yellow-breasted chat
in my binoculars—
singing for someone else
*
empty basketball court
the sun spots up
at the top of the key
*
Robert Lowes’s second collection of poetry, Shocking the Dark (Kelsay Books), was published earlier this year. His first collection, An Honest Hunger (Resource Publications), came out in 2020. His poems have appeared in journals such as Southern Poetry Review, The New Republic, Modern Haiku, and December. He is a retired journalist who lives with his wife Saundra in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Lowes has been playing the guitar—electric and acoustic—since 2017. He rocks out in a band called Pink Street.
