Robert L. Dean, Jr.
True Confessions
In broad daylight
I murder you with words. But
my body, oh, my body
lives you nightly. Your eyes
like starlight whisper
through the undraped windows
of my soul, lick a sinuous Milky
Way of sweat-spangled skin.
Your mouth a supernova. You
a universe, unreason expanding
and you open yourself, become infinite
space, let the everything of me
slip in. The cold metal voice of regret rises
yet another morning.
Bio
Robert L. Dean, Jr.'s work has appeared in Flint Hills Review, I-70 Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Illya's Honey, Red River Review, River City Poetry, Heartland! Poetry of Love, Resistance & Solidarity, and The Wichita Broadside Project. He read at the 13th Annual Scissortail Creative Writing Festival in April 2018 at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. His haibun placed first at Poetry Rendezvous 2017. He was a quarter-finalist in the 2018 Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry contest. He has a book coming out in December titled "At the Lake With Heisenberg," with Spartan Press, Kansas City, MO. He has been a professional musician and worked at The Dallas Morning News. He lives in Augusta, Kansas.