Robert Estep

Say what you wish, display your skill: the supple stretch, the artful bend of incidents…

As he went out one evening, to claim what had been promised him, he had…

Anguila rides Castoria, venetian blinds shiver on the 3rd floor of the Honeymoon Hospice. Thirty-seven…

Strong words from a lily as between languid drags she blows smoke rings in quick…

(i) He owns a suit as gray as winter dawnlight on the Seine, and also…

The arrow is planted. Feathers rigid, unmoved by mists, fog, smell of fear in summer…

Send a plain muse to console the dissonant blade: glass under fennel glows, stalking the…

As he perceived, rapt observer, the unease of the man beside him, the perfume of…

Word stings and Christ comes, but precedent to the ‘word’? Days of darkness, brutal with…

Phrases, intermittently ordered. No pattern holds unless a malleable corpse. On the glass codex twenty…