BROWSE Columns
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Photograph by Gryffyn M
I look out on
the sun blotted garden
recovering
from so much darkness.
Despite rain, the green
is only partly there.
This late in the season
small blooms struggle for sun.
The ground is wet now
like the back of an animal
that has worked
invisibly trying
to break Earth open
once more,
bleeding darkness.
Stan Sanvel Rubin has published poems in many US journals such as Agni, Poetry Northwest, Georgia Review and others, as well as in Canada, Ireland, and China. Four full-length collections include There. Here. (Lost Horse Press) and Hidden Sequel (Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize). A retired program director, he lives on the north Olympic Peninsula and writes essay reviews of poetry for Water-Stone Review
