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Poetry · Volume 13, Number 1

Without Like or As

Matthew Hotham

A meditative poem on a numb hand awakening, used as a metaphor for the limits of language and metaphor itself.

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Matthew Hotham

Matthew Hotham is the author of the chapbook Early Art (Turtle Ink Press, 2006). His poetry has appeared in Salt Hill , Meridian , Copper Nickel , Third Coast , 32 Poems , and Harpur Palate , among others. He is a graduate student in the Department of Religious Studies at UNC–Chapel Hill and editor-in-chief of The Carolina Quarterly . Photo by Asia Morris, 2010