2020 / poetry / author

HENRY BROWN

ELIJAH

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no rain for weeks: dry heat beats strands of hair
there just to take one final look

low pain strains hazy on, harsh bright-white crack
blacktop bubbles, looming wall cowers (still)

sun cracks wall-edge, fire holy cuts concrete
heat through head concocts sacred plan:

quick look then fade black, flag shadow faint
paint smoke over, ba’al simpers:

sick shook steel pole; smoke confuses cuts stand
land surround wall bends spiteful smile

no rain for months; parched, pushing to the last.
past frail pavement still holding on,

rust-fallen flagpole, few shards of wall found
whole idol-empire burn now to the ground!

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Henry Brown is a writer and third-year Religion major/Spanish minor at Carleton College, where he organizes with the Democratic Socialists of America. His poems have recently appeared in Amethyst Review, Isacoustic, Eleventh Transmission, and The Bitchin’ Kitsch and will be featured later this year in After The Pause, Eunoia Review, Amethyst Review, Wax, and Quatrain.fish.

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