Today at the plumbing store counter
I put on my lipstick.

Around me, men
with heavy jowls,
hairy arms,
speak of plastic parts
and female ends.

In the circle of my compact
my lips glare
an o.

-Libby Falk Jones,
Bigger Than They Appear: 
Anthology of Very Short Poems
(Accents Publishing)

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

–Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

Libby Falk Jones is Professor of English at Berea College. Her poems have been published in journals and anthologies and in her chapbook, Above the Eastern Treetops, Blue (Finishing Line Press, 2010).