another one for li po
—a poem by Rob Plath

sitting
w/ the cat
& a bowl
of rice
it feels
like the sand
is moving
back
upward
in the
hourglass
as an
endlessness
fills this
tiny
room
wall
to
wall


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Rob Plath is a prolific writer and Literary Editor for The Commonline Journal. He is the author of eight chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections. His novel Swallowtude (2016) and his poetry collection The Skeleton Sutras (2016) are both forthcoming from Epic Rites Press. His webpage is www.robplath.com.