Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read two poems by Michael Robins with art by Evan Lovejoy, selected by Daniel Moysaenko.

Vigil

Her body small
& fastens mine—


Her hands lick &
make flight,

                    No,

I want this precise…


Just now a Sunday.

I convey this self
into my elder self—


April now like June.

         *   *   *

A key of divinity—

What rabbit trick
before the atheist.


At the Easter table
what preparedness.


(I believe) if light
creates—

                  Or milk
floods a mouth or…


Or when she stands
becomingly, ready

& walks her own
down an aisle, oh…

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