Richard Robbins

“Trees and Light”

— Brian Frink, watercolor, 2015

I wanted to keep walking
past this, into the empty

blue, but the aspen bark, the
Indian paintbrush stopped me.

From the sky I was the small
dot only slightly larger

than its shadow, than its seed.

Richard Robbins was raised in California and Montana, taught for many years in Minnesota, and recently moved back west to Oregon. The Oratory of All Souls was published by Lynx House Press in January 2023. His website is https://www.richardrobbinspoems.com