Robert Tremmel | The Sun Magazine

Robert Tremmel

Robert Tremmel lives in Ankeny, Iowa, where he is an emeritus professor of English at Iowa State University. He has four books of poetry, most recently The Records of Kosho the Toad. In 1992 he and three others founded the Des Moines Zen Center, where he continues to practice.

— From July 2018
Poetry

In The Dermatologist’s Office, Again

The cancer he wanted / to cut out of my back / somehow disappeared / in the month / since the biopsy.

July 2018
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