Imagine that your grandmother is in the back row, knitting sweaters for each of the students whose own grandmothers have blinked out of this world, and I say this even though my own grandmothers have blinked out of this world and never touched a knitting needle except in those moments they spent on the floor […]
Brian Baumgart
Brian Baumgart (he/him) is the author of the poetry collection Rules for Loving Right (Sweet, 2017), and his poetry has appeared in a number of journals, including South Dakota Review, Spillway, Whale Road Review, and previously in Thimble; his writing has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net awards. Brian is an English professor and previously served as the Director of Creative Writing at North Hennepin Community College. He has been Artist-in-Residence at University of Minnesota’s Cedar Creek Ecological Science Reserve and co-coordinated the Minnesota State Write Like Us Program. For more: https://briandbaumgart.wixsite.com/website.
A Simple Question of Measurement
The rule is simple: to collect maple sap it must be below freezing at night, above by day. Go in only so deep— measure twice, drill once; this could be our refrain to keep from killing the trees. I’m careful, hold my cold palms against the bark, pretend I can feel the maple’s heart while […]
Head-On Collision
Sometimes you arrive at the party too late, and everyone already packed up, kissed cheeks goodbye, vanished into tomorrow, and you have only begun to disappear. Sometimes you swallow the entire existence of earth, billions of years to digest, and the dinosaurs look like eels from this distance, small wriggly things. Sometimes you paint the […]