Robert Gibb: Deskulling the Slag Pots
i. You’d see them in the railyard, Coupled and waiting in line To be topped off with that cargo Tapped from the blast furnaces: Magma they’d freight nightly Along … Continue reading
Robert Gibb: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
“Sharecropper’s Work Shoes” —Photo by Walker Evans, 1936 . The Magritte who took issue with the ordinary Would have tipped them with toes. Evans, deferential, simply sets them before … Continue reading
Robert Gibb: Home Scrap Project — Unemployed Steel Worker, 1987-1988
for Ramon Elouza . Close-ups in an eye-level lineup, His photographed faces hung on their wall, Each behind lines of writing, well I lost my job my wife and … Continue reading
Robert Gibb: After the Reading
White cups floating above the waters in their cut-glass vase, The tulips have finally opened, while beside her— Pittsburgh, winter—windows shimmer with freezing rain. It’s the morning after the … Continue reading
Robert Gibb: The Culture Wars
“The Ten Commandments is based on what this country was made of.” This from one of the protestors, unhappy the Mosaic tablets are gone this year from the courthouse lawn … Continue reading
Robert Gibb: Night’s Flock
Solstice: the summer’s premium darkness. And with it, for the first time in years, The raspy whinnying of screech owls fills my trees. Their fledglings’ post-nest points of … Continue reading
