To:

Matthew Gwathmey

the still dormant volcanoes of Japan X National Pi Day X
have X hold X breathing and swallowing in unison X
your health X peanut butter converted to diamonds X infinity X
the abundance of shades of red X the have-beens X atoms X
frozen air bubbles X gravity X duct tape wedding gowns X
the fear of creepy dolls X fish that walk on soil X Adams X
decomposing hot dogs X webworms on fungus-cocooned trees X
the world’s largest perennial flower X you X me X us X
solar neutrinos X that waterfall in Hawaii that flows backwards X
the fingerprints of koalas X ardour X potato batteries X
the Colossus X eyes that dart eighty times a second X being well X
Spoonerism Day X real flamingoes X a good stint X
glittering shores X volcanic lightning X the are-nows X
snails that sleep for decades X femurs X bliss X pink lakes X
the Big Bang X crickets detecting music through their knees X
crystal caves X the two-thousand-pound heart of a blue whale X
beefalo X reusable water bottles X icebergs staying icebergs X
the unknown colour of dinosaurs X barking sand dunes X
cell service on Mount Everest X the maybes X well-being X
cockroaches living underwater X reflective salt flats X
garlic mustard seeds X Mother Goose Day X ligers X
fringe-shaped coral reefs X magnetism X friendship (or not) X
artificial intelligence X hanging gardens X Byzantium X Rodin X
every day lasting a second longer than the day before X

Matthew Gwathmey

lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on Wolastoqey Territory. His third poetry collection, Family Band, is forthcoming this fall with Gordon Hill Press.