Elizabeth Robinson

POSSESSED

as each is:

holding certainty within a greater, vast lapse.


To specify memory for which there is no language.


I saw the greenness

where

I did not chew or swallow it,

but I bit,

my teeth imprinted on its flesh


and then it released me.

ELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author, most recently, of Rumor (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions, 2018) and Being Modernists Together (Solid Objects, 2022). With Jennifer Phelps, she coedited Quo Anima: Innovation and Spirituality in Contemporary Women’s Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2019).