What Rough Beast | Poem for October 27, 2018

Bruce Robinson
Malice in Four Thoughts

They didn’t see it coming
(how could they?)

And then it rained, rained
and we weren’t witness

so we can only surmise
that the days grew shorter

and who’s to say that clocks
could demonstrate a direction

and there was nothing
one could do about it

(which is what we did)



Recent work by Bruce Robinson appears or is forthcoming in Mobius, Dispatches from the Poetry Wars, Panoply, and Pangyrus.

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