"...could watch the tiny curls / being sewn onto a baby doll’s head / on youtube / sterile gloved hands spiral the hair / spinning and giving in to its orbit..."
"...saw the pause / in his cornea, / to distribute the right fact / to your audience. you breathe / through, spindle / the throat’s wire, / release the tongue spark."
Robert West's poems have most recently appeared in Alabama Literary Review, Light, Lighten Up Online, Still, and Snakeskin; his chapbook Convalescent appeared from Finishing Line Press in 2011.