Robert Eastwood’s first book, Snare, was published by Broadstone Press in 2016. His chapbooks are The Welkin Gate, Over Plainsong, Night of the Moth, published by Small Poetry Press. His work has appeared most recently in Legendary, Up The Staircase Quarterly, Loch Raven Review, and The Steel Toe Review He has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Eastwood lives in San Ramon, California and is a graduate of C.S.U.L.A. and the secondary teaching program at Saint Mary’s College. He worked thirty-four years as manager in the telecommunications industry before becoming a high school English teacher and a poet.

A lustrous, pearly interior The memory fruit Do over Power & thrift View from Southwest airliner on final approach to Providence Makeover Irony & hunger A pterodactyl A marriage Engineer Dinner date “Constraints are more useful than freedom” Candelabrum Fire, Inc. Spirits That famous artist Proof of concept Burn notices The sweater Fashion statement Yum Valentine’s Day spell Mesozoic Unclear on the instructions My hymnody Late night with vampires The geometer measures metanoia Sales job Of note, moth-wise That fellow feeling No signal detected Other floral borders I have known As in music These assumptions Sayeth the ant The accident Also known as leaves A fortune Anatomized Infrastructure Take the position please The fan Go ahead and shoot Sam Spade drops the dame Roadkill Language Through this doorway Namesake Curlers Her paper nautilus About echinoderms Indelible Crosshairs Hungry Bull’s-eye Sea-monkey Levi catches a hedgehog Open a vein Thorns The pedicure I want a flagon Repentance Absolution Note to the goddess Monad and pleroma Triple word score Part of a dialogue Another awkward moment A terrorist Authentic Harmonic Long division Do the kitchen math My career footwear A gothic tale The poet Night cryers Index of figures Index of proper nouns and other terms Acknowledgments