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TVBC
A graduate of Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale, ROBERT L. BRIMM has published more than 400
poems in countless journals and magazines, including Riverrun,
Midwest Poetry Review, The Christian Science Monitor,
Poem, and The American Scholar. He has twice been
nominated for Pushcart Prize honors, and his poem,
“Rachel,” received an
honorable mention in Potpourri’s
2001 Council on National Literatures Poetry Awards. His first collection
of poems, Chance of Rain, was published by Fishing Line Press in
October 2003. Click
here to visit Robert Brimm’s website.
Moment /
Robert L. Brimm
The butterfly sits so lightly
on the back of my sunburned
hand that I barely feel
its tiny feet clinging,
tongue
tasting the essence of me.
I sit stone-still, watching
as it clings, seeing its tongue
uncurling to taste, feeling
my breathing subsiding
into the rhythm of its wings,
folding, unfolding,
sit savoring the reverie
attending the encounter with this
being that has flown to me
like a tiny fleck of fly ash,
but has chosen me, the most
unlikely of choices, and keeps
sitting here while I consider
whether I might seize it.
Then, as though sensing
my intentions, it lifts lightly
off, flying raggedly, majestically
across the sun-swept field,
perhaps pursuing a search
for someone more worthy,
leaving the weight of absence
pressing my hand.
—TVBR Issue #18: Vol.
VII, No. 2—Flight and Flying
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