Robin Arble: I go to CVS once a season
I go to CVS once a season
to give my voice to a woman
who takes my name & date
of birth to access the two
prescriptions waiting for me
on the shelves behind her.
Just once I want her
to lean forward & whisper
through the glass
if there's anything else
I want to be called
to feel the shame
of knowing she knew
enough to ask.
Robin Arble is a poet and writer from western Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in Midway Journal, Poetry Online, Quarter After Eight, Rejection Letters, and Roi Fainéant Press, among others. They are a poetry reader for Beaver Magazine and The Massachusetts Review. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in literature and creative writing from Hampshire College.