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    two poems by Mandy Brown

    Proof of an Unbroken Person

    Afraid of his pieces, he placed them in a bowl on the coffee table

    for discussion. She counted ants between crochet stitches with a mouth


    full of questions and wondered when to check the mail. He drove so far

    home lost him in steaming rainbows of blacktops. She walked hallways,


    ran hands along wood grain and picture frames. They never captured

    her seeking: towels folded squares within squares, a life shrinking clean.


    He now tastes blood and names it communion as if heartbreak were holy,

    but she knows it’s just the sky full of rain and thunder, echoing dead trees.

    If You Insist I Linger, You May

    wrap a seed in my ashes, so I may become 

    the speckled shadows of leafy branches. 

    Growth eternal, I’ll layer reincarnating 

    rings, bear fruit, hold tire swings. Please,
    place no stones with my name mark, but please
    etch your lovers’ names into my bark. Among
    the gardens green, spread my energy, for
    I’d rather ripen a grove for you than a cemetery.   

    Mandy Brown (she/her) is a queer Central Texas poet, a 2019 Poetry Half-Marathon winner, and the 2013 recipient of A Room of Her Own Foundation's Tillie Olsen Fellowship. Her poetry has been published in Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Extract(s), Eunoia Review, and more. Mandy currently teaches at an alternative school for high-risk students and loves it! Read more at mandyalyssbrown.weebly.com.  

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