Robin Behn


Yellow House Isogloss

Across
Down

1. Valve in a horse's heart
    the same shape as the horse

1. Strongest threshold
2. Flower taxidermy 2. Kind of stoop
3. In reverse order, said of floors 3. To be blinded by scent of yellow smoke
4. Aureole; fog life vest 4. Coll. for bitter straw
5. Color between receiving and opening 5. Love's photographic side (archaic)
6. 14th c. palace inhabited only by horses 6. Desultory, as of a room without birds
7. Seventh ingredient of contentment 7. Shard, usually red
8. Deepest place in the body 8. Reconciled; crocodiled
9. To fashion entirely of mullions 9. Number of allowances needed in theworld
10. Likely bridle color on colorless horse 9. The number of straws needed in the world
11. What world 10. Hay (greeting)
12. Happy-in-the-grid; plunge 11. Chocolate (v.)
13. Special thread; also said of a shaft 12. Soul at its known apex
14. Found at the end of the stairs 13. Meal consisting entirely of yellow food
15. Name of the boy 14. Urgent unguent
15. Other name of the boy 15. Long(ing)



Lyric Year


Everything a flower or a shout or sleep.
Time glistening and skidding.
The reasons glistening and skidding.

A gull's cry or a child's or mine.

All that seeking after.
All that seeking, after.
The deaths in the distance ground on,

shells on a beach, sharp shells.

I opened the ornate door to the meadow
but not to the story of the meadow.
Flowerbox sans box.

I wasn't afraid of beauty and in fact wore beautiful things

by which the meadow knew when
I had passed that I had passed.
A woman in the middle of a life,

pebble in the middle of a sea.

It is not the case that every one of us
is a princess and every time we move an arm
the great climatic shifts, coming floods and so forth.

On my private planet the little umbrellas in the drinks just suddenly are there.




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