Robin Arble

 
Trans Sonnet Without Ideation

10/18/22

Lord       i am weak
forgive me       forgive me
last night       i tried to burn
this body again       now

i can only       lay in bed
picking       ashes and embers
out of the gaps
in my teeth       forgive me

i tried to burn
Your only gift       this unburnished
body i borrowed       from You
from You       i know

this was never       how You wanted
me       to finish what You left undone

 

Robin Arble studied writing and literature at Hampshire College and lives in New York. Her poems have appeared in Passages North, Poetry Online, and Up The Staircase Quarterly, among others.

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