Collier Brown's Scrap Bones reads like a post-pandemic epilogue to T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." No angels or flying horses here, just panic disorders, email fatigue, and the spiritual dead end of a 23-and-Me test kit. And yet, resilient are the muses in this collection-the bees, the starlings, the dragonflies-skimming over the wastes.

The Sabine Series in Literature

...

from "Orion, Break"
they're sleeping in their homes,
they're waking from their beds,
they're at their desks
and on a call. They're unimpressed.
That's not your fault.
Nor your concern. I'm tired
of images, of lines and dots and codes.
When I step into the dark,
I only want the novas
and the nowheres in between,
and if I'm very lucky-
if I've beaten all the odds-
just one, naIve fluoresce
of the insect who
is its own hello/goodbye.

About the Author
Collier Brown is the author of Eye, Thus Far, Unplucked (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2017), To the Wheatlight of June (21st Editions, 2013), and Moth and Bonelight (21st Editions, 2010). His essays on photography have appeared in over twenty books, and he is the founding editor of Od Review (www.odreview.com). Brown teaches at Harvard University.


Book Information
ISBN 9781680033090
Author Collier Brown
Format Paperback
Page Count 95
Imprint Texas Review Press
Publisher Texas Review Press
Weight(grams) 159g