Robert Estep

I repeat myself: ‘employable and serene’, the remnants of a sweet life run obscene; untrickled,…

Bleak richness, beside a lake already fouled. The crowd spasms its humbug numbers, lets flinch…

Misrule muted, nature receives a storm’s polite greetings. Transformed by the gentle school of ineffectual…

The Tet offensive is coming to a theater near you. And if you’re lucky, you…

Alexis Leger / Saint-John Perse 1887-1975 / 1911- Dear to me are the signal-readers who…

Not everything, he said, not everything is dirt. As though the empty room had challenged…

Revise and polish, pretending that it matters ; rehearse the interview no one will air…

I’m sick to death of sensitive souls, their nightmares, symptoms, nosebleeds. Longsuffering, though not in…

As if an apology might kill him, he reversed his tantrum, took on the aspect…

The hunger for a purity of purpose, if not the harder purity of heart, the…