"...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.
"He washed his windows often, liked them fogged: / how analgeses anaphyl and lust- / rums will nychthem; sodality’s enjoin- / ment reified each day, too aporets..."