Michael Robins
Nothing Stays Buried
Birds convey blister
so I marry
By droves
the blackbirds plunge
sinking their feathers
dark inside a heart
Ardor strays elsewhere
Rattlesnakes steal away
no luck
As ever sliding,
wagering a side on love
A recession of balloons
Bright & Garish
Unable to cease
loving blatancy
Whose scar I loved
until a new siren
neared the flames
Stayed anyway, me
Your volunteering
reckless & flesh
gladly marching
into an emergency
Michael Robins is the author of The Next Settlement (UNT, 2007), Ladies & Gentlemen (Saturnalia, 2011), and the chapbook Little Felons (Strange Machine, 2013). He teaches literature and poetry at Columbia College Chicago.