Robert Estep

A tossed pebble clatter-echoes the cool sacristy. A test, a little blasphemy, a sort of…

Her suitors ranked themselves like chessmen on the rainy playground. Like a night-train through a…

This starless night the ocean heaves itself to pieces on the rocks, the coastal highway…

She laughed to be thus rebuked, chiding them their ingratitude.  They stank of the hills…

In a casual summer tunic, or, better yet, no tunic at all, King David strolled…

The injustice is to have him blinded by wine alone.  Surely the widow’s beauty, so…

Abandoned on Naxos, after giving the brute her body and her brother.  Perhaps she saw…

Imagine her as a girl.  Free as any little one, spoiled and favored, the dark…

The black-sailed ships which ringed the bay had set the priests to jabbering, the eldest…

He had exploded silently into her midnight room, whitening upon her pupils till they vanished,…