Shiver & You Have Weather by Matthea Harvey
Shiver & You Have Weather
Matthea HarveyIn the aftermath of calculus
your toast fell butter-side down.Squirrels swarmed the lawns
in flight patterns. The hovercrafthelped the waves along. From
every corner there was perspective.On the billboards the diamonds
were real, in the stores, only zirconia.I cc’ed you. I let you know.
Sat down to write the Black Ice Memo.Dinner would be meager &
reminiscent of next week’s lunch.So what if I sat on the sectional?
As always I was beside myself.
MARGINALIA
Someone was asking for poems, and when people answered I picked up this little gem.
ABOUT MATTHEA HARVEY
Matthea Harvey was born in Germany, spent her childhood in England, and moved to Milwaukee with her family when she was eight years old. She attended Harvard University as an undergraduate and earned an MFA in creative writing at the University of Iowa. Her collections of poems include If the Tabloids Are True What Are You? (2014), Of Lamb (2011), Modern Life (2007), Sad Little Breathing Machine (2004), and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (2000). She has… (more)
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