I have been published in such magazines as Artword Quarterly , Northeast Corridor, PLAZM, Boston Globe, Lucid Moon, Poesy, Midwest Poetry Review, Pegasus, 96inc., South Boston Lit. Gazette and many more. I have three chaps out, Poems of Boston and Just Beyond: The Back Bay To The Back Ward, Dreams At The Au Bon Pain, and Waking In A Cold Sweat. I also was a contributing editor of the Singing Bone Press Poetry anthology, City of Poets/ 18 Boston Voices.
The Garden
It is an evil against nature.
Its adamant symmetry, the pruning...incessant castration.
The tangle of the flowers
now in ramrod straight rows, polite flirtations at best.
The sun bathes them in light,
and they want to riot,
under the promise of its warmth,
they see the birds in flight
and the maddening buzz of bees
but for the garden
it is a temptation
an empty tease..
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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