Robert Rorabeck Poems

Its fun to speak of the gods
As if they were real,
And not something made up
For Halloween,
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These valleys are all the same,
And the path through them linear,
But men still get lost even a mile from
The train-
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Filled up with longing but unprepared,
The preschooler weaves a scribbled web of
Tongueless alphabet anew-
The day swims like a heady swan around
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When I sometimes don’t believe in
Poetry anymore,
Most particularly my own,
Then there is no wind, and the sea
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I live inside a finished book,
Set aside and mostly unrecalled-
A book of furtive sentences over before
They begin,
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Women like us
Because we eat cold eels
And think distant thoughts
Stolen from the opal waves.
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When the sky promises rain,
And the highway is fuming like a volcanic serpent
Expressing the revenues of her men,
I find myself kneeling beneath you in the cut of
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On the day I die
Will there be time to eat cake,
Or will everyone be too busy trying
To put me back together on the table
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She is outside.
Enjoying the world, her pupils
Extend, like lions at the feast,
Red, red lipped in the tall, tall grasses;
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There are no more birthdays in her eyes,
Because they have opened up a new venture.
Some part of her is still French,
But I cannot tell if it is her upper lip
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