Robin Turner

return to the questions

All but the page number, 33, and nine of the words on an old cream-colored book page have been obscured by white liquid paper correction tape. Affixed along the right side of the page, straddling the edge of the whited out text and the cream-colored margin, is an illustration of a passion flower vine in black, white, and moss green.

The words that remain unobscured read:

return
to
the questions,

the sev-
eral subjects,

the mystery — Source text: The Hidden Staircase, from the old Nancy Drew Mystery Stories Series, circa 1959, Grosset & Dunlap.

Robin Turner makes poems and poem-like things in Dallas. Her chapbooks: bindweed & crow poison (Porkbelly Press) and Elegy with Clouds & (Kelsay Books). Recent work appears in Anacapa Review, Unlost, and Pithead Chapel. She is a teaching artist currently working with writers from the Cancer Support Community of North Texas.