MATTHEW FREEMAN

Momentary

I like it when I’m sitting 
in the grass by the tree 
on a nice little hill 
overlooking the hospital 
and I’ve got my hand-rolled cigarettes 
and a Diet Pepsi I paid for 
and I’ve got my book on the Mayfair Witches 

and I can see 
people flashing in and out 
and they’re all terribly 
beautiful. 

MATTHEW FREEMAN’S seventh book, I Think I’d Rather Roar, was published by Cerasus Poetry. He holds an MFA from the University of Missouri – St Louis and continues to document his astonishing recovery from schizophrenia.