About Robert Gibb

Robert Gibb is the author of four collections of poetry including The Burning World (Arkansas, 2004), The Winter House (Missouri, 1984), and The Origins of Evening (Norton, 1997), which was a National Poetry Series winner. Gibb is a winner of an NEA grant, three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grants, and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in New Homestead, Pennsylvania.

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An End to the Marriage: My Stepmother Buys Twin Beds

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How, years later, when I think of those beds
And my father’s obvious displeasure,
Am I to believe she ever took him in her hand,
And then into her,

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