Robert Estep

Palisades wrinkle like tissue, the heat-scored fields dead as the pause between words detailing a…

The wash of voices fading, the bright skybound cluster, giving way to darkness. Death nibbles…

A retreat through staggered mountains, ending in cliff-top battle. Penned by granite and air, fog…

Herded, caught, and couched, the wild fine thread. Each moment-of-weakness given, now summarily revoked. Smoke…

He has loved his loves obscenely, on memory’s mural the paint as bright as the…

The pavilion’s fat headdress dozes sleek and confident, dome of many-colored dreams above the tin…

Such skill at making captive the fresh breath of the past: flowers unwilting before one’s…

Mope on the minor hallucinations, the price of blindness healed. The notebooks filled with dead…

Sweetest moments, most fleeting, always? Her life to her children: humbly, from these sins learn.…

Like spittle exchanged between grimacing mouths, zero to zero. Bones so chipped or shattered that…