Robert Ronnow : Writing

Covid Cashier

Covid Cashier

A Poem by Robert Ronnow


Quiet, dawn, Covid.Biggest accomplishment yesterday: buying toilet paper.Thanking the young cashier for doing her job.Feeling a little sick, wearing m..
Start Knowing Joy

Start Knowing Joy

A Poem by Robert Ronnow


Start now knowing joy,that’s an order,overcome a deepening solitude.Like a bee at a bugleor me at the delion Third Avenue.I said to Joe when do ..
2 Jobs, 2 Kids, 2 Houses, 2 Hobbies

2 Jobs, 2 Kids, 2 Houses, 2 Hobbies

A Poem by Robert Ronnow


Carrying a sleeping baby.Cleaning after a successful party.Camping beyond mountains more mountains.Playing trumpet on the streets of New York City.Eat..
Who's Got Trouble?

Who's Got Trouble?

A Poem by Robert Ronnow


I’ve never put a candidate’s bumper sticker on my car before--why not take sides--"what are you waiting for?Death puts a stop to daily low..
Got Sleep?

Got Sleep?

A Poem by Robert Ronnow


Nothing more intimate than sleepwake before dawn, go downtownprepare for tomorrow, come home from work late.Most cities prosper undisturbedsleeping pe..
Stop & Shop Strike

Stop & Shop Strike

A Poem by Robert Ronnow


The Stop & Shop strike v. Game of Thrones. In Game what’s not made plainis the condition of the peoplecompared with warriors and queens.Ther..
Contingency

Contingency

A Poem by Robert Ronnow


The moon gazesthrough April’s silver maple.To work, to drive,to drive to work.Earth's half-in, half-outof the sun’s habitable zone.The rus..
Valetudinarian

Valetudinarian

A Poem by Robert Ronnow


One will not live to see the endof the geopolitical drama,the existential dilemma--"the small choices people make that change their lives.They ought t..
Asexual

Asexual

A Poem by Robert Ronnow


While I pretty much opined for this impeachmentmy fellow Americans voted for this guy and they could be rightI’ve been wrong before, stuck as we..
Number and Verse

Number and Verse

A Poem by Robert Ronnow


The question should not be in what ways writing and utterance trope each other, but how both are involved with number. Without relating the technology..