Jericho Brown, from The Tradition; “Night Shift”
[Text ID: “because he hurt me / With a violence I mistook for desire.”]
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This is what our dying looks like. You believe in the sun. I believe I can't love you.
Another Elegy ["This is what our dying looks like"], Jericho Brown
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The Tradition
~Jericho Brown
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Jericho Brown, in conversation with The Kenyon Review [transcript in ALT]
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And I sing, again, those songs because I know
The value of sweet music when we need to pass
The time without wondering what rots beneath our feet.
Jericho Brown, Shovel
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— Ganymede, Jericho Brown, in '100 Queer Poems, an anthology' (2022)
[text ID: I mean, don't you want God / To want you? Don't you dream / Of someone with wings taking you / Up?]
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This is what our dying looks like.
You believe in the sun.
I believe I can't love you.
Another Elegy by Jericho Brown
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New duplex of mine in New Ohio Review! Shoutout to Jericho Brown forever for the form. To hear me read the poem:
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the tradition - jericho brown
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Jericho Brown, from The Tradition; “Duplex”
[Text ID: “A poem is a gesture toward home.”]
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The New Testament, Jericho Brown
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jericho brown the new testament: “another elegy [‘this is what our dying looks like’]”
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Jericho Brown, in conversation with The Kenyon Review [transcript in ALT]
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