Kevin Brown
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Kevin Brown has published three books of poetry: Liturgical Calendar: Poems (Wipf and Stock); A Lexicon of Lost Words (winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, Snake Nation Press); and Exit Lines (Plain View Press). He also has a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again, and a book of scholarship, They Love to Tell the Stories: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels. You can find out more about him and his work at http://www.kevinbrownwrites.com/

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Role Playing

An art teacher tells his students to paint
what breaks their hearts,
to leave a piece of themselves
on the canvas—

every time my wife waves
away my ideas without hearing
them; or my father attributed
away my rare athletic success
to the infielder’s inferiority;
or every day my laughter
is a lie, as the life I lead is
one step closer to death—

but it’s an actor giving those lines,
maybe scripted, maybe ad-libbed,
as he’s known to do; he tells an
interviewer he doesn’t perform,
he behaves.

As if any of us know the difference.