“Finding the Potato” by Andrew Merton

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Inside of one potato
there are mountains and rivers.

—Shinkichi Takahashi (trans. Harold Wright)

Bigger Than They ApearBut how to find that one potato
among all the others?
Patience, my friend.
Put your ear to the ground.
Dig where you hear thunder.

–Andrew Merton,
Bigger Than They Appear:
Anthology of Very Short Poems
(Accents Publishing)

 

Check out this piece about Andrew Merton from the Portland Press Herald.

andrew merton from lost and found store pageAndrew Merton is a journalist, essayist, and poet. Publications in which his nonfiction has appeared include Esquire, Ms. Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Boston Magazine, and The Boston Globe. His book Enemies of Choice: The Right-To-Life Movement and Its Threat to Abortion, was published by Beacon Press in 1980. His poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Rialto (U.K.), Comstock Review, Louisville Review, Vine Leaves, the American Journal of Nursing, and elsewhere. His book of poetry, Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs, with a foreword by Charles Simic (Accents Publishing, 2012) was named Outstanding Book of Poetry for 2013–2014 by the New Hampshire Writers’ Project. He is a professor emeritus of English at the University of New Hampshire. His website is available here.

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