Ridiculous Light Poems pre CHILD NON-FICTION the Orkneyinga Saga is an

the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth

fly through an asteroid belt

self-knowledge - and love with mapmaker Paul Child

Sometimes bedtime feels like a dark cave in the gloomy woods-like it's about to be you and no one else until morning

and I didn't want it to end’

Ridiculous Light Poems pre CHILD NON-FICTION the Orkneyinga Saga is anValencia Robin is a poet and visual artist. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The St. Petersburg Review, Black Renaissance Noire, Kweli, The Cortland Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and the 2014 winner of the Hocking Hills Festival of Poetry Competition. She holds an MFA in Art & Design from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia where she currently teaches