Robert Rorabeck Poems

Exacting into nothing, so we all can now believe:
The hedgerows of the brush-rows:
The heavy eyeliners by which we shall oh so grieve;
And it all ends up in words basking in the gutters
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I am feeling good, while everything else feels
Unreal, while everything else feels good and If I’m naked
On Sundays,
And this is the most south-eastern point of the continental
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Weak children brushing down on airplanes,
Never wondering where it is that they should land,
Never understanding the concepts brushed from the
Lips of the mountains’ graces;
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Happening again through the truths of the brown
Reservoirs of your mouth,
Held back by those lips who only tell me how you
Feel when we are in perfect darkness,
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Everything looks alive on the other side of the canal:
Little boys, you are justified straight into kings;
And I cannot speak, for sometimes I am dazzled by
The pornographies that are right here,
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Distilled into Mexico, the birds quiver:
There is nothing curious about their fleece; they are done,
And hung-over- they can hear the voices of
Viscous lovers speaking all throughout the wires
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If you feel like a sliver in my side, Alma,
Where am I now,
But out of church and school, trying to put together
Better words to fool you out of his bed;
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There you are, diving in the fashion of your choices,
Each of you sharpened into a weapon or
A tool,
Feathered, and going down: you can swim to the bottom of
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The power lines stretch and fawn, as the airplanes rapture,
And sometimes it will rain
As I imagine my mother coming out of that little house in
Her even littler, bluer slip:
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It hurts that your pain is gone from my day,
While the cataracts still dive across the banishing eyes
Of cars;
The puppy moves in your lap little tears:
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