Lora Robinson

Homeostasis

you have carved your wanting
out of what cannot be melted
what cannot be exchanged

to love is to vacate,
to over-engineer
your silence is a carcass
sun bleached bones
on an empty beach
a rack to be mounted—

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Lora Robinson is a Maryland-born, Minneapolis-based poet, photographer, nursing student and cat-mom to Shark and Thea. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Superfroot, San Pedro River Review, Cobra Milk and Ethel Zine, among others. Her first poetry book, An Essential Melancholy, will be published in 2022 by akinoga press. Connect with her on Instagram @theblondeprive and Twitter @starsinmyteeth.