Sunday, January 14, 2024

TODD ROBINSON—"10PM, AND SHE SAYS THE MOON IS BEAUTIFUL" (Issue 27)

10PM, AND SHE SAYS THE MOON IS BEAUTIFUL

And it is, though skylight glass blurs the ball rolling in its practiced groove 
and she hasn’t left the house in a month, vomits mercury-poisoned fish, 
sleeps alone in the lumpy king bed you shared. You have learned so much 
about neurology, psychology, immune response, but still manage to pretend 
you live with a healthy person instead of a silhouette. Who’s Frankenstein 
and who’s the monster, your analyst asked in a flourish of rhetoric. Hours ago 
you ate a loaf of bread the size of a faun like that actor ate an entire pie 
in A Ghost Story and later you might dance to Joy Division, thinking of Ian 
swaying from his rope, but the 12-step friend said you are thriving in spite of 
tinnitus yowling in your ruined ears and twenty drugs she takes to function 
and the ghetto bird just now flaying Spring’s first night and even the hyper 
acute imagery on the new smart TV is just more dukkha. Better slur the 
serenity prayer, 
get grateful for yellow 
grass and cracked birdbath.



ABOUT THE POET 

Todd Robinson’s work has lately appeared (or soon will appear) in Notre Dame 
Review, The Pinch, North American Review, and South Dakota Review. He is an 
assistant professor in the Writer's Workshop at the University of Nebraska-Omaha 
and caregiver to his partner, a disabled physician.



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