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soft and assembled by ear as the bench creaks at its corners
lending weight to the song O what is the chord that makes
creation go backwards like beautiful scarves
sucked into a trunk Is there another that causes the lid to close
And when will you know to play them I’m only wondering
Are you able to dream your rehearsals in reverse
Brandon Jordan Brown is a 2014 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, winner of the 2016 Orison Anthology Poetry Prize, a scholarship recipient from The Sun, and a former PEN in the Community poetry instructor. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in RHINO Poetry, Sycamore Review, Yemassee, The Journal, Forklift, Ohio and elsewhere. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he now lives in Portland, Oregon.
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