Robin Gow

Phonipara Zena

The sun was an orange USB drive that held every photograph from when
we were children: sandbox, slate, pocket knife, bond fire, bone.
We stood back to back then walked the length of our branches.
Yellow catastrophe. Yellow song.
All the old music from when we could
easily download the world. What did I know
about waiting? We were finches.
Flower necks could hold us.

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Robin Gow is a trans poet and young adult author from rural Pennsylvania. They are the author of Our Lady of Perpetual Degeneracy (Tolsun Books 2020) and the chapbook Honeysuckle (Finishing Line Press 2019). Their first young adult novel, A Million Quiet Revolutions, is forthcoming March 2022 with FSG Books for Young Readers. Gow's poetry has recently been published in POETRY, Southampton Review and Yemassee. They live in Allentown, Pennsylvania with their two pugs and work as a community educator.