Word for/ Word

Michael Robins

A Leg to Stand On

As if a bead of water
stopped in a book,

you pencil the ears
of memorable pages


In the annals of else-
where, the mule’s
expired--

                Dewdrop
& charmed, it’s as

you were that word
by which we sore...

Scratched, retraced


You nurse the goat
graced on our porch