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Robyn Schiff's poetry collection, Worth (Kuhl House Poets), which was honored by a Greenwall Award from the Academy of American Poets, was published by the University of Iowa Press. Her poems have appeared in various publications, including Verse, Volt, Kiosk, and Fence, and her work was recently anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. Schiff holds an MA in Medieval Studies from the University of Bristol in England and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern.
Good-Bye Finch
When that which closes
hopes. Better to
measure. Leaner
weaves the raven
nearer the center, our
single reminder which the black bird makes
"find me, I am here" music,
crying out
"this food is not filling." Find me
time, pleasure, ocean, ever,
or pure abstraction
as if the lightness
Forget that which is
rare? ounce? blessed?
Do you know the word for
what you do not
want. Transactions take place
Always a disruption
Transactions take the place of you
hopes. Better to
measure. Leaner
weaves the raven
nearer the center, our
single reminder which the black bird makes
"find me, I am here" music,
crying out
"this food is not filling." Find me
time, pleasure, ocean, ever,
or pure abstraction
as if the lightness
Forget that which is
rare? ounce? blessed?
Do you know the word for
what you do not
want. Transactions take place
Always a disruption
Transactions take the place of you
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