Andrew Gent

Sinker

Andrew Gent

It's the pitch approaching slower than physics would allow only to drop out of reach of a perfectly timed bottom of the ninth out of the park grand slam. Bamboozled by the obvious, you begin to doubt your senses. If you could see it coming (you ask) why didn't you get out of the way? You are the happy victim. One minute, walking down the street the next minute, ecstatic. There's no excuse for the pastimes of the smallest creatures: the fisherman, sitting in a boat alert and unrewarded long after common sense calls him in and the fish who hears the splash, sees the gaudy improbable lure, knows better, but swallows it hook line and

Andrew Gent was born in England, grew up in Ohio, and now lives in New Hampshire where he works as an information architect. His first book, [explicit lyrics], won the Miller Williams Poetry prize and is available from the University of Arkansas Press.