YOUNG ADULT
Kirk Robinson
I knew a girl
who took
to reading books
backwards;
She'd find everything
resolved, then
the rocky cliff
and the winding turns
and stumbles,
a rising action
that fell,
and last of all,
in the thin pages
of the beginning,
she'd learn
who it was,
amongst the cast,
standing alone
and beginning
a story.
Kirk Robinson is a poet from the Midwest who currently works as an Associate Professor of Humanities at Southern Vermont College. He is married, with four children. His work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, RATTLE, and other quality magazines.