“Sonnet with Quartz and Rice,” by Robert Thomas (Poetry ’02)

Robert Thomas, a 2002 poetry alum, was recently featured in TriQuarterly. Read an excerpt of Thomas’s poem “Sonnet with Quartz and Rice” below:

The two-edged sword of being human and
knowing it: blades of grass never compare
themselves to an oak or look in mirrors.
I never love you more than when I watch
you look at your reflection and relish
what you see. Only a human would do
something so dirty and shrewd and divine.

Read this poem in its entirety (and hear Thomas read it) here: https://www.triquarterly.org/issues/issue-161/sonnet-quartz-and-rice