Robert Wood Lynn
Robert Wood Lynn is a writer from Virginia. His debut poetry collection Mothman Apologia (Yale University Press) was named a Best Book of 2022 by the New York Times and the New York Public Library. His chapbook How to Maintain Eye Contact is out from Button Poetry in early 2023. Winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, his writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, New Ohio Review and other journals, as well as been included in the Southern Poetry Anthology: Virginia. A 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellow, he splits his time between in Rockbridge County, Virginia and Brooklyn, New York, where he co-hosts the DGN Reading Series. Source
Poem with a Bleating Heart
Once again it is fall all around us
there are sports teams praying
for god to smite their opponents
which you know I love like I love
the idea of god walking dripless out
of the ocean a monster no one can be
sure is here to protect or destroy
our seaside cities and I love that we can
scream whatever we want knowing
it can be fixed later in the subtitles
and I love the scrub pine for looking
exactly how it sounds and I love
memory for continuing to be the past
with a leak in it somehow I love you
a little better every day surprised by it
each morning the way I am always
surprised by how goats make the sound
of drunks making goat noises
Published:
None
Length:
Regular
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2024
Themes:
Love & Relationships
Memory & The Past
Music & Sports
Literary Devices:
Antithesis
a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
Internal Rhyme
A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.
Metaphor
a comparison between two unrelated things through a shared characteristic
Pleonasm
the use of more words than necessary to express meaning, redundancy
Simile
a comparison between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”