Two Poems by TR Brady

I Want to Know About Nighthawks

 
I’ve never been Edward Hopper,           but every night               when I empty my spam folder 


I want to know             what my internet knows              of my urges       I don’t 

open any of my emails                            my curse/r drifts             within the world of the screen 

nothing touches me                  I’m offended                    by nothingness                I refuse 

to research how he researched the diner            so I cannot 

be sure of closeness       gliding I            become             across the screen the desire to be trans/ 

planted             fear touches my body    I touch my face             parts of me are empty/her 

my ex-wife        texts to say I should go                           to Chicago to visit the painting 

but I live in Iowa          and have never been      through a toll    alone                 so I 

change all my screen   savers to pictures            of nights              or hawks 

or any cross between the two

No Numinous

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TR Brady is a poet and fiber artist from Arkansas. Her writing has appeared in Tin House Online, The Adroit Journal, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Quarterly West, Sixth Finch, and Copper Nickel. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.