She’s fond of kicking the door
wide open entirely too late at night
wearing wild hair and her take-no-prisoners red boots–

      Let’s get this party started!

What can I do?
She won’t take no for an answer.
Insists I call her Roxanne.

In the morning I will have to explain again
to my husband why I came so late to bed.

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Robin Turner is the author of bindweed & crow poison: small poems of stray girls, fierce women (Porkbelly Press, 2016). A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has most recently appeared in Psaltery & Lyre, 3Elements Literary Review, and in the magical White Rock Zine Machine. Robin works, plays, and daydreams in Dallas, Texas.

[she is] morning-glory trailing twining
colony of veins

[she is] old fields
deep roots

[she is never] for another

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note: this is an erasure/cut-up hybrid from a series-in-progress, working title: “[she is]: wildflowers of texas”. Source text: Geyata Ajilvsgi’s Wildflowers of Texas.

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Robin Turner brings poem-making to schools, museums, and youth shelters, and serves as an online writing guide to homeschooled teens. Her work has most recently appeared in Anima Poetry, Red River Review, Referential Magazine, and the Porkbelly Press Emily anthology. She lives with her husband and a sweet old yellow cat along a wooded creek in East Dallas.

high
erratic

[this girl is] lemon-yellow absent

sometimes narrow
and entire

a parachute in the wind

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note: this is an erasure/cut-up hybrid from a series-in-progress, working title: “[she is]: wildflowers of texas”. Source text: Geyata Ajilvsgi’s Wildflowers of Texas.

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Robin Turner brings poem-making to schools, museums, and youth shelters, and serves as an online writing guide to homeschooled teens. Her work has most recently appeared in Anima Poetry, Red River Review, Referential Magazine, and the Porkbelly Press Emily anthology. She lives with her husband and a sweet old yellow cat along a wooded creek in East Dallas.

solitary
rough
conspicuous at margins

[she is] empty stream banks and railroad tracks

a disturbed wild bird
a cultivated form

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note: this is an erasure/cut-up hybrid from a series-in-progress, working title: “[she is]: wildflowers of texas”. Source text: Geyata Ajilvsgi’s Wildflowers of Texas.

—
Robin Turner brings poem-making to schools, museums, and youth shelters, and serves as an online writing guide to homeschooled teens. Her work has most recently appeared in Anima Poetry, Red River Review, Referential Magazine, and the Porkbelly Press Emily anthology. She lives with her husband and a sweet old yellow cat along a wooded creek in East Dallas.