Robert Estep

Always on the lookout for sudden beauty and finding it in the sag of a…

The flat roofs shivered beneath their inch-deep sheet of rainwater, the sky lightening with invisible…

The purchases ledgered, one by one, tabular and graphic, delicate footnotes margined below, like the…

As to the ends of the earth, like Cimmeria, enthralled in its mists and clouds,…

Mud tracks the entryway, dogs cavort the gravel path, warmth hovers like a butler, judging…

Once again, her public ecstasy. Accept the invitation, figured in the airy space between her…

Fine-chained, melancholic, amid their bits of nut and dried fruit. Ships passing in the distance,…

Better than coffee, better than tea, better than a cold shower with the bathroom window…

Was it mere notoriety which led the thrill-seekers to her door? Crowding to peer, premise-wide,…

A wide stairway leads down into the ocean. There is no one who can explain…