Lila Robinett: Lost Within Each Other

Photo: Joanna C. Valente

An Understanding Final Draft

I stare to the woods with understanding: 

clotted colors and antipodes ring a dissonant 

murmur behind my eyes: 

lost within each other and will not, 

will not be parsed from the antipodes.  

The wind only carries the silent flurries

that grip the sap in each branch. 

Until you run, marrow, blood in my veins, run 

amber rosin and jolt, springtime, icicles from 

the tongues of cathedral bells, sing again 

and find colors from gray, make laugh 

the ripples of pools and ponds, break frozen limbs 

cruelly, so we may feel the color: dashing 

of cardinals crimson in the resurrected branches 

and know the pain of feeling. 

Lila Robinett is a graduate of East Texas Baptist University, and is a current MFA student at Seattle Pacific University. She lives in Longview Texas.