The Now Dark Sky, Setting Us All On Fire: Poems

In The Now Dark Sky, Setting Us All on Fire, Robert Krut unveils surrealistic imagery and apocalyptic moments that encroach on his cityscapes. Entering his urban vision of off-kilter fingerprint police, helix fireworks, and lockboxes replete with unsewn / buttons from the shirts of dead men ( The Vault ), we are invited to witness how daylight peels silence / off the sides of buildings to reveal vampire teeth and arrows ( Phantasmagoria at Six AM ), how every single body on the street / turns to paper ( At This Very Moment ). Krut dismantles the world around us and in turn remakes it into something dark yet alive, a place seething with desire, where A thousand leaves are worth one wish ( This All Starts With You, and This All Ends With You ).