Colloquy
Craft
she laughed
Why craft
is this
and slipped
in close
to steal
a kiss
At last
time passed
they slipped
apart
And that
he said
my dear
was art
Robert West‘s poems have appeared in venues including Light, Still, Poetry, Alabama Literary Review, Tar River Poetry, Asheville Poetry Review, and Ted Kooser’s syndicated column and website “American Life in Poetry.” His latest collection is the chapbook Convalescent (Finishing Line Press, 2011). With Jonathan Greene he is co-editor of Succinct: The Broadstone Anthology of Short Poems (Broadstone Books, 2013). He teaches at Mississippi State University.