robin DeWalt

Are you the one with downcast eyes
slinging arrows on the sly?

Are you the one with crooked speech,
the parasite come to leech?
...

If he be muscled with his strength
legs the long and proper length,
then he be youth personified
betrayer of all, beautified.
...

I watched the full moon as it sat
Upon the ocean’s rippled back
I heard it split and saw it crack
Out popped a man in tails, top hat
...

It was a repetitive blinking-
red lights in my peripheral vision
distracting me –from late night
dedication to Jay Leno.
...

I gaze into familiar eyes,
freshly washed in living lies.
A lover's touch to blind the mind,
naïve to one so inclined.
...

I've never seen an angel's toe
laced in golden thong
but I have seen the devil's hand
in every deed that's wrong.
...

Every day at half past three
Room 202 waits for me
a daughter's mid-life chore.
...

The spaghetti pot talks
while her fingers walk
on window panes of steam.
...