Leaky kitchen taps, moths, a scar on his thumb from a childhood accident – such everyday occurrences populate the poems of Matt Thomas’ first collection, What I Thought About While I Watched You Shorten the Handles of Two Canvas Shopping Bags Thereby Making Them Easier to Carry. With gentle rhythms and laconic observations, Thomas’ work examines grief, longing, and the simple pleasure of seeing a loved one wave from across the street. The poems in What I Thought About… look for, and occasionally find, deeper meaning in the little things that make up day-to-day life.