Lindsey Brown
Lindsey Brown is a poet and psychologist living in the Mountain West. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Fjords Review, 2River View, and the Spoon River Poetry Review.
Thin Places
Late in the evening the black locust trees
are backlit with fire. The yard becomes
a place thin enough for the Kingdom
to break through. My mother says that kind
of thing. By fire I mean the sun going
down. By Kingdom I mean the light,
the black branches, a thousand blades
of grass pressed against my skin
as I lie on the ground and look.
I mean how I can’t tell what’s inside
me and what’s the yard. Why did
I come out here? My sister says it’s not
a break down, it’s a break through.
The eternal is now, says dad. The sky opens
and changes color. Where is my brother?
He is quiet. Just be quiet, he would say.
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