Poetry: Justin Robinson

us the keyhole—
     lacerating light—
     opal excision from shadow edge
     of bed—smooth time’s creases—
                   velvet feet—dead seek—



steps ink carpet—
flood room—us through clay—
ever in reach—roof off—rotating
        stars—no door—vertical water—












rise without speech—
suspended white rose—
thorn each hand—blood curtains—
          us—rock-held—yolk open—
                  two windows stand—



stars body space—other shore—
         us before fountain—leaning
         hexagons—weeping scarlet—
         urn risen—water drips—pools orbit—












portal divides place—black wall—
snow names—star-shielded—arms
handless—remove heart—aorta
bled stone—breath-blue—



cut us through—two earth-discs
—beyond walls—floating from—
path doubles—past white pebbles—












against memory decay—don’t
turn—frozen runes—
between us—ground
loss—this winter
—glaciers
collapse—



sandstone archways—
unfolding rows—cheek-
bones wing toward us
—carry their—












flower by finger—ten
crows in the air—even here—
         icepick
         —comet-trail debris—
             phosphoresce slope—



broken gate—unveil autumn
in us—hand on bar—earth-sun
distant—stand guard—holding
collapsed skull—cranial name
                float—there are
                rivers—two
                brains swim
                into them—












tendon breach—cracked
limestone—there—half-
way up hill—branch stands
broken—bring sackcloth—
         carry us—beyond—



stone bowl—world-water
full—silver puddles
each palm—frost
breathing One—
gather sound—
point—pebble-
shoulders—
upstream—












six wood-rings—speech here
grain splinters—rosebud—raise
yourself—telepath—two eyes
round—mouth shimmer—un-
             speaking—



iron under-skin—cracked
comet—how travel-far—
open hand—in mind—
face given—between
water strands—
run clear—












caught star there again—
cast in float of rock—
reconstructed
—hand across—
chest with-
holding
orbit—



solar—light brushes off
levitating shoulder—stay
for us—come to—
outside time—
cells restore—
toward—












concentric circles—departure
white ridge—spoke
out—nothing cradled
—at comet
crossing—



blind steps—pathless
climb—into crystal
wedge—without
touch—time—