Nathan Robison

NATHAN ROBISON was born and raised in Provo, Utah. He and his wife, Anna, graduated from Brigham Young University with degrees in English. Their two-year-old son, Christopher, is the subject of this poem. Nathan currently divides his time between distance running and working as a librarian at the Orem Public Library. He will study at Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, beginning in the fall of 2006, working toward an MFA in creative writing.

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Mouths

We’ve left your mother to sleep alone,
no mouth or hand at breast,
free to dream and sleep alone

Ten Fictions about My Father

1 First he went down to Pappy’s pasture. The pasture was a strip of marshy land down the hill from our house, sandwiched by the inter state and train tracks where Pappy kept his cows.…