To the man in the white pickup truck driving past
me in my little Honda on Highway 34,
who pointed out his window
that my silk skirt was trapped in my car door
and flapping its floral sail above the asphalt—
thank you.

-Lisa Zimmerman,
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

Lisa Zimmerman’s latest collection is The Light at the Edge of Everything (Anhinga Press, 2008). She’s an assistant professor at the University of Northern Colorado.