Robin Behn is the author of three books of poems, most recently Horizon Note from University of Wisconsin Press. She teaches in the MFA Progam at The University of Alabama. This poem is from a book in progress called The Yellow House.

Other poems by Robin Behn in Verse Daily:
March 15, 2004:  "Red and Black Days" "Sometimes they would gather at the table..."
August 12, 2002:  "Interlude: Still Still" by Robin Behn   "....The wooden body is no longer / bigger than his body...."

Other poems from New Orleans Review in Verse Daily:

August 19, 2004:  "Gacela of Animal Wisdom" by J. P. Dancing Bear
August 18, 2004:  "Even So" by Susanne Kort
August 17, 2004:  "His Dossier from Babel" by Andrew Miller
August 14, 2004:  "Daedalus" by Hailey Leithauser
January 18, 2004:  "The Idea of Nothing" by Sue Owen
January 14, 2004:  "Muster" by Ander Monson

About New Orleans Review:
Poets in this issue: Martha Zweig, John Casteen, Michelle L. Brown, Carolyn Hembree, Naomi Feigelson Chase, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Andrew Bode-Lang, Lynne Knight, Megan Harlan, Peter Cooley, Jay Meek, W. T. Pfefferle, Jim Douglas, Brandy Whitlock, Darcy Shargo, Peter Jay Shippy, Michael Hudson, J. Allen Hall, L. S. Klatt, Chris Forhan, Gary J. Maggio, Jeffrey Bean, Paul Guest, Gary Joseph Cohen, Erin Malone, Richard Robbins, Molly Brodak, Kelly Smith, Robin Behn, Liz Tilton, Janice Harrington, Jonathan Thirkield, Raymond Queneau, Anne Pitkin, Don Russ, James Doyle, Natan Jones, Jan Hodge