{"id":552,"date":"2017-11-13T10:47:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespectaclstg.wpengine.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2018-05-07T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T15:51:50","slug":"poetry-by-annah-browning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Poetry by Annah Browning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghost Coming to Terms<\/h4>\n
\r\nIt is highly likely\r\nthat I am dead or,\r\n\r\nat least, differently\r\nalive. There are stories\r\n\r\nI keep telling myself\u2014\r\nI left my face in an ashtray\r\n\r\nat a party, I folded up\r\nmy genitals and mailed \r\n\r\nthem in the wrong card,\r\nwrong address, not\r\n\r\nreturned to sender. It is\r\npossible I am a very bad\r\n\r\nkind of fruit. It is possible\r\nthat the anatomy dummy\r\n\r\nI was once handed has \r\nnow been disassembled.\r\n\r\nThieves. Who took him\r\nfrom me? I open cabinet\r\n\r\nafter cabinet, convinced\r\nI\u2019ll find an organ \r\n\r\nI can call my own. Here,\r\nKidney, Kidney. \r\n\r\nA cat answers, Now-now<\/em>,\r\nbut that\u2019s not exactly \r\n\r\nthe same. From dust and sand\r\non the floor, I look up\r\n\r\nat the picture window, the face\r\nof Jesus, saying: brevity<\/em>,\r\n\r\nbrevity<\/em>. And it doesn\u2019t \r\nhurt me at all. \r\n\r\nThat\u2019s how I know. <\/p><\/pre>\n
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Medium after Trances<\/h4>\n
\r\nEvery time I come back, \r\nI am a little different. \r\n\r\nEvery time I get up\r\nfrom the river of sleep,\r\n\r\nI breathe differently,\r\nbelieve in wings, whine\r\n\r\nover stones like a dog\r\nwho\u2019s been told \r\n\r\nshe\u2019s been bad. Remind \r\nme tomorrow to tell \r\n\r\nyou what I have done\r\nin a dream\u2014who I killed,\r\n\r\nwhat I left un-cauterized,\r\nwhat nail shivered \r\n\r\nin the light where I left\r\nit for the next approaching\r\n\r\nfoot, rust and rubble,\r\nthe gray crow shuddering\r\n\r\ninside an apple tree\u2014\r\nat least, I believe it was there\u2014\r\n\r\nbreathing with the tree,\r\nfilling with bees, wasps\u2014\r\n\r\nthe stings that require \r\nthe end of life, and those\r\n\r\nthat go on and on. \r\n<\/p><\/pre>\n
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Medium on the Sleeping Arrangements of the Dead<\/h4>\n
\r\nWhere the dead sleep: in steel\r\nwool. In sailors\u2019 woolen\r\n\r\nunderwear. Inside timepieces \r\nthat will not be wound. Alongside\r\n\r\nbroken keys. Rats\u2019 nests lined\r\nwith horoscopes. Silk gloves \r\n\r\ntoo small for a grown daughter\u2019s hand. \r\nChimneys. Old elephant ear plants,\r\n\r\nturning yellow and brown creases \r\nagainst the side of a house. Beneath\r\n\r\na toppled garden angel, wings \r\npinning her back, \r\n\r\nhard into the ground.\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p><\/pre>\n
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Annah Browning lives in Chicago, where she recently received her Ph.D. in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review<\/em>, Indiana Review<\/em>, Glass Poetry<\/em> and Midwestern Gothic<\/em>, among others. She is poetry editor of Grimoire<\/em>, a literary magazine of the dark arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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