Memory of Water/Constellation
- Memory of Water/Constellation
Brian Frink, oil on canvas, 2014
The death of a star trails its lightall these billions of years
only to find a human drawing linespulse-to-pulse to build beast or archer.
We would make a story to see through the night.Each stringed thing would wait for
extinction to find it, to undressmythology and belief. In no time, not a thing
would remain but Leviathancommanding the great, curved deep, and above it
the face of the waters,and across that the first breath moving again. [End Page 120]
richard robbins has published five books of poems, most recently Radioactive City and Other Americas. He has received awards from The Loft Literary Center, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. From 1986–2014, he directed the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he continues to direct the creative writing program.
