Elizabeth Robinson
UNFURRED RHAPSODY
Once I was
furred at chin
and shin, earlobe
and tit, knuckle
and buttock.
In an after season,
I relinquished fur
for skin.
Tufts of me mewling
in the wind, away.
What must be quenched
for skin.
I walk in this strange
enclosure called “yard,”
glad captive
of nakedness. Daylight-bare,
boiling in vitamin D.
ELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author of, most recently, Vulnerability Index (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone, 2025) and Being Modernists Together (Solid Objects, 2026). Her new chapbook, Catechist, appears from Three Count Pour along with chapbooks by George Albon, Denise Newman, and Randy Prunty, in a collection called Bay Area Suite.
ISSUE FIFTEEN features poetry by Samuel Amadon, Malachi Black, Thea Brown, Michael Chang, Adam Clay, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Brandon Downing, Kami Enzie, Angie Estes, John Gallaher, Rachel Galvin, Matthew Gellman, Bob Hicok, Domenica Martinello, Julia Anna Morrison, Mark Nowak, Allan Peterson, Elizabeth Robinson, David Roderick, Mary Jo Salter, Rob Schlegel, Will Schutt, Donna Stonecipher, Rodrigo Toscano, Noah Warren, Phillip B. Williams, and Stella Wong; fiction by Aimee Bender, Amelia Gray, and Keith Lesmeister; creative nonfiction by Su-Yee Lin, Philip Metres, and Kim Gek Lin Short; and Donna Stonecipher in conversation with Camille Guthrie.