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| Issue 17: | 29 Jan. 2023 |
| Poem: | 149 words |
By Robert Eugene Rubino
Being Sandy Irvine
(At 22 Years Old on the British Everest Expedition of 1924)
Golden youth golden and embolden brain and brawn fair-haired and rugged and doused with derring-do charm so gracious so guileless wearing charisma so form-fitting flashing horizon-wide big-teeth smile with blue-eyed vision vertically affixed on honor with humor on virility with humility on the indigenously dual-named goddess mountain Sagarmatha / Chomolungma straddling Nepal / Tibet. Golden youth golden and embolden pushing onward upward seeking life’s peaks indispensable irrepressible chosen by George Mallory the climbing aesthete gripped by vainglorious ambition you the least experienced to pair with him on ultimate ascent within sight within frigid grasp of summit sublime tied to your leader your mentor your idol your haunted hero each in gabardine coats and hobnail boots stepping stepping into the risks into the mists slowly stepping disappearing evermore into Himalayan lore.
Robert Eugene Rubino
is the author of a prose and poetry collection, Aficionado (Humming Word Press), and two poetry collections: Vanity Unfair and Other Poems (Cathexis Northwest Press) and Douglas Knocks Out Tyson (UnCollected Press). He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Seventeen of Rubino’s poems published across seven issues of The Write Launch (2019-2022)
⚡ Hollow Be Thy Name, a poem by Rubino in Issue 12 of KYSO Flash (Summer 2019)
⚡ An Interview With Robert Eugene Rubino at Haunted Waters Press
⚡ Owl House, a poem in Splash! (Haunted Waters Press)
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