Rob is a retired English teacher who now plays at poetry and tennis while trying hard to live extemporaneously from day to day. The poetry helps keep him grounded and airborne at the same time, and the tennis helps him focus on what’s in front of him. It’s not always an easy juggling act, but he doesn’t know what else to do. His work has been published in several literary journals including Sky Island Journal, Frost Meadow Review, Reflections, and the anthology A Dangerous New World; Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis. He lives in the present in Westbrook, Maine.