May your waters run
clear.
May they run
clean.
May they run
on the other side
of the divide
from mine,
many miles
between.

-Gerald Fleming, 

“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 poems from Bigger Than They Appear:

• “A Blessing” by Matthew Thornburn
• “Violin” by Merry Speece
• “After the Rain” by Robert E. Wood
• “The Art of Giving” by Kathleen Gerard
• “I Used To” by Chocolate Waters

Gerald Fleming’s most recent books of poetry are Swimmer Climbing onto Shore (Sixteen Rivers Press) and Night of Pure Breathing: Prose Poems, from Hanging Loose Press in Brooklyn.