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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Bruce Robinson is a New Yorker whose work has appeared over the years in Poetry Australia, Fiction, Onthebus, Greenfield Review, Pleiades, and in the College English Association collection, This Watery World (2007). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Mobius, Fourth River/Tributaries, Pangyrus, Blueline, Spectrum, The Menteur, Maximum Tilt, and Connecticut River Review.
Poets Resist
Edited by Michael Carter
August 17, 2019
Edited by Michael Carter
August 17, 2019
Endearments at 9 pm, or, Anguish in the Night
Small children have trouble with ill-defined borders.
— Margaret Atwood
Ordinarily I’d call it an
endearing quality
akin to Billy Collins’s
gentle quarrel with rhyme,
the way some folks take issue
with disorder at our borders,
or the manner in which a guy like Plato
might fly off the handle at your finding
uncut pages in volume after volume
as something like a fine temperament
rages, and if our screens are perplexities
of bewilderments in disrepair
let’s watch: I’d like to know who listens;
and if there are words left in our scalded
mouths, who’s the reprobate who put them there?
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
