

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