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    And Say
    And Say
    And Say
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    And Say

    By Jessica Brown

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    With degrees in English and creative writing, Jessica Brown is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Limerick. Her publications include an essay in the book Jane Austen and the Arts, articles in Journal for Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, as well as the children’s novel The River Boy and several short stories and creative nonfiction essays. Born and raised in southeast Texas.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLimerick Writers Centre
    Release dateJul 28, 2020
    ISBN9781005485993
    And Say
    Author

    Jessica Brown

    With degrees in English and creative writing, Jessica Brown is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Limerick. Her publications include an essay in the book Jane Austen and the Arts, articles in Journal for Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, as well as the children’s novel The River Boy and several short stories and creative nonfiction essays. Born and raised in southeast Texas, she now lives with her husband and son in County Clare.

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      And Say - Jessica Brown

      Sunlight has bleached

      the grazed grass along the high canal.

      Spates of gold thread

      the purple-pearl mountains

      in the distance.

      Shades of green and lavender

      (moving shadows of loosened cloud)

      weave in and out this shuttling loom

      of terra firma and firmament.

      These gentle colors are alive,

      live and move and have their being

      speak the voice of prismatic order,

      and say, like the math of music:

      it will be alright

      All this

      does not stint.

      If hope’s desire’s not nigh,

      that is what hope is for.

      Wing and Stone

      woven threads of — anger —

      is pocket

      of hunger

      like a mouth with gauze

      over bloody gums and empty tooth socket

      I’m so hungry for more

      how will I not eat

      you?

      I watch those wild geese on the lough,

      sink my eyes into the photographs I’ve saved

      of sculpted stones at Ravello, which ease the gnaw

      and geese’s wing, the chew

      Three Looks

      from the outside, my life

      has shape,

      a logos exists, the moving bulk of soft clay

      wool woven into pattern, curve of bell

      but from the inside

      there’s no pattern; there’s bluster — bloat — blindness

      I would say dark waves, but even the ocean

      has a rhythm that I cannot sound out here:

      pathos, bromide of sorrow

      ligaments thatched over moist wounds

      and within all that?

      caritas,

      the love of God

      warm blue egg in burly brown nest

      and, promise of, birdsong

      Hold-Held

      1

      You said, I can see the beauty here

      holding you

      and you cupped your hands

      like a bowl

      You had yet to see the way

      the wild-eyed icebergs had sculpted this place,

      the way they spliced the huge hills in two,

      Tountinna on one side, Moylussa on the other

      so that the waters of the

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