“in praise of jonathan matthew” by Kerrin McCadden

A poem by alum Kerrin McCadden (poetry, ’14) appears at Rattle:

God bless Jonathan Matthew, asleep
on the table, a piece of his liver plucked
out and planted in the jaundiced boy
from up the road, for Jonathan Matthew’s
weak thumbs-up, his face swollen, his wife
falling all over him lit by the kind of love
I don’t know yet, for the way the liver regrows,

Continue reading online…