​POETRY  

" No lovers ever reach their destination together  
                                                and yet 
he felt hopeful "
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He Reached for Her
by Beverly "Bree" Brown

​​No lovers ever reach their destination together 
 
                                                and yet
 
he felt hopeful
 
        a hope riding on nostalgia
 
        a year gone
                                   
right in front of his eyes
 
    as he watched her turn inside out
 
                                                       she faltered
                                   
                         but with grace
 
 
Between them
 
a minor misunderstanding
 
                                   the inevitable price in a grab for love        
 
As he fell back into his disappointment 
                            
and braced himself  
                                                             while she smiled
 
and looked for herself in the mirror

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​​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 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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