Robert Krut
Writing the Bible’s Footnotes
The palm grows a garden, the garden
births an animal speaking
between breaths.
The clouds hide eyes stitched to sky,
ever-open iris that watches,
takes notes.
The almighty, pieced together with pages
of leaves, lifted to heights by wind,
momentarily communed.
Mirror mass from ground, echo the symmetry
above, a scarecrow free of gravity.
Reading your diary’s pages
to nosediving birds.
Robert Krut is the author of Watch Me Trick Ghosts, The Now Dark Sky, Setting Us All on Fire (which received the Codhill Poetry Award), This Is the Ocean, and The Spider Sermons. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Gulf Coast, Bennington Review, Passages North, Blackbird, and more. His fifth collection, Oh Oblivion, will be published in 2025. Further information can be found at www.robert-krut.com.