"in passing" and "in memoriam"
in passing
thin as the crack growing in my windshield
uninhibited each drive stings sight more
can't predict curling can't stop growing break
new-cut shapes from gravel inhaled by chance
hit one time only! in kansas somewhere
then gone as quickly! squandered shot returns
but now i stay anxious / crack reminds me
every turn in view caresses Cautious
thought: I can't afford this / Bigger each day
with You
without warning from far away
in memoriam
a long-foretold demise given
away by the chattering of
teeth white and wavering even
down to their roots try harder to
shove them still with your tongue because
he's dead there's no point in going
through hollow motions from hollow
sockets. (at some point, they'll fall out)
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 appeared in Amethyst Review, Isacoustic, Eleventh Transmission, Eunoia Review, The Bitchin' Kitsch, Quatrain.fish, After The Pause, and Wax, and he has a piece upcoming in Kingdoms in the Wild. Henry recommends the Workers Defense Project in Austin.
