​POETRY  

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2 POEMS:
Midnight Conversation and
​Simultaneously
by Beverly "Bree" Brown

Midnight Conversation

​the apartment so still
                           moonlight burning
             through the skylight
 
then
                           our conversation
 
your voice
 
             calling out my birth name
 
the square bed
frothy sea-green
anointing our bodies
 
the sound of your voice
                                               echoing
 
             inside me

Simultaneously

we are all occurring simultaneously 
 
moving along the continuum

                                                        exchanging glances
in that
  
          boredom can never be boredom

                                but only space that breathes

 
                     and there is always reason to keep pushing through

                     to leave behind some identity

                     we thought we had already left behind

                                                           are you getting all of this down?
                                                           exposing the hard parts?
                                                           checking all your assumptions
                                                                                                  and ambiguities?
 
the morning dream is pushing hard now
there are no separate entrances left
no dark closets to rumble through or be fascinated by
 
                                       as we all go through the door together

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​​Beverly "Bree" Brown completed a BA and MA in Creative Writing at SFSU. She has expressed herself through poetry since she was a young girl. Her favorite quote is, “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” (Muriel Rukeyser) Bree was born with words engraved on both hands and has loved words for as long as she can remember. And she remembers Grandma Rudin buying her her first book of poems when she was 8. She believes poetry lives inside us all—it will connect us to the deepest parts of ourselves if we let it. 

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