Forget that you are an animal

Forget ancient rummaging,
pigs wild in their snouts

Forget that you ran with them,
wild between trees

wild in your cheer

-Rebecca Gayle Howell

“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 posts from Bigger Than They Appear:

• “Cheeseburgers” by Dean Crawford
• “A Poet’s Night” by A. H. Jerriod Avant
• “Subjubctive” by Andrew Merton
• “A Day at the Chemo Spa” by Cristina Trapani-Scott
• “January Wind/Isaiah” by Martha Gehringer

Rebecca Gayle Howell’s poems and translations appear in such publications as Ninth Letter, Massachusetts Review, Ecotone, Indiana Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Poetry Daily.