Shovel the coal from your eyelids.
Empty the wheelbarrow of your mind.
Regurgitate a circus.
Indulge your clamoring toes.
Shake out your sheets until all the potatoes are gone.
Make love to an iris, a pansy, a rose.
Discover the constellation Platypus.
Hurry. The crows are never gone for long.
–Andrew Merton,
Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs
Accents Publishing
Andrew Merton has been a political reporter and columnist for the Gloucester (Massachusetts) Times, The Boston Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe, and a contributing editor with Boston Magazine. His articles and essays have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Ms. Magazine, Yankee Magazine and The Boston Phoenix. His book Enemies of Choice was published by Beacon Press in 1980, and his anthology In Your Own Voice: A Writer’s Reader was published by Harper Collins in 1995. His poetry has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Powhatan Review, Paper Street, The Comstock Review, Silk Road, Third Wednesday, The American Journal of Nursing and elsewhere. He teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire.
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