R.B. Simon’s Poetry
Poetry Collections
R.B. Simon has written and published three poetry collections, all of which depict her transitions through life and have the lyrical, intense style for which she is known.
The Good Truth
R.B. Simon’s debut poetry chapbook published by Finishing Line Press in 2021.
Not Just the Fire
The 2023 full-length collection published by Cornerstone Press.
Bird, Bone, Blood
The forthcoming collection that will be published by Milk & Cake Press in 2025.
Featured Poems
After the Playground
standing in darkness fingertips dulled with cold breath a bird in my throat i am swimming in potential eyes grazing the stars frantic...
Creeping Charlie
~For Lavender (In Memoriam, May 6th, 2020)The dragonfliesdove between theshafts of sunlight as the babysat in sweet swaying grassnext to the weed-packed bucket.We’d talked hours, our laborshardly labor, before falling intocompanionable silence, gingerly...
Prairie Fire
Each year, the placard tells us, Ho-Chunk Indians burned this prairie to ash, rooting out invasive species –...
Second Harvest
she is such a tiny bud, rawwith winter’s scrubbed potential, born to high winds to parents of dune thistle grandparents of red baneberry lost in a rough country of ancestry not recognizing oak from aspen...
Marriage Advice
Last night after a fight with my loverI sat on my front porch under an umbrella,vicious thunderstorm poundingdown around me, tuggingthe umbrella slantwaysand shaking, as I smoked my cigaretteangrily, watching the park across thestreet light up with electric...
Reflections on Geese Flying South
what freedom. there must. be in taking. wing away from. what instinct. ...
Happiness II (Bubble)
when I think of happiness I think of fragile things of an exquisite existence in between the closing and opening of...