FEATURING
MELANIE BROWNE
Just the way she likes it
He makes toast
just the way she likes it,
drizzled with butter
and cut perfectly in half,
a magician’s morbid trick
She dreams about a tiger
that scorches his tongue
the tiger moans and
she wakes,
screaming.
He holds her head
against his chest
the way she likes it
Makes love to her
in darkness, their bodies
a chorus of
wild barley weeds
wailing away underneath
a scalding sky
Melanie Browne has appeared in various e-zines and journals
including Word Riot, Commonline, Madswirl, Cause & Effect,
and Pank. She has work forthcoming in Yellow Mama,Word Riot,
Houston Literary Review, and Bicycle Review. She is a co-editor at
Leaf Garden Press. Her first chapbook, Heaven is a Giant Pawn Shop,
is available at Erbacce Press. She lives in Texas.
This series began with MK Chavez and now ends with Melanie Browne. In between you will find some of the best poets period. Click on the NOT YOUR BITCH on the left under Categories and you will see what I mean.
Two thumb up for Brown and also for Scot. Great series. Looking forward to future Speakeasy installments.
awesome, Melanie!
love that piece.
More of her work will be featured soon at the Rusty Truck and Deuce Coupe,
Love the sound and image of ‘wild barley weeds’