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Haiku by Sara Robinson

5/31/2020

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Sudan 2020

I am so hungry
tomatoes so red so firm
I eat but I starve

I drink from the gourd
but still thirst inside my head
how to starve to drink

Can wind calm hunger
as it scours the desert?
No it burns me too
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When we starve we cry
bloated guts resonate but
the world hears us not
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Sara M. Robinson, founder of the Lonesome Mountain Pro(s)e Writers’ Workshop, and former Instructor of a course on Contemporary American Poets at UVA-OLLI, is poetry columnist for Southern Writers Magazine and poetry editor for Virginia Literary Journal. She has served as guest lecturer at UVA’s College at Wise, Wise, VA. In addition to publication in various anthologies, including We Grew Wings and Flew (2014), Scratching Against the Fabric (2015), Virginia Writer’s Club Centennial Anthology (2017), and Mizmor Anthology (2018); Journals: Loch Raven Review, The Virginia Literary Journal, vox poetica, Jimson Weed, Whisky Advocate, and Poetica, she is poet and author of Love Always, Hobby and Jessie (2009), Two Little Girls in a Wading Pool (2012), A Cruise in Rare Waters (2013 Stones for Words (2014), Sometimes the Little Town (2016), a finalist for the Poetry Society of Virginia’s 2017 Book Award. Her latest poetry book, Needville, was released in 2019, and in 2020 was adapted into and performed as a play. Sara resides in Albemarle County.

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