Issue > Poetry
Todd Robinson
Todd Robinson's poems have appeared most recently in Sugar House Review, Superstition Review, Canopic Jar, Chiron Review, and Thistle Magazine. His debut collection, Mass for Shut-ins, will be published by Backwaters Press in July 2018. He teaches in the Writer's Workshop at University of Nebraska-Omaha.The Sparrow Has Trilled
into being among leaf
rot and blue trellis
south of the house, Japanese
maples in their shyest hue—
morning takes her legs
for a walk, hoping to ease
a night in the soil
from her hips, light watery
at the windows, night snoring.
August, the garden
a rusty tangle, our hope
for perfect plums gone.
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