These trees scrub the winter sky—
scour away the grey—and I,
I bow my head like a reed.
-Martha Gehringer
“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
Recent posts from Bigger Than They Appear:
- “Match-Made” by Dariel Suarez
- “A Poet’s Night” by A. H. Jerriod Avant
- “On the Street” by E. Gail Chandler
- “How to Be an Animal” by Rebecca Gayle Howell
- “Crows/Snow” by Martha Gehringer
Martha Gehringer is a teacher of writing in her 27th year as a member of the faculty of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.