The Dumb Few

Michael Robins
Volume 44, Issue 1 — Spring 2014
Photo by Caleb George Morris

Brittle reeds, bees
droning unseemly—

up scales to eleven

It’s true I’d wake
my petty speck
of earth yet

rolling to the sun


& hills remind me
less of Iowa, more of
masculinity,
 
                I mean
dullards & sunlight,
combs cleft in honey

Michael Robins is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Ladies & Gentlemen (Saturnalia Books, 2011) and In Memory of Brilliance & Value (Saturnalia Books, 2015). He teaches literature and creative writing at Columbia College–Chicago. For more information, visit www.michaelrobins.org.

From the Issue
44/1
Spring 2014