Bruce Robinson

Matters of Significant Portent

Bruce Robinson

Meanwhile, nobody's talking about the weather. Yes, there are plenty of books overdue at the library. Have you been to the grocery store recently? Prices are insane! Yes, I know there's a crisis somewhere overseas, but somewhere else doctors think they've discovered how to commiserate with a heretofore incurable disease. Don't let me forget

I slept through the super bowl's halftime show; let's not even talk about how much it costs to fill up the car; I know I'm upset each time I drive to the mall, but is it really all that big a deal? You know it's supposed to snow big-time tonight?

Recent work by Bruce Robinson appears or is forthcoming in Tar River Poetry, Spoon River, Rattle, Mantis, Two Hawks Quarterly, Peregrine, Tipton Poetry Journal, North Dakota Quarterly, and Aji.He lives in Brooklyn, New York.