Fuzz Against Junk Issue 1

On Darkness
by Elizabeth Robinson


The darkness reveals this

little nick

in the thumb knuckle
a burden
to be carried on the back
of the hand.

Once

the dark
was a gesture, now

it blushes, tiny
incisions
of the
descent, slits

of snow fingering

dusk.

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Elizabeth Robinson is the author, most recently, of Also Known As (Apogee Press) and The Orphan & its Relations (Fence Books). Three Novels (a poetry collection) will be out from Omnidawn Press in 2011. Robinson lives in Boulder and co-edits EtherDome Chapbooks and Instance Press.