Hiram Larew




        I’ve often wondered

        What it would be like

        To be the kind of smart that’s dumb

        To talk math on rush hour corners

        Or to be a child laughing to herself

        On big steps

        With her eyes down

        To even be steam shooting sideways

        From just above —

        So smart that you nearly hiss

                  As I get older I can’t see as well

                  Up the river

                  Or overhead to the billboards

                  But I do feel better

                  Knowing that somehow

                  Someone just ahead has figured out how

                  To stack up

                  Too many pipes on his shoulder.





Hiram Larew’s poetry appears widely including in Iowa Review, Poetry Scotland‘s Gallus, West Trade Review, Rhino, and Honest Ulsterman.  His sixth collection, Patchy Ways, was released by CyberWit Press in 2023.  And, as founder of Poetry X Hunger, he’s encouraging poets worldwide to join the anti-hunger cause.
www.HiramLarewPoetry.com and www.PoetryXHunger