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Andrew Michael Roberts

Andrew Michael Roberts is earning his MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work appears or is forthcoming in Margie, the Iowa Review, Quick Fiction, Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry, and Double Room, among others. In prior lives he's been a flower bulb farmer, firefighter, kindergarten teacher, camp director, and poetry editor for the Portland Review.

Butchery of the Human Heart

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4
poetry

All fist and forearm,

apron-stained, I am nothing to you—

a scrap. A skin. Offal of lust.

I am giblets and gristle—

Lament

2 December 2004
Vol. 4, No. 4
poetry

This pack of pot-bellied songbirds squats

at gutter's edge all night, passing butts

of Lucky Strikes and belting the blues.

My window's stuck up and I'm laid low.