Daubigny’s Garden
Unlike the photon
At zero rest mass
We may consider
The density of the field
Van Gogh understood
As he plied on thick
The aberration of starlight
The sneaky blue cat
The dark matter at the gate
Robin Scofield is the author of And the Ass Saw the Angel as well as the forthcoming Sunflower Cantos from Mouthfeel Press. Her poems appear in The 2River View, The Warwick Review, and The Mas Tequila Review. She has also been published in The Paris Review and The Texas Observer. She is a contributing poetry editor at BorderSenses and writes with the Tumblewords Project in El Paso, Texas.