“Mute Zoo” by Don Boes

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Bigger Than They AppearMy advice, like I know anything,
is to dedicate the entire day to the gallery.

Regard the clay bull from Peru
and the jade serpent from China

and the recumbent hippo
from the Middle Kingdom—

a mute and motionless zoo,
older and wiser than you.

-Don Boes,
Bigger Than They Appear: 
Anthology of Very Short Poems
(Accents Publishing)

There are sharp flashes of light, moments when the miraculous world reveals itself to us swiftly, fully. And, because hte mind is also a miracle, the lucky words sometimes arrive to capture that revelation and through it witness what it means to be alive. That is the girft of this gorgeous collection.

–Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

Don Boes appears in the anthology What Comes Down To Us: 25 Contemporary Kentucky Poets (University Press of Kentucky). He teaches at Bluegrass Community and Technical College.

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