there is purple in every shadow
but bile is bitter green
as bittergreen
as if existence mattered
or went on beyond
the confines of
this corporal redness
this skin-bag of blood,
this pulsing, impossible heart.
but bile is bitter green
as bittergreen
as if existence mattered
or went on beyond
the confines of
this corporal redness
this skin-bag of blood,
this pulsing, impossible heart.
Judith R. Robinson is an editor, teacher, fiction writer and poet. A 1980 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, she is listed in the Directory of American Poets and Writers. She has published 100+ poems, four poetry collections, one fiction collection, and edited or co-edited eleven poetry collections. She teaches at Osher at Carnegie Mellon University.