beautiful things lived here. That small boned bird that glowed in the understory. That big wide mushroom that was underneath us that whole time. That elm the autumn of the drought when the leaves fell before they changed. I stood under a field of green on a field of green on a field of green. I understood then. There is no need to hurry death forward.
Robin LaMer Rahija is originally from Kansas City, MO and now lives in Kentucky. She received her MFA from the University of Kentucky, where she is currently staff in the Department of English. In 2010, she co-founded and edited Rabbit Catastrophe Press, a handbound, feminist, book arts micropress. In 2015, she co-founded Workhorse Writers Collective, a publishing and education platform for poets outside of academia. Her poems have appeared in Puerto Del Sol, FENCE, Spoon River Review, and elsewhere. Inside Out Egg is her first full-length book, published by Variant Lit in 2024.