The Space We Occupy Is Brief

Here we are on this massive crumb

of a rock orbiting.

This is a very important thing

we are doing, living.

Are we together?

There will never be another

here like this one.

Of all the specs of time

& planets of bodies,

how lucky are we to have collided

on this colossal globe of grief?

I love you but

I won’t tell you.

How hideously human of me.

Robin (she/her) is a queer writer from New York. As a member of The Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, she presented her piece, “Boxing and Bleeding” at the 2011 conference with Gloria Steinem in attendance.  She has been published in literary journals/magazines on The Poetry Society of New York, No Dear Magazine, Writerly Magazine (Paperbacks & Co), Same Faces Collective, and was a semi-finalist winner in Tulip Tree Review’s “Wild Women” issue. Robin was a competitive amateur boxer for four years and now strives to help others feel visible through her work. Find her on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/robinpercyz