“I Want a Tiny House” by Erick Piller (poetry ’12)

Four Poems by Erick Piller appear in EOAGH

I Want a Tiny House

I want a tiny
house for my tiny
life. I want to sleep
efficiently in
a solar-powered
hole and expend as
little energy
as I can. I want
to breathe less often
so as not to suck
in and kill microbes
who have done nothing
to me and whom I
shall regard as my
models for living.

Read the rest of this poem and three more on EAOGH

Erick Piller received an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2012. His writing has appeared in Best New Poets 2016, TriQuarterly, DIAGRAM, Journal of Creative Writing Studies, and elsewhere. He lives in Northeast Connecticut and is pursuing a Ph.D. in rhetoric and composition and creative writing pedagogy at the University of Connecticut