Poetry Archives - R.B. Simon | Award-Winning Poet

after the playground

by R.B. Simon | Jan 10, 2022 | Poetry

standing in darkness fingertips dulled with cold breath a bird in my throat i am swimming in potential eyes grazing the stars frantic for compass points nothing is static under me, the ground undulating at your approach floating,...

Creeping Charlie (Or, Late Summer, Post-Diagnosis, Pre-Hospice)

by R.B. Simon | Aug 28, 2021 | Poetry

~For Lavender (In Memoriam, May 6th, 2020) The dragonflies dove between the shafts of sunlight as the baby sat in sweet swaying grass next to the weed-packed bucket. We’d talked hours, our labors hardly labor, before falling into companionable silence, gingerly...

Prairie Fire

by R.B. Simon | May 16, 2021 | Poetry

Each year, the placard tells us, Ho-Chunk Indians burned this prairie to ash, rooting out invasive species – the buckthorn and the honeysuckle, so eager to conquer and upend precarious order....

Second Harvest

by R.B. Simon | Mar 27, 2021 | Poetry

she is such a tiny bud, raw with winter’s scrubbed potential, born to high winds to parents of dune thistle grandparents of red baneberry lost in a rough country of ancestry not recognizing oak from aspen from elder i want to bring her baskets of our...

Marriage Advice

by R.B. Simon | Mar 9, 2021 | Poetry

Last night after a fight with my lover I sat on my front porch under an umbrella, vicious thunderstorm pounding down around me, tugging the umbrella slantways and shaking, as I smoked my cigarette angrily, watching the park across the street light up with electric...