upon the roof of a funeral home
a little bird sings

hey you
hey you
hey you you you

shut up!
a mortician says
to a corpse

–Suchoon Mo

“There are sharp flashes of light, moments when the miraculous world reveals itself to us swiftly, fully. And, because the 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 gift of this gorgeous collection.”

– Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

Recent posts from Bigger Than They Appear:

• “My Elephant” by Christine Strevinsky
• “World’s Shortest Pantoum” by Tom C. Hunley
• “My Father, on War” by Elizabeth Iannaci
• “Serenity” by Tom Frazier
• “Weather Depending” by Andrei Guruianu

Suchoon Mo is a former Korean Army lieutenant and a retired
academic living in the semiarid part of Colorado. His poems and
music compositions have appeared widely.