Robert René Galván
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys & desires.
—William Blake
At first, laid down on clay tablets
like the footprints of a slender bird,
then, progressed through dried skins and pulp,
burgeoning past parchment
to a flood of writs so numerous
as to be incomprehensible—
mulled by the nine
in their archaic robes,
most prefer dead stone
to a living vine.
Author: Robert René Galván
Robert René Galván, born in San Antonio, resides in New York City where he works as a professional musician and poet. His collections of poems are
Meteors, published by Lux Nova Press,
Undesirable: Race and Remembrance, Somos en Escrito Foundation Press,
Standing Stones, Finishing Line Press, and
The Shadow of Time, Adelaide Books. His poetry has been featured in such publications as
The Acentos Review,
Adelaide Literary Magazine,
Azahares Literary Magazine,
Gyroscope,
Hawaii Review,
Hispanic Culture Review,
Latino Book Review,
Newtown Review,
Panoply,
Prachya Review,
Sequestrum,
Shoreline of Infinity,
Somos en Escrito,
Stillwater Review,
West Texas Literary Review, and
UU World. He is a Shortlist Winner Nominee in the 2018 Adelaide Literary Award for Best Poem. Recently, his poems are featured in
Puro ChicanX Writers of the 21st Century (2nd Edition) and in
Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought. His poems have been nominated for Best of the Web and the Pushcart Prize. His poem,
Awakening, was featured in the author’s voice on NPR as part of National Poetry Month in the Spring of 2021.
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