Robert Rorabeck Poems

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1411.
Most Beautiful Of Things

Cracks in the unobserving face of a geode
Who knows what lies beneath:
The special indulgences of Christmas and on her
Birthdays,
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1412.
Learning How To Fly

Down at the high planes of nothing-
Well, at least we are starting somewhere, as the river
Sings and claps
And wets the hungry mouths of blue birds,
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1413.
If We Were In Love

So they called us out of the ballroom, and we
Necked in the tall grass while the lions tried to swallow
A harvest of satellites
Like children in a junkyard of cradles; or it was in
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1414.
An Agnostic Pieta For A Mexican Fairytale

It was the madness that is always here, raining hard
In the afternoon,
While the morning was a litter of sun; and I strutted in
My diminutive foyer like chanticleer yawning into
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1415.
The Cursory Beauty

I have those dreams too- Of dancing with a
Gun atop of my head
In the foreground of the dry husk of a lighthouse,
Like a young wife who has given up in her
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1416.
Your Mother's Rabbits

And I said I loved you, but I almost
Failed math:
You didn’t even finish school outside of Mexico:
Your house is your jewelry and it goes well,
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1417.
Forested In Daycares

Forested in daycares, we have built things that
Will never grow up:
They just diminish and are swallowed up by when it rains:
They are not even graveyards,
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1418.
Guessing That We Do

I want a family of pretty girls to be smiling at me:
I want to be holding the last flame out before the Cadillac’s
Of the last primitive estuary;
And this is my plight, crawling beneath the salty phalluses
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1419.
That We Ought To Be

Pulling their joyous scars far away:
Where will her sisters go, across the dirty roads
Overblown with minnows and the color blue
Diminishing into the occultish forest where the dragons
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1420.
The Noon Tipped Sea

I am here mouthing off to the fish who always move:
The thunder is sounding, the traffic is muted:
I am warmed into my home, while Alma’s pony-tails
And miniskirts are off a ways and sleep,
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