An Apology | Poetry

Robert Wood Lynn

I awoke. You weren’t there but there were horses on the beach. I got up, made believe nothing hurt and my evidence was horses on the beach even though the beach horses were remarkably indifferent to the thrill of horses on the beach. I went about my day. I went for a run in the surf. The horses only sauntered, heads slung low as an apology. With my long hair...

You Made a List of What You Wanted from the Earth | Poetry

Robert Wood Lynn

and I wasn’t on it. RASPBERRIES appeared twice. I am grateful to know you well enough to understand this wasn’t by accident. You listed SLEEPING IN right above MORNING GLORIES, your own way of including SITTING WITH CONTRADICTION which would be on mine. Maybe the only item. Or maybe not — there’s you and the poems of Catherine Barnett and also I like the color of morning glories but not...