Robin Myers is a young poet and translator from New York, currently living in Mexico City. For her, writing a poem is like an itch that comes “sometimes like a line, sometimes an image, sometimes just a nebulous question or concern or juxtaposition”. If we can learn something from Myers’ work, it’s the fact that poetry can help us understand life itself. In the poem “[And When]”, we are confronted with the hardest question there is: what the hell is it all about?
[AND WHEN]
And when
in a dream I asked
someone wiser than myself
what the hell it was all
about, she said
love, and I said Oh
please, but it all
falls away,
we are made of water,
we live in an oil
spill, we kiss
the world through a handkerchief,
we invented
rubber bullets,
there must
be something
else. And I saw
that she was not
going to answer me
again.
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Published in Having / Tener (audisea., Argentina).
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Images by Derrick Freske