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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Elizabeth Robinson Elizabeth Robinson Elizabeth Robinson was educated at Bard College, Brown University, and Pacific School of Religion. Her most recent books are Under That Silky Roof (Burning Deck, 2006), Apostrophe (Apogee Press, 2006), Apprehend (Apogee/Fence/Saturnalia, 2003), Pure Descent (winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series; Sun & Moon, 2003), Harrow (Omnidawn, 2001), and House Made of Silver (Kelsey St. Press, 2000). She teaches at the University of Colorado. With Colleen Lookingbill, she edits EtherDome Press. “a poetry of desire in the most complex sense” - Paul Hoover "What stays a marvel in this impeccable poet's writing is her determination to bridge between the physically given world and that other we gloss with words, yet apprehend insistently as the defining presence of our lives themselves." - Robert Creeley

From Its Cumulus Infancy Elizabeth Robinson

QUENCH i. "Mum, mum, mum," what do you babble— must be the quavering shadow of smoke "Wah," then, is water in blindness— agile, quicker agitation flowing uphill alliterates into this clear space, a foreign language Buzzing here a yellowjacket or other predator of flesh: blood's honey in the milk you cry for every so often Yours, dryness or fullness Contagious or slept through ii. Night in yellow stripes, sibilant infant in the words beginning with "B" lined or banded They sting that "only want their portion" Beginning in the scorch-coated red bottle-brush tree And a figure curved fetal among those red filaments

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