Robert S. King         poet and editor

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Some of My Favorites

After the War, the War
A Capitalist Back to Nature
Everlasting Life
Feeding the Body of Earth
Grandmother
Homestead
How to Pay Respects to a Serial Killer
The Juggler Tells His Children of Dreams
The Landowners of Pompeii
One Man's Profit
Orphans Adopting Themselves
What Missing the Cat Means
Written to One of My Selves in an Alternate Universe

Orphans Adopting Themselves

from our fathers
we inherit feet

from our mothers
long arms

we walk away
always reaching back

—Robert S. King. First published in The Windless Orchard