Tipton Poetry Journal
Virginian Tim Robbins Like Many Virginians, many truckers, he bears scars from a barely survived bout with eternity. If your bad luck uncovers his ridges, he’ll say they were won in a less spectacular, manlier way. It’s not that his conscience or his trailer are empty, now that he’s retired. They are simply driven by younger men. A piano-tuner, having sold his music store to a less promising generation, no longer tries to justify the shame that he can neither sing nor play a note. Tuner and Trucker meet in a play living room as dim, as tight, as provisional as the dinner at Emmaus. They haggle over a way south, a reverse underground railroad.
Tim Robbins teaches ESL. He has a B.A. in French and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics. His poems have appeared in Three New Poets, Slant, Main Street Rag, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Off The Coast, Tipton Poetry Journal and others. His collection Denny’s Arbor Vitae was published in 2017. He lives with his husband of twenty years in Kenosha, Wisconsin, birthplace of Orson Welles.
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