Michael Robins

​Two Lanes Clear
 

Let people marry
people––
 
              Ravens
brighter than silver
 
culling a highway’s
littered shoulder


& prefer discovery
 
Again I am thinking
here’s this party
strewn––
 
              & man
hitching his selves

All Lined Up


Before this day

a rehearsal, kind-

ness, love in fact
it was a nice
hotel
 
          How nice
a hotel   Well,

 
It was Kentucky
 
& Straight
& Bourbon
& Whiskey

​
It’s a red practice
we practice, we
 
with sudden lips
 

Copyright © 2016 Map Literary and Michael Robins

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Michael Robins is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently In Memory of Brilliance & Value (Saturnalia Books, 2015). He teaches literature and creative writing at Columbia College Chicago. For more information, visit www.michaelrobins.org