I keep hearing noises that build a house around me,
how dirt on my walk, cause pebbles to break glass.
He comes from trauma and night.
I am corn and birds that land on wire.
Why do the noises stay? What do the noises say?
Up their brick wall they send a vine meant for me:
It's all, everything, a quiet lie.
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Christine Brandel is a writer and photographer. She published Tell This To Girls: The Panic Annie Poems in 2013. She is a PopMatters columnist and rights the wrongs of the world via her character Agatha Whitt-Wellington at Everyone Needs An Algonquin. More of her work can be found at clbwrites.com.
Christine Brandel is a writer and photographer. She published Tell This To Girls: The Panic Annie Poems in 2013. She is a PopMatters columnist and rights the wrongs of the world via her character Agatha Whitt-Wellington at Everyone Needs An Algonquin. More of her work can be found at clbwrites.com.
