“A natural tragedy and an afternoon spent hiding away with a lover are inequivalent but each poem should allow the viewer to glimpse by way of a careful record of effect the indescribable singularity, in a mathematical sense, of the human experience. In each poem the closely examined familiar acts as a set of points allowing the viewer to reference themselves within the billions of past and present human stories.”

Matt Thomas is a smallholder farmer and occasional community college teacher. His work has appeared recently in Killing the Buddha and the Hampden-Sydney Review and is upcoming in Cleaver Magazine. He lives with his partner and their daughter in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

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