{"id":6459,"date":"2019-12-26T13:28:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T13:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=6459"},"modified":"2019-12-30T13:56:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T13:56:50","slug":"three-poems-m-l-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=6459","title":{"rendered":"THREE POEMS – M. L. Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM<\/strong>
\n 
\nA woman is housing,
\nis keeping the darks
\nfrom the lights, is splitting
\n 
\nwings from breasts, dividing
\none into knives and spoons,
\nanswering: What\u2019s for dinner?
\nHave you seen my? Why
\nis the gas bill so high?
\n 
\nA woman
\nis fragmenting, tectonic plating. A shoe
\nleft on the stair again.
\n 
\nShe is stealing to a quiet shade,
\ntrying to save some paradise.
\n 
\n*
\nNo, she answers, there is no more ice cream\u2014
\nno lick, no trace.
\n <\/p>\n

\n

 
\nONLY MEAN BONES<\/strong>
\n 
\nI\u2019m becoming an open honey comb of bone,
\na canted weave, a clutch of shells
\neroded by the sea. I\u2019m becoming bone
\n 
\nfriable as a fender rusted by salt winters.
\nA pelvis translucent\u2014china cup, too brittle for tea.
\nHoly relic. My body, its own catacomb.
\n 
\nO sieve of hips, may you sing
\nlike Sappho\u2019s broken poems, while I write
\nin swirls and curves, wear away my wrist bones.
\n <\/p>\n

\n

 
\nREQUISITES OF A GOOD LETTER <\/strong>
\n 
\nfrom Manners for Millions<\/em>
\n 
\nTry until you
\nfind the stroke you like
\nThey vary
\n 
\nSit
\nwith plenty of elbow room
\n 
\nSay \u201cceremony\u201d
\nyou will get more pleasure
\n 
\nThe first thing is your
\n 
\nbody
\n 
\n(Very truly yours, Yours sincerely, Affectionately yours)
\n  
\n 
\n\"\"M. L. Brown is the author of Call It Mist<\/em>, winner of the 2018 Three Mile Harbor Press Book Prize, and Drought,<\/em> winner of the Claudia Emerson Chapbook award. Her work has appeared in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner,<\/em> and Blackbird<\/em>, among other journals and anthologies. When not writing, she devotes her time to raising funds for a nonprofit health care organization. She lives in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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