I took your large hand and raised it. Just this, I said, the tip of a finger or two – just to the nail or so – into my mouth, which had dreamed of just that. You made a sound I hoped was a gasp and I wanted – as I had for 30 years […]
Sarah Browning
Sarah Browning
Sarah Browning stepped down as Executive Director of Split This Rock in January 2019, after co-founding and running the poetry and social justice organization for 11 years. She misses the community but not the grant reports. She is the author of Killing Summer (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017) and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The […]
Sarah Browning: After I Knew
I drove alone through the farmland of central New York – the open vistas and steep drops – towns with names like Lyle unexplored, their secrets hoarded, as I was hoarding my own secret then. I-88 was empty as always and I followed its long high valley, driving away from you. We had not yelled […]
Sarah Browning: For the turkey buzzards
who rise ungainly from the fields, red heads almost unbearable to regard, crooked and gelatinous, how they circle their obsession on the scent of the winds, always circling back, returning to settle on that one dead thing that satisfies, […]